In Art, we often learn by drawing. This is not a 'dumb' skill, it represents the fact that our brains are extremely visual. We respond and react to colour, lighting, textures...
All cultures have a visual look to them. Learning about these before you attempt to be 'original' is important. You cannot know what is to come if you do not know what has been. It is easy to get caught up in this idea that you must be 'new', 'different', not the same as others. But to pretend you have not been influenced by anything that has happened before you came into being an Artist is a little arrogant. It often ends up with people thinking they have produced something original, but in fact it has been done before, probably better!
We learn often by copying, but we develop and grow by using what we know in new contexts, learning ways of making what we learned more original. Being creative.
Research drawing is learning. It is not Art. But that does not mean it is not important. By looking at a style, such as Art Nouveau or Kowhaiwhai, and copying the way they are formed, you are learning how space and form work together, learning the style of the curves used, which are very important, you are developing an affinity with that style of Art.
When you are working on research drawing you must always:
- Make sure you are clearly indicating these works are not your own, they are copies (name the original for instance, of where they came from)
- Don't pretend they are your own designs
- Don't disrespect them visually by making them inappropriate
- Put your best effort into the work, as a mark of respect.
Sunday 28 February 2016
Friday 26 February 2016
Follow-up on Transcription Progress
So we have to keep remembering the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, and we are definitely making progress. There is not one student in this class who is not coping. So proud.
Thursday 25 February 2016
8GB - Pretty nice class :-)
Students in all of the year 7 and 8 classes had to sit outside and draw "en plein air' (in fresh air). They had to draw quickly, with energy and what they saw, not what they knew. This is challenging! These examples are from 8GB. 7/8WH, 8MT and 7BK also worked really hard on this task with a great selection of work coming through. Over the course of the week I will post some examples from all of the classes.
Impressionism - Revolutionaries
Impressionism is from the19th-century. It is an art movement. This means there were a group of Artists who had similar ideas and became known for a particular style and/or way of thinking in their work.
It started during the 1870s and 1880s. Remember what was invented just before this time? We discussed it in class.
Impressionist paintings all have really visible brush strokes, they often show light and its changing qualities (think about the Haystacks by Claude Monet I keep showing you all and how you can see when it is a different time of the day), ordinary subject matter, trying to show movement in the works and using new angles in painting that had not been used before.
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Claude Monet, 1890-91 Oil on canvas, 60 cm × 100 cm (23 5⁄8 in × 39 3⁄8 in). Location currently: Art Institute of Chicago “Wheatstacks; end of summer” | Claude Monet, 1890-91 Oil on canvas, 60.5 × 100.8 cm (23.8 × 39.7 in). Location currently:Louvre, Paris, France “Wheatstacks; end of summer” (again, he did a lot of these). |
Remember your HOMEWORK: notice the sunset. Pick an object to watch outside your bedroom window and notice how the light/colour/look changes as the light fades.
The Académie des Beaux-Arts controlled everything about French art. The Salon (a panel of experts) selected the works considered suitable for the Académie each time they had an exhibition.
After Emperor Napoleon III (France's leader) saw the rejected works of 1863, he decided that people could look for themselves at how useless the Artists were who had been rejected. He wanted the people to come along and laugh at them.
This was called the Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Refused). This actually backfired. People did come, more than usually attended the actual Salon, and quite a few liked what they saw. It was not the same old boring stuff they were used to seeing and showed things that were happening in people's everyday lives at the time.
In December 1873, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas and several other artists founded the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs ("Cooperative and Anonymous Association of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers") to exhibit their artworks independently.[9] ( this bit is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism and those links will take you to those Artist’s wikipedia pages)
Interviews 2016
Quaid
Real men don't cry. Why? Where did the stereotype start? Greek culture? The base of western civilisation
Marion McGuire - printmaker, find examples of her work that are specifically greek/maori mythology. Blog 3 of these.
Talk about them and try and establish a relationship between them and your ideas so far. This is a starting point.
Kgyd
Ana’s painting from last year is influential to him
Likes the flow from one image to another - as a way of linking multiple pieces of work
Bullying, trees, sky, people, poor people, defining love. Why are there no references to samoan standards of beauty?
- Rene Magritte
- Salvador Dali
Find examples of their work that you like. make sure you put the title and date of their work. post them on your blog and say why you have chosen these images as starting points
Draw out some ideas as thumbnail sketches, next week we will discuss these in class and what to do next
Interviews with Painters February 2016 - folio direction. 2 classes done at this point, 2 to come.
Brianna
was meant to read the comment on her blog and act… is now doing so
Shavaughn
Cartoon illustrations of girls, tvs and cameras, being controlled, hypnosis, tv with the swirls, being drawn in, a girl being controlled having to make a choice, as to which path to take, feelin glike she has to fit in, not sure what to do.
- strong narrative
- references to pop art
- 1950’s iconography
- Miss van - graffiti cartoon figures
- appropriation
- graphic novel approach
Maddie
Hype around the earthquakes, abandonment in the red zone. Is the media hyping things up
- Understand how the media can blow things out of proportion
- Antonio hall near Riccarton - there are tours available. check it out.
- Find an example online of media making more of a story than was there, try and relate it back to red zoned housing and earthquakes in chch.
- Can you get out to the east with DAD to take photos of an abandoned property? Even spaces where houses used to be and are no longer?
- Mrs Clemence can go out NEXT weekend too.
-Archealogical dig element to this, looking at ruins?
Saturday 20 February 2016
Clarifying Stylisation - Friday Period 2 19th February
So last lesson, we talked about stylisation and what that could mean in music as a way of trying to illustrate it.
From now, we need to see it from a visual perspective.
Below are some visuals that show stylisation happening to a visual form:
This is an example of stylisation of a rooster by a graphic designer called Maria Muzaffar. She is a graphic designer and was working towards developing a logo for a company.
With Kowhaiwhai, these forms came from a plant form.
Your task:
From the Pinterest page or the paper resources we have, make a page of RESEARCH drawings of Kowhaiwhai.
Your page should be a good typical workbook page, as we have already discussed.
From now, we need to see it from a visual perspective.
Below are some visuals that show stylisation happening to a visual form:
This is an example of stylisation of a rooster by a graphic designer called Maria Muzaffar. She is a graphic designer and was working towards developing a logo for a company.
With Kowhaiwhai, these forms came from a plant form.
Your task:
From the Pinterest page or the paper resources we have, make a page of RESEARCH drawings of Kowhaiwhai.
Your page should be a good typical workbook page, as we have already discussed.
Friday 19 February 2016
Welcome to Painting in 2016
As you have already figured, you are a part of one of four now quite large senior classes.
This week and next (week 3 and 4) we will work on making sure you have all been interviewed to establish a potential individual direction within your own class's theme.
This has so far happened for the following students in the Media Control/Propaganda class:
This week and next (week 3 and 4) we will work on making sure you have all been interviewed to establish a potential individual direction within your own class's theme.
This has so far happened for the following students in the Media Control/Propaganda class:
Shavaughn
Cartoon illustrations of girls, tv's and cameras, being controlled, hypnosis, tv with the swirls, being drawn in, a girl being controlled having to make a choice, as to which path to take, feeling like she has to fit in, not sure what to do.
- Strong narrative
- References to pop art
- 1950’s iconography
- Miss Van - graffiti cartoon figures
- Appropriation
- Graphic novel approach
Maddie
Hype around the earthquakes, abandonment in the red zone. Is the media hyping things up?
- Understand how the media can blow things out of proportion
- Antonio Hall near Riccarton - there are tours available. Check it out.
- Find an example online of media making more of a story than was there, try and relate it back to red zoned housing and earthquakes in chch.
- Can you get out to the east with DAD to take photos of an abanonded property? even spaces where houses used to be and are no longer?
- Mrs Clemence can go out NEXT weekend too.
-Archeological dig element to this, looking at ruins?
Brianna
was meant to read the comment on her blog and act… is now doing so. Lovely girl really :-)
Kgyd
Ana’s painting from last year is influential to him
Likes the flow from one image to another - as a way of linking multiple pieces of work
Bullying, trees, sky, people, poor people, defining love. Why are there no references to Samoan standards of beuaty?
- Rene Magritte
- Salvador Dali
Find examples of their work that you like. Make sure you put the title and date of their work. Post them on your blog and say why you have chosen these images as starting points.
Draw out some ideas as thumbnail sketches, next week we will discuss these in class and what to do next
Thursday 18 February 2016
Transcription
This is something I gave you the option of starting last lesson, if you were feeling a bit brain-tired with the ideas pages. Only two brave souls took me up on that. Well done Monique and Jordana for toughing that one out.
Below are some photos we took while the two girls were working.
The idea is you are enlarging and scaling your image up, and behaving like a human photocopier. There are three images you can choose to work from.
- Centre lines: Trim image to the very edges and fold into 4 perfect quarters
- Measure the image in millimetres. Use a calculator or device and multiply those numbers by 1.2
- Draw a rectangle form on your page with the sums you got by multiplying by 1.2.
For example: we measured the original image to be 145 mm across and 185mm down.
145 x 1.2 = 174
185 x 1.2 = 222
Centre lines: Then, you need to divide your larger rectangle into 4 even quarters, carefully. Mark both edges as you measure before ruling up your centre lines.
The centre lines on your original image you are making a transcription of and on your drawing page are your references to get things right. Everything you now draw should hopefully be 1.2 times larger than the original.
Draw lightly in getting your image mapped out and use a ruler as you need to. Your eye will get better and better at getting things in the right place.
Below are some photos we took while the two girls were working.
The idea is you are enlarging and scaling your image up, and behaving like a human photocopier. There are three images you can choose to work from.
- Centre lines: Trim image to the very edges and fold into 4 perfect quarters
- Measure the image in millimetres. Use a calculator or device and multiply those numbers by 1.2
- Draw a rectangle form on your page with the sums you got by multiplying by 1.2.
For example: we measured the original image to be 145 mm across and 185mm down.
145 x 1.2 = 174
185 x 1.2 = 222
Centre lines: Then, you need to divide your larger rectangle into 4 even quarters, carefully. Mark both edges as you measure before ruling up your centre lines.
The centre lines on your original image you are making a transcription of and on your drawing page are your references to get things right. Everything you now draw should hopefully be 1.2 times larger than the original.
Draw lightly in getting your image mapped out and use a ruler as you need to. Your eye will get better and better at getting things in the right place.
Tuesday 16 February 2016
Welcome to 2016
Hello all you photography students. If you are reading htis you are likely from one of 4 senior classes of about 20 students here at Hornby High School. Your classes are multi levelled across the 3 NCEA levels, but united by theme. These themes are still in development and not yet set fully in some classes. That is ok, it is a part of the process. The Subject based blog is a way of connecting all the students in that subject together; Photography has 11 candidates from 3 classes.
If you are wondering why I am using a blog that already has stuff on it from 2013, it is because I seemed to have had 3 photography blogs all with similar resources and ideas on them, and it seems a bit pointless to keep repeating myself. Some of our blog posts this year will include re-blogging previous posts. There are good pieces of information in them so feel free to read the older ones.
At this point, you all should have started your own blogs. I would expect to see an introductory post about YOU. Who are you, why are you studying photography and how did you contribute to us developing an overall class theme?
From there, you should be talking about your concept. This is not set in stone, but concept is the basis of good, intelligent Art.
This week we will be collating all the photography blog links from across the four classes onto this blog, so that you can see what students in the other 3 classes are potentially doing too and contribute to their learning as well.
Your next focus following this will be your first Artist model study, and how to use a D-SLR. This is going to be exciting and very cool work is going to develop from our classes this year.
If you are wondering why I am using a blog that already has stuff on it from 2013, it is because I seemed to have had 3 photography blogs all with similar resources and ideas on them, and it seems a bit pointless to keep repeating myself. Some of our blog posts this year will include re-blogging previous posts. There are good pieces of information in them so feel free to read the older ones.
At this point, you all should have started your own blogs. I would expect to see an introductory post about YOU. Who are you, why are you studying photography and how did you contribute to us developing an overall class theme?
From there, you should be talking about your concept. This is not set in stone, but concept is the basis of good, intelligent Art.
This week we will be collating all the photography blog links from across the four classes onto this blog, so that you can see what students in the other 3 classes are potentially doing too and contribute to their learning as well.
Your next focus following this will be your first Artist model study, and how to use a D-SLR. This is going to be exciting and very cool work is going to develop from our classes this year.
Monday 15 February 2016
Tuesday 16th February 2016 P4
What are focussing on during today's lesson:
Learning outcome: Art and your 21st century aesthetic
1) Getting more information onto your ideas pages - class brainstorm on the board
2) Drawing skills. If you need a break from the ideas page, we will work through how to make a transcription and good solid tonal drawing.
Transcription - copy
This is a technique that Artists would learn back in the day. They would spend a lot of time practising things like this in improving their drawing and directly learning from another Artist. It was considered part of the process in working towards being a Master of Art. Then they would be the teacher and students would learn from them in much the same way.
There will be a series of images that directly relate to the theme of 21st Century babies in black and white. You are going to use rulers, your Art pencils and Art pads to make as good an accurate copy as possible. We start with gridding up the original to scale it up accurately.
As the lesson progresses, I will add photos of our students doing this as a way of documenting our own progress and creating your own reference to look back on, or help teach those students who were absent today, next time...
Learning outcome: Art and your 21st century aesthetic
1) Getting more information onto your ideas pages - class brainstorm on the board
2) Drawing skills. If you need a break from the ideas page, we will work through how to make a transcription and good solid tonal drawing.
Transcription - copy
This is a technique that Artists would learn back in the day. They would spend a lot of time practising things like this in improving their drawing and directly learning from another Artist. It was considered part of the process in working towards being a Master of Art. Then they would be the teacher and students would learn from them in much the same way.
There will be a series of images that directly relate to the theme of 21st Century babies in black and white. You are going to use rulers, your Art pencils and Art pads to make as good an accurate copy as possible. We start with gridding up the original to scale it up accurately.
As the lesson progresses, I will add photos of our students doing this as a way of documenting our own progress and creating your own reference to look back on, or help teach those students who were absent today, next time...
Year 10 Art with Mrs Clemence
Welcome to option Visual Arts at year 10.
Last lesson we looked at the word 'Aesthetics' and what it means:
...or the philosophy of art, is the study of beauty and taste. It is about interpreting works of art and art movements or theories. The term aesthetic is also used to designate a particular style, for example the "chess aesthetics", or the "Japanese aesthetic".
The above definition is straight off Google.
We also discussed that you are all 21st Century Babies. Born in the 21st century and likely surrounded by different influences than your parents or even older siblings were.
Hopefully you have all started a brainstorm and developed the start of an "Ideas Page".
Here are some examples of ideas pages that may help you in working yours out:
Just as a way of sharing what we are doing, I have uploaded some of the work from our class. It might be helpful to see what your classmates are doing and it is very cool to be able to potentially show the world you lot doing lovely work and some of the thinking that is happening.
Last lesson we looked at the word 'Aesthetics' and what it means:
...or the philosophy of art, is the study of beauty and taste. It is about interpreting works of art and art movements or theories. The term aesthetic is also used to designate a particular style, for example the "chess aesthetics", or the "Japanese aesthetic".
The above definition is straight off Google.
We also discussed that you are all 21st Century Babies. Born in the 21st century and likely surrounded by different influences than your parents or even older siblings were.
Hopefully you have all started a brainstorm and developed the start of an "Ideas Page".
Here are some examples of ideas pages that may help you in working yours out:
Just as a way of sharing what we are doing, I have uploaded some of the work from our class. It might be helpful to see what your classmates are doing and it is very cool to be able to potentially show the world you lot doing lovely work and some of the thinking that is happening.
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