And we are Painting!

This has been a great week to see the student's work come alive as painting.

Things we learnt this week about TECHNIQUE
- Flat ferrule brush, which was invented during the impressionist period
- Tache - french for light touch and how the impressionists painted
- Colours can mix optically (your eye mixes the two colours next to each other) on the canvas/paper
- Dabs of paint, water often painted horizontally (across), reflections 'drawn' overtop vertically(up and down)

Feel free to re-watch the below video or search up others on how to paint impressionist style, or like Monet.

Things we are working on about Art room Tikanga:
- Newspaper is on all painting desks
- Use small amounts of paint
- Clean your own brushes really well with brush cleaner on your palm and then rinse thoroughly, dry.
- You help your classmates clean up, not just "I've done my bit"
- We don't play silly-beggars with paint!

Her are some lovely photos of some work so far, I will add some progressed ones next week:

Composition

• arrangement of elements, subject matter, and stuff in general to make something creative for others to see

MUSIC - Songs are composed. Lyrics are composed, instrumental arrangements are composed, melodies are composed. They are ARRANGED in the best way to capture the audience they are intended for and make you listen again - pop - Intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, instrumental, chorus, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, the end. (This was on the whiteboard last time and I talked to it)

DRAMATIC ARTS - plays/films/t.v is composed. Sets are designed to go with the story, Make up is designed and arranged to go with the characters. characters are developed to portray the main themes of a story and it is all ARRANGED together to keep the viewer watching. 

Same for ART. 

There is very little point in creative works if no one sees them. Make people keep seeing them. Not walk away.

So far we have covered:

• pattern
• repetition
• tension
• unity

Back to Stylisation

This is a process, but it is not a linear, step-by-step one. There is room for all sorts of creative influence to arrive and be a part of the journey, as your head thinks things out with a pencil.

Last lesson, we looked at this process with an 'exemplar'. That is an example work that shows you a way of thinking something out visually. It is not the only way of making the art work, it is meant to help you get comfortable with trying out a new process by seeing it done by someone else.



This exemplar is the one we referred to on Friday. It is on the google site as well and you should be able to access it whenever you like.

Key things to remember before we start on Monday:

• This is not the only outcome
• I have referenced both Art styles studied; Art Nouveau, Kowhaiwhai
• The original koru come from the veins of the leaves being made prominent
• You use your leaf form to create your own stylised version
• One drawing is NOT enough work. It is a start. That is like writing one sentence and calling it an essay.

Your outcomes for the end of Monday's lesson are:

• A full page of ideas (plural).
• Excellent drawing skills, you all can, so you may as well show off.
• Something within that wonderful page that can be used as a print next week. 

Next step:

The Rule of Thirds:



Does this look familiar?
You should have by now, seen the work of Claude Monet, done some investigating of his work and ideas behind impressionism on our google site and done some drawing en plein air of the trees in our school grounds close to our classrooms.

Now we have a whole bunch of photos that we have messed around with in photoshop and illustrator to lose details that stop you from noticing colour and light as much.

The Rule of Thirds - I am going to talk you through this bit:

It is a common way to grid up a photo, painting or drawing. Sometimes Architects and often designers, refer to it in their work.

There are not many real rules in Art and this rule is one that gets used, broken and remade a lot. Our friend, Claude Monet used it. Do we remember him?

Excuse the wonky lines, this was done quickly on www.picmonkey.com those same lines above are over top of this photo to try and demonstrate what the rule of thirds looks like in practice.

Your next step will be how to use these lines to scale up a drawing for painting onto. 

7/8 Whanau Class

Hmmm, not sure which blog this lovely class fits into. So I think this post might get repeated. Lovely Xarnie pointed out that I did not have any photos of this class's work up yet. So I am obliging now. This is the start of blocking in some details for an impressionist style painting. Students have actively drawn a lot of drawings of the outside environment focussing on the trees that we have in our school-scape.

We worked "En Plein Air" - 'outside' in French. It was a revolutionary thing that the "Impressionists" did; painting from where they were and what they could see rather than Greek and Roman myths and legends that they had to make up.



These trees were planted when the school was first built. They are older than our students and well-established. They likely all have a wonderful history and if they could talk, a lot of stories to tell!

We worked on using the rule of thirds, dividing the image and then our paper into 3 sections, length-wise and width-wise. There was the tiniest bit of numeracy in this today and everyone coped really well, thinking things through for themselves. Jaleel became the expert at folding the papers into 3's rather than measuring, Nia was amazing in her resilience and independent work ethic, Michelle was possibly the quickest to get onto drawing. 7/8 Wh are lovely, good natured and very, very capable.



Our next step is to start playing with paint and colour theory.

That, and making sure we figure out our Art tikanga in J block...

The Power point from today is on the file cabinet pages for level 2 and level 3 photography

Making a Blog for Art

If you missed the last lesson, we are using www.blogger.com to make a blog for Art. All you need is an introduction to what we have done.

- Don't call your blog anything dumb that you will regret in older years, there will always be a trace of it somewhere.
- Always remember that if you are prepared to say something nasty, there are consequences and the LAW covers this, as does our expectations at Hornby High School.
- Keep it classy.

When you are done, email your teacher your blog name and make sure the blog is in fact PUBLIC. Or I cannot read it and it is pointless.

Photography students next steps

Making a proof sheet. You need to upload your photos onto a mac, use photoshop and make a proof or a contact sheet. (We are working on CS6)

You do this by first of all transferring your photos that you took into a folder on the computer. That means you take them OFF the camera. Please delete them from the camera once you have done this.

Once you have that sorted, make sure you know where the folder is and what it is named.

Open photoshop, but do not open any files. click on FILE - then down to Automate, and select contact sheet II.

There is a button called CHOOSE. That is where you need to go, find your folder and select OK.

Photoshop is going to build your proof/contact sheet. Leave it for a few minutes to do this.

Once this is done, flatten each page and save as a JPEG. Ask me or someone who knows how, if you are unsure. Email me your proof sheet and upload it onto your blogs. There is a lot of your figuring this out for yourselves, but once you have done this, you will be sorted and you can teach others in our class.