Friday, 29 April 2016
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Printing Process
Design:
You should have a page that started something like this. We began with a leaf and moved into stylising it based on visual knowledge of two movements of Art:
1) K_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
2) A _ _ N _ _ _ _ _ _
Transferring your design onto your wood:
You knew the size of your wood towards the end of that stylisation process. Howe you fit that design onto the wood is up to you. But do have a think about how the space behind the form you have designed can work with your design. Draw you lines thickly and clearly.
Cutting your block:
1) Fingers are never in front of the blade!
2) What you cut is going to print white, what you leave behind is going to print coloured.
3) There is always a way to fix your mistakes, don't biff your block without a decent discussion with your teacher first.
4) Classroom Tikanga absolutely demands you clean up your wood chips so that the cleaner does not have to spend more time in our room than he is paid for.
Printing your block:
You need a roller, perspex plate to roll ink onto, newspaper, paper to print onto and a spoon!
And patience...
Print off at least 5 copies, as you are a printmaker here, not a painter. These are not one-off Art works, they are able to be mass produced for everyone. And Christmas presents that you make are always better.
You should have a page that started something like this. We began with a leaf and moved into stylising it based on visual knowledge of two movements of Art:
1) K_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
2) A _ _ N _ _ _ _ _ _
Transferring your design onto your wood:
You knew the size of your wood towards the end of that stylisation process. Howe you fit that design onto the wood is up to you. But do have a think about how the space behind the form you have designed can work with your design. Draw you lines thickly and clearly.
Cutting your block:
1) Fingers are never in front of the blade!
2) What you cut is going to print white, what you leave behind is going to print coloured.
3) There is always a way to fix your mistakes, don't biff your block without a decent discussion with your teacher first.
4) Classroom Tikanga absolutely demands you clean up your wood chips so that the cleaner does not have to spend more time in our room than he is paid for.
Printing your block:
You need a roller, perspex plate to roll ink onto, newspaper, paper to print onto and a spoon!
And patience...
Print off at least 5 copies, as you are a printmaker here, not a painter. These are not one-off Art works, they are able to be mass produced for everyone. And Christmas presents that you make are always better.
Thursday, 7 April 2016
Progressing into a mixed media Art work
Indian ink, collage and texture. Remember, neat is not a priority, use the mistakes to make something cool, don't freak out about clean and tidy edges and add to your work as it is being made. 
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
More progress 8 MT
Best of all was that you guys really showed positive understanding of our classroom Tikanga in an 'Art' space. Lots of cool things are happening...
Tuesday, 5 April 2016
Monday, 4 April 2016
Thumbnail Sketches with Annotations
'What are they for?' - "WE DON"T KNOW"
'When does she want them?' - "NOW"
Possibly not so thrilled that when I said to my lovely year 10 class that we were doing a page of thumbnail sketches a lot of you said "what does that mean?" and "we've never done those...!?"
Ahhh you have, I have the photos and a blog to prove it, munchkins, so the next time, we will just revisit this blog post I think:
Annotations are the words you write to clarify what worked, what didn't, and what you may do next. These do not have to be full sentences, it is mainly for you to remember back to when you look at the page again.
The compositional principles you should have covered are:
- Pattern
- Repeition
- Tension
- Unity
'When does she want them?' - "NOW"
Possibly not so thrilled that when I said to my lovely year 10 class that we were doing a page of thumbnail sketches a lot of you said "what does that mean?" and "we've never done those...!?"
Ahhh you have, I have the photos and a blog to prove it, munchkins, so the next time, we will just revisit this blog post I think:
Annotations are the words you write to clarify what worked, what didn't, and what you may do next. These do not have to be full sentences, it is mainly for you to remember back to when you look at the page again.
The compositional principles you should have covered are:
- Pattern
- Repeition
- Tension
- Unity
Some progress works:
Understanding 'Tache' and some really nice layering and mark making in paint year 8 gb/mt/wh. Of course, these paintings are incomplete! Students are making great progress so far:
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