Water Colour Painting

Painting with water colours

Finish 3 pieces of water colour painting that use

- 3 or more colours

- Demonstrate blending two or more colours together

- Layer two or more colours over each other

- 'Bleed' one colour into another for effect

- Show something experimental in how you paint 

Finish 1 piece of water colour painting of Manga

- That demonstrates; using warmer, bold and defined colours in the foreground and cooler, faded and less defined colours in the background. You may want to have a think about this with a class mate first.

ANSWER ME!

Read the blog posts referenced and answer these questions on the form. Don't spend more than 15 minutes on this please and then move onto your work as given to the reliever.

Developing Ideas for making your own Munch inspired print

Outline of what we did today:

We need to get something to make an art based image from, using mono-printing, that has some meaning to you.

We opened two tabs; Google images search and pixlr.com.
Searching for images under labelled for reuse is very important. It means you aren't stealing an image and you are showing respect.




- Why is it important to use work labelled for re-use?
- Who did you choose and why?


When you open www.pixlr.com, you will get a screen that gives you some options to download files. Sign up to pixlr using your school email and password so you don't forget them.

1) Web-based apps
2) Pixlr editor (not express)
3) Play and experiment with the image to change the colours, warp the form and stylise it. You should be thinking along the lines of Edvard Munch and his forms he uses.

Whiteboard notes from Week 5:

The notes in pink are not the 'only' things you can do, they are examples that we came up with in class. Please consider this when you are working.

The expectation is that you come up with one page of evidence that shows you have thought through all of this and potentially more (if you want to achieve at a higher curriculum level for example)



Some examples below are from a class last year who worked on a similar unit of work:


Kita - 2015


Kirsty 2015


One student writes lots the other does not. both have good ideas, one is able to be assessed a little more easily. Both are valid and very good.

Making marks from your selfie

Unity - Kotahitanga

Putting your progress so far together as a potential art work; 

• term two selfie, how can you incorporate this, 
• term two understanding of German Expressionism and woodcut technique, how can you best use this, 
• as well as your own personal expression? 

It is really important that you process your selfie as a graphic, black and white drawing that focusses on translating tone into MARK MAKING and texture, not shading. That might mean you interpret some areas a little differently to how they appear, or that you change tones into marks, or simplify them. It might mean you try one way of doing things and it does not work. That means try another way. Don't just quit. You also should be focussing on making this drawing NOT pretty. It is meant to be you considering how over-the-top and self-obsessed the idea of the selfie is. Make it ugly, make it creepy, make it a bit angsty, but let's not glorify it. 

From here, you should be moving onto our Pinterest site for German Expressionism and beginning some thumbnail sketches. We can go over how to manage these more carefully in class.