Mood board

Recap on what and why you should have done this: it is your visual inspiration to start with. This is the one I did in front of you in class to get you started. Based on Versace and his death.

Sonja terk Delaunay thumbnail sketches again

Progress week 8 term one.

Year 10 Sonja Terk Delaunay

If you missed today:
Practical knowledge and understanding context: how a lino cut works, and some understanding of Delaunay as an artist and person.

We looked really quickly at how a Linocut is made, and looked at Sonja Terk Delaunay's work. She is a painter and designer from the early 20th Century.

We are making a progressive blog post. That means we blog more often and in smaller bits.

Above is what we are looking for in your post. Along with that, can you make sure you consider how you know the artwork is a Sonja Terk Delaunay artwork? What information are you relying on? How can you tell if a site is legitimate?

the last bit of the lesson was using some oil pastels to recreate a small part of a Delaunay piece of work and adding that to your blog post.

2.2 and 2.3 Photography

These are the first practical standards we are aiming to complete. It is your starting point for the body of work that goes on your folio.

By now you should have your 'why', in the form of a brainstorm which is also a part of your blog post.

You should have chosen three photographers as the focus of your Art History which you then also use as your first major influence for your first folio board. 

2.2/2/3 looks roughly like this:

In developing this body of evidence you need to get the following skills sorted:

1) How to work the camera

2) How to upload your shots and make proof sheets out of them. the small photos in a grid are what we call proof sheets. 

3) A good understanding of aperture and shutter speed, the rule of thirds and leading lines

4) How to open photoshop and do some basic editing

These are skills you learn, not ones I expect you to know before we start out. 

There are four shoots here. Four separate times that the student has chosen to go and set up a shoot and record what they see. 

From each shoot, there should be 2 or 3 series of works that you like. A series of works should be 2 - 5 or more shots that work together. 

From each series, there should be one more spectacular shot that you would want to make more of a deal of. 

What do you need to do to create this body of work for yourself? 

Make a plan, show it to me. 

2.2 and 2.3 Design

These are the first practical standards we are aiming to complete. It is your starting point for the body of work that goes on your folio.

You should have a basic brief at this point

You should have a mood board completed on a google drawing as well. If you download as a PDF, you can use it more freely in a range of programmes.  This should also be on your blog.

These two components set you up to be working systematically throughout the year. you will have a purpose and something to go back to when you get visually stuck. 


You have your 'why' - it is your brief. 

You have your visual sources on your mood board. You should have identified 3 specific artists to work on for Art History, these should be your first main influences for your design work on panel one. 

From your company name and your general visual direction, all our designers should have sketched up in pencil 20 basic concepts for a logo. 

Along with this, you should have looked on dafont.com and traced 15 or so different fonts using your company name. Your screens work well as a light table!

The evidence you should collect from all of this for these standards is:
- your brief worksheet
- brainstorm of ideas for your direction
- brainstorm of ideas for names- a mood board like the one above
- 15 or so font drawings on an a3 page
- 20 or so concept sketches thinking about logo design and your chosen design models

2.2 and 2.3 paint

These are the first practical standards we are aiming to complete. It is your starting point for the body of work that goes on your folio.

As you have developed your 'why', I have asked you to plan your folio. This was a rough plan, with thumbnail sketches.

In painting, planning like this will lead you to make art works:

Here is an example of some sketches we worked out with Kingston:
His why is:
Old school mafia in America - gangsters and romanticising them.

His artist models are:

James Rosenquist, "Day job painting"

Rosenquist
AskewOne

Askew One - For Paradox exhibition, Tauranga, NZ, 2017

His subject matter is:
A man in a suit,
New York city
hands to wrap around the city
fingers in every pie (as the mafia had hold of new york)
Control through the force of guns

The first sketch on the top right is taking some compositional devices from Rosenquist - angles, cropping, images banging into each other and being cut off awkwardly, some layering of the subject, but no real space detailed.

The second sketch with the full figure is based on some Askew One ideas, where there is some layering of textures and lines that are almost abstract over and within the portrait. there seems to be a word used at the base of the askew one image, so we have attempted to play with that detail in Kingston's work here too.

Following on from here, It is Kingston's job to figure out a series of works that introduce his why more clearly and show how he is learning from his two artists.
The evidence he will collect as he goes:
- His brainstorm
- His subject matter as photographic or real sources (not out of his head)
- Notes and thoughts are written up on paper and on his blog
- Some careful observational drawing of his subject matter (3 - 4 A3 pages is good)
- His finished first series of paintings (at least 2 paintings)

Next step is to paint them and stick them on his board for the folio.

Level one drawing to the standard - 1.2 use wet and dry media to record information

One of the standards we are attempting to tick off over the year requires you to prove that you can draw accurately from a visual source.

Things this standard does not include:
- Imaginary doodles
- Written notes
- Stuff you tried to draw to look real but without source material (a photo or a still life to show me)

Things this standard must include:
- Tone
- Perspective
- Detail drawing
- Proportional undertanding
- Dry media; pencil, charcoal, crayon, pastel, collage
- Wet media; water colour, paint, ink

The work that is done for these 4 credits can also be on your folio. because you are all doing different projects, what your drawing pages look like will all be completely different.

A rule of thumb for this standard is:
4 A3 pages of drawing (or enough to fill 4 A3 pages) in dry media
4 A3 pages of drawing/painting in wet media

The exemplars for this standard are here

If you have any tonal or detail/proportion pages started, KEEP them, they count. The stuff below is stuff that would count at a merit/excellence level:

Year 10 Blog posts done for Michael Mew

Recently, You were asked to post your work. I am really pleased with those who have as it shows a wonderful range of works:

Alayna .                               Chloe .                            Dylan .                      Jacob .               

Jaime .                                 Jordan .                           Molly .                      Natasha

Nini                                     Presayus                         Riccardo                    Sarah

Shikobi                               Stevie                              Xij



Commitment to your learning, Achievement in completing the piece, Resilience in being brave enough to post about your work and Respect in taking yourselves seriously as artists (self-respect).

Year 10 Blog posts for Michael Mew

We more or less finished up that piece of work for Michael Mew on Friday. i know a couple of you have a little bit to do to get things complete.

I asked for a summarising blog post. Most of you instinctively ran with this and completed it. Well done.

If you still have to publish or even start (which is fine btw), Make sure you consider our point or what we sometimes call a learning intention; Leading lines focal point, mixed media and unity.

Don't be scared to look at blog posts already made by your classmates and do be brave and get it done. I am not expecting a literary masterpiece, but also dont mind if I get one! What I do appreciate is, if you are brave enough to put yourself out there and post your work proudly.

Week 7 term one Level One

Level one: I know there is a great deal of action in one class, with works looking good from Satora, Olivia, Alyana and Lila. Well done ladies.

Your first series should be well underway, probably finished. We have folio card that you will use on Monday/Tuesday to start sticking work down (with blu tak only)

If you have started with photography - you will be getting me to print these off onto photo paper.

There will be no Art History on Monday, as you should be well enough finished to have me run through it for a formative assessment.

Using water colour paints.

Some of you are electing to use watercolours to introduce your first series of works.

In level one, this covers 1.2 - Use wet and dry media to record information. Watercolour is 'wet media'.

How you use watercolour is important - it is meant to be watery. thin even and easily pushed around the paper.

1 - Make sure you use watercolour paper to work on - it's thicker and more absorbent.
2 - Keep any pencil lines light so that they don't distract from your painting
3 - Be prepared to keep pushing the paints around on the paper and adding water frequently.

Year 10 what is our point here?

It's a magazine!

Remember when I asked if you all had read the course outline?

We worked ourselves into groups today and set things up so that you all had a role of kinds.

The magazine is eventually going to use your hand made artwork as graphics and backgrounds, in ways that I would like you to laterally think about how to tell the viewer the meaning, without the benefit of a language that the majority understand (shamefully!).

That means your magazine will be written in te Reo. Your visuals have to speak as loudly as your words.

This is terribly rough. You will create better than this. Each of those groups we developed from the class brainstorm, is responsible for a section each. it may only be 2 pages (a double-page spread) or it might be 4. There is a group for the cover. You will also be responsible for the back of the book.

https://maoridictionary.co.nz/ we only use this as a guide to start understanding how we could use the langauge for titles of sections. Modifiers are important. Ask those students in our class who take te reo as a subject for assistance or seek out help from our two lovely te reo specialists on staff.

 This stuff is better layout!