Directing your own ideas:

We are at a point of the year, when you get to direct your own learning. particularly in relation to upcoming PBL.

Last week you were asked to come up with a brainstorm on "what do you care about?"

It is a crazy, broad, open question...

Artists always have a message. Sometimes the message is boring to you, but to someone else. sometimes it is too intense for you, but not for someone else. sometimes you just like it or you don't.

Art is like having a conversation with your own head. You think, you discuss, you answer back, you agree or disagree or slightly one or the other. You can be moved by Art, but you don't need to tell anyone why, so it's a private conversation.

It is a very brave thing for an artist to put their side of the conversation out there for you to be with. you wont necessarily 'get' it all. That is ok, the artist will never get your response, unless you directly go and tell them!

 We start with the WHY.

Why do you want to make Art?

Year 11 in 2017

What we are doing:

You need to start with your concept; by now you all should have 3 words added to the google tracking sheet we have shared with you. Those three words should help express a direction for the meaning behind your work.

You should all have a couple of Artist models that your teacher has directed you to look at. Many of you will have started some drawing around this too.

You should all know where the research document is located on the google site and be working through it with one image from one artist.

If that is getting hard and confusing consider first - if you do this three or four times with a compare contrast at the end of they year, we can in fact make sure it counts for research credits (1.1) with a few tweaks. Second - I will upload an exemplar of what it could look like so that you are a little less confused.

Painting with Watercolours

Water colours are watery. Not thick like acrylic or oil paint.

Traditionally you can see the paper through the paint and the paper tone makes your white tones.

 click here for the Pinterest page on water colour painting techniques

- Practice on spare bits of paper
- Use contrasting colour matches for shading/shadows and modelling things to look 3 dimensional.

 

Red/Green

Blue/Orange

Yellow/Purple

Black is really harsh. using it as a shadow colour can be overwhelming. Do so with subtlety. 

If you have not planned how to use the negative space - this means you are not actually achieving. the whole point was to 'compose' how you were using the space, not to just place everything in the centre. 

I should be able to see your compositional sketches from which your idea comes from as I move around the room. 

Thumbnail Sketches

Are quick sketches where you consider how to create your composition.

Your composition should be reflecting your concept, otherwise there is not much point! Who writes a song about love and never talks about it?

You should all have an A3 page, titled "Thumbnail Sketches". Makes it easier to find next time...

On it, that branch of your brain storm that defines your concept. Up the top, not dominating too much space would be good.

A logical next step is to make sure you have some imagery that is relevant to your concept, keeping in mind Pasifika and Manga should be clearly present.

For me: - Minnie's heels, bow, etc... maybe some images of Jimmy Choo shoes as well. It would be sensible for me to use google image to collect these, as it is accessible. That doesn't mean I google art work about Minnie and Mickey and gender roles. It means I start my own source imagery collection.

Collecting these images up and making them into a google draw resource is where I will take this next... (today's task)

How to use google draw:

1) Watch the video

2) Set up your own google draw for term four narrative painting

3) Google search images based on your concept using 'search tools' - 'usage rights' - labelled for re-use

Collect at least 6 images you can draw from later on.

More instructions to come...

Defining your narrative

If you missed this lesson, we watched this as a starter.

what did we learn about why Feu'u makes his work?
- culture
- life
- death
- experiences
- meaning

Everything had a meaning or a reason behind it.

The task was to create a brainstorm on a topic of your own choosing. Absolutely anything. At least 5 words should have branched off your main brainstorm word:

 this is my example one on the board on Mickey Mouse. Five things that instantly came to mind.

Choose at least one of these things to extend your ideas:

 I chose 'Minnie' and then from there it was 'heels', 'female', and 'cutesy' that came to mind.

If I was using this as an overall concept, it is the male and female roles Disney portrays. Everyone should have been to this point by the end of the lesson. Everyone will have a different concept.

Work for the next week

Year 12 and 13:

I am away for you guys until Thursday.

This is a group email to all the year 12 and 13’s in both my senior classes.

I feel like you are all working really well on your starts to your folio’s. There are no where near enough blog posts happening however.

By the end of Tuesday, I would like to see a new blog post from every student. I also want you to specifically comment on a blog post from 2 other students in your class. It does not matter if they are in year 11/12/13.

How do you eat a whole elephant? Piece by piece - the same way you make your folio happen.

Your blog is worth credits too and it is a safe way to keep your work for when you lose your book. It happens.

I will keep an eye on who is posting and when and respond to each of you. I am expecting you to use your blog to seek feedback from me and your classmates too.

Check list for Term One

Checklists shared via Hapara as google docs, also here as PDFs:

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?