Mark making

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. 

Drawing selfies, being comfortable with selfies and using them for art...

Oooo this is hard! We have done this each year from 2015 - now and it is really obvious that using a selfie to make Art is harder than it seems with self-consciousness taken into account.

Self portraits in Art - pretty much since Cave Art this has likely happened. Though there are more examples of rich pompous people paying an artist for a favourable portrait, rather than the artists portrait, it has been a 'thing' for a long, long time in Art history.

On Wednesday, when everyone is back from camp, we are going to run through this:




When I was at Art school a million years ago, Woodcut printmaking was my 'thing'.

Below are two examples of work I did around the idea of self portrait (the ugly colours rather unfortunately reflect my terrible dress sense at the time...)

Let's discuss all of this further on Monday.

I'm really pleased to see the drawing work that happened today with the selfies already:

 

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.

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.

MONO print

Mono = one
print = copy

This is the definition google retrieved for me when I asked 'what is a monoprint?'

It is pretty similar in explaining what we have been doing in class with year 8. We use thin perspex rather than glass or metal.

 

 

These ones are the teacher exemplars of what we are working towards.

We are using an 'additive' mono-print technique. That means we add to the plate with colour and texture before printing.

A 'subtractive' mono-print method means we put colour on and subtract it with making marks and textures before printing it.

There are 3 key steps in making your plate:
1) Apply the base thinly and let it dry a bit before you put the colour on
2) Apply the colour just like you would paint on paper. Mix, make paint marks and blend.
3) Let it dry

Following making your plate, we are going to go through hand printing a mono-print.

German Expressionism

By now we all should have seen this. It is here fi you want to go through it again, or you have deleted/lost the email link I sent you...

The research pages are looking really good and we are working towards some printmaking with mono-prints and possibly drypoint etching :-)

Research drawing and research for Manga

We have pretty much finished up with drawing for Manga, but a lot of you still have some research work to complete your lovely pages off with. Here are the notes from the whiteboard.  And below them are the photos I took of some of your work from last Friday. Looking pretty good 9hl :-)

White board research notes for you written component; handwritten onto your research pages please, not copied and pasted onto a doc. Please make sure you write down the websites you used as well, on your page.

Manga and Pasifika - Narrative in Art Making

Welcome to week two of term two. 

We are going to be working towards a painting this term.

In doing this, we are going to study the tradition and skills involved in Manga (or Anime) and Pasifika pattern forms.

We are starting with research drawing which you have done in term one as well.

Do you remember what makes good research drawing?