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?

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. 

Work for Monday - start with the form, no longer than five minutes please - it is easy

Hello class, today I was not planning to be away. Never mind

I suspect there will be half a dozen of you who cannot 'fond' your google drawing file from last time - open your google drive and go to 'recent' is probably the easiest way to find it. It WILL be there.



When you have finished this form, your teacher will go through the instructions for the lesson. Listen and pay attention, I have expectations for Wednesday!

Learning outcome:
The role of the artist in telling a story (using narrative approach)

Should already have:
- Your brainstorm branch at the top of a page
-Your google draw file open in front of you - FINISHED - 6 images relevant to your brainstorm on it.

Tasks: - we are designing a series of ideas for a painting based on the narrative. 
Must do:

• The form above and getting your thumbnails sketches out.
• Observational drawing from one or two of your google images that you have collected
• Plan at least three ideas where you show you are thinking about 'story' or 'narrative'

Could do:

• Make a clear effort to use Manga styles in your work (eyes, comic layout, speech bubbles etc)
• Make a clear effort to use Pasifika patterns in your work

By the end of the lesson:

• Google form is done, I will bug you if it isn't
• Google drawing with research images (photographic ones) are sorted
• Thumbnail sketches page has brainstorm branch on it, observational drawing on it and thumbnail sketches that could become your final painting on it. 

Good luck.

Please share your work on your school blog if you like so I can see. I will show you how to use it properly on Wednesday if no one else has yet.

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.

Composition

Last week we covered some compositional elements of both Manga and Fatu Feu'u.

If you missed this lesson, or need to recap, we looked at Pacific Conference 2007 By Feu'u


Pacific Conference:
Bleach Manga & TV Photo: Some of my fav pages

The things you were asked to notice/do were:

• Completing a quick 'thumbnail sketch' of each piece (rough, proportional, but not detailed)
• Defining the difference between realistic, abstract, symbolic, surreal in classifying these art works.
• Identifying the background, middle ground and foreground use of space - can you see how this is visually balanced?
• Understanding the narrative value of each piece with 4 bullet points that illustrated this on your page

Both Art forms are "Narrative' in style - they have a story.

This work should have covered an A3 page.

Posting a decent blog post

Today in 8GB and 7 BK we worked on reforming our blog posts using a bit of structure.

Here is how it goes:

1) Open up your Google Draw on Street art and make sure it is downloaded as...JPEG.
2) Open up www.blogger.com and make sure you can see your school blog - is should read [your name] @ Hornby High School. If you cannot see that, email me and I will let admin know.
3) Make a new post (or edit the one you already made).

4) Use this template to make sure you are writing a blog post with some quality.

1) Your Learning Outcome is:

The role of the Artist as an antagonist - Year 8

The role of the Artist in disrupting what is 'accepted' - Year 7

In Year 8 you need to show you understand that word Antagonist. It would be useful if you understand the word Protagonist too, as it is the opposite role. You can use google to do this bit, but put it your own words.

2) Learning process - describe what you did to make your JPEG. As little or as much detail as you want here.

3) Evidence - You have already done this - it is your JPEG. You need to upload it to your blog. Below is a screen shot. See the blue word that says LINK? There is a little landscape image next to it. THAT is the button you use to insert an image. 

4) What worked, what didn't, what to change - this can be a list. NEXT re-state your learning outcome and try and write a sentence that reflects what you think you understand of it now. 

This is homework for anyone who didn't complete this in class. Due by the time I see you in class next Thursday.

Street art and stencilling your ideas

We are staring with you developing your own research document on Google Draw.



The things you need on your drawing are:

1) Two attributed images of Banksy's work
2) One piece of work by an Artist called Shepard Fairey - attributed
3) 4 facts about what street art is
5) A youtube link to how to make stencils for spray painting.
6) A title of your own design.

Once your google drawing is complete, you need to share it with me and post it on your blog. to do this, download as... "PDF" or "JPEG" and insert it into a post. Make sure you use a label for Art. I will help you with this bit if it is confusing.

End of term three

Make sure you have finished all of your printmaking work before moving on with the next unit of work...

Manga versus Pasifika

Both are Narrative.

Both are reliant on the cultural and social circumstances of where they are located to fully make sense.

Go back to the google site for year 9 and have a look at the resources on the term four -  file cabinet page. You are working to develop visual skills in drawing from both a Manga style and a Pasifika pattern style.

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?