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. 

What used to be 9 is now 10

Welcome to Year 10 Art! How exciting. You are finally there.

Year 10 Art is cool because you get to be here all year. You have also chosen this space and time so you are all in the same position. It's a choice you have made to be here and that makes it different.

where we are starting:

If you go to the google site for visual arts (you know where that is) you should be able to navigate your way to Year 10. There is a course outline there and links to each term for our outline of work.

Term one is quite broad - it's about good drawing and composition basics. Learning that you can experiment with the media to learn and also develop new, techniques.

If you are in my class you know those two words:

Media and Techniques

We talked these through: Media - what it is made of, techniques - how the media is used to make it. 

In case you missed it, I took a photo of my terribly messy notes for the blog post you should all have to accompany your charcoal techniques page. 

Woodcut Selfies

Beautiful job, just finishing off. Moving onto watercolour and formal drawing techniques next week...

Tuesday 5th July 2016

So now you all need to get a little more creative with your work.

Link to new Pinterest page for inspiration today

I am away today so have left it to you to figure out the following:

• Your page of notes from week 6 (before camps went away) from my messy whiteboard notes that we did. YOUR ideas, not mine :-) 
• Thumbnail sketches - you should have 4 - 6 ideas that loosely, quickly and efficiently describe how to combine your selfie with words that explain your message, which is preferably one word, but may be more like a quote.
• Use this pinterest board to help inspire and move your ideas forward. Have a really good look and think about what you want to say in your work. search beyond it but within the realms of your topic (so not on trademe Izac and not for makeup tutorials girls and not on gaming sites boys)
• Absolutely stun me with your amazing ideas preferably as a post on your blog. I cannot wait to see what you come up with :-) 

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. 

Progressing into a mixed media Art work

Indian ink, collage and texture. Remember, neat is not a priority, use the mistakes to make something cool, don't freak out about clean and tidy edges and add to your work as it is being made. 

Composition

• arrangement of elements, subject matter, and stuff in general to make something creative for others to see

MUSIC - Songs are composed. Lyrics are composed, instrumental arrangements are composed, melodies are composed. They are ARRANGED in the best way to capture the audience they are intended for and make you listen again - pop - Intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, instrumental, chorus, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, the end. (This was on the whiteboard last time and I talked to it)

DRAMATIC ARTS - plays/films/t.v is composed. Sets are designed to go with the story, Make up is designed and arranged to go with the characters. characters are developed to portray the main themes of a story and it is all ARRANGED together to keep the viewer watching. 

Same for ART. 

There is very little point in creative works if no one sees them. Make people keep seeing them. Not walk away.

So far we have covered:

• pattern
• repetition
• tension
• unity

Follow-up on Transcription Progress

So we have to keep remembering the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset, and we are definitely making progress. There is not one student in this class who is not coping. So proud.

Tuesday 16th February 2016 P4

What are focussing on during today's lesson:

Learning outcome: Art and your 21st century aesthetic

1) Getting more information onto your ideas pages - class brainstorm on the board
2) Drawing skills. If you need a break from the ideas page, we will work through how to make a transcription and good solid tonal drawing.

Transcription - copy

This is a technique that Artists would learn back in the day. They would spend a lot of time practising things like this in improving their drawing and directly learning from another Artist. It was considered part of the process in working towards being a Master of Art. Then they would be the teacher and students would learn from them in much the same way.

There will be a series of images that directly relate to the theme of 21st Century babies in black and white. You are going to use rulers, your Art pencils and Art pads to make as good an accurate copy as possible. We start with gridding up the original to scale it up accurately.

As the lesson progresses, I will add photos of our students doing this as a way of documenting our own progress and creating your own reference to look back on, or help teach those students who were absent today, next time...