Week Three Term Three

Where you are at is where you can find what you should have done and what we are working on.

Today was cut short by assembly, with a 15 minute class and not much time to get things sorted. Friday, we will be cutting up your custom wood to work on and drafting up your prints.




By the end of Friday success means:
- You have all of your book work done and documented on your blog
- You have completed a reflection blog post
- You have drafted your final idea onto wood that you have helped to cut up... :-)

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...

Success criteria for making your design work:

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.

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?

Printing Process

Design:



You should have a page that started something like this. We began with a leaf and moved into stylising it based on visual knowledge of two movements of Art:

1) K_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
2) A _ _ N _ _ _ _ _ _

Transferring your design onto your wood:





You knew the size of your wood towards the end of that stylisation process. Howe you fit that design onto the wood is up to you. But do have a think about how the space behind the form you have designed can work with your design. Draw you lines thickly and clearly.

Cutting your block:




1) Fingers are never in front of the blade!
2) What you cut is going to print white, what you leave behind is going to print coloured.
3) There is always a way to fix your mistakes, don't biff your block without a decent discussion with your teacher first.
4) Classroom Tikanga absolutely demands you clean up your wood chips so that the cleaner does not have to spend more time in our room than he is paid for.

Printing your block:

You need a roller, perspex plate to roll ink onto, newspaper, paper to print onto and a spoon!
And patience...



Print off at least 5 copies, as you are a printmaker here, not a painter. These are not one-off Art works, they are able to be mass produced for everyone. And Christmas presents that you make are always better.

Back to Stylisation

This is a process, but it is not a linear, step-by-step one. There is room for all sorts of creative influence to arrive and be a part of the journey, as your head thinks things out with a pencil.

Last lesson, we looked at this process with an 'exemplar'. That is an example work that shows you a way of thinking something out visually. It is not the only way of making the art work, it is meant to help you get comfortable with trying out a new process by seeing it done by someone else.



This exemplar is the one we referred to on Friday. It is on the google site as well and you should be able to access it whenever you like.

Key things to remember before we start on Monday:

• This is not the only outcome
• I have referenced both Art styles studied; Art Nouveau, Kowhaiwhai
• The original koru come from the veins of the leaves being made prominent
• You use your leaf form to create your own stylised version
• One drawing is NOT enough work. It is a start. That is like writing one sentence and calling it an essay.

Your outcomes for the end of Monday's lesson are:

• A full page of ideas (plural).
• Excellent drawing skills, you all can, so you may as well show off.
• Something within that wonderful page that can be used as a print next week.