Painters in 9mn

Paint technique:

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. 

Relief work for Friday

Below are some links to youtube videos that will be useful today.

Your task is to choose at leat one to work from and complete an improved drawing from last time we worked on drawing faces. You have this lesson to practice your skills which should result in a page minimum of good drawing and then next lesson we will be posting progress onto your own school blogs.

I would like you to stick to pencil please

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau = New Art in French

It is a style that is based on stylised plant forms and it is really very decorative.

The Art story website has some information on it that it would be useful to look at, as does artsy.net

In completing your Art nouveau research page it should have the following:

• Some drawing of Art Nouveau (does not have to be a complete pattern, but should be very detailed in what you do present and good quality)
• another drawing of a new leaf/plant form on the other side of the page
• 6 - 8 facts about Art nouveau that you peer check (try to stick to the sites I have given you)
• Colour used appropriately
• No off-task drawings on your work or in your books

There is this particular form that is the building block of Art Nouveau - It is called a 'whiplash'.

Make sure you identify this form in your Art nouveau drawing and can recognise it easily.

I will be MARKING these two sheets of research specifically for feedback for your first set of reports. 

What you may have missed...

For those of you who missed the last one or two lessons:

Whatever point you are at, we are taking your 'logo' of your initials or image and developing it into a stencil. This stencil (if you are lucky and responsible) will be applied to our 'wall' with spray paint. To do this you have to show you can be trusted.

What is a stencil? How do you make your image into one

- Holds together as one piece - Template and Stencil.

The template blocks the paint from hitting the negative space of the image and the stencil (open) allows the paint to go where you want positive space.



If you are turning an image into a stencil, you need a strong material to use as a template.

You also need to design it to hold together so that your details are apparent.

If i was making a stencil of a letter 'P' - there is a hole in the middle. Do you remember those alphabet stencil templates you used to get as kids?
 How do you make it show all the detail in the middle and hold together? you make those breaks happen in the positive space so that the template remains ONE PIECE.

Here are some of the examples I went over on the board during classes this last week:



Here are some student's work that got finished last week:

We have a wall on the side of the unused kiln room which is for stencils ONLY.

Kody 8gb Stencil and Template both could be used because he was so neat with his cutting

Nathan 7Bk - original design

Nathan 7 Bk - reworking to be a template and stencil

Jaedon 8gb finished painting

Kody, Jaedon 8gb, Shikobi 7bk finished paintings

Landscapes, water colours and where we belong, how we belong to the land

In the term three section of our google site, you will find all of our resources on the file cabinet and a general overview as well. Please check in with this if you have missed class.



You will get to choose your tasks each lesson, you can also complete work at homr. I know you have started a visual research page with Mrs Cairns when I was away and this is one of the tasks that requires completion

As you come into class next lesson, write your name under the task you are working on that lesson.

On Friday we will start with a quick overview (again?) on McCahon and a Padlet task on the focusing questions.

Picasso the Rebel

We talked last week about how Picasso should take a great deal of credit for you being allowed to be openly creative as art makers today.

He was a rebel, he became an art revolution.

You will have a slide presentation for your work shared with you in your google drive. If you don't (newer class members) ask a friend to share theirs with you and "make a copy" of it for yourself.

This is the theory base for the term. Please complete your research page with 6 facts about Picasso and some drawing work from one of his paintings.

The link between photography and painting may not seem very clear just now, but it is important and we will explore it more later



This example comes from Caleb in 8mt of a pretty good looking research page.  Aim for this level of quality.

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.

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. 

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.

Term Two - when your paintings are done... :-)

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. 

More progress 8 MT

Best of all was that you guys really showed positive understanding of our classroom Tikanga in an 'Art' space. Lots of cool things are happening...

Thumbnail Sketches with Annotations

'What are they for?' - "WE DON"T KNOW"
'When does she want them?' - "NOW"

Possibly not so thrilled that when I said to my lovely year 10 class that we were doing a page of thumbnail sketches a lot of you said "what does that mean?" and "we've never done those...!?"

Ahhh you have, I have the photos and a blog to prove it, munchkins, so the next time, we will just revisit this blog post I think:



Annotations are the words you write to clarify what worked, what didn't, and what you may do next. These do not have to be full sentences, it is mainly for you to remember back to when you look at the page again.

The compositional principles you should have covered are:
- Pattern
- Repeition
- Tension
- Unity