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

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.

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.

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.