Making sure you know where your feedback and checklists are kept:

On our google site:

https://sites.google.com/a/hornby.school.nz/visarts/
Book mark this if you haven't already.

If you hover over the NCEA Visual Arst levels' 1 - 3 button, you get to see the course outlines drop down. you can select to see one of those there. 

Otherwise, if you want your class page, click on the blue tab directly. it takes you here:

You should all know what line you are in by now. Clicking on the correct line, will take you to your own class resources, including our shared google sheet, which also has your blog addresses on it. Because of the nature of google sites at this point, unless you have editing permissions for the whole page. you will only be able to VIEW this sheet from here. However, you do have it in your google drive in 'shared with me'. 

This is where all the feedback we have talked through in class should be recorded. It means you can always go back to it. Now that you know how to find it, I would like you to make sure you are always actively using it. 

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

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.

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

And we are Painting!

This has been a great week to see the student's work come alive as painting.

Things we learnt this week about TECHNIQUE
- Flat ferrule brush, which was invented during the impressionist period
- Tache - french for light touch and how the impressionists painted
- Colours can mix optically (your eye mixes the two colours next to each other) on the canvas/paper
- Dabs of paint, water often painted horizontally (across), reflections 'drawn' overtop vertically(up and down)

Feel free to re-watch the below video or search up others on how to paint impressionist style, or like Monet.

Things we are working on about Art room Tikanga:
- Newspaper is on all painting desks
- Use small amounts of paint
- Clean your own brushes really well with brush cleaner on your palm and then rinse thoroughly, dry.
- You help your classmates clean up, not just "I've done my bit"
- We don't play silly-beggars with paint!

Her are some lovely photos of some work so far, I will add some progressed ones next week:

Next step:

The Rule of Thirds:



Does this look familiar?
You should have by now, seen the work of Claude Monet, done some investigating of his work and ideas behind impressionism on our google site and done some drawing en plein air of the trees in our school grounds close to our classrooms.

Now we have a whole bunch of photos that we have messed around with in photoshop and illustrator to lose details that stop you from noticing colour and light as much.

The Rule of Thirds - I am going to talk you through this bit:

It is a common way to grid up a photo, painting or drawing. Sometimes Architects and often designers, refer to it in their work.

There are not many real rules in Art and this rule is one that gets used, broken and remade a lot. Our friend, Claude Monet used it. Do we remember him?

Excuse the wonky lines, this was done quickly on www.picmonkey.com those same lines above are over top of this photo to try and demonstrate what the rule of thirds looks like in practice.

Your next step will be how to use these lines to scale up a drawing for painting onto. 

Impressionism - Revolutionaries

Impressionism is from the19th-century. It is an art movement. This means there were a group of Artists who had similar ideas and became known for a particular style and/or way of thinking in their work.

It started during the 1870s and 1880s. Remember what was invented just before this time? We discussed it in class.

Impressionist paintings all have really visible brush strokes, they often show light and its changing qualities (think about the Haystacks by Claude Monet I keep showing you all and how you can see when it is a different time of the day), ordinary subject matter, trying to show movement in the works and using new angles in painting that had not been used before.

Claude Monet, 1890-91 Oil on canvas, 60 cm × 100 cm (23 5⁄8 in × 39 3⁄8 in). Location currently: Art Institute of Chicago “Wheatstacks; end of summer”	Claude Monet, 1890-91 Oil on canvas, 60.5 × 100.8 cm (23.8 × 39.7 in). Location currently:Louvre, Paris, France “Wheatstacks; end of summer” (again, he did a lot of these).

Remember your HOMEWORK: notice the sunset. Pick an object to watch outside your bedroom window and notice how the light/colour/look changes as the light fades.

The Académie des Beaux-Arts controlled everything about French art. The Salon (a panel of experts) selected the works considered suitable for the Académie each time they had an exhibition.

After Emperor Napoleon III (France's leader) saw the rejected works of 1863, he decided that people could look for themselves at how useless the Artists were who had been rejected. He wanted the people to come along and laugh at them.

This was called the Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Refused). This actually backfired. People did come, more than usually attended the actual Salon, and quite a few liked what they saw. It was not the same old boring stuff they were used to seeing and showed things that were happening in people's everyday lives at the time.

In December 1873, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas and several other artists founded the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs ("Cooperative and Anonymous Association of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers") to exhibit their artworks independently.[9] ( this bit is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism and those links will take you to those Artist’s wikipedia pages)