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.
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.
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.
Ok Hl, things have not gone entirely to plan with Year 9 camp, teacher only days, Easter holidays, assemblies and now the Hauora attitude talk during our Art lesson.
Bearing all of that in mind, I am going to extend our current printmaking unit into week one of term two and finish it up then.
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:
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.
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.
Hmmm, not sure which blog this lovely class fits into. So I think this post might get repeated. Lovely Xarnie pointed out that I did not have any photos of this class's work up yet. So I am obliging now. This is the start of blocking in some details for an impressionist style painting. Students have actively drawn a lot of drawings of the outside environment focussing on the trees that we have in our school-scape.
We worked "En Plein Air" - 'outside' in French. It was a revolutionary thing that the "Impressionists" did; painting from where they were and what they could see rather than Greek and Roman myths and legends that they had to make up.
These trees were planted when the school was first built. They are older than our students and well-established. They likely all have a wonderful history and if they could talk, a lot of stories to tell!
We worked on using the rule of thirds, dividing the image and then our paper into 3 sections, length-wise and width-wise. There was the tiniest bit of numeracy in this today and everyone coped really well, thinking things through for themselves. Jaleel became the expert at folding the papers into 3's rather than measuring, Nia was amazing in her resilience and independent work ethic, Michelle was possibly the quickest to get onto drawing. 7/8 Wh are lovely, good natured and very, very capable.
Our next step is to start playing with paint and colour theory.
That, and making sure we figure out our Art tikanga in J block...
