Directing your own ideas:

We are at a point of the year, when you get to direct your own learning. particularly in relation to upcoming PBL.

Last week you were asked to come up with a brainstorm on "what do you care about?"

It is a crazy, broad, open question...

Artists always have a message. Sometimes the message is boring to you, but to someone else. sometimes it is too intense for you, but not for someone else. sometimes you just like it or you don't.

Art is like having a conversation with your own head. You think, you discuss, you answer back, you agree or disagree or slightly one or the other. You can be moved by Art, but you don't need to tell anyone why, so it's a private conversation.

It is a very brave thing for an artist to put their side of the conversation out there for you to be with. you wont necessarily 'get' it all. That is ok, the artist will never get your response, unless you directly go and tell them!

 We start with the WHY.

Why do you want to make Art?

Drawing selfies, being comfortable with selfies and using them for art...

Oooo this is hard! We have done this each year from 2015 - now and it is really obvious that using a selfie to make Art is harder than it seems with self-consciousness taken into account.

Self portraits in Art - pretty much since Cave Art this has likely happened. Though there are more examples of rich pompous people paying an artist for a favourable portrait, rather than the artists portrait, it has been a 'thing' for a long, long time in Art history.

On Wednesday, when everyone is back from camp, we are going to run through this:




When I was at Art school a million years ago, Woodcut printmaking was my 'thing'.

Below are two examples of work I did around the idea of self portrait (the ugly colours rather unfortunately reflect my terrible dress sense at the time...)

Let's discuss all of this further on Monday.

I'm really pleased to see the drawing work that happened today with the selfies already:

 

Work for Monday - start with the form, no longer than five minutes please - it is easy

Hello class, today I was not planning to be away. Never mind

I suspect there will be half a dozen of you who cannot 'fond' your google drawing file from last time - open your google drive and go to 'recent' is probably the easiest way to find it. It WILL be there.



When you have finished this form, your teacher will go through the instructions for the lesson. Listen and pay attention, I have expectations for Wednesday!

Learning outcome:
The role of the artist in telling a story (using narrative approach)

Should already have:
- Your brainstorm branch at the top of a page
-Your google draw file open in front of you - FINISHED - 6 images relevant to your brainstorm on it.

Tasks: - we are designing a series of ideas for a painting based on the narrative. 
Must do:

• The form above and getting your thumbnails sketches out.
• Observational drawing from one or two of your google images that you have collected
• Plan at least three ideas where you show you are thinking about 'story' or 'narrative'

Could do:

• Make a clear effort to use Manga styles in your work (eyes, comic layout, speech bubbles etc)
• Make a clear effort to use Pasifika patterns in your work

By the end of the lesson:

• Google form is done, I will bug you if it isn't
• Google drawing with research images (photographic ones) are sorted
• Thumbnail sketches page has brainstorm branch on it, observational drawing on it and thumbnail sketches that could become your final painting on it. 

Good luck.

Please share your work on your school blog if you like so I can see. I will show you how to use it properly on Wednesday if no one else has yet.

Defining your narrative

If you missed this lesson, we watched this as a starter.

what did we learn about why Feu'u makes his work?
- culture
- life
- death
- experiences
- meaning

Everything had a meaning or a reason behind it.

The task was to create a brainstorm on a topic of your own choosing. Absolutely anything. At least 5 words should have branched off your main brainstorm word:

 this is my example one on the board on Mickey Mouse. Five things that instantly came to mind.

Choose at least one of these things to extend your ideas:

 I chose 'Minnie' and then from there it was 'heels', 'female', and 'cutesy' that came to mind.

If I was using this as an overall concept, it is the male and female roles Disney portrays. Everyone should have been to this point by the end of the lesson. Everyone will have a different concept.