Year 10 almost all of them are up there, I will get the rest :-)

Woodcut Selfies

Beautiful job, just finishing off. Moving onto watercolour and formal drawing techniques next week...

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. 

German Expressionism Continued...

                              

Drawing for mark making understanding. Next step; working from selfies to make self portraits as woodcuts. Thank you, I have all but one selfie outstanding. Well done :-)

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