TERM 5 2021:
This week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSEtfqGWlN8&t=363s
1) Watch the video above.
2) Using two aeparate sheets of a£ cartridge paper, you are going to produce 2 abstract pictures.
3) Work on each on separately until completion.
4) The first piece will be geometric, angular using circles triangles and squares etc. You can use a ruler for this.
5) The second one will be organic and `curvilinear'. This must be done freehand.
6) Choose appropriate colour schemes based upon those seen in nature against those seen in the world of man-made things.
previous weeks:
Design a dream House
1) continue adding detail and colour to your background scene for the dream house.
2) On a separate sheet, use a ruler to begin drawing a rectangle or square roughly about a quarter of the size of the sheet upon which you drew your background scene.
3) Develop this square or rectangle into a more complex shape by adding very slim triangles, or steep to develop a design idea for the overall shape of the house.
4) If you have access to the internet at this stage you can search `doors and windows' in images, there should be some suitable for printing out and cutting and pasting.
5) Begin adding some detail to your overall shape.
6) store your work safely for next week.
youtube vids:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjTkJ2QQxCY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQeTdUmpPqc
First week:
Luxury houses. Research into the environment/surroundings for a dream house.
1) watch the youtube video on luxury houses
2) Take an A3 piece of paper and draw a simple horizon view (could be hills/mountains or headlands with the sea as backdrop)
3) Carefully choose an appropriate colour scheme. Use colouring pencils/pastels or watercolours.
4)begin lightly shading in the background. sea/land sky etc according to your chosen environment.
5) Onto the lightly shaded background now begin adding some trees/rivers/rocks/plant bushes etc. Leave a massive space for you to cut and paste your dream house and gardens (from a separate sheet) which will be added later.
6) Store your work safely ready for next week.
TERM 4 2021:
This week (complete previous weeks work first though):
1) Take out last weeks work (the four a4 sheets showing the 4 walls).
2)Arrange them from left to right as if you were looking around the room by turning 360 degrees in a clockwise direction.
3) Continue carefully adding detail and some colour shading to each sheet.
4) If you are happy with all four walls then now take out your wallpaper design ideas.
5) Choose one of your four designs of wallpaper to carefully cut out.
6) Once cut out, cut into strips and stick down onto a chosen wall (known as an `accent' wall). Be carefull to avoid pasting over the feature(s) that you have drawn on this wall.
7) Place all your work back in a folder ready for next week.
previous weeks:
1) Take 4 more sheets of A4 paper. Think about your favourite room in a house and what features are on the four walls.
2) These features might include for example; Fireplace, built in cupboard, door, patio doors, single window, bay window, built in shelves, an alcove.
3) choose a feature to draw on each a4 sheet imagining that the a4 sheet is one of the four walls in your room. USe a ruler to carefully draw and try keep the feature looking in proportion to the size of the sheet as it would look on a wall.
4) Add detail and colour to each feature.
First week:
Following on from the Cereal Packet Design Project, students are to complete a project, during term 4, based upon wallpaper and room design.
1) You will need 4 sheets of A4 to begin with. On each sheet, produce a repeating pattern using colour. The repeating pattern could involve dashed lines, curvilinear or zig zags. Please feel free to use small items to draw around as templates and/or a ruler....but not too many as it is a repeating pattern that you are aiming for.
2) Use careful colour shading (not too heavy) to give the pattern a background colour.
3) Keep all 4 designs as different from each other as possible by using different colour schemes and pattern effects.
4) Think of a suitable name for each design such as `Forest floor' or `crashing waves' or `Urban jungle' etc.
5) Store this weeks work in a folder ready to develop over the coming weeks.
Here are some videos to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hWHpJHfLUs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XslbgCxWe84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuuYB4sjfRc
Term 3 2021
Following on from completing the underwater and seascape projects, students are to begin a mini design project based upon breakfast cereal packaging design.
`Design a breakfast cereal box’
This week (catch up on previous weeks first though if necessary):
Continue with the production of your cereal packet model. Use careful colourful rendering and printed imagery as necessary.
Begin considering a design for the back of the box. Could this show a competition? Maybe a dot to dot design or a wordsearch for the consumer to complete? Whatever ideas you come up with, you will also need to consider a theme. Movie characters? characters from famous books? etc.
Previous weeks:
Produce your final idea by cutting and pasting some elements of your 4 initial ideas onto a fresh A3 sized background. You can add printed images to this also.
Begin researching the ingredients and health advice on cereal boxes. Find out what RDA stands for. What is Thiamin? Why is Iron good for us? What advice should be given on sugar?
Heres some videos to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Las0rTGqpfQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u6xdGCIq6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoSGvhV3EmU
First week:
Class to discuss by way of mindmap what the range of breakfast cereals are. Also: themes for a breakfast cereal (eg: Space, Disney, Marvel, Nature, Other countries, Round the World etc)
Take an A3 sheet and divide into 4 by folding crossways and lengthways or use 4 X a4 sheets to be stapled later
Come up with an original name idea for each design eg: `MmmBlox’, `shapes’, `morning crunch’ etc OR `fruit surprise `bran u like’ `Around the world’ etc etc. Can be extended so overall design and specific flavour range design is also discussed.
Try four different styles of line to use for each idea, curvilinear vs streamlined for example (or organic vs urban). May need some feint outlines provided.
Discuss colour schemes and flavours, mood etc.
Work on one design at a time carefully. Use lines and careful colour shading to produce four very different designs for a product name in very large block lettering with imagery around each name.
Extension – list the ingredients for one idea. Or a range of different flavours.
NEXT LESSONS : Produce a `final idea’ based upon one of the 4 initial ideas. Then draw a large a3 sized front view of the box. Cutting and pasting the final name idea onto the front view of the box.