We will be creating Art that examines how to persuade people to change their beliefs. There will be a focus on using Te Reo as a main language in this publication, along with our Te Reo names of our school parts.
By the end of the semester, we will have created a Year 10 Magazine. Your individual pieces within the magazine will be eligible for the end of year Junior Art awards and the magazine will be printed and available for purchase. Copies will be made available for purchase at the annual Market day and Prize-giving.
This term we are taking all of our knowledge of composition - focal point, leading lines, colour, balance - and applying it to a digital context to create our magazine pages
We are going to be learning design principles of text hierarchy, layering, colour and balancing objects as well as digital skills in Photopea (free online version of Adobe Photoshop) of basic editing and adding text to create a 2 page spread
We are going to be finding resource imagery, scanning and uploading our work and adding text in a photoshop document to create one A4 page each for our magazine remembering what your focus word is. This will be in pairs to create a 2 page spread thinking creatively about what make a magazine 'good'.
The hopeful plan is to print these and sell them at our market day
Learn - Ako - To know:
What is text hierarchy and why is it important? How can we use this to enhance our design and composition?
Create - Waihanga - To Act:
We will go through the slides as a class and discuss the examples.
I want you to find at least 4 fonts that work as a title font with your idea - think about the shape of the letters as images as well as colour.
Brainstorm what text you are going to include in your pages as a google doc and share it with each other.
Start creating your page by adding in a background, a focal point image and trying some editing processes from the tutorial videos.
Add your text as 'place holder text' for now (google lorem ipsom...). This is so you can get an idea of how the composition will look.
Share - Tohatoha - To Value:
Save your final magazine composition as a jpeg. If you have been working as a pair, then share your pages with each other. You will need to create a blog post with your final page (or 2 page spread) as well as your planing page(s) and reflect on the following:
What is working well?
Does your page work with your partners? Why/Why not?
Talk to me about your composition decisions - text choice, choice of image, focal point, leading lines and colour palette
How have you represented the theme?
Learn - Ako - To know:
Putting composition knowledge into a digital context. Think back to term 1 where we learnt about focal point, leading lines, space and balance - we are going to spend our 2 lessons this week playing around with our new digital tool through a series of tutorials.
Create - Waihanga - To Act:
Click the button to the tutorials page. Make sure you have your resource image folder easily accessible so that you can open and place image.
Go through the tutorials in order making sure to then do the skill after you have watched it or feel free to pause snd do it as you are watching if that is how you work.
Make sure you save your work as a .PSD after each lesson so you can reopen and continue editing as we go.
Share - Tohatoha - To Value:
As you go, screenshot or save as a .JPEG for each new skill you learn as an example. Upload these to your blog after you have finished all 6 videos and write a reflection on how you found the software.
Learn - Ako - To know:
We are going to work through some magazine spreads and analyse these in terms of composition based off what we know already through our Michael Mew studies.
Create - Waihanga - To Act:
Our class theme is Turangawaewae
What does this mean?
What are some aspects of this at Hornby High School?
Class discussion with ideas down on a padlet.
Choose a pair to work with and decide how you are going to interpret this theme.
Are there any processes you want to include from what we have already learnt about in term 1?
Brainstorm what your section is going to look like
What is your colour palette?
What information do you need to include?
Create a drive folder with all your inspiration and images from things you have scanned in (your own art) and images you have found. You need at least 10 things - backgrounds, focal point images etc. Share this with your pair and me. Share this with your pair and me.
IMPORTANT: If you are getting images from google they need to be HIGH RESOLUTION - go up the top to tools, click size and click large - this means the highest resolution images are at the start of your search
You can also use this website (free stock images) https://unsplash.com
Create 4 thumbnail sketches of some layout ideas for your pages
Once you have finished carving both your blocks, you need to choose a light colour for the bottom layer (this should be the layer with bigger shapes to start with)
Print 5 of these so you have them ready to print over top of.
Once they have dried, choose a darker colour to print your next layer over top of.
Try to line these up as best as you can. A good idea would be to register the top right corner.
A good print looks like even coverage with no areas of sparse ink. Watch the video on how to complete the printing process. Burnish it with a spoon until you can see you print indented in the paper.
Once you have had a go at the monoprint transfer process, start to get creative.
How many colours can you add to your perspex? Do you want to build this up in layers or create a rainbow effect?
Create at least 2 more transfers showing you have played around with some more ideas.
Once you have completed your prints, take an image of any prints relevant, to show your creating process.
I am wanting you to reflect on the process of developing ideas and how you experimented with this new medium to create your final work.
Indicate which print is the most successful and why.
Choose the bird from the kahui that you are in and create 2 artworks using them as the focal point.
Start with a drawing then decide where this goes next. It might turn into a water colour or collage or you might choose to stylise the form and complete a lino print of it.
We are going to be scanning these in to use in our magazine in some way
LEARN - AKO:
This term we are working towards learning a lot of techniques and making four smaller works that we can use at the end of term two in a magazine layout.
CREATE - WAIHANGA:
We will be working towards learning our basics well. At every level that should always be your foundation. Learn your new higher level of drawing and apply it each time.
Collage with some painting, printmaking and mixed media leading to a collaborative piece of work at the end of term.
Artists we will cover include Michael Mew and Sonja Terk Delauney.
SHARE - TOHATOHA:
Collaborative art work that we can re-use later and exhibit now.
Separate your design into 2 layers and redraw them as 2 thumbnails.
Draw each onto your lino block and decide what parts are going to be cut and what parts you are leaving.
Have a look at the different shaped tools (U or V) and the marks they make. Be careful not to over carve your lino block.
It is better to build up small marks rather than carve long lines out. Make sure your direction stays the same.
After you have completed 3 drawings with different media, have a go at trying monoprinting.
You need to focus still on mark making but be careful that your hand doesn't touch the area you are drawing in.
Developing a series of 6 ideas in colour that show the following devices:
- Repetition
- Geometry
- Asymmetry
- Contrasting colour pairing, with a limited palette of no more than 5 colours in total.
Your sketches should be small (about 10cm x 8cm), all on the same page, and you should annotate them to define how you have used these elements listed above.
They should be reasonably neat. You will be using one to make a colour lino print next week.
You will be getting yourself sorted to make 3 scribbly drawings as finished art works. They can be of anything, so long as they come from a SOURCE photo - either from your own gallery or an appropriate image from Google. You could even use a magazine image or still life material from the Art room.
You need to make preliminary drawings of your subjects first - 1 - 2 A3 pages where I see some experimenting with media and mark making styles.
Use at least 3 different media to scribbly draw some rough imperfect and quick drawings of your subjects.
Looking at the work of Sonia Terk Delaunay
This will be a colour and shape focus with a paint and print element to it.
This is about colour, rather than realistic drawing. It is how colours layer over each other. It is more tactile and suits those students who prefer to make stuff over draw stuff.
Looking at the work of Vince Low. This will be a dry media focus with the development of realistic drawing and leading into dry point etching.
This is for students who prefer to draw and focus on fine detail. We will be developing a looser style and using it to 'find your forms' on the paper
A transcription in art is recording what you see from another artwork trying to get as much detail as you can.
You should have completed a colour transcription of Sonia Terk Delaunay before getting started on this. Please open the work sheet and watch the videos first.
Create - Waihanga - To act - Create 8 coloured thumbnail idea that demonstrate the key geometric ideas in orphism:
Repetition
Focal point
leading lines
Abstract/non - realism
colour
shape
Watch the videos here and open the work sheet attached.
Ako - Learn - To know - How can we use mark making in our work to add depth?
Create - Waihanga - To act - Create a list of subject matter that interests you. Have a go at producing 4 mini scribble drawings using a range of different tools (pencil, pen etc)
Think about the density of your strokes and the marks you are making. Follow the natural contour of the object and think about shadows and highlights.
Making sure to document your process of creating your mixed media work.
Thumbnail plans of your work before you start
Look to the teacher example and make your own copy of how to document your process of creating your Michael Mew Emulation mixed media work. You should all have a thumbnail plan of how your collage is going to work.
Create - Waihanga:
Blending tones in painting
We are going to be doing some practice work on this on class this week to refresh us in how to mix and blend paint to create shadows and highlights.
New Subject Matter:
select something to paint or draw over the top of your painting and white out the shape. Build up your layers to add detail - refer back to week 1 observational drawing if you nee to
Share - Tohatoha - To value:
Reflect on your process and how you went about creating.
Use these prompts for your blog:
-How have you directed your viewer to your focal point using leading lines?
- who was the artist we looked at for inspiration and what have you learnt from him about composition
- how have you shown an understanding of colour theory?
- include an image of your final work, your thumbnail plan and any other images you have taken along the way of your process.
15 minutes working through several thumbnail sketches as a class and identifying leading lines and focal points
- cutting up magazine resources to create quick arrangements that demonstrate leading lines and focal points as well.
Document everything!
Creating a final mixed media emulation of Michael Mew.
Task: 4 Quick Thumbnail Sketches of Michael Mew work
Composition = arrangement. How things are arranged in the picture space. The first thing you need to draw is the outline of the picture space (a rectangle usually!). The placement and proportion of objects in that space is what is important when you do this, not the details.
A thumbnail sketch should take no longer than 2 minutes. You do not need a ruler!
The purpose of this is to see how the arrangement of things in space actually help make you look at the work. You notice things like the focal point of the image and how things are repeated and/or layered and contrasted.
The points above on the whiteboard are specific points about Micheal Mew's work and what we noticed. These notes should be on your work book page with the four quick thumbnail sketches.
Task: Looking further into composition, we are going to create a resource bank of images by cutting out pictures, text and colours from paper and magazines/newspapers.
Our first step with these is to do 4 quick-fire rearrangements that have a different focal point each time. I will photograph and add them to a shared drive for us.
Using your favourite one, you are going to complete a finished mixed media work inspired by Michael Mew. There needs to be:
elements of our resource bank
drawing
painting
text and pattern
Here are some examples from Year 10 2021
Drawing with tone.
We are going to start by having a go at an object or still life that we create from things in the classroom. Then we are going to move more concentrated into our 3 forms:
Tone
Contour
Proportion
Spend time on carefully checking the outlines and proportions before you get too invested in your tonal work.
Produce an A3 page of drawings of your still life set up.
Extra: Try drawing your still life with a focus on texture
Tohatoha:
Evidence of your having made tonal drawings and used a tortillon
Here, I would like you to create a blog about your learning
The post should include:
- photographic evidence of your tonal drawings
- How you made and used a tortillon
- What aspect of your drawing you are most proud of.
Watch the video and have a go at doing this with one object to start with. You can extend yourself and either draw your friend or find an image of a person on your chromebook.
do not look at your page - keep your eye on your subject
It is a continuous line. don't take your pencil off the paper