Semester 2

Photography and digital art

Kia Ora Year 9

Focus:

At the end of term four, we send your parent's reports. The criteria are:
1) Understanding, communicating and interpreting what you know about Art - how well is your blog maintained in Art?
2) Practising skills to show you know how to make Art works happen - Can you show me you have tried hard, and put effort into each task?
3) Developing your art ideas based on 1) and 2) at the same time as including our own original ideas. Because we don't just appear from nowhere, we walk forward while we look back; Ka Mua, Ka muri.

Key Understandings:

How we are making Art:

You MUST have your chromebooks each lesson.
You WILL be posting not just the final art works, but also your progress on your blog; Learn, create, share all at once.
We are balancing the ideas of digital and physical art and the idea of photography within a range of different media.

term 4

Digital Mandalas

Go to unsplash

Pick an image that is bright in color and simple in pattern and save/download it

We are going to use our polygonal lasso tool like we did at the start of the semester with our colour blocks to cut out our mandala shape.

Follow these instructions to create your mandala. Ince you have one, make another with a different texture/colour palette - you could do alternating triangle or even add a design to the centre. Play around with different ideas.

Cynthia-DIGITALMANDALAS.pdf

composition and the grid

artist study - Joseph Cornell

Learn - Ako - To know:

What do we already know about how using a grid relates to composition?

Create - Waihanga - To Act:

We are going to be creating our own Memory Boxes inspired by our childhood memories. Our theme will be beased around mostalgia and trying to replicate a feeling that our viewers can realte to.

Our focus is on COMPOSITION

focal point
use of grid/size to show importance of figures
colour palette
leading lines

Joseph Cornell | Exhibition | Royal Academy of ArtsFrom a basement in New York, Joseph Cornell channelled his limitless imagination into some of the most original art of the 20th century. Step into his beguiling world at this landmark exhibition.

Joseph Cornell

construction

After we have finished our planning docs and decided on our grid structure, we are going to start the construction process by creating first our background and then our hand made component.

After this, we are collecting all of our pieces and getting set up to photograph over the next couple of lessons.

Collect a piece of card to construct your background and either send me an image to print, paint onto it or use the coloured paper/wallpaper.
Plan out and collect what you need for your created object and make it.

Photography - understanding light and layers

exploring photograms

We are going back to some really early traditional ways of capturing images using light

Photograms

There are 4 different tasks to work through within the photograms project.

They start physical, include some painting by looking at the idea of negative space and then end using our scans in photopea.

Our focus is going to be on composition and development of idea as well as opacity and texture - looking in depth at how light works.

Starting point

Collect some cuttings from outside to inspire you.
Create a drawing page of abstract shapes to cut out and fit into your compositions. Think about the natural shapes of the plant cuttings.

Anneliese Hagar - Photographer

We are going to be inspired by this photographers work.

Artist 2: slinkachu

Task 3:

Make a copy of the planning doc and save it to your 9ART drive folder.
Visit the website above, choose one of Slinkachu's works and copy it into your planning doc.
Answer the questions.
Once you have some ideas for a photograph, get a blank piece of paper from me to do your planning sketches.

Peer Critique

CRITIQUE

Take your 3 ideas from your planning page and critique these with a pair.

This should help you to decide which one os best and why.

We will go on to create a blog post of the art making process and design thinking.

Week 1-3: scale & Depth of field

artist studies - david levinthal and slinkachu

Learn - Ako - To know:

How can we challenge the difference between reality and imagination?

Create - Waihanga - To Act:

We are going to be working in group of 3 to understand a bit more about cameras and the technique of depth of field.

We are going to use the idea of scale in compositions to capture 2 final edited photos each emulating the ideas of our 2 artist models. We will also use our knowledge of balance, focal point and leading lines to make these images the best we can.

DEPTH OF FIELD.pdf

Task 1:

Go through these slides and determine the depth of field of the examples in the end. Then use this knowledge of depth of field to go out and capture 3 images showing me:

shallow depth of field
medium depth of field
long depth of field

Artist 1: David Levinthal

David Levinthal.pdf

Task 2:

Levinthal Images for Emulation

Emulation project plan

Choose one of these images and complete the planning template. Take what you need out with your group to the playground or field etc to recreate it. We will then put them into photopea to edit them to look like film photos as Levinthal would have used.

Duo Tone Edit Tutorial

term 3

photography composition - portrait focus

Eugenia loli artist study

Learn - Ako - To know:

What composition rules do we know about already?

Have any of us used photopea or photoshop to create work before?

Create - Waihanga - To Act:

Collecting our subject matter - download anything you think might be useful for your character and save them into a folder altogether for easy access when you go to use them.

+ we are going to start with a portrait. We need to find high resolution images using unsplash.com (or google - select tools, LARGE)

Open photopea and watch the tutorial video

Place your images and start building up your collage from the portrait layer.

Make sure you have remove.bg open as well as you might need to put some images through here are you go

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Export your creation as a .JPG. Save to your 9art art folder in your drive.

Create a blog post with your final image and tell me about:

How you chose your character and additional elements in your collage

Does your colour palette work? Why?

Describe hoe you are using focal point, balance and shape

How did you find using photopea? Any tips or tricks you discovered?

Photography Collage Portraits

tools

We will be using Photopea to execute all of our digital ideas. This is a free online programme you can use on your chromebooks. It is almost identical to Adobe Photoshop

We will also be using Remove.bg to isolate any images we have for our collages (this is also going to be a useful tool going through the semester)

This site is going to be extremely useful in finding free high resolution images. We will probably revisit this site over the course of the semester too

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photography as drawing

andy warhol artist study

Learn - Ako - To know:

Who is Andy Warhol? What can we learn about portraits and mixed media techniques from his style of art?

Create - Waihanga - To Act:

We are going to be working in 2 parts with our Warhol emulations. The first will focus on drawing and mixed media working with portraits and the second will be working with his more iconic pop art style through photopea editing.

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Export your creation as a .JPG. Save to your 9art art folder in your drive.v

Andy Warhol

part 1: drawing on photos

Physical and Digital Explorations

Using one of the print outs, choose a select palette of colours and create shapes over them highlighting:

+ a focal point

+ leading lines to draw you there

+ balance

Use one colour to then draw over aspects of your photo as well in thin, messy line detail.

Choosing your own photo this time, we are going to do the same process in photopea focussing on the same principles and using shapes, opacity, filters and the pen or brush tool depending on the look you want.

Follow the 2 part process below (tutorial videos I have created for you) which will teach you the skills of adding shapes, drawing your own shapes, using filters and opacity and sing the pen tool or brush. Think creatively and intentionally about your colour palette

part 2: pop art portraits

Using your own photo or taking one of a class mate, you are going to recreate this into a 4 part pop art portrait thinking about colour palette.

I chose to stick with pastels, but for a more bold effect, choose bright and vivid colours.

Follow the tutorial videos to create your own.

If you have more parts of different colour in your original, there is more variations of colour in the 4 grid so spend time making the original very colourful. Think about all the parts your can include in your shapes.

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photography as a physical object

duane michals artist study - paint over photo

Learn - Ako - To know:

Who is Duane Michals? What can we now take from his work to build on what we have done with Warhol?

Create - Waihanga - To Act:

We are going to be moving into painting over our portraits. We will take our own photos again, focussing on expression and how what we add to them interacts with the figure.

We will first do a draft in pencil as a plan looking at shape and pattern and the composition elements of focal point, balance and leading lines.

Read through the slides and we will analyse composition as a class discussion.

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Reflective blog post:

Why did you choose the shapes and position you did? How do they relate to your knowledge of composition?
What influenced your colour choice?
Tell me about your process of creating?
Would you do anything differently next time? Why?/Why Not?
Insert pictures of your planning page as well as your final outcome

Duane Michals - Year 9

Once you have made a draft you are happy with, lightly outline your shapes over the painting paper photo.

White wash the full shape - this will ensure that your colours you want to add to your image are as bold as you want.

You might need a could of layers so that it is no longer transparent

Start painting over with your colours.

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photography and drawing - dreams

Bela Borsodi artist study - drawing as objects in our photographs

Learn - Ako - To know:

What do we dream about? How can Bela Borsodi inspire us to express our dreams into a reality?

Create - Waihanga - To Act:

We are going to work through the slides to get an understanding of Bela Borsodi and start gaining ideas about what we might want o create work about.

We are going to be extending our photopea editing skills further by learning:

drop shadow
Cutting out an image
basic photo editing for colour and contrast

We will begin by following the planning process in the slides then have a focus on drawing our dreams or ideas we have.

Bela Borsodi Photography and Drawing

Bela Borsodi Planning

tutorial videos

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