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Colour:
Colour:
Ako/Learn: How does colour attract your eye?
Waihanga/Create; Pop art is a movement of art where images from popular culture are used to make Art with. In the 1960's it was a big deal.
This is a print of a famous art work by Andy Warhol of Campbells soup cans.
in 1962 Andy Warhol saw the work of another pop artist called Roy Lichtenstein. He asked friends for ideas of subjects to paint, one suggested he paint something like Campbell’s Soup. He bought cans from the store and began to draw them onto canvas. He wanted the works to look mechanically produced, not painted.
Most people treated the soup can art works as nothing, or they stated they hated them.
He enjoyed creating the effect of products stacked in a grocery store. He also realised that the repetition of an image meant that you stoped seeing the original meaning.
When you think about how food like this is produced, in a factory with no variation and little human input, this art work becomes a social commentary. Think about how good for us this development in food production has been for people in general?
Each of the cans above show off some form of colour theory. The colours are not relative to the flavour of the soup. Pick out the can of soup you are most attracted to visually. These are your watercolours that you will use.
On a printed 'Dinner plate' (see below), using only those colours, find an example of food that is healthy, to draw on your page. Add the colour to the food and label it. Your drawing skills and tonal work with the watercolour paints should be something you take very seriously. consider the dinner plate you chose and how this could be taken and applied in how you present food.
Tohatoha/Share:
Gallery of work
Sources:
Dinner plate one
Dinner plate two
Dinner plate three
Dinner plate four
Composition - symmetry and asymmetry
Composition - symmetry and asymmetry
Ako/Learn: Vegetable still life arrangements. define symmetry and asymmetry with the students. make sure they have a visual (not written) understanding
Waihanga/Create: using a simple collection of fruits and veges, kitchen vessels etc, arrange based on these images, make quick thumbnail sketches and note around the images how symmetry and asymmetry have been used. Add plashes of colour using a colour pair(red/green, blue/orange, purple/yellow) with water colour paints.
Share/tohatoha: the next time you are in food tech, how can you employ these arrangement ideas and techniques? when you do, how are you going to make it obvious to others that you have? If you do, come back and see your art connect teacher and let us know.
Harman Steenwijck "Still life with Fruit" Oil on panel, painted in the 15th Century.
Jozef Youssef. Contrast of positioning in 'A Taste of Nature' for Kitchen Theory's Nordic-inspired dining experience Náttúra.
Power of tone and minimalism with colour:
Power of tone and minimalism with colour:
Ako/Learn: What does tone within colour look like? What does minimalism mean?
Waihanga/Create: Tones and shades in colour are a useful device to use in attracting the eye and making something look like you want to eat it. When we are being intentionally decorative with food, we are trying to entertain our guest as much as make something yummy to eat.
In colour theory we call these analogous colours. To create a focal point without cluttering your design up too much, it is a good idea to rely on complementary colour pairing with these, or split complementary colours to create a point of interest (see colour theory wheels above).
Using a choice of 5 geometric shapes, and a pice of paper given to you by your teacher, arrange these and stick them down with glue stick. Use watercolour paints to apply one colour with at least three tonal variations and one complementary colour to provide a focal point.
Tohatoha/Share: gallery of work, using these as inspiration in cake/cupcake decorating.
Positive and negative space:
Ako/learn: using food to create white space on a plate
Pattern and Repetition
Colour and texture:
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