Term 1 2023

Printmaking

Tetrapak Printmaking

This is a video of me showing the entire process of printing up your tetrapak prints once you have finished etching them.

Man I hate hearing my recorded voice.

Please double check you have everything sorted to print.

The process is in 4 videos. please double check you are following the printing process correctly. 

(click on the heading. If i have done it right it should go to the video)

Part one inking up for a relief print

Part two printing the relief print 

Part three inking up the etching print

Part four printing the etching print

Remember to give yourselves enough cleanup time.

Monoprint video ideas

 How to make a monoprint face 

Have a go at the next one by sharing your plastic plate with your neighbour, remember , use waterbased ink only( white flint ink tubes)

Cool abstract printmaking method 

Tshirt Designs ideas.

Making up a cool, quirky,clever, or freaky design.

as a small group you are going to make up a clever tshirt design.

Copying one that already exists will NOT be allowed.

looking for ideas. 

Here are a few I found but feel free to go looking for ideas yourself. remember copying someone elses logo will not be accepted. messing it up in a clever way will totally be accepted.

hahaha ,

Term 1 2021 

Painting on canvas

What are you going to paint?

My intention is to teach you how to prep and paint on a canvas. I am not going to tell you what you have to paint.

But I do have some ground rules.

1. I will not allow you to paint anything that will get me into trouble

2. You must not steal other artists work and claim there ideas are your own.

3. You must use at least three layers of ideas or images in your work if you are using found images. If your painting is based on your own drawings or your own photos then you are allowed to do one layer.

Once you have chosen your images and have been told all good to go by me I will get your canvas and you will start.

The first thing you have to do is prepare your canvas.

Prepping your canvas

Before you start your painting we have to apply 3 layers of Gesso.

Gesso is a white paint mixture consisting of a binder mixed with chalk, gypsum, pigment, or any combination of these. It is used in artwork as a preparation for any number of substrates such as wood panels, canvas and sculpture as a base for paint and other materials that are applied over it.  

Watch below for a few tips on how to prepare and start painting.

If you want to blend with paint this video is a handy one to watch.

Term2 2021 Sculpture short course

Term 4 2021 Photography short course

Developing understanding of photography terminology .

1. Take a series of photographs that use Framing.

2. Take a series of photographs that use a Focal point

3. Take a series of photographs that use Limited Palette

4. Take a series of photographs that use Contrast

5. Take a series of photographs that use Repetition

6. Take a series of photographs that use Golden Ratio

7. Take a series of photographs that use Forced perspective

8. Take a series of photographs that use Reflection

9. Take a series of photographs that use Balance

10. Take a series of photographs that use Motion

11. Finally take a series of Photographs that combine Three of these Ideas

DLSR camera basics

1. auto mode/ using the self timer

2. using the zoom lens/ changing lenses to shoot a far off subject.  

3. Manual settings; ISO, shutter speed, apeture.

   a. shutter speed (TV mode)

       - long shutter setting (1/30 or longer), follow moving subject with camera and create blurred background.

      - short shutter setting: capture still movement.

      - long shutter speed: capture movement over time.  At least 1/15 or slower.  

       - use tripod to do a long exposure.

   b.  aperture/ depth of field (AV mode)

      - shallow and deep

3. Black and white: using CA monochrome.  With Q button to change settings.

Darkroom photography: Photograms and chemigrams (camera- less photography)

In the darkroom.....

How did analogue cameras work?

Why is it dark?

Why the red light?

What is in there?

Chemigrams

Pierre Cordier: Belgian artists 1950's discovered chemigrams by using nail polish on photographic paper.  Combines painting and photography.  Uses resists such as oil, varnish and wax which react with and repel the developer or fixer.

Photograms

 A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light.   Create compositions between abstract and representational with bold contrast.

How to create different values in a photogram

1. Translucent objects- allow light, but not detailed images to pass through.

2. Time and space- placing opaque images on paper for different times.  Different distances of objects from paper/ light.

3. 3D objects- the light can bounce and reflect under areas of the objects that aren't in direct contact with the photo paper.

Man Ray's photograms

Dada and Surrealism

Picasso's photograms