Term 2 2020 The stuck in a bubble doing Art course

This term is going to be a strange one. Thankfully art is something that can be done anywhere using nearly any materials you find lying around.

your mission for at least the first two weeks of term is to be creative in your bubble and do art that you will then photograph and place in a google doc you then share with me.

There will be no real rules except for it must be a kind of art and it must be shared with me.

What is art?

that is a question that can be debated all day but realistically you probably dont have to worry about it too much.

For our art it could include sculpture

such as clay, mud, rockstacking, flower arranging, candle dripping, hot glue and feathers, has someone in the family been bottling fruit? Design a label for them, banging nails into wood to make something cool..... the list is as long as your imagination surprise me.

It could include Photography .

most of you have phones be clever. just remember photography is playing with light so use light and shadow to its best advantage. snapshots don't really cut it in my view.

It could be painting

If you are one of the lucky ones to have painting equipment at home then go for it.

It could be drawing

I have yet to find a household that didn't at least have pens and pencils floating around the house somewhere.

so you can either draw from your imagination or draw something you see try to really look for dark and light areas in your drawings even if they are real or imagined they all look better with a real range of shading from light to dark rather than just lines.

It could be a crazy creative mix of all the above, a collage of different ideas and methods

This would be my hope as an outcome have a go with different ideas and then see if you can creatively combine them.

good luck. remember you have to photograph your art and share it with me either as a google doc or in Hapara.

Term 3 project

developing drawings for a commercial business

This term we are going to attempt to create a classroom business using art methods.

Screenprinted beeswax wraps are going to be our end product.

We are going to design artwork appropriate to the environmental message that beeswax wraps promote.

We are going to screenprint them onto calico( a type of cloth).

We are going to dip them in beeswax ready to package and sell.

Drawing in preparation for a screenprint.

Screenprinting can not easily do shading so for the first part of our project we have to learn how to create light and dark areas using hatching.

Then we will look at other methods of creating line and pattern to do artworks

Have a go at drawing some of these ideas. which do you prefer? how could you use them in your artwork?

Choosing an appropriate image

Next we will choose an image appropriate to selling an environmental product.

What is an appropriate image?

What would be innapropriate?

Discuss your choice with the teacher until you are both satisfied.

Drawing your image

now that you have chosen your image you are going to have to decide how you want to draw it. Below are some ideas.

Part 1

Carefully draw the outside line of your picture then carefully draw over the top with a black vivid.

Part 2

Get your line drawing photocopied 4 times.

Part 3

Using a pencil do 4 versions of designs inside your picture using ideas like tattoo patterns, Kowhaiwhai designs, Zentangle patterns or just clever use of black and white shading. Make sure you do different styles of drawing in each design.

Part 4

Choose your favourite version then tidy it up and use pen and vivid to redraw your favourite design. When this is done you are ready to create your screenprint.

Remember because we are making a screen print you can not use traditional shading. Final images must be black and white line, lines can be thick or thin, solid black and white areas are fine and can work well.

These images are not for copying they are to give you ideas of how you can create your own image

Once your drawing is at a finished standard and the teacher has agreed with you that it is at a finished standard then it is time to make the screen print.

Making the screenprint

Part one

Your final design will be photocopied to the correct size.

Part two