Let's take some time to organize the Process Journal (PJ)

Task:  Process Journal (PJ) organization

• Clear full name on inside cover

• name of your HB and HB mentor on inside cover

• number pages on bottom right corner

• Which page is half way? Mark the halfway point (apx around page 25) with a small note by the halfway page number.

Next let's create a DIGITAL Process Journal (PJ)

Task:  Create a Digital Process Journal (PJ) in your Google Folder

• Open your Art folder, create a new Google slides called "Art10 Process Journal FIRST LAST name"

In this lesson, you will describe yourself as a  person and an artist through the creation of a process journal page.

Task:  Create a page in your process journal that answers some of the questions below.  Draw pictures, experiment with fonts,  experiment with materials,  make this a fun page.

• How do you identify? 

• What do you prefer to be called and how is it pronounced?

• How does your life influence what you make as an artist? Write your thoughts (words, phrases) and/or draw your ideas in your sketchbook.

• How do others describe you as a person?

• What do you remember from childhood?

• What do you collect?

• Who lives with you?

• What and how do you celebrate?

• Where have you travelled to?

• Where would you like to go?

• What is a kind thing that a teacher once did for you?

• What can a teacher do to help you learn?

• What’s happening in the world that you want to interpret through art?

In this lesson, you will collect your materials and find out how to use some of the material in this course.

Task:

• Get out your process journal and all of your drawing materials.  

• Take a birds-eye view picture and insert it into your process journal. 

• Let us know what your favourite materials are and where you got them!

• Experiment with your materials and write about what your favourite materials are and why.

In this lesson, you will learn about the artist Rene Magritte and find out about the key characteristics of his work.

Task:

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR PROCESS JOURNALS

• Who is Salvador Dali

• What are some of the key characteristics of his style?

• Select a work by Salvador Dali that provokes unsettling thoughts or makes you think. Write about the thoughts and feelings generated by the work.

• Draw an idea inspired by Salvador Dali. Explain your thinking

Resource one: What is Surrealism?

Resource two: The Art Story

Resource three: Persistence of Memory at MoMA

In this lesson, you will learn about the artist Rene Magritte and find out about the key characteristics of his work.

Task:

In groups

•  Look at the work the Red Model by Rene Magritte. 

• Describe what you see?

• What does the work make you think?

• What does the work make you wonder?

• Explain what is uncanny about this work?

Independent work in your process journal

• Who is Rene Magritte? 

• What are some of the key characteristics of his style?

• Select a work by Rene Magritte that provokes unsettling thoughts or makes you think. Write about the thoughts and feelings generated by the work.

• Draw an idea inspired by Rene Magritte.  Explain your thinking.

Resource one: Moma 

Resource two: The Art Story

In this lesson, you will learn about the artist Hannah Hoch and find out about the key characteristics of his work.

Task: in your process journal

• Watch: Smart History

• Who is Hannah Hoch?  

• What are some of the key characteristics of her style?

• Select a work by Hannah Hoch that provokes unsettling thoughts or makes you think. Write about the thoughts and feelings generated by the work.

• In your PJ, create a photomontage in the style of Hannah Hoch.  Explain your thinking 

  1. Start with the background

  2. Select subjects which present dream-like qualities and contrast with one another/the background. Use a comboniation of magazines, personal photos, printing & photocopying. No plan needed.

  3. Tear, cut, and place around the page before glueing

Tip- Cut out negative space and replace with something irrational. If you use text, it should connect with the visuals.

Resource one: Moma 

Resource two: The Art Story

In this lesson, you will learn how you can generate 'uncanny' ideas using automatism

Task:

Watch this video (start at 0:14sec) and generate 4 ideas using one of the association games.

Random animal generator 

Pick one from each generator and combine!

Random thing generator

In this lesson, you will learn about contemporary Surrealist artists

Netherlands-based visual artist and illustrator Redmer Hoekstra creates Surrealist illustrations described as ‘Uncanny’  using the technique of automatism in his work.  Conduct this research in your digital PJ:

Task 1- Individual:

• read the short article. Write notes describing their background and influences

• Describe what you see in his Art: Form, Elements, etc

• Explain what his artwork makes you think about? (can be a specific artwork or in general)

• Draw an idea that you generate from looking at Hoekstra's illustrations. 

Task 2- Groups:

• Follow the link below and read the whole article

10 FAMOUS ARTISTS WHO ARE LEADING THE MOVEMENT IN ASIA

• Choose 1 artist from the article that interest you the most.  Print an example of their artwork. 

• On your poster, answer the following questions about your surrealist artist:

1. Where is the artist from- born, raised, current residence?(3-4 sentences)

2. What inspires their work? (4-5 sentences)

3. List 3 of their artworks. Describe the mediums, size and what each work looks like. (4-5 sentences for each work) Glue the printed artwork near this section of your poster.

4. What about this artist connects with you? You can write together or as individuals.     (4-5 sentences)

5. Your poster design should reflect the artist style/influences on your group members. 

In this lesson, we will continue to develop ways To come up with an idea. Get your mindset right and get the creative juices flowing.

Task:  Generate 3  ideas for a surrealist artwork using the challenges below to get you started. Write a short reflection about what worked what didn't or what surprised you. Give each drawing a title.  

Challenge 1:

Try to combine 3 animals with what they eat and make a small drawing of that. For example a rabbit and a carrot.

Challenge 2: 

Try to combine animals with musical instruments objects around the home. The 3 instruments have to be completely different. 1 string (violin/guitar etc) instrument, 1 wind instrument (trumpet, clarinet, flute), and 1 percussion (drum, xylophone, djembe) instrument.

Challenge 3: 

Check if your house is haunted. If so (if not, assume it is), design and draw the creatures that do the unexplainable things in your house, like stealing your socks, making the last bit of toiler disappear when you need it most, hide your keys when you are already late. etc.

Challenge 4: 

Design and draw 2 different things that have a 'shape 'connection, like a toothbrush and a  giraffe ( both have long necks)     could be the shape of the beak of a toucan.

Challenge 5: 

Design and draw what outfit a fish would wear if it wanted to go swim around incognito. OR another animal

In this series of lessons, you will practice and develop skills with a Fineline pen. You will learn about the characteristic of Fineline pens and develop skills in

• Creating gradients using hatching 

• Creating light and shadow when drawing spheres

• Drawing different types of textures t

You need a black fine line pen and paper to complete this task.

Task: Watch the video's below and follow along.  Write about what you learnt,  what you struggled with, how your skills improved. Be specific  and use art  terminology

Submit a photo of your practice drawing to your process journal.le

• Video 1: Watch this video on hatching and practice hatching a circle with different light sources.

• Video 2: Drawing  ball 

• Video 3: Frog Drawing

• Video 4: Watch this video and practice drawing two different textures.

Additions resources here

In this lesson, we talk about discerning between ideas, how to tell apart the good and the not-so-good ideas.

Task P1- Finding resources

• Watch this video ( weeding and watering)

• Search for photos of frogs, hair, fur, leaves, scales of reptiles, snails. Collect a few per category. If you can, gather pictures in high resolution so you can zoom in to analyze the structures, different sides, and poses.

• Create your own Pinterest page of resources

Resources: Here are some good Pinterest pages that might get you started

"Fish & Marine Life"

"Texture"

"Reptile"

"Birds"

• Write a short explanation about how why this subject matter is interesting for you. What you learnt from your investigation.

Task P2- Observational Drawings 

• Create an entry in your process journal that includes two observational drawings of the resources you selected. 

 Compositional sketches 

• A mindmap or listed brainstorm to begin idea development. Areas to consider may include:

  • • Symbolism

    • Metaphor

    • Surrealist strategies

    • In-class drawing prompts

    • Artist inspiration (Redmer Hoekstra, Dali, etc)

• 4-6 compositional sketches that could be developed into a final artwork. Explain the thinking behind each piece.

• Utilize the Surrealist Strategies and identify them in your annotations.

In this lesson, you will learn how to develop your sketches into finished artwork.

Task P1

• Look at the carousel on the left to see the artist process

• Create a sketch. The size of the drawing must be somewhere between the A4 size (21x28) and 25x35 cm. 

• Task P2

• Post a photograph of your sketch in your process journal. 

• Reflect on learning Write about what worked/ what didn't and how you overcame challenges.

In this lesson you will learn  how to deal with the most difficult parts of the process and how to overcome challenges, knowing when to take breaks and when to tell when the work is finished

Task P1:

 Watch the following videos. 

• Bloom and Pollinate  

• Watching it Bear fruit

Task P2:

• Continue working on your drawing. Write notes focusing on skills you were focusing on, what worked what didn't and how you overcame your challenges.

In this lesson, you will learn how to write an artist statement.

Task:

• Give your work a thought-provoking title.

• Describe your work. 

• Explain your intentions.

• Explain what you hope you hope the work will make the viewer think about.

• Use Surealist terminolgoy.

Some sentence starter phrases to help you reflect on your ability to stretch and explore:

STRETCH & EXPLORE

Learning to reach beyond one’s supposed limitations, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes and accidents.

Artists learn to push themselves. They are willing to try new ways of working or thinking. They are able to explore playfully and learn from mistakes and accidents.

1. My project shows my new way of thinking because...

2. The unexpected thing that happened in this work was...

3. An invention of mine in this work is...

4. I messed around for a while to get to this idea; to do that I...

5. I made a mistake when I...

6. My mistake(s) helped me to...

7. Learning about and investigating artists, such as Laolu Senbanjo, informed my final product in this way...

8. My artwork communicates this idea/message…

9. What else should the audience know about your work?

In this lesson, you will learn to digitalise your drawing and post it school padlet

Publish a photo of your work and artist statement on work the G10 "Get Surreal" art slideshow

Padlet from 2021 (during lock down)

In this series of lessons, you will describe, contextualize and interpret works of art. 

We will start by looking closely at Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali  

Group work

Task P1: Take a minute to study the work. In groups discuss the questions below in groups. Take notes note jamboard. 10.1 10.2 10.3

• What is your initial reaction?

• Do you like it /dislike it? Why?  

• What do you think is going on?

Task P2: Background Research

• Who is Salvador Dali

• What art movement did he belong to and what are the main characteristics of the movement?

• Find out when the painting was made? 

• What materials did the artist use?

• What size is the work

Task P3: Description 

• Describe everything you see in the painting, including what is in the foreground, background and middle ground? 

• Describe the composition ( foreground middle ground background )

• Identity Surrealist techniques used in the work?

• Describe is the painting style is the work painted?

Task P4: themes

1. Identify any symbols and  explain where  the  symbol  comes from.

2. What themes or ideas are being expressed in the work?  Back up your opinion with evidence?

Task P5: Context

3. Find out what was happening at the time the artwork was created? ( personal or cultural)

4. What does the viewer need to know to understand this work?

Resources

https://smarthistory.org/salvador-dali-the-persistence-of-memory/

Individual Work

Task P4:  

In this task, you will apply the skills you have learned to a ONE Surrealists/magic realism artwork of your choice from this task sheet.

Answers all questions and turn your notes into a  video (  3 mins)  See an example here Smart history 

Submit your notes and video for assessment.

• Post your video on the unit padlet

• Upload a link and notes to veracross

Self-management ATL

Do you have the following before submitting  your work

• Have you completed the task sheet?

• Have you used art terminology?

• Do you have a work cited document?

• Do you have an in-text citation?

• Have you submitted your video to the unit padlet and link to your task sheet to veracross?

 
Peer Feedback  ATL

• Select two videos that have no comments or only one comment. 

• Watch the video and make a comment about what the student has done well or something you found interesting.

In this lesson,  you will learn how to organise your process journal for assessment. Please look at the google slide and insert all completed work into the template.  You can make some adjustments but you need to provide visual and written evidence for each task.

Click here to make a copy of the process portfolio template