Sculpture workshop: Food

Link: Look at examples of work from the Year 12 sculpture workshop food portfolio. (Look at how they have presented and developed their ideas).

Drawing workshop: Identity through objects

Lesson 1:

• Presentation on perspective.

• Give out question on 'Collection of objects and identity'. and brainstorm ideas.

Clothes, accessories and make-up can reveal a great deal about an individual’s identity and interests. Objects, can be readily associated with certain occupations or activities such as hairdressing, journalism, skateboarding and climbing. Make a collection of personal objects to show who you are and what you are about and place them in a box.

Brainstorm

• Make a list of the objects that you can collect to portray your identity and interests.

Homework:

• Photograph the objects in the box and consider the use of a light source to highlight the light and shadows. Change the objects around

• Bring box with objects to the lessons. The idea behind collecting the objects is to develop the drawing workshop.

Lesson 2:

• Start to practice drawing ellipses, cubes considering tone

Lesson 3 and 4: 

Analytical Drawing (students who did textiles can produce work using the skills gained last year, by doing collage work, Quilting, Appleque work, patchwork, batik, silk painting and any other mixed media techniques)

• Lesson 3: Skeletal structure and Ellipses (A2 size). Measured drawing with thumb and pencil. Show Contour lines(A2 size) Draw all the objects together in the box 

• Lesson 4: Tonal study (use pencil, pen, mixed media) you can focus on a close up section (X2, A3 size studies)

• Lesson 5: Produce a tonal study and then work over with a rubber, then focus on the shapes you want to bring back.

• Lesson 6: Altering scale (select section from the boxed still life and blow up to A1 size (look at the work of Claus Oldenburg)

• Lesson 7: ink study

Drawing Project based on buildings and architecture

1st week: Drawing: buildings-measured drawing and perspective (use school environment, easels and draw from life with pencil.

2nd Week: 1 Drawing: buildings:  shape, tone, line, using charcoal and chalk

3rd Week  Drawing: buildings: Mixed media study using ink wash, paint and charcoal.

4th week: draw negative spaces in the landscape

Painting, sculpture and Photoshop image manipulation project: Architecture and Frank Gehrey

Lesson 1:

Watch documentary on Frank Gehrey https://youtu.be/E0amON0l_1o  and collect images of the buildings. Show students work project on crowds and tell them to collect materials for the next lesson , as they will be doing a model of a street with buildings. Links for documentaries below.

Lesson 6:

Drawings based on the model using graphite and white spirit

Lesson 7:

Take photos in the dark room of the cardboard model using a light source to create dramatic shadows. make sure they bring a light source (mobile, torch and tea candle lights). 

Lesson 8, 9 and 10:

• Use Photoshop to convert some of your preferred photos into black and white and then increase the contrast of the tones to make the light and shadow areas more dramatic.

• Select one of your photos (close up) and paint in a squared shaped board with black and white paint. Print it out in a small size and use the overhead projector to project image for tracing onto a squared board.

• Start to paint it using black and white paints. Experiment with tone.

Lesson 11, 12, 13, 14: Create a story for the scene

• Using Photoshop select 3 photos to merge together horizontally. 

• Convert to black and white and then you need to start adding figures to the composition. You must write a short story based on what the figures are doing in your new composition.

• Consider the size of the figures when placing them in your composition to create perspective and distance. You can take photos of yourself or friends or also get figures from the internet. 

• Start to copy your composition onto a board, canvas or paper to paint in black and white. The composition will be a rectangular composition

Sculpture workshops

SCULPTURE: BODY, BALANCE, STRUCTURE

Artists: Eva Rothschild, Matt Calderwood, Nairy Baghramian, Erwin Wurm

Introduction: You will be working in small groups and as an individual to generate a series of sculptures that may only be temporary but will engage with some of the basics of sculpture: using materials and processes, exploring gravity and balance, considering structure, space and the body. 

1. BODY ARCHITECTURES Following from Erwin Wurm’s ‘One-minute sculptures’, you will working in groups and be given a series of quick challenges to make improvised constructions using the body. You will be asked to think about negative space, personal space and what sculpture can be. 

2. BODY ACTION SCULPTURE You will be asked to make a sculpture or prop for your own body that becomes a complete work of art when combined with an action. This can be logical or not. It doesn’t have to be functional. Think about body volumes, limb volumes, restricting or extending the body, using objects, performing actions..... 

3. FREE-STANDING SCULPTURE Exploring the basics of sculptural practice, you will be asked to make a three-dimensional structure that explores space, gravity and balance. Your sculpture must be freestanding. Not attached to the floor/wall. Not suspended. No cheating. 

Explore gravity, balance, and scale to experiment with your objects and materials. You might also consider connections, it could be basic tape, glue guns, or fixings from the workshop, or perhaps cardboard slotting together without any fixings... 

DOCUMENT EVERYTHING WITH PHOTOGRAPHS 

Materials and Possible Directions: You will initially be working with quick materials, such as cardboard and tape, but your materials can change as you develop your work. Remember that your material choices make a huge difference to the meaning it will carry. Be resourceful with the materials you use. 

Look at http://foundation3d.myblog.arts.ac.uk/  for lots of hints, suppliers, and examples. 

http://foundation3d.myblog.arts.ac.uk/ experiment-simple-and-fast/ will show you examples of a simple free materials used in lots of different ways. 

From Art Department books Read: Excerpt of Vitamin 3d on Moodle: Part One > Diagnostic Mode> Art > Download Vitamin 3d text  

Eva Rothschild

Website: https://www.evarothschild.com/  

Nairy Baghramian

Website: https://www.artsy.net/artist/nairy-baghramian/shows  

Artist sculptures: Heads

Students work

ART SKETCHBOOK IDEAS: CREATIVE EXAMPLES for A LEVEL ART STUDENTS

Look at the following link to develop your sketchbook work and development of ideas:

• Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fvzvdijIG4ijvvHTXBSJCZGX8yPMruM3