Art



Welcome to The Arts for 2013 and in particular Visual Art. Our first task is to design a title page. It will be a Homework Task but we will make a start during your fist lesson. The following notes will help you. LESSON 1

HOMEWORK TASK Create a Title Page for the subject VISUAL ART using any of the following media. Pencil, coloured pencils, watercolour pencils, crayons, pen and ink, watercolour paints, collage materials.

Your Title page needs to be A4 size only because it needs to fit into your folder. The border would look fantastic if you design a pattern. The most important part of a Title Page is the title Visual Art 2013. Make sure you do this in large letters so that it is highly visible. You can add an illustration. Your favourite drawing would be a good idea.

If you want to impress your art teacher make sure your work is neat and tidy, your title is bold and you might have a particular skill with lettering or drawing or colouring in. Make sure that your work is appropriate and upholds our school value. Inoffensive lettering and symbols will not be accepted.

This homework task is due next lesson. Go for it. Be creative.

LESSON 2

What a great group of budding young artists visited my room over the last week. I am certainly looking forward to some great artwork starting with your TITLE PAGE which you will be handing in this coming week. I hope you all had a great time designing this work.

REMEMBER If a class has 100% homework (that means everybody) there will be a prize. During your 2nd lesson, we will be finding out all about the elements of art and how to use them in a drawing. Just to prepare you for that here are two questions.

What is an element? Can you think of some examples of elements?

LESSON 3

Sorry about the delay in getting this posted on the Wiki. There was a little hiccup with the Internet.

Thanks for getting your Title Pages in promptly. Some classes were better than others. Congratulations to Room 11 for a 100% turnout, to Rooms 4 and 37 with only 1 no show and Rooms 1 and 33 with 2 no shows. All remaining Title Pages must be in by Lesson 4.

In Lesson 3 we will review the elements of art and begin using them in a drawing. We will also discover some special techniques to use. Watch this space for some photos coming soon.

LESSON 4

We had a lot of fun during this past week. All classes have completed a series of draft drawings using the elements of art. During lesson 4 we will complete our final draft and then we can make it into a stunning drawing. I am looking forward to this.

Check out these photos. Do you recognise anyone?


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Well done everybody. All title pages were handed in and the standard was quite good. I have attached a couple of examples below. T

Lesson 5

This was a practical lesson. We completed our pencil drawings using the elements of line, shape, form space, tone and texture. Rooms 1, 4, 11 and 14 worked on a composition of fruit and vegetables in a container of their own design. We had a lot of different shapes and sizes, some in bowls, others in baskets and one of them was on a tray. Rooms 30, 33, 37 and 39 got to sketch one of the nikau palm trees outside the staff room and then transferred that to a drawing. Wow! they are so realistic and it was great to see so many experimenting with tone and texture to get them looking like that. Rooms 43 and 45 completed a drawing of a container of flowers. Although most students chose to do a vase, one or two were very adventurous. We even had one who chose a little woven boot. Well done everybody. Here is an example of each category. Lessons 6&7 Our learning intention for Lesson 6 was a little bit like a Science lesson as we went into how colour forms but then we concentrated on the Art side and learnt all about the seven points of the colour theory so that we can use colour in a more professional way.

In Lesson 7 we discovered the techniques of shading and blending and worked on samples of these. Did you find the techniques made your work look really good? Remember to 1. Follow the line of the shape 2. Press lightly 3. Swipe 4. Fade out 5. Overlap. If anyone is reading this and doesn't know what this is about ask one of the Visual Art students.

The next set of lessons will see us move forward and come up with our choice of a creature from Land, Sea or Sky which we will turn into a great piece of work. Our learning intention will be "To produce an artwork using the techniques of shading and blending with colour"

Hopefully some of these can be posted on this Wiki early next term. Have a good break everyone.

Lessons 8&9 We have worked very hard on our colour work and most have almost completed this work and they are looking great. Some of the comments from all you hardworking students have been so positive. Comments like "gee this is the best artwork I have ever done" and "I think my fish looks really cool" are great to hear. Well done to you all. I will get some of these on to the Wiki in the next few weeks.

Our next project will be our last. This is going to be fun. Unfortunately because of the structure of the terms this year we only have four sessions to complete this but if we work hard it will happen. Rooms 1,4,43,45 will be looking at indigenous aboriginal art and the meaning of some of the traditional symbols and motifs used and will then create their own contemporary dot painting possibly using the creature from their colour work. Rooms 11,14,30,33,37 and 39 will be taking a look at some of Reuben Paterson's artworks particularly his glitter works (one of which can be viewed in the Auckland Art Gallery) and will then create their own.

Lessons 10-13 will be devoted to this.

Well don to the first rotation. So many of you have worked really hard to complete your masterpiece whether it be a dot painting or a piece of glitter art. I will be emailing some of the glitter art photos to Glitter Artist Reuben Paterson to put on to his website so that is exciting.

The art work which has been completed will be displayed in the Student Centre and in the corridor outside Room 8 as well as in the Arts foyer as soon as possible.