Art History 1.2

1.2 describe is your keyword. Interpretation is required as you describe the artwork. Read the assessment slide on the site carefully, and revise it.

In the exemplar on the site, you will notice the Robyn Kahukiwa exemplar is divided into green and purple highlights, to define the difference. This is an achieved exemplar and as you can see, not much is required past literally telling me what is in the image and why the artist might have done that. You can all do this.

Here are your instructions to start this assessment:

1) Set up the doc like it says on the instructions - google docs, in your art folder named 1.2 Art history with your name too, and shared with me on email too.

2) Select two artists from the matrix on Ako - Learn. make sure they are good ones! check with me if you need to. Ideally they will be artists you are using to inspire you own folio work. 

Find one image for each artist. copy and paste a good quality art image for each artist onto the doc. - a good thing to do when searching for an image on google is to go up to 'TOOLS' and select 'LARGE' so the best quality images show up first in your search.

3) Paraphrasing. Make sure you read these instructions on the slide share. If you find great information you need to make sure you first, understand it and second, rewrite it in your own words.

4) You need a Bibliography - Cite everything. what website did you get the information from? Copy and paste the URL onto the bottom of your doc.

We will work on this every Monday until we are done. Final hand in is Week 10

Stylisation of our School Birds

As part of our magazine we are creating a 3-part lino cut merging out bird with the art movement Orphism which translates to circular movement and interlocking shapes. 

Stylisation

- Break your object down into basic shapes - what can you see?

With a lino cut we need to think of our object in terms of a stamp or stencil so do not be afraid to separate your shapes from each other to create positive and negative space. 

I have broken down my plan into 3 thumbnails to make sure that my layers interact well with each other as I am using my Orphist shapes to create leading lines towards my bird.

I have chosen the Pipiwharauroa as my bird. You can see the shapes I have chosen to use in my stylisation. 

Proportion Drawing

Getting things into proportion is sometimes hard. If you start with drawing in one place without having mapped out where the bulk of what you are drawing is going to go, you often end up with things in the wrong place and of the wrong size.

We call that out of proportion. We want IN proportion.

Guidelines help you! Map it out lightly so you know where you are going to draw then fill in the mass. 

'Mass' means the space it takes up

'Subject' is what you are drawing.

Tonal Drawings - Light Source and depth

We have been working at getting our shading correct so our objects look realistic and occupy space - adding depth. 

TONE: 
The point is, you need to make sure you are creating a depth of tone (black where it needs to be, white paper where it needs to be).

Things you can practice are:
1) creating a gradient on paper with your pencil.
2. Pick your light source and make sure you are consistent to where your shadows and highlights would be. 
3. Shade from dark to light - avoid adding an outline to your image as this will flatten it. 
4. Implied lines are a wonderful thing - once you get to your lightest part just let the eye do the rest of the work. 

Painting Skills - Tonal Range, Mixing and Blending colours. Week 6, Term 1, 2019

After selecting our final design for our paintings, we have been learning some new painting skills before we start to paint our final work.

We have been choosing 4 colours and mixing a tonal range from light to dark. Start with adding a small amount of your colour to white to make the lightest tone you can. Keep adding more colour to make darker shades. When adding black, only dd the smallest amount as this will quickly make your colour 'dirty' if you add too much.

Then try blending colours seamlessly in a gradient - first in one colour then in a harmonious palette (warm or cold colours are a good start)

Culture Clash - Concept Sketches Week 3, Term 1, 2019

We have been researching the visual style and patterns of both Manga and Pasifika and doing some sketches to understand how these styles work.

The next step we have ben working on is to merge the 2 styles together, using the compositional principles of:
- focal point
- open or closed composition
- arrangement/grouping of objects
This makes it more interesting for out viewer.

The process of art making, with any medium, follows the steps of
1. Concepts - your first ideas
2. Developments - what is working well and how can I make changes to make it better?
3. Final design

Year 10 Drawing and Composition Skills

This term in year 10 we are working towards creating a class magazine focussed around our Turangawaewae - our community or the place we belong.

I have been so excited to see the year 10 students improving their drawing skills with the use of tone and perspective and to see them working on understanding the arrangement of a good composition. We have had a go at drawing the 5 birds that our learning spaces are named after as well as still life objects like vases and figure models.

We have learnt from the artist Michael Mew who does mixed media artworks. He has taught us about compositional principles to use to draw your eye to a focal point. These can include colour, leading lines, balance of objects and the use of mixed media.

So far, my class have just started to use cut out figures, patterns, colours and text from magazines to demonstrate their understanding of composition and I am excited to see their creativity when we come to making our own.