TERM 1 2017
Welcome new year 7s
Colour my world
https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/mygallery/3emhm
8th May 2016
Eadward Muybridge ( English and
Unberto Boccioni ( Italian
short Muybridge film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYKZif9ooxs
Long Documentary on Muybridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Awo-P3t4Ho
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/wwI-dada/art-great-war/a/umberto-boccioni-unique-forms-of-continuity-in-space
Camera Obscura
Transparent/translucent/opaque
7th May
Homework
Look up what your name means
This week is NZ sign Language week. Choose a sign language sign that represents you or something that interests you. Loving, special, soccer, dance etc
http://nzsl.vuw.ac.nz/
Research your cargo list.
Welcome new year 7s
Colour my world
https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/mygallery/3emhm
I decided to construct this sculpture as a drawing in space thinking of this as a model for a larger sculpture. I find the best material to sculpt a drawing with is bronze wire as I can translate the lines achieved through drawing. I wanted to reflect the fluidity of movement within this piece and capture the moment the body submerges itself into water and how the water moves around the gliding body in ripples and waves, helix type swirls and that regardless of a disability, swimming is naturally within us.
Abigail Fallis
http://www.artattheedge.org/artists/category/commissioned-sculptors/abigail-fallis/8th May 2016
Eadward Muybridge ( English and
Unberto Boccioni ( Italian
short Muybridge film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYKZif9ooxs
Long Documentary on Muybridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Awo-P3t4Ho
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/wwI-dada/art-great-war/a/umberto-boccioni-unique-forms-of-continuity-in-space
Camera Obscura
Transparent/translucent/opaque
7th May
Homework
Look up what your name means
This week is NZ sign Language week. Choose a sign language sign that represents you or something that interests you. Loving, special, soccer, dance etc
http://nzsl.vuw.ac.nz/
Research your cargo list.
Term 1 2015
Welcome all new year 7s
This block's there is
WHO WE ARE
· Tu Pono - knowing
yourself and your identity
Aims:-
o
Make art about things
important to you.
o
Make art about things
you really care about.
o
Developed greater
confidence in your personal ideas through your art making.
o
Take full
responsibility for your attendance, work ethic, and art ideas and know that
these things contribute to a ‘healthy’, motivated art class community.
http://heatonschoolart.blogspot.co.nz/p/the-six-elements.html
Lesson 1 - 5/2/15
We covered a huge amount in our first lesson. Here are a few reminders and what to do next.
Everyone came to new Zealand. Your ancestors may have come on the first Maori Canoe fleet, the first four ships or you may have arrived recently by plane. Each new family has added to the rich cultural mix that now makes up modern New Zealand. It is our culture that helps us identify with our Nationality and keep us connected to the cultures of our ancestors. It helps us see who we are and where we have come from.
When we looked at how many cultures in our class we saw that there were as many cultures as there were people. About 3 or 4 people in each class were not born in NZ and about a quarter had Scottish ancestry. Do remember some of the reasons why there were so many Scottish people in 'New World' Countries?
We then made lists of artists we knew and the countries they came from. When we compared our lists we could see that we traveled all over the map in the classroom via our culture list but didn't travel very far by our artist list. Most of the artists were very dead European men and hardly anyone could name a New Zealand artist. So our challenge is to find some contemporary ( do you remember what that means) artists , in particular some female artists, and also to find artists from our own cultures. The visual arts is only one branch of the Arts Family and we should also look at designers, photographers, architects etc. too.
Keep adding names and images of the artists you discover in your folder.
Taking a line for a walk.
Paul Klee ( Swiss) described drawing as
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
We had a go at taking a line for a walk for 2 minutes. Everyone stood up to draw, didn't talk or look at other peoples work. At the end of the drawing we discussed if they were drawings, yes, and did everyone manage to do one, yes, therefore everyone can draw. All the drawings were different because we are all different. In art you can all do well by working in very different ways.
We all have our own unique style, just like our handwriting is different, so is our drawing style.
We stood up so as to see what we are doing better and so that our view is on the same plane. Bigger work would need an easel. Standing also helped us work more freely and rhythmically. Do you remember the cricket bowler story?
How we draw depends on our personality, how we are sitting /standing, our environment, what we are thinking/feeling. Just like Harry Potter we need to think the spell confidently for the magic to appear out of our wand/pencil. We then had a go at thinking feelings and seeing if we could get them to appear on the paper. We had to guess which was which. Maybe some of you had a go at home?
NEW WORDS
Contemporary
Chronological
Lesson 3
Wow/Grrrrrrr List
Artists are inspired by their passions. This can be a passion for or against something. What inspired you?
e.g. Pat Hanley campaigned again Nuclear power/weapons in his art as well as in person. His book 'Blast' was considered so important at the time that it was given to every Primary and Intermediate School in New Zealand. Sir Ralph Hotere also produced work that protested about Nuclear weapons/power, war and destruction of the environment
Classwork- The Long drawing
Take a line for a walk on the long drawing. You will find that most of your lines follow the 'long axes' of the paper. The long sides are more powerful than the short and force you to work along the length of the paper.
The shape of a piece of paper will make a difference to your drawing/composition.
Talking to your drawing. Ask your drawing what to do next!. As soon as you start drawing it stops just being you deciding to do things to your drawing and becomes a two way process. Your drawing will tell you when you have done something right or wrong or even when it is unsure. Listen to it and work together but remember you need to give your drawing space to get your answer. Stand back from your work or ask someone to hold it up.
You have created enclosed spaces in your drawing. let one call out to you and colour it in. This creates a point of focus. Artists will often a create point of focus in a painting e.g. a house, a person, a large tree in a landscape
A4 paper is an average personality, long thin paper has a different personality. Home work
keep your eyes open for colour. How are cool/warm and complementary colours being used . Don't forget to show evidence, a magazine cover, take a photo, collect a leaflet, badge etc.
Try this link below for examples of the use of colour in paintings
Colour my World from Christchurch Art Gallery
Lesson 4 13/2/15
Drawing from the mirror
Place paper on board portrait/portrait as high up as you can. Arrange board on lap to make a mini easel , sit back as far as you can, lots of room between you and the board for free movement. Set the mirror to show your head and shoulders. Imaginary ant, very small ant, does it have a name? Look for a vertical line behind your head. Put your imaginary ant at the top of the line and let your ant abseil or free fall onto your head.Take you art for a walk down one side of your body until it goes off the page. Every tiny lump and bump on you is a big thing for the ant as it 'crawls' around your outline.
Are you really looking in the mirror,? trust your eyes. If we don't focus our brain will try and prioritise what it is looking for and alter the proportions. The paper will also try and influence your drawing, flattening, straightening , squashing in.
Have a couple of goes, try the other side.
Then imagine the ant is connected to your pencil with a rod. Now as the ant moves so does your pencil. This means as you stare at the ant you can't look at the paper. You may look to put your pencil back on the page but don't look at the paper as you are drawing.
Try and practice this at home will your father is watching the cricket or asleep in a chair, or your cat or dog, or even try yourself again.
19/2/15
Whole House Reuse project design. See link on home page.
What could you do with the items I brought back from 19 Admirals Way, New Brighton?
What is significant about the project? Layers of time, history, decoration, lives of the occupants.
Design useful objects from the dismantled parts of the house.
26/2/15
Look at new 'Just for Fun' tab on the blog. talk about science/art similarities, explore, investigate, experiment. Meyer's test, colour circle, rods and cones, afterimage.
Look at Whole house tab on blog and explain about my chair#018. How a design evolves.
Drawing experiments
Warm up two minute drawing, get eye and hand working at the same time together.
2 minute drawing but this time using opposite hand.
it probably wasn't very different from previous drawing, maybe better?
Most famous left handed artist, Leonardo da Vinci, how can you tell? Look at the shading and see which way it slopes. See his self portrait.
Next drawing the same but this time your ant has a friend. Using a different coloured pen or pencil hold draw with both hands at the same time. Your ants are 'racing' each other around your head.
Introduction to working into the head, eyes, nose etc.
You only need to look.
"I wonder where my eyes were yesterday" Berenson
Eyes half way up head, ears help place eyes and nose. Gap between eyes same width as an eye, pupils to edge of mouth etc. If we measure using a ruler the drawing will look too wooden, not real. Make sure you are really looking. Features are connected, no Mr Potato Head.
Drawing like poetry or prose. full of detail or a few simple lines.
Here are some drawings by Picasso. Beautiful selection of lines.
27th Feb
Psycho-geometic testing
Sometimes people try and find out what sort of person we are by various test, not just what we know. The shape test is one. Choose your 'favourite shape from the square, rectangle, triangle, circle or squiggle, then choose your second favourite. Create a design in the rectangle that remains having turned your A4 piece of paper into a square.
Lessons 5&6 March
We discussed the deliberate leaving of the 'damage/blemish in the wood of the little table that was made to go with the Whole House Reuse chair. This concept is WABI SABI a Japanese term that roughly means the beauty of the imperfect. See the Whole House Reuse tab to see what it looks like. I melted solder into some of the nail holes to make a feature of them.
http://heatonschoolart.blogspot.co.nz/p/the-six-elements.html
Lesson 1 - 5/2/15
We covered a huge amount in our first lesson. Here are a few reminders and what to do next.
Everyone came to new Zealand. Your ancestors may have come on the first Maori Canoe fleet, the first four ships or you may have arrived recently by plane. Each new family has added to the rich cultural mix that now makes up modern New Zealand. It is our culture that helps us identify with our Nationality and keep us connected to the cultures of our ancestors. It helps us see who we are and where we have come from.
When we looked at how many cultures in our class we saw that there were as many cultures as there were people. About 3 or 4 people in each class were not born in NZ and about a quarter had Scottish ancestry. Do remember some of the reasons why there were so many Scottish people in 'New World' Countries?
We then made lists of artists we knew and the countries they came from. When we compared our lists we could see that we traveled all over the map in the classroom via our culture list but didn't travel very far by our artist list. Most of the artists were very dead European men and hardly anyone could name a New Zealand artist. So our challenge is to find some contemporary ( do you remember what that means) artists , in particular some female artists, and also to find artists from our own cultures. The visual arts is only one branch of the Arts Family and we should also look at designers, photographers, architects etc. too.
Keep adding names and images of the artists you discover in your folder.
Taking a line for a walk.
Paul Klee ( Swiss) described drawing as
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
We had a go at taking a line for a walk for 2 minutes. Everyone stood up to draw, didn't talk or look at other peoples work. At the end of the drawing we discussed if they were drawings, yes, and did everyone manage to do one, yes, therefore everyone can draw. All the drawings were different because we are all different. In art you can all do well by working in very different ways.
We all have our own unique style, just like our handwriting is different, so is our drawing style.
We stood up so as to see what we are doing better and so that our view is on the same plane. Bigger work would need an easel. Standing also helped us work more freely and rhythmically. Do you remember the cricket bowler story?
How we draw depends on our personality, how we are sitting /standing, our environment, what we are thinking/feeling. Just like Harry Potter we need to think the spell confidently for the magic to appear out of our wand/pencil. We then had a go at thinking feelings and seeing if we could get them to appear on the paper. We had to guess which was which. Maybe some of you had a go at home?
NEW WORDS
Contemporary
Chronological
Lesson 3
Wow/Grrrrrrr List
Artists are inspired by their passions. This can be a passion for or against something. What inspired you?
e.g. Pat Hanley campaigned again Nuclear power/weapons in his art as well as in person. His book 'Blast' was considered so important at the time that it was given to every Primary and Intermediate School in New Zealand. Sir Ralph Hotere also produced work that protested about Nuclear weapons/power, war and destruction of the environment
Classwork- The Long drawing
Take a line for a walk on the long drawing. You will find that most of your lines follow the 'long axes' of the paper. The long sides are more powerful than the short and force you to work along the length of the paper.
The shape of a piece of paper will make a difference to your drawing/composition.
Talking to your drawing. Ask your drawing what to do next!. As soon as you start drawing it stops just being you deciding to do things to your drawing and becomes a two way process. Your drawing will tell you when you have done something right or wrong or even when it is unsure. Listen to it and work together but remember you need to give your drawing space to get your answer. Stand back from your work or ask someone to hold it up.
You have created enclosed spaces in your drawing. let one call out to you and colour it in. This creates a point of focus. Artists will often a create point of focus in a painting e.g. a house, a person, a large tree in a landscape
A4 paper is an average personality, long thin paper has a different personality. Home work
keep your eyes open for colour. How are cool/warm and complementary colours being used . Don't forget to show evidence, a magazine cover, take a photo, collect a leaflet, badge etc.
Try this link below for examples of the use of colour in paintings
Colour my World from Christchurch Art Gallery
Lesson 4 13/2/15
Poppy Field at Argenteuil, Claude Monet 1873
How has Claude Monet used colour, where are focal points ,
how are you made to travel around the picture?
Drawing from the mirror
Place paper on board portrait/portrait as high up as you can. Arrange board on lap to make a mini easel , sit back as far as you can, lots of room between you and the board for free movement. Set the mirror to show your head and shoulders. Imaginary ant, very small ant, does it have a name? Look for a vertical line behind your head. Put your imaginary ant at the top of the line and let your ant abseil or free fall onto your head.Take you art for a walk down one side of your body until it goes off the page. Every tiny lump and bump on you is a big thing for the ant as it 'crawls' around your outline.
Are you really looking in the mirror,? trust your eyes. If we don't focus our brain will try and prioritise what it is looking for and alter the proportions. The paper will also try and influence your drawing, flattening, straightening , squashing in.
Have a couple of goes, try the other side.
Then imagine the ant is connected to your pencil with a rod. Now as the ant moves so does your pencil. This means as you stare at the ant you can't look at the paper. You may look to put your pencil back on the page but don't look at the paper as you are drawing.
Try and practice this at home will your father is watching the cricket or asleep in a chair, or your cat or dog, or even try yourself again.
19/2/15
Whole House Reuse project design. See link on home page.
What could you do with the items I brought back from 19 Admirals Way, New Brighton?
What is significant about the project? Layers of time, history, decoration, lives of the occupants.
Design useful objects from the dismantled parts of the house.
26/2/15
Look at new 'Just for Fun' tab on the blog. talk about science/art similarities, explore, investigate, experiment. Meyer's test, colour circle, rods and cones, afterimage.
Look at Whole house tab on blog and explain about my chair#018. How a design evolves.
Drawing experiments
Warm up two minute drawing, get eye and hand working at the same time together.
2 minute drawing but this time using opposite hand.
it probably wasn't very different from previous drawing, maybe better?
Most famous left handed artist, Leonardo da Vinci, how can you tell? Look at the shading and see which way it slopes. See his self portrait.
Next drawing the same but this time your ant has a friend. Using a different coloured pen or pencil hold draw with both hands at the same time. Your ants are 'racing' each other around your head.
Introduction to working into the head, eyes, nose etc.
You only need to look.
"I wonder where my eyes were yesterday" Berenson
Eyes half way up head, ears help place eyes and nose. Gap between eyes same width as an eye, pupils to edge of mouth etc. If we measure using a ruler the drawing will look too wooden, not real. Make sure you are really looking. Features are connected, no Mr Potato Head.
Drawing like poetry or prose. full of detail or a few simple lines.Here are some drawings by Picasso. Beautiful selection of lines.
These are so confidently drawn that you don't notice that some are a bit 'wonky'. This adds to their interest.
Put the 6 elements sheet in your books, We are all teachers!
Look for a portrait that you think reflects your character in the way the person is posing. Can be a photo or painting but make sure you know the name of the artist.
27th Feb
Psycho-geometic testing
Sometimes people try and find out what sort of person we are by various test, not just what we know. The shape test is one. Choose your 'favourite shape from the square, rectangle, triangle, circle or squiggle, then choose your second favourite. Create a design in the rectangle that remains having turned your A4 piece of paper into a square.
Lessons 5&6 March
We discussed the deliberate leaving of the 'damage/blemish in the wood of the little table that was made to go with the Whole House Reuse chair. This concept is WABI SABI a Japanese term that roughly means the beauty of the imperfect. See the Whole House Reuse tab to see what it looks like. I melted solder into some of the nail holes to make a feature of them.
Continue with drawing from the mirror.
Collect images /objects for your design for a print
Something special/sentimental
Something you do, hobby, sport, music etc.
Something from where you come from
Text, favourite verse from poem, song, book or sheet music.
Divide A4 tracing paper into square and rectangle. Arrange your photo of yourself so that the face is looking towards the rectangle with lots of space in between. Trace your personality design in the rectangle.
Trace your image remembering that tracing doesn't make you good at drawing . You have to think just as carefully as when drawing from the mirror. We have just 'closed the gap' between mirror and page. A sharp pencil, HB the softest.
Artists have used various technologies to help them get an image down quickly or more efficiently for hundreds of years. We had a go with my homemade CAMERA OBSCURA (dark chamber).
You could imagine an artist tracing the projection.
The Camera Obscura works just like our eyes. Light does not bend so the image appears upside down as the light 'rays' cross over as they enter the eye.
19/3/15
Having traced your photo and the personality pattern balance your chosen items so that they connect in the divided spaces around your body. Remember the Van Gogh , Rita Angus and Modigliani paintings we looked at.
Practice the drypoint technique on test acrylic sheet, line, feature and text/shading.
Start on background on big plate first to increase skill before attempting face.
new Words
Intaglio
drypoint
Homework
look for prints at home or school with numbers written as a fraction, bottom left corner of the print. What do they mean?
26/3/15
Finish drypoint plate and print . If you have already printed try new techniques. drypoint and mono-print one colour and two colour.
Write the story of your print to explain your symbolism.
I am away on 27th
In class research artists from your own cultural background.
Male and female, some living, photographers , designers ( all kinds), architects.
Pick one who you think is particularly interesting to give a 2 minute talk on in class
IMPORTANT
you must complete the conversation with your print sheet before the end of term.
_____________________________________________________ Term 1 2014
Welcome all new year 7s
We covered a huge amount in our first lesson. Here are a few reminders and what to do next.
Everyone came to new Zealand. Your ancestors may have come on the first Maori Canoe fleet, the first four ships or you may have arrived recently by plane. Each new family has added to the rich cultural mix that now makes up modern New Zealand. It is our culture that helps us identify with our Nationality and keep us connected to the cultures of our ancestors. It helps us see who we are and where we have come from.
When we looked at how many cultures in our class we saw that there were as many cultures as there were people. About 3 or 4 people in each class were not born in NZ and about a quarter had Scottish ancestry. Do remember some of the reasons why there were so many Scottish people in 'New World' Countries?
We then made lists of artists we knew and the countries they came from. When we compared our lists we could see that we traveled all over the map in the classroom via our culture list but didn't travel very far by our artist list. Most of the artists were very dead European men and hardly anyone could name a New Zealand artist. So our challenge is to find some contemporary ( do you remember what that means) artists , in particular some female artists, and also to find artists from our own cultures. The visual arts is only one branch of the Arts Family and we should also look at designers, photographers, architects etc. too.
Keep adding names and images of the artists you discover in your folder.
Taking a line for a walk.
Paul Klee ( Swiss) described drawing as
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
We had a go at taking a line for a walk for 2 minutes. Everyone stood up to draw, didn't talk or look at other peoples work. At the end of the drawing we discussed if they were drawings, yes, and did everyone manage to do one, yes, therefore everyone can draw. All the drawings were different because we are all different. In art you can all do well by working in very different ways.
We all have our own unique style, just like our handwriting is different, so is our drawing style.
We stood up so as to see what we are doing better and so that our view is on the same plane. Bigger work would need an easel. Standing also helped us work more freely and rhythmically. Do you remember the cricket bowler story?
How we draw depends on our personality, how we are sitting /standing, our environment, what we are thinking/feeling. Just like Harry Potter we need to think the spell confidently for the magic to appear out of our wand/pencil. We then had a go at thinking feelings and seeing if we could get them to appear on the paper. We had to guess which was which. Maybe some of you had a go at home?
Don't forget to keep evidence of anything you find out about or go and see, especially the wonderful Street Art exhibition in the Canterbury Museum.
next Saturday 15th Feb. Christchurch Art Gallery Fun Day
We have lots of exciting ART Activities this year . We even have the Real Art Roadshow coming to Heaton in May. Check out the link on this blog to see what this is.
Taking an ant for a walk. Looking in the mirror, with your board in the mini easel position, let your ant land on top of your head and look for a route down one side of your head and ending up as close to the bottom of the page. Repeat the other side. Have a few goes , only a couple of minutes at a time. When you are happy with an outline drawing try and find routes into your face . Remember, with all of these drawings , only draw when you are looking in the mirror. Imagine a connecting rod between your eye and your hand.
Then we had a go using our opposite hands and even two hands at once. Remember , no talking and don't worry about what your neighbour is doing.
Long drawing
A long rectangle has a stronger 'personality ' than an average A4 piece of paper. It's longest side dominate, have a greater value, than the short sides and so great an inner force that effects what you do on the paper. THe shape of the paper will affect your composition. Take some lines for a walk. Let your drawing tell you what to do. Let one of the 'enclosed shapes' call to you, colour it in with one colour. THis creates a point of focus, makes you look at it, because it is different. However it didn't make as want to look around the work so we added two more shapes in the same colour. We noticed that everyone naturally balanced the shapes in the picture. The point of focus now gone we created another by using a complementary colour in a new shape. The more opposite a colour or thing the greater the difference appears to be. Red will make green appear more so. Some people confuse red and green , colourblindness ( there are many variations ), this may affect job choices.
Keep practicing taking a line for a walk.
We or our ancestors all came to Zealand by Waka or modern waka the aeroplane. What did they bring with them to remind them of family, culture or home. What would you take with you.? We looked at Michael Tuffery's Mana Pacifika. It includes Wakas loaded with goods and animals.
Draw objects that are important to you or your family. Do you have something at home that your family brought with them from their original country?
Bring in sketches, photos or even objects if not valuable. What is special to you. I still have my teddy Bear from my first birthday.
 |
| Joyce Cairns Living, female, Scottish artist |
Bring photos , drawings or the real objects in to include in your composition for a print.
WE will combine these with your tracing drawing and boats/wakas, based on Robyn Kahukiwa, Michael Tuffery and Joyce Cairns .
Remember tracing doesn't work unless you trace as if you are drawing directly form the mirror.
Camer Obscura
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura
Term 3 2013
This term we are working towards a print for the Cultural Festival based on this year's theme
'Ma te huruhuru, ka rere te manu ... Adorn the bird with feathers so it can fly
Concept: having faith in our children to do their best, letting them take
an active part in contributing ideas to their programme etc. touches on the
need for variety and creativity, giving them the skills and letting them fly!
We are also lucky enough to have Lucy from the Christchurch Arts Festival come to Heaton to run a workshop on Friday 5th July. The work we produce will be part of the Christchurch Arts Festival and will be on display for the opening outside the City Council Offices.
The theme is 'Fly me up to where we are'. A project by Tiffany Singh.
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