Teaching Art is a feast into a of colour, line, texture, space and shape. By encouraging a visual exploration in my learning I love developing a creative approach to learning in the classroom. By encouraging different techniques and an understanding of art I hope to help students appreciate visual learning more. I hope you enjoy my uploads and can use them. Please contact me if you require any further information.
Teaching Art is a feast into a of colour, line, texture, space and shape. By encouraging a visual exploration in my learning I love developing a creative approach to learning in the classroom. By encouraging different techniques and an understanding of art I hope to help students appreciate visual learning more. I hope you enjoy my uploads and can use them. Please contact me if you require any further information.
To understand what the elements of art are: line, shape, colour, texture, space,value and tone and where PATTERNS appear in nature.To learn about different terms in pattern making and how to make a repeat designTo make a page of patterns, combining cultural patterns and everyday patterns
Create a title on your page called ‘Pattern’
Describe the word pattern using keywords- looking at examples of patterns and how one makes a pattern
Students are asked to list 3 areas where pattern can be recognised in everyday life. There is an understanding also in slidesto explain what the elements of art are, line, colour , shape and how to make patterns
Students are asked to research the internet pictures that show different words relating to patterns
students are given tasks to make a display slide on a Powerpoint showing the following patterns.
Students research the names below and find an example of this type of pattern online - then save a copy of the picture.
Students make their own powerpoint on PATTERN and write out the words below of different patterns and paste an example of this pattern ,on a piece of paper to draw your own pattern for each.
Flowery pattern
Geometrical pattern
Variegated pattern
Organic pattern
5.Linear Pattern
Symmetrical pattern
Radial balance pattern
Informal balance pattern
Check pattern
Animal pattern
Paisley pattern
Chevron pattern.
Basketweave pattern
Repeat pattern
The powerpoint consists of the following:
Students will learn about Wassily Kandinsky and his abstract Art and be able to make their own version of Kandinsky while listening to four pieces of music.
Task 1: Describing artwork tasks (slide2)
Task 2: Answer questions on Kandinsky (slide 3)
Task 3: Listening to music and interpreting this (slide 4)
Divide your paper into 4 blocks as seen in the example and in your blocks you need to draw what you interpret while listening to the four pieces of music.
Listen to the You Tube tracks of music - one at a time. While listening to the music in each block while you listen to the music you need to draw what the music makes you feel. (Copy the http address into search to hear music)
That is, you need to Interpret the music by drawing shapes, colours, textures, lines, forms, images and what you feel the music represents.
Students learn about the Art history styles or a set of Artists and develop a project which has all of these styles in a final outcome. Different themes can be chosen as a subject which then includes all these modern art styles.
In this slide presentation - there are examples of final outcomes:
A ‘Still-life bowl’ with different fruit in different styles
An ‘Interior of a Room’ with areas of the room in different styles and
A ‘Cake Stand’ with cupcakes in different styles.
IN THIS POWERRPOINT THE THEME IS FRUIT AND EXAMPLES GIVEN IN EACH STYLE. THE OUTCOME IS A BOWL OF FRUIT.
In all of these the students combine all the styles to form a display of fruit.
The powerpoint gives an outline of a number of art movements, Futurism, De Stijl, Pop Art, German Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Fauvism and students are asked to do a different style each week with a different technique and develop an outcome.
Some of the possible outcomes are a Bowl of Fruit, an Interior of a room or a Stand of Cup Cakes.
In each of these examples students use a different technique and style to make up their final. Students can work in groups to put this together as a final presentation or can work individually to create their final outcome.
An excellent project and scheme of work for year 8 where students learn a number of skills but also learn about the Art movements and gain a deeper understanding of the story and history of Art.
The presentation gives a detailed background to each style with artist examples and each week these styles can be discussed with the class. The key characteristics of each of the movements are carefully explained so that students gain an understanding of the movement.
There are two tasks ;
Making your name with zentangle patterns- there are student outcomes and sheets to support this activity.
Students to work in groups making a letter to put together into a word. making a large cardboard letter and use paper craft- ~coiling and quilling to embellish
Learning objective
Students Learn to do lettering and patterns and to make a 3D constuction of letters
Students learn to do block lettering :
Every letter should be 3 blocks across and 5 letters down. The only letters that are different are M which is 4 across and 5 down and W is 5 across and 5 down.
Learning to coil with paper craft students each develop their own letter working in a group. Students to choose one word in a group and to draw the letters of the word out BIG on cardboard
Students Practice drawing out boldly own name using the block lettering sheets provided to support.
Resources
maths block paper
cereal box
felt tips
glossy magazines
pritt stick glue
Projects to develop an understanding of the basic elements and the use of pattern.
Also developing a printing project using a repeat pattern.
Developing an understanding of William Morris
Also looking at Japanese concept of pattern and the use of Notans
This is a project where students are asked to choose an artist to study their style.
Student’s question and develop an understanding of What is a style?
Outcome of this project is that students in year 7 do their own portrait interpretation using the artists and create a mixed media collage based on the selected artist.
There is an exploration on using a variety of media.
Students develop their own skills exploring how to make their own portrait in the style of the artist.
Students use a photocopy of a photograph of themselves to work from.
There is an emphasis on experimentation and students can bring in found textures to collage.
Students use the four artists to make a copy of the four artists styles in a grid on a page: Hundertwasser, Klimt, Ofili and Van Gogh.
TASK 1
The first part of the project is the Artist Research in 4 grids. One for each artist.
Students in the grid discuss the characteristics of each artist’s use of line, colour, shape and texture. There is an individual slide on each artist which highlights with close up pictures showing the markmaking of each artist.
Teacher to go through each slide of each artist and copy the pictures as an example for students to work from.
Students write out the name in each gird, how each artist has a different way of using their marks and then in the grid copies a detail of the artist’s work. This is completed in pencil crayons. Students can also use an object and interpret this in styles - there is an example
Students also brainstorm words to describe the artist. Students also describes the use of elements in each work. Students also discuss the main characteristics of the artist and how they have used their line, colour, shape, texture and how the artist has composed the picture (that is, put it together).
This should take 2 lessons - with students completing the work for homework
TASK 2
Once students have analysed this they can go on to make their own portrait by choosing one of the artists. There are lots of examples of students work in this powerpoint to give examples of how to go about this project. Students to be given a photocopy picture of themselves to work from
This should take 3 lessons in class.
Objectives:
Use of found textures, collage materials and paint to interpret a style looking at the way the student experimented with the use of materials to create the style
Explore media creatively when interpreting artist.
Develop vocabulary and to understand the different ways of using lines, shapes and colours and students begin to analyse the artworks critically describing each work.
To begin to understand that each artist has their own way of interpreting their subject and each person has the own way of making their own style
To analyse and interpret four different artist’s styles and begin to make a personal response to one of these artists.
To complete a self- portrait in the style of an artist.
Firstly consolidating watercolour skills in this project the powerpoint then goes to look at the artist called Hundertwasser. Looking in depth at Hundertwasser, developing an Artist Study presentation after going to the computer room to find information on this artist and to analyse one picture of his work.
Students are then asked to on four separate sheets to draw out the key symbols and elements in Hundertwasser’s work. .
Students are then given pictures of buildings and asked to continue to apply his style and to make some drawings inspired by his work.
Examples of all these are given with student examples.
This project then further developed into making a clay tile after formulating an orignal own interpretation of Hundertwasser. There are plenty of student examples for you to look at.
I have also added further extension tasks on Hundertwasser and some further interesting facts about his work.
OBJECTIVES
To develop an understanding of the work of Hundertwasser by studying the elements from Hundertwasser’s work.
To copy some of Hundertwasser’s symbols with your pencil.
To draw out Hundertwasser’s Onion domes, Lollipop trees, Faces and Spirals.
To draw out a large picture of Lollipop trees of Hundertwasser and to use colour on this
To use pictures of buildings and then to imaginatively interpret one’s own version of Hundertwasser using the research ideas completed into his use of symbols
Students make up their own design of Hundertwasser in pencil and then in colour.
To make a clay tile based on the design steps above- examples of student outcomes are given.
Task 1 ‘Key Elements in the Art of Hundertwasser’
Copy out the picture given on slide 3 and label the key elements Hundertwasser uses in his work. You may use any materials you have to do this. It can be in colour or black and white with your pencil. Do this carefully.
This is part of a set 5 powerpoints on Cubism, painting skills and colour mixing and constructing a 3D sculpture.
This attached Powerpoint deals with the development of the 3D sculpture
Powerpoint 1
Using a drawing of face break this up into geometric shapes and compose an outcome to paint and analyse a cubist analytical painting and develop and understanding of Cubism
Powerpoint 2
Explore a mixing of colours, especially complementary colours and develop an understanding of contrasting colours
Powerpoint 3
Practice painting skills and applying paint smoothly
Powerpoint 4. Painting skills using a card
Poweerpoint 5.
Simplify and construct a 3D analytical sculpture from your painting and evaluate your putcome.
The powerpoint gives instructions and examples to show how to cut and join this. Firstly pasting on cardboard a copy of the painting and then cutting this up in shapes and building a construction of form as a 3D sculpture
This then becomes a construction of a 3D sculpture using cardboard to make a mobile or standing sculpture based on Cubism.
To paste painting onto Cardboard Ceareal box and to paint the back of the box
To finally construct with glue gun to form a hanging mobile.
Evaluation of project
This is a series of 5 powerpoints where students to learn to paint a Cubist painting using a celebrity picture and complementary colours.
Students to gain an understanding of Analytical Cubism and how to fragment a picture into geometric shapes and then learn to paint it in complementary colours.
Develop this into a 3D sculpture and make a construction mobile cutting a copy of the painting into shapes.
This is a powerpoint of some of Rauschenberg’s work so that GCSE students can explore transfer techniques while making an artist study of his work.
There are examples of how to do the transfer technique but also helpful question sheets for analysis of the artist for GCSE objective - ‘Develop ideas…’.
Lots of examples of Raushenberg are given and each child should be given one of his work to copy.
Students should then make their own Rauschenberg example using their own project topic and own photograph and practice the transfer technique and paint washes of Rauschenberg.
There is a detailed critical analysis - lots of questions for students to make a comprehensive artist study in their books.
This is a key stage 3 project where students do a polyprint on fabric using printing inks. This is a short 6 week project but could be developed to incorporate embellishments and sewing skills to fabric. I did this with year 8 and it took 6 weeks. Student enjoyed the outcome and it could have been made into a cushion for each student but we made a class fabric wall hanging. (There is a second Powerpoint in a Bundle which has all the pictures used for students to work from - A-Z of nature pictures)
Artists used: Angie Mitchell and Ernst Haeckel
Resources required
Polyprint blocks
Printing ink
Rollers
Tables to roll out on
Fabric square per child
Paper for test prints
Research sheet for drawings and artist research.
Project schedule 6 weeks
The resources for the students to work from. Each student chooses what they would like to draw.
The steps to take while making the print and examples of student’s outcome.
Students begin by researching Angie Mitchell and Ernst Haeckel and make up a sheet with these two artists and their drawings. The drawings they do of one of the pictures of the slide pictures of animals and bits of nature from A-Z. Students choose which animal or fish or plant they would like to draw. Students spend time doing a detailed drawing and design a border pattern for this work in black and white.
Success criteria of drawings
To use fine lines and to capture quality detail
To concentrate on negative and positive shapes
To develop a border pattern from nature around the drawing
To try to layer up your drawing with foreground and background shapes
The students drawings are then photo-copied and transferred to the polyprint block. Students use the photocopy to press through onto polyboard. The students are given a square and a strip of polyprintboard . Students first of all experiment printing on paper with their design and border. Students can do a black and white print or do a polyprint print of two colours overlaying their inks.
The slide presentation gives you also opportunities for reflection and evaluation of outcome at the end.
I have presented my artists in my book
I have compared the works of 2 nature artists
I have written a short paragraph on the style of artists
I have a careful line drawing of my subject
I have created my own artwork based on my research of subject colour
I have a plan for my print design and have written about relief printing
I have tested working with polyprints
Student outcome is a wall-hanging and we sewed all the students outcomes together to make a fabric collage of squares.
This is for your Year 10 GCSE group and gives a summary of the GCSE course in two sheets. It is a very helpful sheet summarising each objective and the requirements and the amount of pages that are needed in your sketchbook.
There is also the writing framework required for artist analysis - objective one. There is also a brief outline of the principles of design and what students need to look for. Also there are helpful questions to help students evaluate their outcomes.
A must for GCSE Art and Design!!
**Self -Identity portrait project. **
This is lesson 1 where students take their own photo and then start to do a drawing of parts of the face. There are examples of face details and then there is an example of how to scale this up. There is a homework biro drawing task.
(In the Bundle there are other lessons to follow up on this drawing of task, where students have to interpret their face in various artist styles and culturally interpret their own identity. )
Lesson objectives
Objectives
To draw the proportions of the face in your book
To do a photo-shoot and take a photo to use for your portrait drawing where you scale up this picture.
To consolidate how to draw parts of the face.
To do a pencil tonal value
To practise mark-making with a pen
Through out the whole scheme the project
**success criterias **are:
To learn about the proportions of the face
To practise drawing various parts of the face
To draw a portrait drawing using the grid technique
To look at various examples of portrait drawings
To develop a tonal grid and to understand the light and dark planes in a face.
To understand how to do a grid drawing
This is a powerpoint on the theme Broken and refers to the Eastern concept of Wabi Sabi - where one sees beauty in imperfections.
There are lots of examples to get students to think of broken and the meaning of this and what is beauty?
Students are asked to do a mind map of broken and try to describe situations where something is broken and what the meaning is of this and question its beauty?
Lots of examples of different examples of artworks to show Broken.
If this was a GCSE theme students to use this as prompts to help develop ideas on the theme.
Describe what type of lines, shapes, space, colour and textures do you see in the work. Try to add one word to the element ……………
For example: Wobbly Lines, Dark Colours, Rough Texture, Mathematical shapes
Wide Space
‘We are learning to develop your written work looking at a work of Michael Craig Martin
We are learning to make a presentation of this in a powerpoint:
We are learning to show slides which should include: Artist name, and pictures of his work,
We are learning to write an analysis using questions on our slides
We are learning to make our own response to the work using pencils, pencil crayons and felt tips
We are learning to reflect on the work of Michael Craig Martin and how he has used still-life.’
Research
On the internet students find examples of the work of
Michael Craig Martin
Choose two images by this artist, one you like and one you do not like.
Students answer the following questions and display visually:
'Why do you like the first image?
Why do you not like the second image?
What bit in each photo do you look at first?"
Students Choose one image to analyze and to use as the basis for their own drawing – the one students are asked to copy. Students evaluate:
“What do you like about this artwork?
Which section do you look at first?
How are you going to copy this artwork (remember its your own version it, not a perfect copy)”
Plan the layout of your page first in pencil, carefully. Presentation is VERY important!
Title: ‘Line, Shape & Colour – Michael Craig-Martin.
Decorate your page.
Next copy one of Craig-Martin’s paintings using colouring pencils.Stufents ask the following questions:
What are your most favourite objects?
What objects do you use all the time?
Are there any objects that you can not do without?
Think carefully about these questions and find 4 images of objects on the internet
You may using the internet or take you own photos.
Try out different viewpoints, fill the photo with the object and photograph on a plain background.
We are going to try to trace off the screen or draw objects with a pencil from the screen
Why do we look at things in certain ways?
How can we make objects look interesting?
Can you guess the objects photographed from different angles?
Divide your page into four sections.
Title: Line, Shape and Form/Overlapping and Composition
Now in each box you are to draw in pencil the outline only of your favourite objects. Try to draw the object four times, once in each block and try to draw a different viewpoint each time
Remember to………….
keep the lines neat and clean.
look carefully at the shape and form of each object.
fill each box with the 4 objects and presentation is important.
4. layout and the way you overlap should be different in each block
Find objects at home to use in your Michael Craig Margin
Interpretation or objects on the internet to copy from
Take at least 4-6 objects and try to combine them together
Plan out a rough sketch first………. See example
This is a project to present the work of William Morris in a sketchbook. focusing on lettering in the Arts and Crafts style, it also shows how to do an artist critical study and can be used at KS3 and GCSE.
Success Criteria
Make an elaborate heading for William Morris showing his emphasis on NATURE
Creatively present the pictures on his work
Answer the questions with full sentences describing the characteristics of William Morris.
Copy a detail of his work.
THE POWERPOINT SHOWS how to make a small frame try to draw an enlarge a part of an image of William Morris, that is, crop a section and draw what you see in a box on your page.
(The measurements for the box is 10x12 cm and it can be Portrait or Landscape).
The overall objectives are :
To understand what the elements of art are: line, shape, colour, texture, space, value and tone.This lesson you will be completing an artist study presentation on the work of William Morris and answering the questions and making a critical analysis of his work. We will be presenting examples of William Morris’s work and making a decorative presentation using the word William Morris for a title and presenting this creatively.
This is a project about design and can be used to gain a deeper understamding how positive and negative shapes work. This is about black and white designs using the Notan technique.
This is the balancing of light and dark shapes using a Japanese idea of design.
What is Notan? is the first part of poweerpoint where students develop an understanding of how to use light and dark shapes.
Activity Objective:
To make Notan compositions and learn about balancing light and dark shapes to make a composition.
Looking at Design artists who use Notan: Marimeko, Escher, William Morris
To understand what is the meaning of ‘NOTAN’ and art termsTo develop your own Notan design in your bookTo understand how various designers use the concept of Notan in their work.
Task 1
USING A SQUARE OF COLOURED PAPER or black paper to start
2.DRAW shapes in from the edges of each side of the square.
Draw in from edges
3.CUT OUT SHAPES FROM THE EDGES AND PASTE IN A MIRROR REFLECTION
Task 2
Try add a second layer of shapes in your design into the mirror reflection and reflect this back into design
Watch the video clip from 0.5 - see link in powerpoint
Terms in Art to define
Symmetrical
Asymmetrical
Notan
Balance
Harmony
Positive and Negative shapes