To develop an understanding of the work of Joan Miro by looking at the example ‘The Harlequin Carnival’ and describing what you see.
To draw out a cupcake consolidating what you learnt in class in pencil.
To make a magical creature out of a splash of coffee.
To trace this and to colour this in as best you can.
To then paste your magical creature on the cupcake drawing and to creatively colour this in.
To evaluate your outcome.
To take a photograph of your sheet of A4 paper and to upload this to the Shared drive X.
Task 1
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Write for a Heading ‘Surrealism’ on A4 paper Look at the picture by Joan Miro on the right called: ‘ The Harlequin’s Carnival’. This is a typical Surrealist picture.
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Describe this work on the paper, describe what you see in one sentence. Write 2 or 3 lines on your paper about this painting using descriptive words.
Task 2 -
On the piece of A4 paper carefully draw a cup cake. Size about the normal size of a cake place this at the bottom of the A4 paper
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Follow the steps on this slide to help you to draw one cupcake.
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Draw this lightly with pencil like the examples given on the right.
Task 3 -
Make a very little coffee, some black coffee in a cup. Wait for this to cool before using this. (You can make the coffee by putting half a cup of water and mix a spoon of coffee with this.)
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Splash strong cold coffee on another piece of paper – ( not the drawing paper of cupcake)
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When the coffee splash is dry draw in and around this splash in pencil and make a fantasy random magical creature like the examples on this slide and the next three slides
Task 4 -
Once you have your coffee splash and have drawn around this.
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Try to copy this out again, that is, put a piece of white paper over the splash you can use your window light to help you trace it
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Colour the tracing in.
Task 5 -
Cut this out. You have now made a magical creature!
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You could outline this darkly with your pencil.
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This is the style of Joan Miro –who uses flat shapes. You now need to colour in with flat colour shapes (that is, no shading!) . See examples. You can use pencil crayons and felt tips if you have. If you do not have this just use your pencil to colour this in.
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Paste this on your cupcake
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Decorate your cupcake creatively with magical creatures.
Task 6 -
Creatively finish colouring in your cupcake as best you can. You can collage – stick coloured papers and decorate.
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Paste this on your A4 sheet with task 1.
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Complete a short evaluation. Write next to your cupcake artwork. Telling me what went well and about any issues you had.
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Take a photo of your A4 page work.
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Save this giving the jpg. your name
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Upload this to the Remote Learning Work load.
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You will find your class with your name.
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Upload this to your name please
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