Making Miro Art: KS3 fantasy creatures: coffee blob into a design, making a fantasy abstraction

Learning Objective

1. Create a drawing using the coffee splash
2. Ability to find a pattern or picture in an abstraction
3. Ability to extend this into a magical creature!
4. Presentation and explanation of piece- Giving this a title
5. Understanding of Miro’s art and technique
6. Understanding of Modern or contemporary art from the 1940’s

STARTER ACTIVITY
Look carefully at the colour photocopy on your table.

1. Describe the shapes that you see in the picture
2. How would you describe the mood of the picture? Why?
3. What title would you give this picture?

DO THE WORD SEARCH

Main Activity
TEACHER DEMONSTRATE THE PROCESS- Hand out activity sheet. Newspaper
Cartridge paper A4
2B lead Pencils, Paper Cups 8 cups
Cold strong coffee liquid in flask
Spoons 8 spoons

Students begin task: Students work on the Creative Practical Task independently. Independent assistance ensuring and supporting students to achieve the following tasks:

Place some newspaper beneath your paper.
 
Carefully but deliberately spill some ink thinned with water, or some coffee, tea or cola(preferably diet cola as it does not contain sugar to make your drawing sticky).
 
Allow the liquid to run where it will, and then let it dry by dabbing this with paper-towel
 
Study the stains on the paper, trying to see images triggered in your mind by the stains.
 
Using a writing pen/pencil, begin to reinforce the envisioned images with line, perhaps adding cross-hatching to create tone or add some more shapes to create a more recognizable subject.

Continue to re-inforce images until you are satisfied that the drawing is finished.
Title your drawing – this is important and should be given some thought.

MAKING MIRO Collage
Trace your imaginery shapes and colour these in.
Do a background wash and layer these magical shapes on your background.

PLENARY
Assessment of Competencies/Success Critieria to take place in Plenary
Students swap seats and mark a partner’s work
EBI or WWW on the work on their paper

WASH HAND AND PACKING EQUIPMENT AWAY
Students to wash hands and take responsibility for room and equipment and their own work.
SHOW AND DISPLAY
Students leave their magical creature work on a table.

Students when leaving stand around the table and asked to describe one positive comment on the work on display

What is creative about the work on Show? How can we improve any of the work on Show?
Who has excelled in their work today? And Why?
If we had to evaluate the outcome – what work shows creativity, imagination and, an attempt to truly achieve success in outcome today?.
Dismiss class