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.
Examples of Cubism showing the close up detail of markmaking and analysis in the works of the Cubists. By developing their painting into textural surfaces with sharp lines to mimic the Cubist analytical works.
There are examples of Cubist works with reference to mark-making in the cubist shapes and using tones. Adding scraping paint with combs, and making paint textural marks to create a variety of mark-making effects.
This powerpoint links with Cubism No.1 Cubism No 2. and Cubism No 3 and No 5.
A fun project for students to learn about the Art Nouveau Artist Gustav Klimt and to do their own interpretation using patterns to make their hair.
Students are asked to firstly read about Klimt and to answer questions.
Secondly students are asked to practice doing Zentangle patterns and look at the patterns of Klimt
Finally students take a photo of themselves or anyone else and paste this in an interesting position on their paper and begin to draw the Gustav Klimt patterns.
TASK:
Paste a picture of yourself, friend, family member and interpret the patterns of Klimt around the face.
Making hair-styles or clothes using Klimt’s patterns.
STEPS TO SUCCESS
On an A5 paper paste a picture of a person and draw Klimt patterns making a dress or hair around the face. Look at the examples on the sheet.
On your paper firstly divide the areas using lines into shapes around the photo of your face/head and begin to do Zentangle patterns in the shapes.
Use a pencil or a pen and try to draw light and dark contrasts.
Try to make patterns in the shapes. Use the video clip to help with making zentangles.
This powerpoint focuses on further gaining an understanding of Cubism and its use of multiple viewpoints.
Students analyse Analytical examples of Cubism and write this in their book and refer to different key terms to use in Cubism like, multi-faceted, layering, multi-viewpoints, fragmented, geometric shapes. Terms are given ready to print and examples of analytical works ready to print.
Students are also shown how Picasso simplifies and stylises his subjects.
There are examples of some celebrity pictures where students need to break this up into geometric shapes and re-collage the shapes on an A4 paper.
This is a c omposition to trace and where students will need to paint in a further lesson, compose an outcome to paint and analyse into a cubist analytical painting.
Students to gain an understanding of Analytical Cubism and how to fragment a picture into geometric shapes
To make a collage of a famous celebrity artist and to complete presentation on Cubism in books.
After this task students simplify this collage into a tracing of collage getting ready to paint this into simplified shapes. See Cubist No.3.
SUMMARY OF THE FULL PROJECT BELOW
This is a series of powerpoints 5 lessons for 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. Students then further develop this into a 3D sculpture and make a construction mobile cutting a copy of the painting into shapes.
This explains when Cubism came about, the key facts about the movement and a description of Synthetiic and Analytical Cubism
There is firstly a brief summary of the key points about Cubism and examples of the three key artists, Picasso, Braque and Gris.
There is a clear explanation of the key points of Cubism and the style.
There are examples of Cubist works.
Students to copy out key facts about Cubism in their book and discuss the movement in general.
This is a powerpoint on Aminah gives a worksheet to analyse this fabric artist. This powerpoint links to two other powerpoints where students make a Xmas collage.
Aminah used her artwork to celebrate and memorialize the neighborhood of her childhood – Poindexter Village in Columbus and her journeys to and from her home.
In drawings, paintings, sculpture, puppetry and music boxes, she reflected on themes of family and ancestry, and on the grandeur of simple objects and everyday tasks. There are questions on this artist and students make their own Xmas collage linked to a song. (see bundle)
A mandala drawing - showing basic steps - to build a patterned line drawing.
In this task the students are asked to draw 4 rings using any object they have at home to make the circular rings.
Students are then given clear instructions on how to break up the circle and are given examples of patterns to follow.
There is also a very good video clip which gives clear guidelines.
At the end of the making of the Mandala students are asked to do research into the Mandala and to find out what makes up a mandala. There are questions for students to answer.
Students are to first of all look at the artist Gregg Segal and analyse his work and then take a photograph in the style of this artist.
There are two tasks to this project:
Task 1: Read the text and complete the questions on the artist Gregg Segal
Task 2 Make a photograph in the style of Gregg Segal
Steps for Success:
Make it original and interesting, your animal, dog, space and all the things that make you during quarantine. You do not have to show your face.
Develop an understanding of Gregg Segal and answer the questions.
A presentation explaining briefly what is Pop Art with lots of examples of different artists, especially the American Pop Artists. Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenberg,
There is one slide on Super-Realism and the work of Chuck Close and the sculptor Duane Hanson.
A short detailed outline of Pop Art and Superrealism. There are key examples of artist’s works and characteristics of the art movement.
This is part of the self-identity project. Students firstly do a mindmap questioning and finding out about their own personal identity.
Students then do a monoprint and then use cultural images to collage into their monoprint portrait.
Then after this there is an extension to this project where students use Chila Burman and draw out a large body and in a group collage into this using tattoo patterns and symbols.
The Learning Objectives for this task is:
To develop into monoprinting cultural symbols and patterns.
Brief study of Chila Burman and looking at her collage work.
Cultural awareness of our differences and create interesting patterns and textures and symbols of our culture.
Understanding of different styles
Looking at a brief understaning of Tattoo art.
Appreciation of own patterns and self-identity
Collaging: Photographs of everyday items, patterns, favourite clothes, pictures of household items, objects that show own culture and self-identity
This links to Modern movement project and has activities for starters and a list of activities to take place weekly.
It has a Glossary with it for the project.
it has an evaluation for project.
Also resources for students to understand the movements.
There is a separate bundle for the whole project- with all the schemes for each movement with starter activities.
But, the outcomes are successful and students enjoy learning about the art movements and making cup-cakes in the various art styles.
WEEKLY
1 Discuss Art themes
2 Realistic drawing of a cup-cake and shading skills in book
3 Pop Art – To make a 2D relief cup cake using paper cut shapes
4 To draw a cake/biscuit e using the Cubism Collage and capturing geometric shapes light to dark
5 Continuation of drawing of biscuit/cake but doing this in Paint now and capture bright colours- Fauvism
6 Expressionism Doing a polyprint of cup-cake drawing in print and rolling ink
7Doing a Neo-impressionist cake drawing
8 and 9 Surrealism outcome –adding magical creature to cake
Presentation of cupcake stands
Evaluation of project
This is a project where Students interpret one object into different Modern movement styles. This is the style of Cubism when they do a cupcake in the style of Cubism and so learn about the art movement.
Learning Objective:
To develop a cup cake in the Cubism style
using a collage technique
To develop a drawing that shows geometric shapes and shading from light to dark in the shapes
This powerpoint gives you steps to follow for this lesson in class.
Students shade in geometric shapes over a newspaper collage - drawing their cup-cake in a geometric way.
Overall in the project.
Copying a detail from each Modern movement
Collecting a picture of each Modern movement
To understand some key words to describe each modern movements
To understand the key elements in Art: Line, Shape, Colour, Texture, Space
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
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.
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
Follow the steps on this slide to help you to draw one cupcake.
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.)
Splash strong cold coffee on another piece of paper – ( not the drawing paper of cupcake)
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.
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
Colour the tracing in.
Task 5
Cut this out. You have now made a magical creature!
You could outline this darkly with your pencil.
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.
Paste this on your cupcake
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.
Paste this on your A4 sheet with task 1.
Complete a short evaluation. Write next to your cupcake artwork. Telling me what went well and about any issues you had.
Take a photo of your A4 page work.
Save this giving the jpg. your name
Upload this to the Remote Learning Work load.
You will find your class with your name.
Upload this to your name please
The Powerpoint is a short set of 4 slides which gives the students 4 exercises to copy straight symbols and elements in the work of Hundertwasser. There are clear instructions for each task and printable slides for teachers to print off or merely to use on a screen in front and to copy onto A4 paper.
I have also attached the lesson plan - so there are clear instructions so students can even learn remotely.
Learning Objective
Create a drawing using the coffee splash
Ability to find a pattern or picture in an abstraction
Ability to extend this into a magical creature!
Presentation and explanation of piece- Giving this a title
Understanding of Miro’s art and technique
Understanding of Modern or contemporary art from the 1940’s
STARTER ACTIVITY
Look carefully at the colour photocopy on your table.
Describe the shapes that you see in the picture
How would you describe the mood of the picture? Why?
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
**What are the Learning Objectives for this project in Art? **
Students learn from examples and a clear understanding to totem poles is explained visually in slides, also different video clips about Totem poles and their story telling. There are slides which give a background to totem poles. Lots of symbols for different animals given on separate slides which could be used ot make the totem pole.
Students through the research into totem poles will gain an appreciation of how religion and spirituality holds in Native American cultures.
Students will be able to communicate experiences, moods, and stories and reflect on their own family history and family tree in a group project.
Students to create images using the elements and principles and design their totem imaginatively.
Using pictures of animals - students can stylise and create a symmetry outcome to use in the building of their animal/sun/bird/man for their totem pole.
Each student completes a different part of the totem pole and students need to work in teams
Students create images in response to objects from a variety of cultural contexts as students look at and watch various ‘You Tube’ video links about the Totem pole story telling.
Students demonstrate awareness of Pacific Coast heritage
The slides give a sequence of classroom activities leading to the making of a cardboard totem pole.
Students use recycled materials and build their animal/bird/sun/man they designed.
There is an emphasis on coloured paper and pasting this into the cardboard and building up the structure.
Students will complete the following:
**Teamwork: **Complete a group totem pole.
Graphic Design: Design a group/tribe logo.
Independent Research: Interview a Family member and research family history
3D Sculpture Design: Design a totem sculpture that represents your family history in 100 years time.
Recycling materials: Students use recycled materials and construct a standing Totem.
Students can embellish and decorate their totem with coloured paper cut outs and black pen line work.
Attached are three powerpoints for developing a KS3 Collage in Fabric on the 12 Days of Xmas and the artist Aminah Robinson.
Students use the ‘resources’ powerpoint to draw ideas to make up their own design for the 12 days of Xmas.
Class divided and each child gets a different day to design.
I used Black velvet fabric as my backing fabric and each time the student did their drawing I traced this onto different coloured fabric shapes and students then cut this out and pritt sticked this onto the black velvet fabric.
There are three powerpoint lessons attached - first is the resources for designing day of the song.
Second is the Artist interpretation and learning about different fabric artists.
Thirdly, students then cut their designs out in fabric - I used transfer receipt like paper so students could trace onto the fabric and then cut out.
Finally students then embellish their fabric with different stitches and I have a powerpoint with video links on how to do the different stitches: running stitch, blanket stitch, satin stitch, chain stitch and daisy stitch…
This is a standardisation test for KS 3 testing drawing skills.
You will need to as a teacher to resource the following for students: Year 7 Thick rope tied up, Year 8 Piece of fabric square with a peg or/and ribbon or a paintbrush to replace peg, Year 9 Xmas baubels or large spoons that have a reflection. This did not cost too much to put together for a yearly assessment.
Year 7: Rope drawing - looking at the ability to create volume with tone and then to add in the pattern lines of the rope texture with the volume effect. Some students are able to capture good line patterns showing good design skills and line qualities. More able students are able to capture the volume.
Year 8: Peg/large paintbrush and Fabric drawing - This is an exercise in capturing the volume, pattern and shading and accurate perspective drawing of the peg. Some students are able to show this more accurately and can show good tonal variations and the illusion of the 3D form in the peg and the brush. The lovely use of colour in the fabric supports students with strong design skills and pattern
Year 9: Self identity drawing a portrait in a spoon or a bauble supports a theme on Self identity in year 9 and students can re-fine their skills in drawing themselves carefully in a bauble. Looking at volume and accurate tonal shading to draw a sphere with the distorted self portrait. Students enjoy capturing themselves having learnt about portrait drawing they can begin to excel in trying to create an illusion of themselves.
There is one powerpoints - this focuses on the St. George images and on Marc Chagall. In the project students use their imagination and to draw dragons and St. George’s battle. Students look at the Stained Glass artist Marc Chagall and then make up their St. George story on paper to transfer to black paper. There are instructions and worksheets.
Students will need to use a stanley knife and safety working with blades is imperative for this project.
Students need to have very simple designs and stylise their drawings into basic shapes.
Therebis also a section om using a computer to make a symmetry pattern.
WEEKLY Plan
Two lessons weekly 7 weeks to
1/2To look at examples of St George and the Dragon and to draw out one’s own St. George and Dragon picture.
1/2. To look at examples of Stained Glass windows and look at the artist Marc Chagall.
3/4 To simplify the designs of St. George and the Dragon into thick lines and shapes to transfer onto black paper with chalk.
5 /6 To trace designs onto black paper shapes and begin to cut the negative shapes around the lines. To simplify these lines one can take the students to a computer room and do a basic symmetry pattern and lay this over their drawing and students begin to simplify the shapes into geometric forms.
7 / 8.- To make up a sheet of tissue paper on plastic paper to put behind the black paper cut out. Tear or cut the tissue paper into shapes at random and just lay this down on plastic with PVA glue. When this is dry the tissue paper will peel off the plastic.
11 / 12 – To continue to draw into black paper and put together.
13 – Evaluation of project
To design a picture of St. George and the dragon’ on paper using resources in the first powerpoint.
To refine the details of the designs into simple outlines-Teachers could photocopy and enlarge details to help students.
To look at the Stained Glass artist Marc Chagall (second powerpoint) and to think how they could use his style in their work
To transfer designs to black paper and to cut the negative shapes around the lines using the stanley knife.
To make a sheet of coloured paper on a plastic sheet using PVA glue and tissue paper.