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.
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.
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
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…
In this unit of work studenrs will first of all learn about Hundertwasser and his particular style and then make a clay outcome.
The powerpoints
Drawing exercise - drawing a sphere
4 Tasks to copy symbols and elements: ‘Hunderwasser exercises’
Analysing Hundertwasser and the meaning in his work
Interpretation and makinga a colourful outcome to use as a basis for clay tile: ’ Hunderwasser syymbols/elements’
Making a clay tile
These tasks relate to understanding the key building bricks in Art: Elements of Art and the principles of design and should give you 12 weeks of tasks for students to make two booklets.
Making a booklet on the elements of art and then one on the principles of design.
Understanding these key terms helps in enabling students to write about art and if this is completed at Key Stage 3 can be a real help at GCSE and A-level
This is a set of Three Key Stage summary sheets with evaluation sheets for all the projects. It sets out the project details - three projects per year group. year 7, year 8 and year 9:
Year 7
Unit 1. Diagnostic- Styles
Construction
Unit 2.
Hundertwasser
Clay tile
Unit 3.
Modern Movements-mixed media
Year 8
Unit 1.
Go – Wild
fabric
Unit 2.
Drawing and mod-roc
Unit 3
Paper coiling and Zentangle design
Year 9
Unit 1.
Portrait
Unit 2.
Surrealism
Unit 3.
Painting
Each slide describes the skills in each project and helps with students making a final evaluation of their work and target setting.
Some of these topics are presented in other powerpoints of mine on TES.
This is a good place to start to understand what is colour and colour theory in the form of organising colours in a colour wheel. This i normally do in year seven but also go through again at GCSE - students should learn a large number of colour terms through this powerpoint.
The powerpoint gives clear steps to making a colour wheel and then explains all the colour terms in depth, primary, secondary colour snd tertiary colours, with complementary and analogous colours.
There are also more colour study tasks and more colour terms to understand, so it goes into more depth on different colours- including degraded colour, triads, hue, chroma, tint, tone, luminosity, lustre, neutral colours, monochrome and split contrasts.
We will be learning to make a colour wheel
We will be learning about colour terms
We will be learning to make a colour wheel with paint, or with pencil crayons or with found objects
We will be learning to combine a range of objects and arrange them in a colour wheel
We will be making a drawing developing a mood by using colour
There are also video clips on colour studies linked to tasks.
Based on an understanding of colour there is a task to represent their own memories and feelings using colour, shape and pattern. “Try to close their eyes and remember an experience in terms of colour and form. Try to make visual notes in your sketchbooks. Make a painting which symbolises the experience let your feelings and memories come out by using different colours, shapes and patterns.’”
In this powerpoint there are key objectives:
To use photographs of your school building and change them to emulate artists/photographers who show decay.
To learn how to crinkle the picture up to show paper creases
To blend in pictures of decay and textures into a school building photograph in the style of the artist.
There is a clear definition for decay and students can use this to start there project.
There are slides of a number of photographers to use for this theme and then examples of how to use Adobe Photoshop with steps to show progress in building your own outcome.
The photographers are Cedric Wilson, Serj Fedulov, Paul Stokinger,Stikki Peaches, Martino Zegwaard and Armita Raafat. Students can use these photographers and there are steps to show how to achieve these effects on Adobe photoshop used by the photographers
There is also a clear example on how to do an analysis of a photographer in your sketchbook
To start with there is a recap on composition - how to take a photo and a reminder of the 4 Key objectives used in Photography and an explanation of what key objectives this meets. This powerpoint focuses on the assessment objective 'Develop ideas" from photographers and then how to " Explore" Adobe photoshop techniques to develop your Decay theme.
A set of resources developing an understanding of Cubism. Giving information on the art movement and learning to mix colours.
Making a painting, practising making a 3D sculpture using Analytical cubism and using a portrait as a subject.
Also showing how perspective was changed with Cubism.
These resources support a study on Hundertwasser.
This helps with making an artist analysis of his work, interpreting a photo you take of houses into your own style and making a coloured drawing
Secondly taking this into a clay tile.
This is a unit of work for the first 12 weeks at school.
There are questions to assess the students knowledge of Art from KS2 and then a project to assess he strengths and skills of the students. This is a diagnostic project looking at the Illusionary, Spatial, Tactile, Cartographic skills of the students with tasks to do.
There is also a fun project on making a sketchbook and giving prompts to help students to be creative in the Keri Smith powerpoint.
Students learn to draw what is around them and simplify this into a basic painting
Students learn to use watercolour and explore techniques in sketchbook
Students learn about Henri Matisse and the random Fauvist use of colour
Students enjoy making a precious painting
Students learn about the basics in Art looking at the elements of Art
Developing an understanding of pattern
A good starter project on the basics in Art
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
A support for teaching GCSE art
A number of powerpoints on individual artists to use as part of Developing ideas for Assessment Objective One.
Learning skills in Art
Acrylic painting with card - Viera Da silva
painting layers and using Gold - Victoria Crowe
Photocopy drawing with Chila Burman
Klimt patterns
Transfer medium with Robert Rauschenberg
Tim Burton drawings and fantasy art
Printing with Angie Mitchell relief prints
Figure drawing and simplification using Henry Moore
City street painting with Lowry
Peter Blake graphic CD cover
Photography of Cindy Sherman
All of these tasks will build skills for GCSE final project
Starting in year 9 and year 10 begire students choose own topic to develop