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.
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 is a short project for students to take a photograph of a doodle they do and where they combine it with an object.
Students look at the artist Vincent Bal and there are video links to his Shadowology work.
Students are then asked to make up their own version of this by taking an object in their house and then turning this into a picture by combining this object with a doodle.
There are some short questions to answer on the work of Vincent Bal.
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.
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.
A detailed set of slides showing the basic elements of art used in Art. Exploring what is a point, line and shape and giving colour theory. This is a supportive project for a Foundation course, Year 12 students to develop a deeper understanding of the principles and elements of Art.
This is a lesson for self identity project after students complete the scaling up of their face in pencil.
Using a photocopy students then do a mono-print of their face and later interpret this into an artist style.
There are also some links to You tube clips of different ways to do the mono-print.
To do a set of three monoprints using one’s photograph to draw with
To do 1. a line drawing of one’s portrait carefully following the detail of portrait. Use one’s fingers to create some tonal areas
To do 2. a line drawing of ones portrait and then in the ghost print to draw into this surface and to print this
To do 3 a line drawing of a portrait but to lay a stencil on your ink block before you do the print.
A project with a number of resources on Self-identity to support a portrait project and a digital photo print of a face or a photography outcome. Discussions on Cindy Sherman and Frida Kahlo and what is a stereotype. Also a presentation on how to go about making a portrait drawing .
Students make a cupcake in each of the modern movement styles and make a cake stand at the end of the project. This is a set of powerpoints for each movern movement, Surrealism, Cubism, Expressionism, Neo-impressionism, Fauvism and Realism. It is a set of 8 lessons and then there is the Scheme of Work for the project.
For each of the movements students learn a different technique:
Surrealism- Splash Chance watercolour imaginary creature out of this to add to cupcake.
Cubism - geometrical shapes to shade light to dark to create angular cupcake over a collage made of newspaper. Realism - Tonal realistic shading to capture 3D form.
Expressionism-Black and white polyprint to capture the agitated marks of artists. Neo-Impressionism - using a stippling technique with paintbrush to capture fine mark-making.
Fauvism- random use of arbitrary colour to capture the bright spontaneity of paint marks.
At the end of the project students then choose a party theme and independently decorate their party plate with the cupcakes on this.
• Learning Objectives
To reflect on examples of copies of drawings of different artists and illustrators and analyse the formal elements: shapes, tone, form, lines, texture, and marks.
• To investigate and interpret a variety of selected artists and discuss their sense of style and markmaking
• To study drawings with reference to their visual literacy and the formal elements (tone, texture, colour, line, form).
• To discover the different mark making skills of a number of different artists.
• To research, investigate and develop ideas in a personal way on an A2 sheet.
To develop a visual work of practical responses with annotations.
In this task students are to analyse the drawing styles of particular artists and begin to interpret these different artist’s styles in drawings of their own.
Students use the formal elements to analyse the artists and develop drawings using their own subject as a response with annotations.
• Students draw the hand/feet or a subject of their choice in particular signatures of a selection of artists.
• To reflect on examples of copies of drawings of different artists and illustrators and analyse the formal elements: shapes, tone, form, lines, texture, and marks.
• Try to use different drawing techniques as highlighted by the masters.
This is a good start to critical contextual analysis and gets students to look at a number of artists and develops their visual analysis skills .
Students to end with an A2 or A1 drawing sheet showing their subject in various styles.
In the first part of the powerpoint students are asked to listen to pieces of music and to formulate slogans from them.
Students then are asked to do a critical analysis of the work of Banksy by selecting one of his works and answering questions.
After this students are asked to copy a picture of Banksy and then make their own collage of his work using magazines and newspapers.
The theme of their poster is on the pandemic.
We will be learning:
To create a poster collage in the style of Banksy that describes the pandemic occurring and linking this to the UK
To use magazines, newspapers and pictures and to make a collage of these to create a poster.
To make a slogan, drawing the lettering or finding letters in magazies or newspaper.
Success Criteria
Your poster must include the following:
A key phrase or work linked to the pandemic
Two image that links to what is happening in the UK
or something that is key in the NEWS.
It should have graffitti style lettering and pencil work
Accurate shape outline
Good use of negative space
Link between font style and theme
Clear placements/readable
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.
Students to be given a strip of paper and fold this into 8 sections. On the end two folds students make a front cover.
There is a You tube video link to this project.
In the six sections in the middle of the fold out paper there are 6 tasks for each of the elements of art.
Line, Shape, Colour, Texture, Space and Value.
Students on the one side of the fold out write information about the element and on the other side students are to do a drawing of the element as a creative response to each element
This is a fun project and the outcomes are successful.
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
We will be learning about Ben Heine and how he uses Drawings and Photography
Complete the questions attached:
Heading: Ben Heine
Create your own version of Ben Hearn.
IDEA 1
DOING A DRAWING IN A PHOTOGRAPH
Steps for success
Take a photograph and load this up on a Powerpoint.
Do a drawing to add to this photograph. Load this up on the powerpoint over the photograph. Remove backgrounds. Look at the examples of Pencil and Camera on slide 2 and 3.
You could try make it quirky, personal or relate to your situation.
It must not be an exact copy of the photograph but be combined in an original quirky way.
You may add in interesting ideas that change the photograph
IDEA 2
TAKING A PHOTO GRAPH AND ADDING IN CIRCLES
KEYS FOR SUCCESS
Take a photograph and DRAW over the photograph all the circles like the examples of Digital Circlism
Try to use your own photograph
Make it as unique as you can.
You could try make it quirky, personal and could relate to your situation.
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