Year 4 Holiday Prepwork

Just a quick recap for any of you sausages that might have lost your instruction sheet...

• Make a series of pencil drawings of broken pieces of Easter egg... This should be a hollow egg so that it breaks into fragile crooked pieces... Six studies on your A3 page would be sufficient


• A series of colour drawings (coloured pencil, watercolour, collage) of brightly coloured Easter sweets. Try to aim for a combination of coloured sweets and brightly coloured wrappers. I have suggested 9 small studies, however, 6 as a minimum. Just one side of A3...


• Research the work of an artist from a non western culture. The exhibition at the Saatchi at the moment is showing the work of Indian Artists: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/saatchi_gallery_index.htm

Research the work of one of the artists exhibiting here, or somebody that you find elsewhere. Try the Tate website who have recently exhibited the work of Chris Ofili or perhaps the Urbis who showed works by Emory Douglas last year

• Finally photograph one of the meals you have over Easter. I know you don't all have an Easter Sunday meal, but perhaps a Sunday roast or a meal you have while on holiday or with friends. These images should be full or interest and colour, so please no cheese sandwiches!

Have a lovely Easter and if you have any problems use the comment button below and I will get back to you when I get back a week on Tuesday...

DO NOT FORGET THE DEADLINE FOR YOUR EXISTING SKETCHBOOKS IS THE TUESDAY WE COME BACK...

THOSE OF YOU THAT OWE FOR SKETCHBOOKS COULD YOU BRING THE FUNDS IN ASAP AFTER THE HOLIDAY TOO PLEASE...

Year 1 Old Books

If at all possible it would be great if you could bring in an old hardback book for the first lesson of next term. This should not be a precious book as we are going to work directly onto the pages with paint and collage, so should either be an old book from home or a cheap charity shop find, the more battered and smelly paged the better!

The content of the book is unimportant as we are going to paint the majority of the pages. The book needs to be no bigger than A4 size and smaller if possible. If you have any problems just use the 'comment' tool below and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Have a lovely break...

2PT Animations

Documenting the printing process...

I would like you to document the printing process that I demonstrated during the lesson in bullet points...

The images I have included should act as prompts, to help you remember the most important parts of the process...

The process should be recorded step by step, if you have any problems see me before the end of term. You should start the task on a clean page...

Food Tech group homework

Just to recap the bits you might need to finish off in your sketchbooks before we start to print next lesson...

• If you haven't already commented on the work of David Hockney and his photomontages I would like you to discuss the process and the overall look and effect of the imagery. What do they communicate? How do they differ from just one single photograph in terms of repetition and various viewpoints?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hockney

The "joiners"
David Hockney has also worked with photography, or, more precisely, photocollage. Using varying numbers of small Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. Because these photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, which was one of Hockney's major aims—discussing the way human vision works. Some of these pieces are landscapes such as Pearblossom Highway #2,[1][2] others being portraits, e.g. Kasmin 1982,[3] and My Mother, Bolton Abbey, 1982.[4]
These photomontage works appeared mostly between 1970 and 1986. He referred to them as "joiners".[5] He began this style of art by taking Polaroid photographs of one subject and arranging them into a grid layout. The subject would actually move while being photographed so that the piece would show the movements of the subject seen from the photographer's perspective. In later works Hockney changed his technique and moved the camera around the subject instead.
Hockney's creation of the "joiners" occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late sixties that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses to take pictures. He did not like such photographs because they always came out somewhat distorted. He was working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles. He took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. Upon looking at the final composition, he realized it created a narrative, as if the viewer was moving through the room. He began to work more and more with photography after this discovery and even stopped painting for a period of time to exclusively pursue this new style of photography. Frustrated with the limitations of photography and its 'one eyed' approach,[6] he later returned to painting.

• If you have not documented the photography shoot that you did, this needs to be completed underneath the contact sheet of tiny photographs that I printed for you... This need not be in great length but should aim to explain how you took the photos, why you chose that location and how you chose the composition (vertical, horizontal etc.)

• Your Sean Hillen imagery should also be pasted into your books, leaving space for a written response, which we will discuss as a group at the start of next lesson...

Any problems before then, see me next week...

Year 1 Homework

To complete your Rob Ryan research page I would like you to find out the following...


What type of art does Rob Ryan specialise in?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ryan_(artist)

What tools might he use?

What do his images depict? What type of subject matter does he usually work with?

What do you think about the way his work looks? Think about the vocabulary we used to describe the work of Tord Boontje.


You don't need to write reams and reams, but if you lay your page out like the example below you should have enough space for some writing...




As always see me before the start of next lesson if you get stuck... Have a lovely weekend.

Evaluating the etching process...

Bullet point...

• Tools... Etching needle, photo paper


• Method...


• Surface qualities

You do not need to write in great detail but should be thorough about the technique and tools you have used... Make reference to the photo that I took of you working if you need to..

Any questions see me before the start of next lesson...

Year 2PT Homework

I would like you to briefly document the animation process we covered during the lesson in bullet points. This should be typed if possible or neatly hand written. Following this and the discussion we ended the lesson on, I would like you to evaluate how you worked as a group, what you felt went particularly well and what you think you could have improved upon...

This piece of writing will be stuck into your sketchbooks during next lesson, along with the photographs I took of you shooting the animation...

Well done on Friday, I was proud of the way you worked together and I am so looking forward to seeing the final clips!

See me during the week if you have any problems...

Year 4: Alternative printmaking techniques

Research one of these processes, including examples of prints produced and a transcription, making reference to an artist if possible. YouTube has lots of clips like the screen printing clip I showed you yesterday which might help you to understand the techniques a little better...

Lithography
Linocuts
Screen printing
Intaglio
Drypoint
Monotyping
Collography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4mc3niQ6yc