Famous Faces (stencils) on Fabric Banners

YEAR EIGHT:-

Works in Progress -Nearly finished!!! Have to be.. end of term next week.

This is a mixed medium project that I am doing with my year eights classes.  We started by finding a picture of a famous person they liked, admired, most chose famous singers. Students copied and pasted their picture it into a word document and turned it into a stencil; by using the picture pop up - you can turn any picture into black and white (no tones).  Everyone made their own paper stencil out of the face they chose. I photocopied them all onto cartridge paper A3 size - and students cut them out. Cartridge paper was better, a lot stronger than normal printing paper from the photocopier.

We had a fun lesson experimenting with paint, firstly on paper, each student played with paint first. Then transferred their ideas onto a piece of cotton fabric; stretched out on a table and made a big mess and had fun.

After the fabric was dry we sprayed the back of the stencil with spray adhesive and used black spray cans to spray the faces onto the painted fabric backgrounds.

We glued the fabric onto cardboard - as the fabric gets hard and unattractive! Experiment with attaching fabric to cardboard to get the best result.  We had lots of trouble getting our fabric straight and stopping the cardboard from buckling.

Lastly each student had fun with any medium they chose: black felt tips, oil pastels, chalk pastels, acrylic paint, charcoal, glitter, paint in a sauce bottle, anything they wanted to artistically transform their faces into eye catching designs!! Here are some of their banners. Lots more to come.  

Finally we used eyelets and made holes to add string (braided, twisted, painted, natural) to hang them around the school.  The library and the front offices will look extremely colourful, once they are all finished and handing up for display.  



Shirley's

 

Sarina's





Year 9 - Chalk Pastel portraits

Here is a look at our first attempt at doing large scale chalk pastels, my year nine students brought in a photograph of themselves or a family member, we learnt how to grid up our photos to large scale.  We then transferred our drawings onto pastel paper and here are some of our artworks in pastel.  Some chose to do black and white, which was quiet affective.

We still have a number of unfinished works in progress..with only three weeks to the end of semester, that is one of my challenges to get more completed.

Text as Art - Year 9



Coloured Pencils on Canson Paper



"Text as Art" - year nine students were asked to design a piece of artwork that used words, lyrics, poetry, quotes, songs segments, that related to them in any way.  Any medium could be used; they chose the techniques and media to produce their own artwork; these are some of the results of independent investigation and techniques based around text.



Coloured and lead pencil





Acrylic Paint (sauce bottle used to write with)





Chalk Patel, black felt tip writing.





Acrylic paint





Lead Pencil





Chalk Pastels

 



PopArtSketch

Here I started playing with an application PopArtSketch - an application that turns pictures instantly into an Andy Warhol look a like.  A fun application that works both in colour and black and white.

Using PopArtSketch Application



Black and White example in PopArtSketch