Textural masks Year 8

Examples of masks that year eight students designed based around the idea of using texture.  Explored venetian masks, their uses, origin and designs with colour. 

Each student started with a canvas board, attached a mask to the surface and the. Used their visual journals to explore texture, colour and mediums. 

EXAMPLES year eight Art students semester one 2013:-

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





Portfolio Designs Year 7's



Year 7 Folio design - Saire

  Each year 7 student makes a folio to keep all their design, sketches, homework, and finished work in; to take home at the end of the term.

This year I started doing folios using outlines of shoes.

We first talk about lettering, spacing, how to bold their letters, adding style.  We work on a "rough" copy first to ensure we get our outline right, our lettering right and of course or name in the space provided in the design of the shoe.

We trace our "good rough" onto cartridge paper, in pencil.  We then look at colour; introducing what sort of colours we like, designs, blending, shading, patterns.

Year folio design - Sean





Year 7 Folio Design Aiden


Once we are finished, cut our shoes out, place them on a piece of coloured card and cut around our shoes to give it an outline.

Shoe names are stuck onto a folio; made out of cardbaord and contacted for protection.
They last for the whole term.




Year 7 Folio Design - Stewart






Year 7 folio design Lilian



Web of Texture - year seven.

 This project, my students investigate a range of textural surfaces.  They get the chance to expand their drawing skills.  Each student gets a choice of a wed design; we look at different web patterns that can be used.

Each section of the web, students draw a different texture design.  I have a box full of textures that i have printed out, we also do rubbings, students can add these to their design, the possibilities are endless.

We start our design in pencil first, then we add colour in a range of mediums, acrylic paint, water colours, coloured pencils.. or if students like to keep to black and white, then some choose to stay with their felt tip pens or lead pencil.

This further develops into tone, shading and hatching. 

When we finish, the webs are cut out, to represent the shape of the web, rather than a rectangle, added to cardboard, laminated and displayed.

This project usually is the last project I do with my year sevens, because it brings in all the elements of art.

I PAD Play

Photo Tropedelic - I Pad application - This program is fun to use and for those who like colour, you can have endless hours of fun producing instant artworks. 



Photo Tropedelic Krista -




Photo Tropedelic - Edward from Twilight.




Photo Tropedelic - Krista



Photo Tropedelic - Bird eye.

Investigating the Ipad 2 and it's many applications I am starting to enjoy the range of possibilities producing electronic art.  My next aim in teaching is to try and introduce the ipads/computer imagery art; to students who really enjoy this aspect of creating. I found it to be quick, instant, yet challenging.  Using this type of art tool, I find it to be very time consuming, you can sit in front of a computer/ipad and time just flys away from you.

Abstract Animal Eyes 2011

Animal eyes: this project uses a variety of mediums.  The black pupil is painted using indian ink, the paterns/design which represents the Iris uses colour pencils, black felt tips, the outside texture uses chalk pastels.  This is the results of our students hard work.

 

 Year 8 Art (2011) this is the first year I did this exercise, we looked at the sort of design we
wanted - based on a cat or owl eye (the pupil design) 

Year 8 Art 2011 - Tayla

Year 8 Art - Orlin



Year 8 Art - Jacob




Year 8 - (?)