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

 



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.