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.

Doodling on Advertisements - This is a project that I follow on with when I am introducing LINE to my year 7 classes. I try and get students to focus on using line, shapes and patterns rather than defacing the advertisements.

We use a black felt tip pen, .06 and .04.  The larger tipped pen is good for colouring the black areas, the finer tipped pen is for the designing and finer lines.

I dont use the advertisment straight from the magazine; the paper is too smooth. I have started collecting large scale faces from magazines and photcopy them in colour onto cartridge paper for my students to work on.

This link is where I first found the idea and inspiration for this project.  I have taken it further this term, with ripping the edges of the pictures and mount them on coloured or black cardboard and then laminate them for my students.

http://curkovicartunits.pbworks.com/w/page/29160521/Doodle%20Lab%20Club%20Activity

Stainglass Windows

Year Eight stainglass windows.

 

My students use a template available on the Internet to start them off.

http://www.freepatternsforstainedglass.com/

http://free-stainedglasspatterns.com/

I printout the designs in A3 size; students paperclip their choice to a piece of black card, outline the lines with a large texta, to about one centimetre in width, these acts as the bars between each colour and shape.

With the template and card clipped together the students carefully cut out each shape.  Using a craft knife and a cutting mat. Once the design is finished,  they place cellophane on the back of the card using a glue stick, craft knife to carefully place a colour behind each shape. 

Once they are finished, I laminate their artwork, this helps the paper stay together, being on the window the sun can weaken the artwork.



Frog on My classroom Window - Yr 8 Art 2011 and 2012




Several examples of Stainglass Windows - year 08 2012




More examples - the use of light giving it that extra dimension. Year 8 Art



Lily - Year 8 stainglass window 2012

Peacock feathers and lily

Year 08 Art stainglass windows

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.

Animals in Line

Animals in Line: a year seven project that has students using their imagination to fill in all the shapes of an animal of their choice in a variety of lines, shapes, and patterns. This assignment is one of the projects I get my year seven students to do that helps then explore the art elements - "LIINE" and "SHAPE".  They do a homework sheet first based on patterns, that help them build a bank of ideas.  Students use a .04 black felt tip fine liner to work on the lines of their patterns, a .06  to colour in any black areas or to create shadows or tone, I emphasis the variety of tonal value in their patterns.