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