Brushes 3 - free choice - scapes (land/city)

Further exploration with Brushes 3 (App), our year eight students use their own photo to base their next Brushes project on.  Some great results:-

BRUSHES 3

What a fantastic first effort by our wonderful year eight students undertaking Visual Arts.  Our theory assignment this term was based on the French Impressionist.  We looked at eight artists, using Google image search we looked at each of the artist and chose our favourite.  When students chose the one they wanted to study, we looked deeper into their artworks. We painted their favourite painting onto a glass bottle and then reproduced the picture using Brushes 3, an app.

Daniela

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:-

Glass fusion and slumping workshop - teacher training

Term 2 folio designs

A all new approach this term with my year seven art folios, looked at using textas for the hand (focusing on lines, shapes and patterns). The boarder in coloured pencils with black felt-tips with the name, each shape using a different colour, or tone. A water coloured background playing with their favorite colour. Folios were finished of with a story about themselves; here are some finished designs.

Textured Masks

Task - exploration of texture - students need to study, explore and experiment with all ideas about textures that appeal to them. Choose a theme or Colour combination that they can work on their mask and canvas boards. Here are some works in progress.

Playing with Apps...

While I was doing my online course "iPads in the (ART) classroom" I was playing with a Art app FOOLPROOF that gave me the same sensation of painting with oils, blending and colour exploration. Not only can you save your final artwork, but you it gives you the ability to playback what and how you did the artworks. I have included this in my iMovie about my year nine students using iPads in the classroom photographing shoes In readiness for their collage/panting canvas board.
That's another post! Stay tuned......