Photography - natural light

Photography is about composing with light.

Light is the first thing to think about, and luckily it's free!

Look at this link........

Windows Movie Maker

You need to have a Windows Live ID to use the 'new' movie maker.
About Windows Movie Maker

Try and set up the 'look and feel' of your animation BEFORE you start. Look at the link below.
How to make a customized setting for your movie


The tutorial below is from Schoolnet's Fiona Beal. It is stored on Microsoft Skydrive. You can also use Skydrive with your Window's ID
Fiona's tutorial

Thinking skills

These are the levels of  thinking skills, which I have adapted to show you what you are working with  at any time.

Notice that simple 'remembering' is the lowest order thinking skill!

Rubric PAT1:LO2

The DGHS rubric for the Woolworths competition has been based on the Visual Arts National rubric found in the 2011 Practical Paper.


Please evaluate yourself, and record this in Evernote by making a screenshot. The evaluation makes use of a 5-point rating scale with descriptors.
Compare this later with my assessment using the same rubric.


Link to self-evaluation

Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago's Dinner Party as a Gender Issue?


Link to the Dinner Party 

Faiza Galdhari

Link to ...... Faiza Galdhari & Gender Issues

viz. commentary on the rights of women and Muslim women in particular

"Irony"

Medium: Linocut, 607 x 428 mm

© Art For Humanity

Article 30: Freedom from State or personal Interference in the above Rights

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

"My visual response to the article was interpreted in terms of a lino-cut. The softness of the lino block was preferred to wood.

This, I felt, lent itself well to the issues which I grappled with in the subject matter, viz. commentary on the rights of women and Muslim women in particular, in relation to the idea of state and personal intervention regarding the bill of rights.

Since this article is very broad in that it deals with non-intervention in any of the other 29 articles, I thought it would be acceptable to comment on the idea of women's rights from an Islamic perspective, bearing in mind the article concerning freedom of religious beliefs etc. I have used the idea of the hand, the eye and the barcode, all symbols which are quite universal and useful as means of identification. These symbols highlight their purpose in a world where not only material items but human beings are coded, recorded and quickly categorised or identified. The posture of the hand and the official nature of the symbols was meant to comment on the idea of non-intervention, either personally or through the State.

The fact that I have chosen to use a woman's hand, complete with wedding rings, reinforces the importance of woman universally and the sanctity of marriage in the Islamic context. I have also used the work as a platform to play on the ironies that exist regarding "freedom" in the present world and the irony surrounding western misconceptions about "oppression" in the Muslim world."

Faiza Galdhari

Siopis - Gender Issues

Penny Siopis - Dora and the Other Woman 

Look at the link below, and then construct an infographic which illustrates the research activity.

Link to the activity


This can also be found on the DGHS server:
Art General>2012 Siopis - Gender Issues

I have just bought this book for our studio Kindle e-reader. It is excellent for those people who want to perfect their creative skills.


Link to the website: - Creative Workshop

Gender Issues - Adam & Eve

artsmia.org : viewer
This image has always bothered me. I used it once upon a time to comment on gender issues, but sold the painting to ?????
Have you seen any media or art images that you could comment on??????
Share them with us please.

Future-proof your education

I was very inspired by the conference on Basic Education that I attended over the holidays - I wish you could have been there!


Have a look at this Prezi to get an idea.
Link to the Prezi - Future-proof your Education

PAT 3 - Gender Issues & Leslie Magwood Fraser

This article made me think of a 'pregnant Barbie' as a visual image commenting on gender issues! In your final practical exam, you might be asked to address an issue very similar to this one, so let's use it as our next PAT for Term 2.

Now examine the social perceptions of young women (and girl children) in our society. You should use the practical discipline in which you specialize.
Remember - this PAT is important for your May examinations and for your final Exhibition.
Start with your process and research work - LO1- the sourcebook.
You will then have a 6-hour Examination on an aspect of this, and also do a LO2 component (due at the beginning of Term 3).
A busy term!


Here is your rubric so that you can monitor your own progress. Each item is worth 5 marks and should be ONE A3 poster or equivalent. This gives you an idea of the worth of a sourcebook - half your practical marks!


Link to your self-evaluation.


LINKS to look at ......


Wikipedia

Gender issues in SA ........ An excellent article .... opened my eyes.


Lesley Magwood Fraser

Link to Studio241 Gender Issues


Link to LMFraser - domestic's Exhibition

Grade 10 assessment Term 1 2012

I have digitalized your assessment using a tool called SurveyMonkey.
Term 1 will only use the items until the end of Shape, Line & Form.
You can evaluate yourself using these question items, by clicking on your choices and then making a screenshot of your result.
Each item is on a scale from 1 to 5 (unless you didn't even hand in the item!)


Try it out.
Questionnaire for Term 1