Fizzpops

For my Grade 10s .......

You have tried out water-colours and oil pastels so far this term.

Now try a Fizzpop in other coloured media. Here are some suggestions:

• Pencil crayons
• Gouache
• Acrylics
• Oil paints
• Torn paper collage
• other brands of oil pastels
• other brands of water-colour

Hint:

You may need to re-draw the Fizzpop on  a small rectangle of specialized paper and glue it onto the sheet. 

You MUST put colour in both the figure and the ground. 

If you finish this then there is Photoshop extension activity on Fizzpops.

From Willendorf to Amsterdam .... illusionism in art

  For my Grade 10s .......
This article is due TODAY - Friday 23rd May 2014

This post should be used together with the DVD -'How Art Made the World - More Human than Human' (BBC). If you missed this, then borrow it from your teacher or download it. LINK

Just as we have been exploring  3-D illusionism in our practical work, so we will look at how other artists have worked both in real 3-dimensions and with the illusion of  3-dimensions during the long history of art.

Willendorf Venus, Austria,
c.39,OOO - 28,OOO BCE
Limestone carving; Height (12cm)

BAROQUE Vermeer

The Milkmaid (interactive link) 

c. 1658-1661 

Oil on canvas (45.5 x 41 cm)

Use this presentation to follow the steps from the Willendorf Venus to the Baroque Milkmaid.

Critical thinking activity:

Read these 2 articles from ‘How Art made the World’

http://www.pbs.org/howartmadetheworld/episodes/human/venus/
http://www.pbs.org/howartmadetheworld/episodes/human/egypt/

Now write a 1 page article for your studio blog entitled:

The Peak Shift principle - how human survival shapes our ideas of beauty

The best article will be published!

Hint: (For those of you who are new to research and critical thinking....)

INTRODUCTION: (...THINK OF A CATCHY SENTENCE LATER ..... a 'teaser')
Step 1: Summarize 'the Peak Shift principle' in no more than THREE sentences.

CONTENT:
Step 2: Explain how this works in the Venus of Willendorf. What is the survival factor here?
Step 3: Now explain how it changes for the Egyptians - show this in a sculpture. What is now the survival factor?

CONCLUSION:
Step 4: Do you think this principle still works for us in the 20th and 21st centuries? You could write a few sentences about the distortion in Alexander's Butcher Boys? (Or other real life examples you have seen in the media?)

Now go back and put in your 'teaser' - your catchy introduction.........
Spellcheck and share the doc with studio@dghs.co.za (make sure you have made the doc PUBLIC)

Due - Friday 23rd May 2014

Surreal eggs

For my Grade 10s ...

Look at these surreal eggs by Thor Lineneg for inspiration - but don't copy!
Thor Lineneg link

Create your own A6 sketches of possible ideas which could be translated into watercolour and ink.

Your final painting will be A5 or A4 in size.

Textures

A drawing instructor named Hilary Gomes has 'pinned' some wonderful art .... 
Please have a look!

Hilary Gomes link