For my Grade 11s .....
Look what's happening at Girls' College with print making ......
Joan Martin - Blog - Lino printing panties… 

Self evaluation - Grades 11 & 12

I have created an online 'survey' for you to use as a self evaluation of your LO1: Sourcebook - whether this is digital or on paper.
Try it out with me in class as an experiment, and tell me what you think by posting a comment or emailing me!    studio@dghs.co.za


The survey ......... click on the link below and follow the instructions.


Link

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KGJNFZZ

Sparkflight's Amazing Wire Jewelry and Sculptures - The Beading Gem's Journal

Have a look at this amazing sculptural jewellery: 

Sparkflight's Amazing Wire Jewelry and Sculptures - The Beading Gem's Journal

Stereotypes and adverts

For my Grade 9s ........

Look at this fabulous design campaign for ABSA which makes use of stereotypes and prejudice in a humorous way.

My Leaking Head

The ‘Woolworths @ DGHS’ blog has been created. Here is the link.
http://woolworthsanddghs.blogspot.com/

Next week you will upload the following COMPLETED activities . (Look at earlier posts for the details of these)
Each learner has her own named post on this blog, which can be edited at will – you are invited 'authors'.
Oops! Change of plan. You cannot edit MY posts that I set up for you. Please create your own posts with your names (see how I did it) and I will delete my initial attempts.

Activity 1: Roles of  an environmentally aware DESIGNER / ARTIST.
(As a Prezi / Slideboom / PhotoStory / .wmv or .flv movie / Theemefy book /  ...?????)

Activity 2: Shoot & share – MY COMMUNITY

(Also as a Prezi / Slideboom / PhotoStory / .wmv or .flv movie / Theemefy book /  ...?????)

Activity 3: The Pitch

    - small drawings / thumbnails x 4 (at least)

    - tonal drawing
                  (A4 in size - compulsory for our curriculum)

    - together with written chunks about your ideas;     about your target market; possible production   planning; explanations; etc.
(Also as a Prezi / Slideboom / PhotoStory / .wmv or .flv movie / Theemefy book /  ...?????)

To “articulate your design / art ideas” – means to break the concept up into movable/flexible pieces – i.e. CHUNKING.

Your photos on line

I have been posting photos to a free site called Lightbox, and find they upload and download very quickly. I can then print them if I want. Sure... they are not 24MP in size, but are fine for 5cm x 5cm prints for sourcebooks.


Here is the link ..
http://lightbox.com/explore#spotlight

Woolorths Brief uploads

For those learners doing the Woolworths project ..........

I think we should create a separate blog for this project when we are ready., and then upload everbody's work to this. In this manner we can give Woolworths one link to follow and this should make their life (and ours!) stress-free.


Testing this video by Niamh.

Are you missing Photoshop on your netbooks?

Photoshop needs too much RAM to use on a netbook, but I would like you to to try some free software called Gimp, and/or a web app called Aviary Image Editor. 


Here are the links .....
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

and
http://advanced.aviary.com/tools

 

Please let  me know what works best.
Don't forget we still have 6 terminals with Photoshop between both the studios.

TEXTURE

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


Your next poster for your source book is on TEXTURE - an element of Art & Design.


Texture presentation link

StudyBlue - a revision aid

Have a look at this app. It's free and seems user-friendly.
Use it to make revision cards with images, notes and videos.


StudyBlue - revision cards