Grade 9 figure sculpture

You have tried making a basic wire and paper armature and you have also drawn an imaginary wire figure. Now you will actually make the figure. This skill is a fundamental one for sculptors and has many applications for a career. (See LINK for these lessons)
Your figure will change as you work on it - it could end up rather different from your original drawing.
Thanks to the Cloth, Paper and Scissors magazine for these little 'Beautiful People' ideas below.

Look at this presentation to get some more ideas about how to make a wire figure. LINK
Here is another presentation by Mrs Sturgess that may give you some guidelines. LINK
Use paper as well as wire to get the form you want, as it is very expensive to use aluminium wire as shown in most of the video tutorials. Look at your drawing for guidance.

• You may distort the figure for emotional impact!
• Remember to use evocative body language /pose.
• Your figure must fit in a 1 litre box or tub.

If you want to work in proportion - then borrow a sized ‘skeleton’ print from your teacher to work from.

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/44000/44014/44014_skeleton_lg.gif

(Or use this one ……..
LINK

Here is a fun video to show you what sculptors can do with figures! LINK 
If YouTube is blocked then ask your teacher to   download this for you.

Criteria - for 25 marks

Technical skill - no sticky tape, glue or staples used in the construction! [5]
Expression of a character [5]

Innovation / originality [5]
Use of elements and principles
e.g form; colour; texture; contrast; variety;  [5]

Presentation & effort [5]

Here is a lovely example that is nearly finished ...

Woolworths 'Changing Perspectives' Design Challenge 2015

For the Grade 11s and 12s .......

By combining SMART, INNOVATIVE THINKING WITH BOLD EXCITING DESIGN, Woolworths invites you to find brilliantly creative solutions to real-world ISSUES that are important to you.

You will work with either TOPIC 1 or TOPIC 2

We will be using our GAFE Classroom platform for Stage 1.
  
Log on with your GAFE username and password and open your Classroom app. Your Woolworths 'class' and assignment will be found there and you can CREATE your Google Slides presentation from there. Your instructions and resources will also be found there.You can also join by adding the code ... oafyke ...

If you haven't got the printed brief, then here are the links......
LINK to the Woolworths Brief - PDF for Part 1
LINK to the Woolworths Brief - PDF for Part 2

SUMMARY of Stage 1

• Notice the due date for Stage 1 is the 24 April 2015.
• Stage 1 consists of  two activities - Your Pitch and your Business Case Study.
  The templates for these are in your Classroom resources.
• You will create ONE presentation containing both of these activities.
• These are just the initial ideas so don't get too complicated - you only have 2 weeks for both!
• You may work as a team of no more than 3 members. This may speed up your process work! The team may submit ONE collaborative presentation in Google Slides using the Classroom platform.

After submitting your presentation of Stage1, you will evaluate it yourself using this LINK. This self-evaluation (25 marks) will provide the basis for 50% of your LO1 Sourcebook for this term. 
The other 50% of your sourcebook (25 marks) will be a collection of  your experiments and more drawings/own photos. This will be due on the 11 May and you will also evaluate this using this LINK.

After that you will work on your LO2 - the final product/piece/campaign. (50 marks) 
This MUST be handed in on the last day of term (or before). You may not work on it during the holidays.
You will evaluate this next term for Term 3 marks.
Your Practical Exam will be for another 50 marks for Term 2, and will be based on either your Term1 or Term2 sourcebooks.

Student Art Guide

This is a really useful website for art learners ....

Student Art Guide - http://www.studentartguide.com/

Example: How to make a MIND MAP LINK

                The Top 10 Mistakes Art students make LINK

http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/how-to-make-a-mindmap-creative-ideas

Elements of Art - Shape & Form

For the Grade 10s .........

Now that we have finished our introductory List Poem, we will start making our own 'textbooks' where we research, experiment and construct our own knowledge. We call these books - 'source-books'- and each one is unique.

Rosa Ballentine's Gr10 Ceramic sourcebook page

Here is a presentation LINK to guide you through this first topic.
Normally a source-book (which is Learning Outcome 1) will take 4 weeks and be worth 50 marks. However, we will include small art works (Learning Outcome 2) INTO our source-books in grade 10, so it will be worth 100 marks and will be for your Term2 assessment.

Basic armatures

For my Grade 9s .....

Our simple armature is made of .5mm baling wire wrapped around a crumpled piece of A4 printed paper (from the recycling bin).

We then need to draw it on a flat piece of paper so that it looks like it is 3-D. This is called an illusion of 3-dimensions.
Work in 2 steps......

1. Create the illusion of a wrapped cylinder using  imaginary lighting from the left. Form shadows will then be on the right.
2. Create an illusion of space by sketching in a 'corner' behind the form of the armature. 
3. The armature and the drawing will be for your term assessment.
4. Practice makes perfect!

LINK to a presentation by Mrs Sturgess on armatures. You will work on the figures next term, and the DRAWINGS of the figures this term.

             

FINAL Grade 10 List Poem Evaluation

For the Grade 10s .......

We will have a 'walk-about' of this project and you will do your FINAL evaluation on this LINK.
The questions have changed so think carefully!

Mapungubwe - Architects influenced by Africa

For my Grade 12s .........

Peter Rich and Abre Crafford (and their teams) created two of the major structures at the Mapungubwe Heritage site.

Rich's Interpretive Centre

Crafford's Main Gate Visitor's Centre

Use the presentation [LINK] and the flipchart infographic  [LINK] to write your first 20 mark essay of the year. You will have 40 minutes to write this essay and you may use any resources you need. In an Exam situation you will only have 35 minute to write 20 marks.

Please use the CLASSROOM LINK to hand in this essay. Remember - you must use your GAFE username and password. The resources are all repeated in the Classroom.

To add yourself to a class with a course code:

1. Sign in to Classroom at classroom.google.com.
2. On the Home page, click the + icon.
3. Enter the code that the teacher gave you in the box, and click Join.

The class stream will open. If your teacher has added an overview, you can read it by clicking About near the top of the page.

QR codes

Studio238 blog QR code

I have been asked to post a tutorial on how to create a QR code. 
The Grade 11 classes have on-line photo albums that they need to put in their A3 sourcebooks and a QR code would be a way for a viewer to go straight to the album.


Have a look at this presentation LINK.

Grade 11 - Art & Politics

For my Grade 11s ....................

We are working thematically this year but are limiting ourselves to artworks from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

The Oath of the Horatii 1787 (by David) was our introductory work as well as the BBC DVD - 'The Art of Persuasion'. 
Please borrow the DVD if you missed it. It is also on YouTube. LINK
There is also a website LINK


Please watch this presentation LINK to find this and more artworks with a socio-political theme. The infographics / activities you need to do are in the presentation.

Deborah Bell - Art influenced by Africa

For my Grade 12s ..........

Theme:

‘South African artists influenced by African and/or indigenous art forms ’

Deborah Bell's belief system places her very firmly in an African world view. She believes that she is part of those who have gone before.
She says of her images .....

"It is as if I made them before: as if I had been them before."

Her Journey Pot IV is a good example for this theme.

Journey Pot IV 1999

Link to my presentation

Link to my Nesta Nala infographic 
- Nala is a traditional Zulu ceramic artist.

Construct your own infographic on this information, using the guidelines you learnt last year. You will need about 300 words divided into chunks. (+/- 5 chunks) You will also need extra diagrams and colour sketches.

Suggested chunks:

• Illustrated Data 
• Intention about Africa & Influences from Africa
• Materials and techniques of Africa
• Some elements and principles emphasizing the African connection! 
• Symbolism influenced by Africa

You may like to answer these questions in your chunks.....

1.How does this pot improve the status of women?

2.Discuss the sacred and social nature of pots in South Africa.

3.How does this pot both recognize the past  and stand for the future?
4.How are these materials used?

Terracotta (kiln & pit fired); 
Fat & wax; Charcoal; Wire; Graphite; Kiln cement

5.How does this differ from Nala’s use of some of these materials?

Shining through the Shadows (1999) is another example of Bell's work that you could use.

Shining through the Shadows 1999

LINK to my presentation

Use the suggestions for chunks found above. Do you think print-making lends itself to African imagery, or are ceramics more directly 'African'?