Grade 10 Ceramics 2015

For the Grade 10s .....

This term you will be creating a small wall hanging using clay relief tiles. The topic will be ...... 'Africa re-visited'.
The supports for the wall hanging will be provided as a design constraint. Each panel measures 24 cm x 24 cm and you may use as few (or as many) as you need.

Start your process work by brainstorming your ideas with little sketches. 

Leanne Vincent

• Research the work of other ceramic artists. 
• Find out how to make small shaped tiles.
  You could 'model' plastic clay OR 'carve' leather hard clay.
• Take photos of your environment that you could use. 
• Make paper patterns for your tiles. Move them around to create a composition.
• Make some coloured drawings to show the glazes you could use. Your teacher will demonstrate a new oil pastel technique. LINK to the kamKame oil pastel workshop.
• Investigate shapes; patterns; textures; colours; contrasts; focal areas; 
• All this process work will be collected into your Ceramics Sourcebook - worth 50 marks.

Melissa Pattinson

    LINK to carving techniques.

Colour exercises for Grade 10

For the Grade 10s .....

Here is an interesting website for some colour applications.

LINK

Link to Matric memo ....

For my Grade 12s ......

Here is the link to your Trials memo. This is an important resource in terms of additional pieces to add to your repertoire. 

LINK

You could also print your memo as a 'textbook' from this LINK

Berni Searle reading study

For the Grade 11s .....

LINK to the reading study.

Berni Searle - Snow White

2001

Performance art

For the Grade 11s ...

Here is a LINK to our quick overview of Impressionism.

The Absinthe Drinker by Degas

1876

French Impressionism

68cm x 92 cm (slightly bigger than  A1 in size)

Oil on canvas

For the Grade 12s .............
This post has been updated for you to use while studying at home.

Dunywa

Magwood -Fraser

Let's concentrate on our collection of chosen artworks that are good examples for the FIVE themes we have studied in class. 
Some examples can be used in either of two themes BUT you must explain in your essay why the example is relevant to that theme - i.e. focus on that theme.

Dust off your infographics & essays, grab some Post-it notes - we're going for 100% for your upcoming Trials theory exam! 

Optional:

• Order your CD collection or put the collection on your flash. However, your infographics & essays should already have all the content you need. 
• Remember - your themes and content are in your Classroom folder.

Theme 2  - Artists influenced by Africa 
Classroom LINK
Examples and links....
Bell - Journey Pot or Shining through the Shadows
Mapungubwe architects - both of them
kaMkame - Ancestral Spirits ????

Theme 3 - Art & Politics
Examples and links.... 
Willie Bester - The Chair
Brett Murray - The Spear
Alexander - Butcher Boys

Theme 5 - Multi Media in South Africa
Classroom LINK
Examples and links.... 
Robin Rhodes - Hard Rain - street art

Dunywa - Ufunani kimi? - performance art

Andries Botha - Afrikaner c. 1600 - installation art

Theme 6 - Post-democratic identity in South Africa

Examples and links.... 

Classroom LINK

Chandler - Wounded Tread ....

Wim Botha - Mielie Pap Pieta

Khanyile - Wathinta Bafazi......

Theme 7  - Art & Gender Issues

Examples and links.... 

Magwood-Fraser - Your clothes & how you wear them

Siopis - Dora and the Other woman
Alexander - Oh yes Girl ??????

For the Grade 8s ...............

LINK to your presentation

Here is the presentation we have been working through in class. Use it to update your worksheets and familiarise yourself with the artworks we have studied.

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Grade 10 Colour Project

For my Grade 10s .....

Here is the LINK to your colour project for this term.
This practical and theory project is fundamental to Fashion Design, Interior Design and Painting - just a few examples!

This 'sourcebook' is due at the end of Term 3.

I have done a little demo in gouache as well... LINK
Your final painting will be called 'Stones and Bones'. The brief is found in your Classroom. Here is the LINK as well.
You can have an extension for this and hand it in at the beginning of Term4.

Have a look at this fun website as well!

Matric Trials Practical evaluation

For all Grade 12s ............

You used a printed self-evaluation rubric during your 6 hour exam to keep you focused on your goals.
Now please use this on-line form to do your actual self-evaluation.

LINK

Modernism and Gender Issues

For the Grade 11s ........

The emphasis on the formal elements of art is the essence of ‘Modernism’.

Artists make COLOUR, SPACE and SHAPE (for e.g.) the subject matter of Art.

While we investigate this, we will also look at the theme of Women in Art which will tie in with your Grade 12 curriculum, and could link with your practical work this term.

LINK to the presentation

Two Tahitian Women Paul Gauguin (French) (Marquesas Islands )

Date: 1899 -  Post-Impressionism

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: (94 x 72.4 cm)