NGSF - artists at work Day2

Have a look at our visiting artists and teachers in the studios at Durban GHS during the NGS Festival.

National Girls' School Festival - Day 1

Whew! A busy start ...


Odette Tolksdorf treated us to an inspiring presentation on Textile and Fabric Art. 
LINK to presentation.
Her focus was on the value of women's work and our theme is 'West meets East in Africa'.

Ten work stations provided a wealth of different techniques for people to try.
LINK to the work stations.

Some candid camera shots .....

  

 

 

 


                

Starch resist painting on fabric

Starch resist painting on fabric

LINK

 You can add another layer of flour paste.
The places where you put the flour paste will preserve the color underneath. Then let it dry.

Grade 12 self-evaluation - Sourcebook for PAT2 - Bright Ideas OR Sacred & Profane

Please complete your self-evaluation of your source book by using this LINK.

Grade 11 Self-evaluation - Final of Fragility

Please do your self-evaluation HERE.

Grade 11 Term 2 PAT themes

Please find all these resources in your Google Classroom as well.
Your source book is DUE on the 3rd May. We start working on your Final on that day.

LINK to the Scared & the Profane PAT theme

LINK to the Woolworths Bright Ideas theme

Design can be found anywhere! Here is a  magazine article that says just that........
LINK to Design Indaba

Gilberto Tethere designed a zero-energy cooling silo

Grade 9 - Grotesque Creatures

Temporary post ......

LINK to the past post on Grotesque Creatures.

Here are more links to sites on the Internet for tutorials:

LINK - How to draw a Griffon

LINK - How to draw another Griffon!

LINK - How to draw a Chimera

Here are some links to YouTube videos as well:

LINK1

LINK2

Grade 9 Visual Literacy project

How do we perceive beauty in art?

This activity is for Visual Literacy and looks at the study of beauty - called 'aesthetics'. 

We will first learn to look carefully at an artwork and then secondly to research it, think about it, formulate and answer questions about what we see and think.
Lastly we will put this all together in an interesting way.
We call this sequence - 'analyzing' an artwork. 

• You will work in groups that your teacher will allocate.
• The learner who is first in the alphabet will set up a research slideshow in Google Slides and share it with her group. 
• Discuss the 'beauty' and stereotypes of beauty - Princess Sofia' - you see here in your group by using the 'Comments' function on the top right on the Slide screen.

Link to Sofia article

Here is a very interesting article on Baby-face Bias which may influence your thinking....... LINK

"Baby-face characteristics include round features, large eyes, small noses, high foreheads, and short chins. Super-neonatal and super-mature features are usually only found in cartoon characters and mythic creatures. Baby-face features correlate with perceptions of helplessness and innocence, whereas mature features correlate with perceptions of knowledge and authority."

Mrs Hellmann made an interesting presentation on application examples of this 'baby-face bias' - have a look!
HERE

Miss de Vries collected these interesting images of other Disney princesses - have a look! HERE

And another one...... HERE

This chart method helps you think ......but now you need to write this up as an article. Please write using full sentences, good spelling and punctuation. Explain what you mean so that readers can understand you.

What do you see? ‘Observation’	What could it mean? (read the research!) ‘Interpretation’	Why? Substantiate your thinking.

Activity 1:
Open your own Google Doc in Google Classroom and write an analysis of Princess Sofia.
Aim for at least 300 words.

You may copy and paste pictures and your references.

Please BEWARE of plagiarism (not using your own words) even if you started by working in a group.

RUBRIC LINK

Activity 2:
Write an analysis of 'Oh Yes Girl ...'
Your teacher will tell you how to hand this in.
Link to 'Oh Yes Girl.......'

Link to Tatham Art Gallery

Link to Assessment Rubric

Jane Alexander - Oh Yes Girl.......(3-D)

Grade 10 - 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 your first topic - SHAPE & FORM.
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.

Grade 10 Illusionism in Art

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

For the Grade 10s......

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 to website can be found here....


A LINK to the DVD (hopefully not blocked) can also be found on YouTube.

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.

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.

Here is another interesting LINK to Jon Baker's thoughts on this DVD.