May 23 – Work on culminating project

At this point you should all be priming your boxes for the final painting.  Remember to do your visual research and find as many images as you can to support your work.  This research is part of your mark!

All other projects have been marked and entered on TeachAssist.  Please log in and have a look.  Any zeroes or missing marks mean I did not receive your work.  Please come see me if that is the case.

May 15 – Culminating Summative Assigned

Only one month left before the end of the school year!

Today I introduced our culminating summative assignment that will be worth 30% of your final mark.

• Culminating Summative
• Culminating Summative Rubric

The project involves making your own graffiti boxes.  Here are some examples of street art to give you some ideas:

This one makes use of the shape of the box and the ticket dispenser to create a face.

The tree behind the wall is incorporated into this piece.

The alligator is shaped this way to fit around the building, making great use of the space.

Banksy is a famous street artist who's work interacts with the space around it, going off the walls around corners and through the streets.

The "space" you will be given are wooden boxes.  Your task is to transform the box with your own graffiti art.

Good luck!

May 9 – Colour Theory Practice

Today we discussed colour theory!

Handout

• Colour Theory
• Colour Wheel Checklist

Take the time to try and get a good colour wheel and practice those value scales.

May 2 – Painting Clay Boxes

At this point most people are done the printmaking assignment, good work everyone!  If you are still working on it, please finish up.

We are now painting our clay boxes.  Take this as a practice and opportunity to experiment with acrylic paint.  Try using it with water (wet) and without water (dry).  Remember that acrylics dry quickly and it's possible to layer many colours over each other.  We will do more painting exercises soon, for now, have fun with the paint!

Apr. 23 – Printmaking

By now you should be starting to test your prints by making some artist proofs.  After your proofs, you can go back and clean up your carving if you like, but once you start your good copies, you can no longer carve the block!

When you are all done your prints, you will mount the best one on construction paper, like we did for the marker drawings and prepare it for display.  I discussed how you can use newsprint to make a mini folder to keep your prints together and hand them in.

As a reminder here's are the prints I am going to mark (I have already marked your thumbnail sketches.  If you have not handed them in, do so NOW).

• 1 artist proof
• 3 black and white prints
• 1 enhanced print (experimenting with different colours)

Keep practicing your proofs until you are ready and confident that you can do a good job on the nice paper!  There is a limited number of good paper available.

Apr. 16 – Printing

Today I showed you how to roll out your ink and make your prints!  It'll take a lot of practice to do it correctly so make some artists proofs and make sure you get it right before you move onto your good copies.

Here's what you need to hand in:

• 3 design sketches (including good copy)
• 1 artist proof
• 3 prints in black and white
• 1 enhanced print with multiple colours and additional paint

Apr. 14 – Cutting your block

Today I demonstrated how to property use the gouge to cut your rubber blocks to make your prints.  Remember these are sharp tools that must be safely handled.  You will lose marks if you use the tools unsafely!

Here's a great video that shows how to hold the gouge and where to safely place your fingers:

The rubber blocks you are using are softer than the lino block in the video.  It should not take a lot of force to cut into your blocks.  Be careful and take the time to do it right.  The quality of your carving will effect the quality of ALL of your prints!