CLASS AND HOMEWORK TASKS
Jul 03, 2015
CLASS AND HOMEWORK TASKS
Go to Coldfall Woods or the
allotment.
1. Collect leaves, dried grass twigs
etc
2. Take image of the woodland
floor or allotment close up angles
and ensure that there is plenty of
varied foliage and colour within
your images. Use reflections to
your advantage
3. BACK IN CLASS: Create a mixed
media painting. Use the objects
you have collected to build up
an interesting textures surface
Woodland task Students will need a camera for this task
Materials:
CameraBleachInkFound earthy objects: sand, leaves, twigs etcPaintPVACard to work on
MICHAEL PORTER http://www.michael-porter.co.uk/
ANSELM KEIFER
http://www.tate.org.uk/artist-rooms/collection/theme-environment
Related artists and links
ANSELM KIEFER
MARIO MERZ, Charcoal on
paper
Task – Map your own spaceJessica Rankin creates tangible spaces using information found by documenting overheard conversations and gathered text.
Her works represent ‘landscapes of the mind’
The small sections of text represent thought clouds. Rankin visually describes how she feels our thoughts present themselves.
Use one of the maps provided. Cover it with tracing paper, or tissue paper.
Highlight specific areas of interest to you. use basic shapes to outline these.
Create a word bank to annotate the work
The words could be used to link different areas on the map.
Some of you may want to stitch through the paper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtOVW8W6CY
MATERIALS
Tracing paper
Tissue paper
Needle & thread
fineliners
Related artist: Jessica RankinJessica Rankin’s work might best be described as mental maps. Working on a sheer fabric called organdie, her images invoke cartography or geographic diagrams. Made from thousands of tiny embroidered stitches, Rankin delineates shapes, boundaries, and contours, interconnecting and locating them with miniscule
text. In Hour To Hour, which incorporates 4 gossamer swatches, Rankin’s constellation appears to hover as gauzy illusion, with tiny green islands anchoring fixed location in nowhere. Labelled with poetic stream of consciousness text such as IHEARDTHEMBUTWASNOLONGERTHERE and COMPLETELYBYSURPP, Rankin’s map refutes
tangible space to chart the mystical terrains of memory, the subconscious, fiction, and passing time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C
UtOVW8W6CY&safe=active
http://www.timknowles.co.uk/
TASK: TREE DRAWINGThis task uses the wind as its motor
Attach pens or pencils to the branches of a tree, or to an object that is effected and moves in the wind.
Ensure that you have left your paper in a stable positions, and that the pens or pencils touch the paper.
Use varied colours over a longer period to monitor weather change
Film using a GoPro or stop motion camera
MATERIALS:
Pencils / pens
Tape
Paper
Tree or object that moves in the wind
Time (leave for a day to see results
HOMEWORK: Installation that sits in an outside environment .
It can respond to the elements or sit within a space. Look at
the below ideas to help you
Photograph and present in book
Andy Goldsworthy
EMMA JEAN KEMP
Wind walks: Tim Knowles:
http://www.timknowles.co.uk/tabid/502/Default.aspx
If you enjoyed this task….
TASK – DRAWING WITHOUT A PENCIL
• Use shredded material, staples and glue to create a wall hanging inspired by the artist
Elana Herzog.
• Some of you may want to add text to the piece.
MATERIALS
Stapler
Textiles
Lettraset
Cardboard or mdf to work on
HOMEWORK – DRAWING WITH CANDLESENSURE YOU INFORM PARENTS?GUARDIANS OF THIS TASK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z9dBZHwDm8&safe=active
Steven Spazk uses the imprint of soot left on the surface of the
paper to draw with. He then adds highlights by gently scratching or
etching into the surface to reveal the finer details.
Watch this video before you attempt to complete this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z9dBZHwDm8&safe=active
USE CARDBOARD PAPER to create a drawing/series of
drawings, using images of your choice, that relates to the theme.
You must demonstrate the below techniques:
1. ETCHING: wire wool, needle or pin, soft bristle brush, hog hair
brush
2. Add colour
3. Melt wax onto the page, add soot and colour to create a mixed
media piece.
ALTERNATIVES: dropping inks into water and talking photos
Marbling paper and creating a collage
1. WORK IN PAIRS. Melt wax in the batik wax heater
2. Drop you wax into a bucket of water (option to colour water
and photograph
3. Take photos of your sculpture
4. Draw a full page tonal drawing from your work
TASK: MELTING WAX INTO WATER
MATERIALS
Batik wax heater
Wax
Buckets
Ink to die water
camera
This task will highlight the distortion that can occur when objects
are place in water
Vary the water: create ripples
add colour
drop onto object
TASK: SUBMERSE OBJECTS IN WATER AND
PHOTOGRAPH
http://inhabitat.com/found-objects-become-
magical-works-of-art-submerged-underwater-by-forlane-6-studio/forlane-6-studio12-jpg/
MATERIALS
Small objects: Foil, Plastic, tissue paper
Camera
Photographs or images
Bucket
Water
Recycling and waste: plastic in water, destryoing the
seas, create sea creattures out of plastic bottles etc.
IDEAS TO OBJECTS IN WATER
WHEN MELTING PLASTIC ALWAYS
WEAR A MASK AND BE IN A WELL
VENTILATED AREA
Paint from a photo using watercolour.
Dip half the photo in water and let the paint run
See what the results are
HOMEWORK: Paint from a photo
JENS HESSE
TASKSErosion- bury, immerse, (burn), hang on a washing line- an image
for the last three weeks of the half term- document.