Just finished putting up the title header for my friend and colleague’s blog. Ms Clarkin has just set up a book club blog for her S2 pupils. There are only a few posts on it so far, though it’s worth checking out for the future, it’s going to be an interesting site. The link is below, I’ve also added it to the blog roll.
This is my 400th post!!
Doesn’t seem a lot when you think I’ve been doing this for nearly two years.
I’ve been spending a good few of my summer days sorting this out. It looks good though. More stuff to come soon when I can catch my breath.
Laura O‘s (S1, OLSP) sketch pad is a delight to look through, even though it’s just been started, she has been quickly filling it with sketches, doodles, full page pieces and little ideas. I could spend an hour showing you and describing the work, though I thought I’d pick a few of my favourites and give Laura back her pad so she can work in it some more.
I really love the piece above, it reminds me of a storyboard from a film. The girl’s shirt is nicely drawn, the grid pattern and buttons are nicely detailed, though in a stylistic way. Below, Laura has worked on a colour sketch of a monkey, this is based on work she is currently doing with Miss Kusch in art class, creating a cover for Kipling’s ‘Jungle Book’.
S1 (OLSP), under the supervision of Miss Kusch, are devising a new cover for Kipling’s ‘Jungle Book’. It looks really interesting at the minute. More photos to come as the unit progresses. Below: they plan in groups what things they’ll need for their covers.
Craft Stew has linked to the A4 folded book video in it’s ‘How to bind a book’ feature. Thanks to Annette. Go over there and check out some of the amazing advice, hints and tips she’s found.
This week’s ‘Artwork of the Week’ comes from Rachel M (S3) from the Lochgilphead Joint Campus. Rachel is working on a project for the Scottish Learning Festival. The project centres around issues of prejudice and understanding, there were a lot of great pieces produced, though they are currently either unfinished or just short of the ‘Rachel standard’, so Rachel has sneaked in to claim it with her beautiful drawings, so simple and filled with character and emotion.
She and the rest of her class had to create a digital work using Photoshop within two days, which is no easy feat, especially when you’ve never used Photoshop before. I was so impressed by Rachel and the rest of her classmates’ progression with the software, they merged photography with drawings and paintings with ease.
Anyway, back to this week’s star… Rachel’s piece reminds me of the work of Chester Brown or Jeffrey Brown. It holds so much drama and tension within a single frame. She initially had her characters on a pale background with light bubbles, though I think the added corridor and black bubbles is a great change. The line work around the faces expresses so much, you don’t really need to see the text. Well done Rachel.
Have I got a treat for you. I was given the opportunity today to have a look into Hanna M‘s (S4, Notre Dame) secret folder. The thing is brimming with amazing pictures. Her style is very dynamic, not quite Manga, not quite western cartoon, but very professional and intricate.
Hanna is originally from Zgorzelec, Poland, though has obviously been effected by Western and Japanese cultures in her sketches. I do love the fact that she plays around with her dual language. I can’t understand the polish comments, though I am interested by them, they lend an air of mystery to her work.
Her drawings of animals and furries (anthropomorphic animals) are truly staggering. Using free exploring guide lines and thick and thin pen lines to build up the simplistic characters, Hannah has mastered the art of cartooning or caricaturing. All the trademarks are there, the big eyes and the over-sized hands/paws.
This is just a small selection of Hanna’s work. To see more sketches and finished artworks go visit her profile (which means ‘Grey Cat’) here:
This week’s chosen artwork comes from Saara A from Notredame Secondary. Her project was to take a famous painting and adapt a story to it using four re-drawn panels. Saara had decided to go with ‘Christina’s World’ by Andrew Wyeth, a famous painting about a crippled girl crawling across a field. I was interested to see that Saara went for a different story focusing on the drama of running away rather than the actual reason for the painting, it really was quite refreshing. She originally wrote the story in her native language then translated it to English. It was then edited and typed into her A4 folded book.
Click to see larger readable version.
This week’s ‘Artwork of the Week’ fell out of my diary yesterday. I’d forgotten that I had put it in there for safe keeping. A little too safe I guess.
I had shown S1 pupils how to make A4 folded books, a simple but effective way to self-publish by using a photocopier and a single side of a sheet of A4 paper. Kate M created this great little book in a period (50 mins). I liked the book so much I had to ask Kate if I could keep it. I placed the book inside my diary to keep it safe and only found it when I was looking back through it for an address. Enjoy.
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