The third and final episode of Art Clast for this term (2010-2011) has been uploaded to Youtube and iTunes. You can watch all three episodes and even subscribe if you like them. Below is the animation special, which I feel is by far the best episode yet. Great work from the Art Clast podcasters yet again.
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Just a quick photo of Paula A’s (S1, OLSP) initial drawing for her ‘weak’ lamb based on the colour theory and Fauvism-like style of Franz Marc (as pointed out by Darla below, Marc was actually part of ‘The Blue Rider’ movement). This is for a project based on ‘Fit4Life’, a Curriculum for Excellence initiative that highlights healthy living throughout all subjects. I just love this work already, hopefully she can do it justice when she reaches the painting stage. She’s already captured Marc’s stylised shapes, so I’m sure she can pull it off. I’ll keep you posted on her progress.
2CD1 (OLSP) have been working away on their designs for an Eco Building. This design will then be handed over to the Technology department to be made into a 3D model. I kept the brief for the design completely open as I wanted to receive whatever ideas pupils can come up with, the only requirement was that the building features something helpful to the environment and that it contains a hexagon bee-hive pattern somewhere in the design.
Ainsley B works on a water storage idea that collects rain water for use in her building.
Rebecca G plans out her solar panel wig-wam that feeds the energy it collects back into the dwelling.
George M considers how his water storage will help work alongside his building; already packed with eco-friendly ideas.
Mia B works on her ‘energy hub’, a separate structure that collects energy in many different ways and feeds it back into the main building.
Iona F (S4, OLSP) shows off her pencil skills in a quick colour/tone study. Although there are small issues with the shape of the bowl, this goes completely unnoticed as the layers added onto the apple and the vivid colours of the kiwi fruit dominate the piece. Iona uses her pencil control to her advantage, she is able to work lightly and carefully, building up layers of colours to create a fine textured surface. A beautiful drawing… Nice work Iona.
If you are interested in achieving the same result:
Draw lightly (start the guide lines with colouring pencils (a light orange or blue works well), don’t mix normal grey pencils with colour).
Always use three pencils (harmonising colours e.g. red, orange, yellow) at once, chop and change, mixing the colours together to build up the surface.
Coverage is important, try to hide visible paper for a better result.
Caitlin G (S6, OLSP) finishes off the shadowing on the leaves of the foliage in her drawing above. This botanical house piece has taken her weeks to finish, it’s an intricate pen drawing with an insane amount of detail. It’s form and use of dark and negative shapes help steer the eye around and across the work. This is just a small part of her advanced higher unit, if the rest of her work is touching anywhere near this one in quality, she should do extremely well.
After producing a powerful and detailed 3D relief piece around child slavery and third world labour for her last unit, you would think Cara T (S2, OLSP) would rest on her laurels. Fortunately for us she’s still working away and is producing a gruesome pattern based on the Timorous Beasties range. Below, Cara simplifies and traces her tonal drawing to make the main motif for her co-ordinate (working space that then produces a pattern).
Ally B (S2, OLSP) has created this amazing work for the Super Hero competition being run in West Dunbartonshire at the minute. It’s based on her actual pet dog, which makes it even more personal and unique. I love how she has drawn detailed boxes of Super Honey’s powers. Here’s wishing her the best of luck in the competition. Good luck Ally!
This week’s featured artwork comes from Tasja (S3, OLSP). She’s working on her initial drawing for her design unit. She will take her chosen animal and design three dimensional forms and patterns with it, but it is this first drawing on her investigation sheet that the judges will see.
Tasja hasn’t exactly captured her resource, though I’m glad she hasn’t, she’s added more of her own self into the drawing and that is much more interesting to me that an exact duplicate. Looking at the style, I can see that she is interested in graphic/comic style art, the Cheetah’s face is almost human, it’s protruding chin and sculpted face, it resembles a male human face.
She focuses on details of pattern and width of line. By changing the thickness of her line, she makes her drawing interesting to look at, as well as making her drawing easy to look at by varying her lines. Use of dynamic curves (thicker lines on the bends or curves of lines) gives her drawing an air of action. The animal is standing still, though looks like it could pounce at any point. A great piece of work.
George M (S2, OLSP) gave me this drawing a few days ago. I told him that it should be cleaned up and the lines should be darkened. I also asked him why he drew that view and he had said that it stood out. Something about the way everything was sitting had attracted him to draw it, and I’m glad he did. It’s such a beautiful drawing, even without the digital clean and the text, there’s something incredibly mesmerising about it.
The piece speaks on many levels about what it’s like to grow up as a teenager in modern society. We see a TV, a sky box and various other paraphernalia that distract young people from being creative. So it’s profound that George chose to sit down and draw them, it’s very clever, even if that wasn’t entirely his plan. Great work George.
This week I started my year long placement at Our Lady & St Patrick’s High. As a dive into the deep end I have tested my S3 & S4 at observing their own hands. The photos displayed are from the first sitting of S4. This exercise tests pupils’ observation and proportion skills, as well as patience and their control. It’s a very tough challenge (I think that hands are probably the toughest thing to draw on the human body, if not entirely), though I often think that after it, every other task seems easy to the pupils.
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