GCSE FIne Art, Exam project 2017, Beginning and/or end, Lessons
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GCSE exam students are to complete 6 tasks over the first 2 weeks relating to artists and art techniques: 1) Draw intricate cityscapes using fine liner pens on A5 paper and take progress photos. 2) Create a portrait weaving together cut strips of old and new photos of a famous deceased person. 3) Make a polystyrene print of a tree showing growth rings and add childhood memories. 4) Collect tracings from marked surfaces around school and paint overlapping sections. 5) Create a clay sculpture resembling a fossilized obsolete object like an iPod. 6) Work on photocopies of London landscapes to recreate apocalyptic scenes using pens, paint and collage
GCSE FIne Art, Exam project 2017, Beginning and/or end, Lessons
- 1. YEAR 11 GCSE EXAM 2017 BEGINNING AND /OR END FIRST 6 LESSONS COMPLETE ALL TASKS MAKE SURE YOU PRESENT ALL TASKS IN YOUR BOOK CONNECTING THEM TO THE RELEVANT ARTISTS IN THIS PRESENTATION. YOU HAVE CLASSWORK AN D HOMEWORK TIME TO COMPLETE THESE OVER THE FIRST 2 WEEKS.
- 2. TASK 1: FINE LINER DRAWINGS The architecture found in Sack’s artwork spans centuries, from gothic cathedrals to towering skyscrapers, underpinned by patterns of urban sprawl reminiscent of European cities with a healthy dose of science fiction. If you look carefully you might even recognize a familiar landmark here and there. With meticulous determination and a steady hand, artist Ben Sack picks up a black 0.05 Staedtler pigment liner pen and begins to draw the dense, intricate details of fictional cityscapes: buildings, roads, rivers and bridges. TASK: On a sheet of A5 paper make intricate drawings using fine liner pens and cover the entire paper using the resource images provided.Take 3 photos of your drawingat the beginning with one building drawn, then when it is half full, and then once completed. Stick the images in your book to show this growth. HOMEWORK: BRING in 2 A4 photos of a celebrity that passed away-one young and one old photo for next lesson!
- 3. TASK 2: WEAVE OLD AND NEW PHOTOS Clarksville, Tennessee photographer Greg Sand‘s series entitled ‘Remnants’ is about recollection and remembrance. Each ‘remnant’ in the series is composed of three found photos–each from a different point in the subject’s life–that have been cut into strips and woven together to form a portrait of a person who has passed away. Choose a famous person (somebody who you like and who has passed away.) Find 2 photos of them-young and old. Measure and draw a grid onto 2 photos. Then cut up into strips. Put back together by weaving one photo into another. Make a detailed drawing of your weaved collage.
- 4. TASK 3: PASSAGE OF TIME What is the soul of a tree? The question is subjective, the answer in the eye of the beholder. From the tree’s perspective, it might be the sum of the seasons of its life. The droughts suffered, the sunshine savoured. But the tree cannot bear witness to its own greatness. It cannot see its own deep roots, or the influence of its own spreading branches. It is up to the observer to give meaning to the tree’s existence Bryan Nash Gill
- 5. TASK: POLYSTYRENE PRINTING Copy an image of a cross section of a tree onto polystyrene.
- 6. PRINT ONTO PAPER Try to keep early memories in the centre and your most recent on the outer rings ADD CHILDHOOD MEMORIES BETWEEN THE RINGS
- 7. TASK 4: TRACES INGRID CALAME generates abstract forms by tracing the contours of stains such as graffiti and paint spills directly from city streets and other locations. She then constructs overlapping arrangements of these tracings into what she terms as "constellations" TASK: Walk around school with a piece of tracing paper and trace areas of the floor that have been marked in some way over time. Collect as many as you can overlapping each drawing. Bring back to class and paint each section onto paper/card in flat colour.
- 8. TASK 5: RELIC Today’s top of the line technology will soon be the relics of the past… and it all happens so quick. Your brand-new iPhone will be miles behind in 3 short years. Christopher Locke’s project explores this societal fact by greatly accelerating time in his series Modern Fossils. Here we see the cutting-edge tech of the not- so-distant past transformed into rock- encased objects: from a PlayStation Dual Shock controller, to a truly obsolete 8- track tape TASK: Create your own fossil in clay. Collect images of old objects that are now obsolete or not used by us anymore. An i-pod, an old cassette tape, a telephone box on the street etc. are all good examples of this. If you have an object at home, bring it in to help you create your sculpture in the style of Christopher Locke.
- 9. First take a lump of clay and create textures in the surface of this. (TIP: You may need to take impressions from rocks /concrete) Take your old object and press into a section of your clay carefully leaving a clear impression. Leave to dry. Next, make detailed drawings of 2 different objects in class using different materials.
- 10. TASK 6: APOCALYPTIC POSTCARDS TASK: Work on top of photocopies of landscape scenes of London to recreate the end of the world! Use pens/paint/collage. In their series “The World of The Last of Us“ John Walters and Peter Baustdaeter, two artists from New Zealand, have imagined what the world might look like in a post apocalyptic universe. Heavily inspired by video games, the work depicts ruins of famous places from Europe.