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GCSE Art Starter work

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‘LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS’
lyrics by Lennon & McCartney avaialble at address below

www.google.com/search

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=lucy+in+the+sky+with+diamonds+lyrics&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Keywords for research: 1960’s Art, Illustration and Culture. 1960’s fashion, 1960’s music, bands, singers and album covers. The Beatles. Flower Power, Summer of Love, Woodstock, 1960’s Music Festivals, Hippy, Psychedelic Art, Abstract Art (e.g. Kandinsky and Klee), Tiffany (Stained Glass), Peter Blake, Max Ernst and the Surrealists, Collage and collage artists, photomontage.

For your first Year 10 GCSE project you will be producing a full colour imaginative drawing or painting, based on the lyrics of the Beatles’ song ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’.

You need to complete the following tasks:
1). Google the above words, search out images and print out what you find.
2) Produce a detailed brainstorm that lists what you have found out about the song and the era. Base it on the keywords given above.
3) Get at least one glossy magazine that you can cut up and use to make collages and photomontages in the first lesson back. (Women’s magazines like Elle, Red, Marie-Claire are best as they have a range of colours, patterns, textures and people.)

YEAR 10 GCSE ART – NATURAL FORMS

Observational drawing and printmaking project

INITIAL IDEAS – 25 Marks

Observational drawings of fruit or vegetables, seedheads or shells.

CLASSWORK: You will use a range of skills to produce a series of Observational drawings/paintings.
• Graphite pencil
• Biro
• Watercolour
• Charcoal

HOMEWORK: Each week, produce a 1 hour observational drawing of a fruit or vegetable, using graphite pencil and Biro.

Your best drawings/paintings will be cut out and mounted on one sheet of A3 or A2 sheet of cartridge, depending on how much work you have.

RESEARCH - 25 Marks

HOMEWORK: Look at the work of a range of artists who have produced observational drawings, experiments and prints based on Natural Forms. Also look for examples of artists’ Monoprinting, Collagraphs, Block printing and Stencil (screen) printing techniques (even if they are not of Natural Forms). Print out examples of their work to mount on your research sheets.

Google suggestions:
Ralph Steadman – ‘Fly Away Peter’
‘Monoprints’
Colleen Corradi
www.conradbatten.com
www.lisaburge.com
www.lucyhodgson.com
www.janabouc.wordpress.com
www.monoprints.com



DEVELOPMENTS - 25 Marks

CLASSWORK: Using your drawings and the research images, you will experiment and develop imaginative monoprints and new drawings/paintings, based on Natural Forms.

FINAL PIECE - 25 Marks

CLASSWORK: Select your best monoprint. Work into it further with mixed media, drawing and painting techniques to produce a more complex finished final piece of work, based on natural forms.

EXTENSION WORK:

ICT:
Using Photoshop, produce a series of drawings based on one aspect or your Natural Form project, using the following techniques.

• A scraperboard effect (Black screen and white drawing lines).
• Repeat patterns based on Natural forms, using different arrangements of images from your initial ideas sheet and different colour schemes.

FURTHER PRINTMAKING TECHNIQUES:

Produce some more experimental and development print work using the following techniques:

• Collagraph printing
• Block printing
• Stencil printing

YEAR 11 GCSE MOCK ART EXAM 2009 – SUMMER WORK.

TOPIC – ‘SUPERSTITIONS’:
Old wives tales, folklore, folk songs, fairy tales, bizarre beliefs, taboos, omens, lucky and unlucky things, myths and legends, proverbs, sayings.
Death Superstitions, Wedding Superstitions (something old, new, borrowed, blue), Dreams & Nightmares (meanings and omens).
Superstitions linked to celebrations and times of year (Christmas-Holly, Ivy, Mistletoe, Easter-white rabbit, eggs, Spring – maypole dancing, Morris Dancing, Halloween - horror. Friday the Thirteenth, Witchcraft, Voodoo, Spells, Shaman, Ghouls and Ghosts, Goths, Nursery Rhymes.
Lucky Mascots, Ladders, broken mirrors, lucky black cats, nine lives, feathers, birds (magpies - one for sorrow, two for joy….., crows, owls, peacocks) fairies, goblins, dwarfs, ogres, mermaids, monsters, the bogey man, the Green Man, Angels, Monsters, Dragons, Unicorns.

Superstitions and myths from different times, countries and cultures: Greek, Roman, Viking, Chinese proverbs, Pagan.

We will work towards producing a final imaginative/fantasy drawing or painting, based on creative collage work, drawings and computer generated work. (Similar to the way we worked for the “Lucy in the Sky’ project).

TASKS:
1) Produce a really detailed brainstorm of the word ‘Superstitions’. Get lots of initial ideas and then begin to research. (Use the Internet. Google ‘Superstitions’).

2) Begin to collect research material, especially examples of work by other artists who have tackled the same subject matter or used the same techniques. (See the suggestions below).
Also collect images linked with the superstition you have chosen – large good quality images that you will be able to draw from. (e.g. Crows, owls, peacocks and feathers, rabbits, spiders, wolves, weddings cakes, flowers, black cats, cats eyes).
 
3) Collecting some really good quality collage material. (A woman’s glossy magazine with images of people and good range of patterns, colours and textures). (Argos catalogues can also be useful, as can newspapers, especially the weekend ones with the colour supplements.)

COMPLETE THESE TASKS TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY OVER THE HOLIDAY, & BRING IN TO THE FIRST LESSON BACK (THUR.  10th SEPT).
Remember: The better your collage material and research, the better your ideas will be,  & the higher marks you will get!!!

SUGGESTED ARTISTS:
Paula Rego - (Modern painter - Nursery Rhymes & Fairy Stories)
Maurice Sendak – (Children’s Illustrator - ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, ‘Inside Over There’)
Ana Maria Pacheco (Modern Painter - Nightmares and dreamlike images of people).
Hieronymous Bosch (Painter from Middle Ages - Nightmares and dreamscapes)
Sara Fanelli (Modern Illustrator - ‘Mythical Monsters of Ancient Greece’, ‘Pinocchio’ www. sarafanelli.co uk – have a look at all the strange collage characters in her online portfolio)
Patrick Woodroffe – (Modern Illustrator – Fantasies, Monsters, Nightmares and Daydreams.)
Brian Froud and Alan Lee – (Modern Illustrators ‘Faeries’ a book of fairytale characters from fairies to goblins.)
Dave Mckean – (Modern Illustrator ‘The Wolves in the Wall’)
Lynne Perrella – (Modern Collage artist & Illustrator www.LKPerrella.
Teesha Moore – ( Modern collage artist www.teeshamoore.com - look at her journal pages on the website for ideas and techniques.
H.R. Giger – Nightmare images- the artist who was the designer on the first ‘Alien’ film (be careful when selecting as some are sexually explicit).

Suggested ideas to base your image on:
C.S Lewis – ‘The chronicles of Narnia (The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe’.)
‘Jabberwocky’ poem by Lewis Carol, based on ‘St. George and the Dragon’.
‘McCavity the Mystery Cat’ by T. S Elliot from ’Old Possum’s Book of practical Cats’, on which the musical ‘Cats’ was based.
Illustration for one or a series of Nursery Rhymes, fairytales, sayings or proverbs.
Illustrate a story or characters from Greek, Roman, Norse mythology (Pandora’s Box, Medusa, Minotaur, Pegasus the winged horse).

Illustration to a children’s story that includes superstition.
Illustrations to Aesops Fables, ‘The Tales of Braer Rabbit’. ‘The Hare and the Tortoise’.
Illustrate songs and lyrics – ‘Angels’ by Robbie Williams. ‘Voodoo’, ‘Spellbound’ by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Kate Bush – ‘Lionheart’. David Bowie – ‘Scary Monsters (Super creeps)’, Echo and the Bunnymen – ‘The Killing Moon’, ‘The Cutter’.

Suggested sayings: (Look at The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs)

The early bird catches the worm. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Every cloud has a silver lining. Too many cooks spoil the broth. Home is where the heart is. The longest way round is the shortest way home. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good. It’s the last straw that breaks the camel’s back. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone. Like a needle in a haystack. A leopard does not change his spots. A barking dogs never bites. When the cat’s away, the mice will play. Lightening never strikes in the same place twice. Love is blind. Love makes the world go around. Many hands make light work. Money is the root of all evil. Time flies. Two heads are better than one. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. The good die young.

YEAR 9 SUMMER GCSE HOMEWORK.

‘ALICE IN WONDERLAND’

A Children’s’ Novel by Lewis| Carroll

For your first Year 10 GCSE project you will be producing a full-colour imaginative drawing or painting, based on the surreal and dream likes stories told in the book ‘Alice in Wonderland’.


Over the Summer Holidays, you need to complete the following tasks:

1). Google ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and read the information about the book and synopsis on Wikepedia. Using this information and the keywords below, search out images linked to the stories and characters, and print out what you find. Do the same for other artists work, that might help you get ideas for your own painting or drawing.

2) Produce a detailed brainstorm that lists what you have found out about the book, stories and characters. Use the keywords given below as a starting point.

3) Get at least one glossy magazine that you can cut up and use to make collages and photomontages in the first lesson back. (Women’s magazines like Elle, Red, Marie-Claire are best as they have a range of colours, patterns, textures and people.)

Keywords for research:
Characters: Alice, The White Rabbit, The Cheshire cat, The Mad Hatter, The Dormouse, The March Hare, The Queen of Hearts, The Caterpillar, Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Artists to research: Ralph Steadman, Teesha Moore (surreal, dreamlike images), John Tenniel, Arthur Rackman, Peter Newell.
Suggested images to collect: Cats, rabbits, hares, caterpillars, Dormice, playing card designs, Flowers, roses, plants, trees.

You will also need to get yourself some sort of  A3 Art folder, to transport work between home and school safely.

ALL THREE TASKS TO BE COMPLETED AND BROUGHT INTO THE FIRST YEAR 10 LESSON: –

 MONDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER for Miss Green’s group & TUESDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER for Miss Sutton’s group.)