Students were exploring drawing folded comics using their pencil for Proportions and angles. Students developed understanding of colour value to add block tones using their 2B pencil.
Students explored scaling up their images using their pencil to aid proportions. They then used colour pencil to work both in accurate colours and in monochrome colours.
Students worked on A2 paper and scaled up their folded comic by 3 times, again using their pencil as a unit for measurements. Students Had to understand how to calculate angles and how to allow the image to run of the page. Students completed the image working with water colour paints.
Following the drawing module, students began to look at graphics. In this unit we explores spacing and design of lettering. Focus was on using parallel lines for letters evenly spaced within uniform boxes. Students then looked at illustrating the meaning of the word through its decoration.
The first part of this project saw students explore a range of different words to practice the new skills.
Students then selected their most successful word from their designs. This was drawn larger, to roughly fill an A3 page in landscape. Students developed new skills in adding tone using felt tip pens, techniques such as cross hatching and dotting were explored using a range of colours.
In the last part of this unit, students took the first letter of their felt tip large word, and placed it in a location. Emphasis was on showing distance and perspective and overlapping and layering elements in the image. Where possible students developed understanding of direction of light and shadows.
The last unit I explored with year 8 art commenced in a home learning environment. Students were introduced to portraiture and developed understanding of proportions, feature shape and then moved on to exploring tone with pencil and colour pencils.
After exploring the basics in proportions and tone in portraiture students moved on to a more expressive style of art. Students began by creating photo montages using contrasting angles and scales to begin their cubist self portrait, (images not shown). These were used to create a coulor pencil cubist art work, students were encouraged to be expressive with scale, angels and colour within this piece of work.
