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Just some sample sketchbook work to hopefully inspire you all!www.studentartguide.com/articles/art-sketchbook-ideas
Click here to When brainstorming ideas for an Art project, remember that:
Draw lots of small pictures to illustrate ideas visually, as inspired by this Curiocity map of London illustrated by Nicole Mollet: . Integrate a mind map with an ‘incomplete’ image that extends across the page, inspired by this digital illustration by Alex Plesovskich:
Please watch these videos. The new leaving cert will have similarities to the current A-levels in the treatment of experimentation with materials, development of themes and research. 'Hi everyone! I completed my AS (first year A-level in the UK) art exam earlier this week and I wanted to share with you my sketchbook leading up the final 8 hour art exam, in which you draw your final piece on a larger scale. You are given 8 weeks to create this sketchbook. This years theme was 'Earth, Air, Fire and Water: The Four Elements' and I chose to solely focus on water. I researched 4 artists overall before refining my ideas further.'
The initial mind map and observational studies are very similar to the new sketchbook layout. The secondary studies, while stunning, would not be acceptable in the new leaving cert sketchbook as they are too similar to the original artists' work. Click the link below to see some samples of student work www.studentartguide.com/featured/high-school-graphic-design-projects Watch the video about the course by clicking the link www.cit.ie/course/CR%20600 Visual Communications The course pays particular attention to the development of each student's ability to respond to visual design problems in an individual, inventive and creative manner. The program aims to produce graduates who can display the capacity for innovation in the area of Visual Communications (Level 8). www.theartcareerproject.com/art-as-a-career/ <<<<list of potential art careers www.cit.ie/course/CR220 This link is for Fine Art in Crawford www.ncad.ie/undergraduate <<< this link of for NCAD NCAD offers opportunities to teach art. www.ucc.ie/en/arthistory/undergraduatestudies/ UCC offers History of Art on Campus. Speak to me if you've any queries about studying Fine Art. See the above photo for inspiration as to what objects you could bring in. This student brought in a cow's heart for their inspiration. You will need to bring in an object to draw from on Monday www.pinterest.com/usefulartifacts/ click the link <<<< to access my pinterest account. log in details are username [email protected] password Glitterglue The challenge is to create 3 filled A3 sketchbook pages based on any one of the themes below. There will be a prize for the most inventive and creative project.
(Themes are given to allow you, the artist, to explore and research this topic individually. Beinventive and push this theme as far as you can.) You can even stick in leaves, grass, wires, broken computer parts or any materials you find that relates to your work. Be creative and try new materials. Do one or two sketches a night and you'll have this project completed in no time. Best of luck and I cannot wait to see the work! Step 1. Create a visual mind map, in your sketchbook, about your theme to help explore the theme. See the example to the left <<< Step 2. Select an area which you would like to examine and explore through drawing in your sketch pad. Step 3. Start with observational drawings of your chosen area. Use pencils, pens and colour pencils. Fill your pages with loads of drawings of this object. Be creative with this. Step 4. Collect images, photos or images from newspapers and create a collage about your chosen area of investigation. You will have 8 days to complete this challenge. I will collect your sketchbooks on Thursday the 29th. I will select the winner over the weekend. See last years examples below for inspiration. www.pinterest.com/usefulartifacts/ click the link <<<< to find my pinterest account. The boards Nature vs. Streetlife, Sketches and Looking at Nature may help inspire your ideas. Homework: Create 2 more grounds for your sketchbooks. Types of grounds: • • • • • • • • • Coffee stain with coffee mug circles Inky wash Ink on wet paper Marbling Acrylic wash Newspaper Splattered paints Paint drips Dry brush colour highlights
Many Art students looking to attend art college or apply for visual courses must present a Coursework or Exam portfolio that shows development. Students are sometimes confused about what the term ‘development’ means in this context, and are uncertain about how they should go about achieving this. This article endeavours to answer these questions and provides a process by which students can ensure their work develops sufficiently. This is intended as a broad guide only: If you are told that your work must show development, your teacher is telling you that your work must change a little (both in use of media and composition) from one piece to the next. In other words, an A Level Art Coursework portfolio must tell a visual story: with a starting point, a conclusion, and a journey in between. It is not acceptable, for example, to show the same things drawn or painted from different angles over and over again, or to execute the same composition first in pastel, then in paint, then in charcoal and so on…or to submit paintings of many different items that have no visual or thematic connection to each other. ‘Development’ means systematically working towards better artwork: trialing, refining and exploring compositional devices and technique, demonstrating to the examiners that you have gone through a learning process and arrived at a successful final piece. 1. Select an original, personally relevant, visually complex, readily-available subject or theme that can sustain your interest for a year (see the accompanying guide: how to select a good A Level Art theme); 2. Complete 4-10 drawings of your chosen topic in your Art Sketchbook, using a range of black and white and coloured mediums such as graphite pencil, Indian ink, acrylic, coloured pencil, watercolours, oil. The level of realism achieved in these drawings will be dependent on your own drawing style and preferences. Mix and layer mediums as appropriate. Include photographs if desired. The drawings may be semi-incomplete and can merge into each other. At this point, do not worry so much about what you are achieving in terms of composition. You are merely conducting visual research and exploring your topic. 3. Fill gaps around the drawings with notes discussing your theme / issue / message…why this is personally relevant to you; what appeals to you visually about the subject; how the subject matter might be composed in order to support or convey your ideas. Look carefully at what you have drawn and make notes about how the visual elements (line, tone, texture, space, colour etc) interact… For example, are there strong contrasts between highly detailed areas and sparse areas? Are the negative spaces as interesting as the objects themselves? Are there repetitions of certain shapes and colours? Are you exploring frames within frames? …In essence, establish what you are dealing with visually. 4. Select an artist model whose work relates to your subject matter and inspires you. Research this artist. Complete several pages in your Art Sketchbook, including composition studies, imitations and pastiches of their artwork, using a range of mediums. Fill spaces around the illustrations with notes explaining/discussing their technique/s (mark-making methods); use of media / materials; style; composition (i.e. the relationship between the visual elements: line, shape, colour, tone, texture and space. Discuss how these elements form ‘visual devices’ that ‘draw attention’, ‘emphasise’, ‘balance’, ‘link’ or ‘direct the viewer through the artwork’ and so on). Write notes about the ideas, moods and subjects explored within the drawings and how all of the above relates to your topic or theme. Your comments should show evidence that you have researched your artist (using proper terminology) and should also contain your own thoughts and responses. Under no circumstances should it appear as if you are just regurgitating information from a textbook. Learn from this artist and establish how this artist is relevant / useful for your own project; 5. Complete 10 – 15 drawings and paintings that show a smooth transition from your original artworks to images that are influenced by your first artist model. Do not leap in and copy everything the artist does. It may be, for example, that you simply copy the way a particular artist uses foreground, mid-ground and background, or the way in which they apply paint onto a scratched, irregular surface. The purpose of this exercise is to learn particular techniques or compositional strategies – not to copy their work in its entirety. The result should be a series of paintings which show gradual changes and exploration. After each one you should have a discussion with your teacher about what you can do next to help convey your ideas more successfully. Nikau began her A2 Painting Coursework by selecting the topic of junk food, focusing in particular on the excessive consumption of junk food by young people and the health risks that are linked to the consumption of additive-laden, calorie-rich products. Nikau’s initial sketchbook pages (visible in the video at the bottom of this post) are filled with notes and drawings exploring this theme. These include mixed media drawings of junk food items and children as well as an analysis of the visual potential of her theme. Here, Nikau clarified her ideas and established the ‘starting point’ of her project. Following this, Nikau analysed the artwork of Janet Fish. Nikau was drawn to her paintings of bright, reflective surfaces (something that would be particularly helpful when painting glossy, seductive junk food packaging) and for her ability to create busy, vibrant works that are successful, despite an overload of sensory information. Nikau completed diagrammatic sketches of compositional structure and imitated parts of paintings by Janet Fish, as in the sketchbook page shown above (note that copying parts of an artwork is often all that is needed for a student to gain an understanding of technique…slavishly copying an entire work wastes precious time; note also the use of ‘I’ within the text and the inclusion of personal viewpoints and opinions, linking of comments to her own project – this reassures the examiner that the writing is the student’s own and is not simply copied from a textbook). |
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