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This week's video seminar
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Learning intentions
To understand how to use blending methods in order to create accurate colours.
To understand how to create a piece of art using an artist's style as inspiration.
Total study time this week: 2 hours
Office hours
If you have any questions or need support, we will be running a live email Q&A at the time shown below.
Office hours: Thursday 2-3pm
You can also email your teaching staff at any time.
This weeks's tasks (as seen in the video above)
The video includes instructions on how to add accurate colours to each section of your self-portrait using blending methods.
Add colour to each section of your self-portrait including:
Accurate skin tones
Colourful mark-making for the hair
Colours on the clothes and animals using a mirror and reference images to help you
The leaves in the background
Send me your work by 4pm on Friday.
Future tasks
Additional Tasks:
Produce a week-long illustrated diary of your lock-down experience. Each day produce a drawing of either something you did that day or something to symbolise that day. This will interesting to look back at once lock-down is over!
Look out of one of the windows of your house and draw what you can see. This could be one large drawing of the view or it could be a series of smaller drawings of various objects that you can see.
Pick one of your favourite objects in your bedroom. This could be linked to one of your hobbies or it could have sentimental value. Place the object in front of you and draw it in pencil exactly how you see it - this is called drawing from direct observation and is probably the most important skill to learn as an artist. Make sure you include:
Accurate shapes and outlines
Tone (shading from light to dark to create a 3D effect)
Texture using mark-making (e.g. cross-hatching, lines, dots etc,)
Small details and imperfections
Remember this simple rule - look at the object at least 80 percent of the time while you are drawing it. The more you look, the more accurate your drawing will be.
Photography is a very important part of the visual arts (and a very popular GCSE subject at Q3!). Take a series of 10 photographs that sum up your time during lock down. This could be photos of the people you live with, photos of fun things that you have done during this time or photos taken on walks that you have been on... anything that will remind you of the positive things that you did
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