Thurs Feb 9 Art 8 Line work

 How to Zentangle Video ( 2 min)

Students can watch videos on their phones, there are books and sample zentangles at the front of the room. Students can practice some designs before they get started on the Cupcake Assignment.

Sample from class of 2024

Halloween Themed Art

 

Indigineous Artists of Canada

 

Ted Harrison Painting : working with acrylics

Ted Harrison:

"Life is a rainbow road, multicoloured with the most brilliant hues and contrasting with the darkest tones. It is illuminated by the light of success, and rutted by the tracks of failure. Tears of sadness and joy wash its surface while the clouds of doubt and insecurity dapple its course. As we traverse this highway we can reach the highest pinnacles or descend to the darkest valleys.

Finally, when the end of the road is in sight, we may cast our eyes to the distant horizon where everything began; and say with conviction,
"That sure was one hell of a journey."— TED HARRISON

 

Watercolour Basics Grade 8

 Tips for Watercolour

1. Always use good materials and take care of your materials

2. Always add water to your paint or to your paper

wet on wet = allows the paint to move around 

wet on dry = more control with the paint

more water = lighter colour

less water = darker colour

3. Do not paint up to the lines, but leave an edge of whitespace

4. When doing a wash, keep it light and leave whitespace for the eye to move around your piece

5. Start with light pencil as guidelines, then go over in ink if you like

6. Use your knowledge of colour theory when blending colours, blend on the table or palette 

7. Play with colours, trees to not have to be green and brown, they could be pink and purple

8. When creating a watercolour, draw from an image not from your head

pen&ink watercolour

simple watercolour ideas

Sample Assignments 2024

You in animal form

Creating your inner animal character

You are going to create an animal character of yourself. it will help to print a photo of an animal head or a cartoon animal head. You can have the animal doing something, have a favourit object that defines you. Please draw in pencil first, show teacher, then continue to ink out your drawing. Please add colour however you wish (pencil crayon, watercolour, or marker).

LINK to Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/lchase65/abstract-art/

Animal like human

Animal crew

Check out Ashley Percival's work on etsy

Introduction to Clay

 

Intro to Art

Outline of Art/Media Arts 

"We are here for a good time, not a long time" The course is very short and provides students an overview of art processes and techniques. The focus is to further develop some basic artistic skills and encourage the creative process.

Core Competencies

• Communicating and collaborating
• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Personal and Social Responsibility
• Social Awareness and Cultural Identity

Basic Curricular Outcomes

• proving opportunities for purposeful play and experimentation
• interpret art and artists
• developing and learning new techniques for creating art
• appreciating person and social contexts as it relates to art

Basic Outline of Course

• Understanding the Purpose of Art in Society, Why we should value Art? Where do we find Art? How do we determine what is Art? How do we assess Art?
• Free range Art Portfolio Design
• Stencil creation, stamp creation and process, tape stickers
• Logo design and pencil case digital design
• Line work and Zentangle designs
• Colour theory, with acrylics, blending painting
• Intro to watercolour techniques, and use of layering
• Collaborating on a group art piece through doodling and creating art cards/art magnets

Why Art is Important

Watercolour Assignments

 We will be working on watercolour for 2.5 classes. These are the assignments you need to complete.

Nov 30

 

Colour Theory Basics: a quick read and reference

Colour Theory

Ted Harrison Style: Acrylic on Canvas

The logo

LINK to Article: Shapes & Meanings 

LINK to Article: Psychology of Colour

LINK to Article: Cultural Symbols

You are to create your own simple logo that represents you, your personality and/or your interests. 

How to Zentangle

 How to Zentangle

The importance of Art, the bigger picture.

Why Art is Important

 

This is one way art helps the world

 

Designers at google take a lesson in colour theory.

Google colour theory

Art Cards & Creative Assignments

Heart Art by Kenzie Montgomery

Art Cards: Payton Gartside

Art Cards: Zoe David

Art Assignment

Assignment #1
I have a huge interest in creativity and invention. Now more than ever, it might just be these creative activities that keep us sane. I encourage you to watch the Jim Carrey video and check out the article Unleashing Your Creativity, it focuses on the importance of creativity in our daily lives. Check out the following article and video and then complete assignment #1.

Article to Read: Unleashing your Creativity by Vince Gowman

Video to Watch: Great video creating with Jim Carrey

Further Information: Website with great links to articles and information on Creativity

The Importance of Art in our Society: Art in Society

Do Something/Anything Creative Today: This should be a creation of something NEW
Have a quick look through some of this information, then decide on a creative activity. It can literally be anything: any art piece in any medium, create a video, sew something, make a signature meal, tie dye a piece of clothing, paint something, draw, write a song and perform it, bake something, create an art in nature piece, invent something, try out a new piece of technology like canva, choreograph and perform a dance, write a poem, experiment with a cool photography technique. Once you figure out what creative thing you are going to do, SEND ME A PHOTO, VIDEO or a picture EXAMPLE showing me what you have created and a small discussion about your process. ( a paragraph)

Assignment Art Trading Cards

Assignment #2: 9 Artist Trading Cards (marks 20)
We started this assignment before the break as an in-between assignment and so I think it is a great project to continue at home. Use whatever materials you have. The cards can be made by gluing paper or other materials on to an old deck of playing cards, or cut up an old cereal box ( perfect card stock material) or use watercolour paper or simply regular drawing paper.  You can work in whatever medium you like: watercolour, pencil drawings, collage, pen and ink, acrylic paint, or mixed media

What are artist trading cards?
Artist trading cards (ATCs) are miniature pieces of art that are traded around the world. Artists create, trade and collect art at organized "swap" events, either in person or online. The only official rule for ATCs is the size: 2.5" x 3.5".

How did the movement start?
In 1997, M. Vanci Stirnemann, a Swiss artist, created 1200 cards by hand as part of an exhibit. On the last day, he invited others to create their own cards and trade with him during the closing reception. The movement took off, and today, there are ATC swaps in almost every major city around the world. There are also many online swaps.

How do I create ATCs?
Most swaps are open to any media, materials or techniques as long as the card fits into a standard trading card sleeve. ATCs are traded, not sold. However, there are some artists who choose to sell cards. Cards that are sold are called Art Card Editions and Originals (ACEO).

Assignment: Create 9 art cards, you can work in any medium you like, and use what you have on hand. Due Friday May1  Marks: 20. Send me a photo on Teams or by email to : lisa.chase@sd71.bc.ca

 Sample art cards
 Pen&Ink and marker
 Chase 2020

Sample art cards
mixed media
from an artist
on the internet

Sample 
art cards
pen & ink and marker
Chase 2020

Check out this video link on to how to collage art cards: Collage art cards

TERM 4: Put Your Heart in Art: Assignment #3

Photo: Avarie Dennis

Assignment #3: We are in a time where we all have to pull together and dig deep into our hearts to understand others and to have compassion for the difficulties that some people may be going through.
In this assignment you are going to create a heart somewhere in your art, or the entire piece can be a heart. You may want to even give your art away to show gratitude or love for someone who might currently need some support. This assignment is wide open to work in any medium with any art materials you might have at home.

I would like to create either a video or virtual art gallery of our HEART ART to share on this blog. Take a good quality photo of your creation. This assignment can be sent to me through TEAMS or by email to lisa.chase@sd71.bc.ca. Due: Friday May 15 Marks 20.

Mixed media Heart: Chase

Check out my Pinterest Board on Heart Art  for lots of inspiration: Heart Art

Link to the Pearl Ellis Gallery Virtual Art Show

Pearl Ellis Virtual Art gallery

Inspiration for Choice Art Project: Assignment 4

From the Inspiration Page: Choose a Project

1. Photo/Pencil Drawing: Combine a photo and a drawing together and then take a photo of it. Check out this artists website: Ben Heine

Video on Ben Heine's work










2. Take the Getty Museum Challenge and Recreate a Masterpiece at home. You need to include the original piece of art and the replication. Check out the link to the Getty Museum to see how people have been having a ball with this. : Recreate Art masterpieces

Check out the LINK to photos of more of these self created masterpieces:
More cool Getty lookalikes

Photo from: The Cut

3. Victor Nunez turns everyday objects into cute doodles.  Find everyday objects and use them as a source of inspiration to draw around, send photo of your work.
Creating Art from Everyday objects and food

4. Alexandra Dillon paints on anything she can find, transforming old worn out items into art. Find some used products at home and turn them into art.
Check out this link to her work:
alexandra dillon cool art from old found objects

5. Make an object out  of Cardboard Inspiration. Create using just cardboard and paint, send photo. Check out this Pinterest Board with all kinds of ideas.
Check out this link to: Cardboard Art

6. Take a day to Doodle on an 8.5 x11 page of Doodles.  Make sure your doodles are smallish and they all work together to create a bigger piece of art. Check out this boy's work at this link. Doodle Away













7. Your Choice: If none of these ideas inspires you find an idea and pitch it to Ms Chase on TEAMS. Please do not recycle old art work from another class or from old stuff you have done. What I would like to see is some experimentation with ideas or materials.

Art:L.Chase