Observational drawings

My Year 9 GCSE Art group are preparing for their exams and this week we started to focus on observational drawings relating to their exam questions to help them finalise ideas.


Marine life is one of the exam question options and we set up a display of different fish for the students to observe and draw. 


This is to help students get used to drawing marine life and also give them ideas. This lesson was in exam conditions so students also have an idea of how the exam will be and what they have to prepare for.


Here are some of the observational drawings that i did during this lesson using a graphite stick.

Subject Session - Photography

My subject session was focused on composition and perspective in photography. I gave each person a toy animal with a selection of headlines relating to the animal and each person had to take their own photograph of the animal to fit with the context of the headline.

Insecticide treated grass causes health problems for elephants.

Barmy weather means spring lambs are born in the deepest mid winter.

Zebra thrives in new habitat.

Pencil Drawings

Across all the year groups all students were set a task of drawing shoes. they could do it how ever they wanted and as many times as they wanted within the hour long class. The teacher used this as a way of establishing the grades of the stduents and assessing their progress and performance. This is the shoe that drew.

Tessellation patterns

In Art this week I learnt about Tessillation patterns we traced a pattern and then rotated our original pattern and traced it around the page to make a tessillated pattern. Here are some examples.

Flash animation

Using Adobe flash I made a simple animation during Liz's subject knowledge day.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Here are some images that I took during my degree in Photo media & digital imaging. These are all studio based fashion and portrait images which is the area that I specialised in.

TEXTILES & COSTUME DESIGN

These are a small selection of fancy dress costumes I have made from scratch over the last year. The Sheep, mouse, smurf and Pocahontas costumes were all designed and made myself and the giraffe suit was from a pattern and the neck and head were improvised. I used a mixture of hand sewing and machine stitching to make the costumes and Velcro, poppers and zips for fasten the different costumes.