Hi kids
Welcome to our first virtual art class
The last class we leave as a homework the greek profile portrait, im gonna attached the image, that is already in cibercolegios, but I will leave it here for you to refresh your memory, and you must send the pictures of your art work to our skype group today.
As a reminder for the topic I will leave the ancient greek art video we saw the last class
Date: 24th March 2020 (DAY 4) 1
Topic: Greek Art History
Objective: Develop a papier mache greek vase
CC: Respect
Key words:
- Horizontal lines
- Vertically
- Features
As we said in the last class we have on school, we will need specific materials for today.
Making a Greek vase from papier mache is easier than it might seem and since it requires some common household items, you might already have most of the items you need.
Before you get started, you will need:
- One large balloon
- One toilet paper tube, or cardboard box stripes
- Maskin tape
- Acrylic paint (terracotta and black colour)
- One large paintbrush
- One thin paint brush
- White tissue paper or even toilet paper
- Newspaper
- Paper mache glue (poured some white glue into a bowl or onto a plate, mix it with a little bit of water and flour)
I will leave you the recipe to the paper mache glue, step buy step, please read it and follow it carefully
- Mix one part flour with one part of water (eg, 1 cup flour and 1 cup water and 1/2 cup of white glue, or 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup water and 1/4 cup of white glue) until you get a thick glue-like consistency. Add a bit more water if it's too thick.
- Mix well with a spoon to get rid of all the lumps. If you find you are getting lumps in your glue, you can use a small kitchen electric mixer to whiz them out.
- Add a few tablespoons of salt to the final mixture to help prevent mold.
NOTES:
- You need to use strips of newspaper or even paper tissues or kitchen towels.
- Let the newspaper strips soak in the paper mache glue a little before using.
- Cover your artwork with only 2-3 layers, then let dry completely. This is an important step.
- Once a layer is dry you can add 2-3 more layers, remembering to let each layer dry before adding the next one.
- The final layer can be plain paper - so it's easier to paint - but use the thinnest paper possible and make sure it's soaked well in the paper mache glue.
For those who told me that they do not have materials in their homes for the activity, (although they were requested two weeks ago), and that because of the quarantine you can't go out and buy them, I leave you a video with an alternative exercise for a 2D vessel.
You can use:
- shopping paper bags you should have at home
- scissors
- black marker
- paint brushes (thick and thin)
- red, yellow and blue colored paint,
This is the video
Phase 1
Place a blown-up balloon on top of the bottom section of toilet paper roll or the cardboard stripe. (You could also use the top section with the lid still attached.) Tape it securely in place with masking tape. (Make sure the balloon remains completely upright and does not tilt as you tape it in place. Otherwise, you will end up with a lopsided urn. and the ballon need to have good quality otherwise it will explote when the stripess of newspaper are drying)
Now, place the other bottom section of the balloon in a thick and wider stripe of cardboard and tape it in place. This is the initial skeleton of the vase.
Here you got some images tu ilustrate you
When you got everything in the right place, dip a strip of newspaper into the papier mache paste and squeeze off the excess paste between your fingers. (You want the strips to be wet but not soaking or dripping.)
You must begin at the very top of the skeleton vase, press the strip onto the sides of it, softly. Repeat this until the entire vase has been covered with 2-3 layers of paper mache. Be sure to stagger the strips so that you get an even surface.
Don't forget to cover the inside ridge by pressing strips up and over the top so that they nearly touch the top of the balloon. Although it is not necessary, I'd also recommend pressing strips on the bottom of the urn. It will make for a durable frame.
Before finishing this phase, I'd suggest you wet your hands with paste and use them to smooth out any wrinkles. Use firm and fast strokes so that you don't tear the wet layers. The tighter and smoother the paper mache, the stronger and prettier the vase.
Set the urns in a well-ventalated area or outside to dry for at least 24 hours. If you have extra paste, put it in a sealed container to save for the next phase of the process. (If the paste gets a bit clumpy after a few days, slowly add water until it gets to the desired consistency.)
Phase 2
Repeat the above steps once again adding 2-3 more layers of paper mache. Try to keep all the strips vertical. They are easier to attach that way and look much nicer than horizontal ones.
Phase 3
Using an exacto knife, cut two, one inch strips of heavy cardboard. (This should be done by an adult) the strips could be about 8 inches in length, but yours will need to be adjusted to fit the size vase skeleton you have created.
Bend each strip so that the top and bottom inch remains flat, while the middle rounds over...creating a handle. Secure the handle to the top "lip" portion of the urn with a horizontal strip of masking tape. Then arch the cardboard to your desired handle size and secure the bottom to the urn with another horizontal strip of masking tape. Make adjustments as needed. Once the handle is in the desired position, put another strip of masking tape over the original pieces for extra stability.
As we are creating a vase with TWO handles, repeat this entire process. Be sure to line up the handles so that they attach at a similar height on each side. (Otherwise, your vase will look lopsided.)
Using small strips of paper mache (the newspaper with the speacial glue), secure the top and bottom of the handles to the rest of the paper mache. (I'd suggest doing a few horizontal pieces and then a few vertical ones.)
Phase 4
Using a needle or a pin, pop the balloon and remove the pieces.
Your urn should be hollow and quite sturdy.
Using acrylic paint in terra cotta shades, paint the urn. (Although we did NOT paint the entire inside, we did paint the inside top ridge.)
Depending upon the paint, you may need to paint several coats. Let dry completely.
Phase 5
Using black paint, add Grecian-themed designs to the urn. Remember, less is best. Although REAL urns were quite elaborate, depicting many scenes of everyday life, we found it easier to keep to simple designs.
You must send me the photographs with the evidence before Monday March 30 (to my email: linahernandez@gcmeryland.edu.co), of the process and a final photograph with a good frame and a good light of your vase.
Hello Kids
Welcome back to your virtual art class
Date:22th April 2020, DAY 4
Topic: LQA
Objective: Close the topics seen in the first period
CC: Reliability
Key words: Vessel, Kahoot, Greek art, Athenian
We will close the first period with a test of 10 questions in kahoot, first we will enter zoom, you will type www.kahoot.it and the teacher will share her screen for you to see the questions and answer options, then you will enter the pin and your nickname, remember it must be your real name and last name for a correct identification.
Remember that each question has 30 seconds of time to answer, the results are automatic, and the score corresponds to the number of answers you have correct, for example, if you answer the 10 questions, you have 10, if you answer 5, your score will be that number.
Date:30th April 2020, DAY 4
Topic: Second term
Objective: Identify the topics and materials neede for the second term
CC: Reliability
Key words: monochrome, plychromy
Topics
| Colour Theory | Make mixtures of pigments, experimenting and classifying to obtain monochromies, polychrome tones, values and saturation. | Monochrome and polychromy |
| The tone | ||
| The value | ||
| Saturation | ||
Materials needed
- Paintings (blue, yellow, red, black and white)
- Or pencil colours
- Paint brushes, thin and round shapes
- Colour palette
- Art notebook
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Paper towels
- Water bowl
To understand more the main topic we will see this video about the Color theory basics video
Date:11th May 2020, DAY 4
Topic: Colour theory basics
Objective: Identify and apply the primary, seconday and tertiary colours
CC: Reliability
Key words: hue, saturation, value,shade, tint, tone
- Paintings (blue, yellow, red, black and white)
- Or pencil colours
- Paint brushes, thin and round shapes
- Colour palette
- Art notebook
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Paper towels
- Water bowl
Activity
On a sheet of our notebook we will make the outline of each image that appears in the video of the last class and here on the blog, about: the primary and secondary colours, it is worth making this clarification, we are only going to work with yellow, blue, red, white and black to obtain all the shades that we are going to identify.
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Date:20th May 2020, DAY 4
Topic: Colour theory basics
Objective: Identify and apply the tertiary colours
CC: Reliability
Key words:Tertiary
Activity
After reading and understanding the afro colombian art history you will develop your own wheel of tertiary colours on your art notebook
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Materials needed
- Paintings (blue, yellow, red, black and white)
- Or pencil colours
- Paint brushes, thin and round shapes
- Colour palette
- Art notebook
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Paper towels
- Water bowl
Date:29th May 2020, DAY 4
Topic: Colour theory basics
Objective: Identify and apply the primary, seconday and tertiary colours
CC: Reliability
Key words:Kente cloths
Activity
On a sheet of our notebook we will make the outline of the image that appears up here on the blog, about: the tertiary colours, it is worth making this clarification, we are only going to work with yellow, blue, red, white and black to obtain all the shades that we are going to identify.
When we finish mixing and applying our colors in our notebooks, we are going to see a video about African Kente Cloths Story for the Week of Afrocolombian History and create our own Kente Cloth Desing applying Primary, Seconday and Terciary colours seen, here you got some examples for it.
The Spider Weaver The Legend of the Kente Cloth
Kente Cloth Desing example
Here you got an example from one of your classmates
Date:8th June 2020, DAY 4
Topic: Tone and value LQA
Objective: Identify and apply the terms
CC: Reliability
Key words:Tone, Value, Hue
Activity
We will identify and understand the concept of TONE, VALUE AND HUE when we talk about color theory, the you will develop your own creative composition aplying the tone and value, I will leave you some examples for you, remeber this s the LQA for the second term and you have till sunday 0:00 to send it (ciber colegios)
Examples of Value compositions
