How to Analyse...

1. Basic Information

The name of the artist

What country are they from?  (This is important as it puts the work into context)

The name and date of the series that you are interested in.

The name and date of any images you choose from the series to analyse.

Research and explain what the artist’s intentions are.  What concept, message or meaning did the artist want to communicate or explore?

2. Visual Qualities

What do you like about the image?

What is the image of?

What is the main focus?

Can you write about any formal elements?  Line, Colour, Shape, Form, Texture, Pattern, Tone…

How has the artist achieved the meaning/concept or message?

What composition style have they used?  Leading lines, golden section, the rule of thirds…

How have they used the lighting in the image?

If they have used people s can you read any body language or facial expression?

3. Camera Settings (Photography)

What shutter speed do you think they have use?

What ISO do you think they have used?

Discuss the aperture settings used? 

Shallow/long depth of field

Where have they focused?

4. Relate to your own work
This is VERY important so do not leave it out! By answering these questions you will be explaining to the examiner just how you intend to use this investigation work to inspire your own work.

How will you be influenced by this artist?

What techniques, concepts or visual effects are you most inspired by?

How will you take this influence and use it in your work?
 

Y9 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - in under an hour

Y10 Len Tabner Seascapes Homework

Len Tabner was born in South Bank on the River Tees near Middlesbrough. His father had been a merchant seaman and Tabner remains fascinated by the grim grandeur of the industrial northeast. He lives a few hundred yards from the highest cliffs in England, at 650 feet above the sea, and near the potash mine in Boulby—the deepest mine in Europe.

It is a landscape of extremes and frequently of violent weather, but Tabner is not an artist to stay huddled indoors in his studio. He is to be found on the beach with his easel weighted down against the wind or, like Turner, on board ship in the middle of a gale. His is an elemental art, visionary in its scope. Due to these conditions, his paintings are produced with a sense of great urgency, with a rich variety of materials combining and competing on the surface of the paper. It is a question of evocation rather than description, although the paintings are definitely rooted in specific locales.

Despite working from the Falkland Islands to Japan, Tabner demonstrates that we can understand the whole by knowing one small spot extremely well. His home territory has been transformed in his lifetime - enabling him to chart the death of mines and shipyards and record the birth and heyday of North Sea power.      

Tabner tries to capture the feeling, the essence, the experience of the landscape

Giacometti at the Tate Modern

Giacometti is on show until September 10th at the Tate Modern for any of you able to go to London over the holiday.  Take a look at this link of Eight things to Know about Alberto Giacometti

Art Exam

For the art exam you should take a series of photographs these can be inspired by the artists that you are studying, pay careful attention to the background and how you light the still life. You should also complete at least one artist study with a response which can be A5 in size.

Young Designers Award

The brief for this year's award was to design an innovative new way of transporting people from the top of Shanklin cliff to the beach as an alternative to the lift. Our students came up with some very imaginative ideas and made it very tricky for the judges.. This is the third successful year that The Island Free School has entered the Young Designer Award which was organised by the IOW branch of RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects).

Students from all across the island took part in the competition.

Congratulations to all the students who took part and well done to our Year 9 GCSE Art and Design students - Taylor M who came first and Harrison  B who came third this year. The students picked up their certificates and medals during the award ceremony held at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes.

Taylor beside her winning entry in the 13-18 age gronp

Cliff Trio by Taylor M

The six Island Free School Winners.

Age 11-12 Years

1st Place - Ellie R - The Triple Towers
3rd Place - Fauve H P - The Lounge-A-Rounger
Commendation - Gracie B - Love Coffee
Commendation - Katie M S - Shanklin Butterfly Lift

Age 13-18 Years

1st Place - Taylor M - Cliff Trio
3rd Place - Harrison B - Shanklin Typhoon

STYLE OF WIGHT PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION - COAST

STYLE OF WIGHT PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION - COAST

Be creative take inspiration from and interpret the theme

WINNERS PRIZE:

• If you win, your photography will be featured in the pages of the Island’s most successful lifestyle magazine (Style of Wight).
• Have your work displayed at the Quay Arts Centre.
• A voucher for £100 to spend at the Island Photographic Centre.
• And you will be a part of our annual exhibition.

HOW TO ENTER:

To enter send your images by email to office@styleofwight.co.uk Please title the email clearly with the competition name (COAST), and include your full name, address and contact telephone number. For each bi-monthly competition you can enter up to three images, these must be supplied as print quality, high resolution files.

 (DEADLINE FRIDAY 23RD OF JUNE  PLEASE)

Tree Project Work and Homework

Competition Deadline 19th May 2017

 

Recreation Photos

Well done to all those who took photos, special thanks to mums, dads, brothers and sisters who  dressed up were painted and then photographed! Great work

Small Faces - Portrait Exhibition

Would you like your work to be in an exhibition?

Collect a piece of A6 cartridge paper from Ms Travers and create a portrait using any material.  The Deadline has been extended.Hand it in to Ms T by Friday 17th February and I will send it off to the Solent Showcase Gallery.

Sculpture Assessment next Wednesday

A quick reminder about what should be in your sketchbook for next weeks assessment on Wednesday for the work below.

For each of the three sculptors - Henry Moore, Niki de Saint Phalle and Alberto Giacometti

a) two pages or a double page spread (dps) in your sketchbook of drawings, paintings and collages of the artists work
b) photos of your sculptures based on the artists
c) write up about each artist with images of their sculptures
d) annotations explaining you ideas, materials and techniques explored

Friday
Your homework sculpture along with the design sketches and experiments of materials and techniques.