YR9-Cowes Harbour Landmark Design Competition

Well done to Year 9 student's for completing the Cowes Harbour competition.. some fabulous designs. We now have a news from the Judges...

Y11 Artist Mood Board Exam example

An Example for an Artist Mood Board for the title Spaces - Public Art

Collage Homework Y10

Y10 Autumn Homework

Homework – 1 Due Friday 23 Nov                                                                                                                    Use a number of your photos from your trips over the last half term and experiment with PicMonkey, Pixlr or other suitable online or digital manipulation software you have. Save a number of versions (minimum 4 test and one ‘final’) Print up four images to an A4/A3 page with annotations/explanations and your best image on a A4/A3.

Homework - 2 Due Wed 28 Nov                                                                                                                        Hand in your photo for Autumn TIFS competition - could be one of your trip photos.

Homework – 3 Due Wednesday 5^th Dec                                                                                                Complete an artist research on a Victorian watercolour artist of your choice who painted the IOW.  Look at the blog for ideas. Make a response to your artist by painting part or all of work.

Challenge /Extension Look at the work of a contemporary artist to use as inspiration for your own seascape painting/ mixed media art work e.g. Jerry Uelsmann   Fabienne Rivory Kurt Jackson or Amanda Hislop.

VICTORIAN IOW PAINTERS

In artistic terms perhaps the most important venue on the Isle of Wight from the 1840s was the village of Bonchurch, just to the east of Ventnor. Here charming stone villas with ornate verandas were built within sheltered gardens and rocky cliffs, overlooking the beautiful village pond and the sea. The beach and coastline proved a particular attraction for artists, who portrayed the activities of crab and lobster fishermen going about their work along the shore. Peter De Wint OWS (1784- 1849) painted ‘Bringing in the Catch at Ventnor’ in 1814. He made several drawings about this time that were, later, included in W. B. Cooke’s ‘Picturesque Delineation of the South Coast of England’ (Cooke, 182624).

A school of artists developed at Bonchurch, with Seaside Cottage on the shore being rented annually by a succession of eminent names including Edward William Cooke RA, Clarkson Stanfield, Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham NWS (1823-1875) and Thomas Miles Richardson Jnr RSA RWS (1813-1890). There is a remarkable similarity in the technique adopted by artists like Richardson, Rowbotham, George James Knox (1810-1897) and Isle of Wight artist William Gray (fl.1835-1883). Their rich ‘Mediterranean’ palate with the extensive use of heightening with white is typical, and it is almost certain that the prolific Island topographical artist, Gray, was a pupil and painting companion of Richardson and Rowbotham. On one occasion in 1861 the latter two artists painted an identical scene of a coal boat being unloaded on the beach at Bonchurch.  

The important Victorian watercolourist Myles Birket Foster RWS (1825-1899) and his family moved to Bonchurch, renting the seaside villa, Winterborne, for a period of recuperation from tuberculosis. Whilst living there, he produced at least ten fine watercolours of children on the beach at Bonchurch.

 ’At Bonchurch’ by Edward William Cooke RA (c.1850). Cooke produced numerous ‘geological’ pictures such as this on the Isle of Wight coast between Ventnor and Shanklin. A follower of the Pre-Raphaelite School, Cooke painted extremely accurately and his work was greatly admired by the Victorian art critic, John Ruskin. 

Y9 HW 6 Due 19 Nov

Y9 & Y10 Cowes Harbour Landmark Design Competition

 Y9 Half Term HW

All Y9 and Y10 students (optional in Y11) will take part in the Competition.

Over the half term you are expected to create an A3 or A4 mind map, A3 or A4 mood board and A3 or A4 page of initial ideas for the Competition.

Y9 Homework 4 in colour

Y9 Homework 3 Due 8th October

Y10 Artist copy colour Len Tabner - Due 27th Sept

Extension artist copy of a monchrome image by Len Tabner like the one below.

Y9 Art Homework Due 19 & 26th September

Mind Map Ideas

Take a look at the Art guide website for more ideas for making a successful mind map. Below are some examples to get you started. Part of your summer homework is to create an A3 mind map.

Steps to Creating a Mind Map

1. Create a Central Idea. The central idea is the starting point of your Mind Map and represents the topic you are going to explore. ...
2. Add branches to your map. 
3. Add keywords. ...
4. Colour code your branches. ...
5. Include images.

The Landscape Mind Map below has steps one to 4 - just missing the images. 

Y11 Summer Homework

Over the Summer complete work required to complete your Y9/10 folder.

You are to choose a title from Landscape, Identity, Architecture, Landmarks, Mechanical Objects. 

1.    Title page (optional)

2.    A3 mood board use pinterest to find drawings, printmaking, paintings, photographs, textile art, sculpture and appropriate design work images linked to your title.

3.    A3 artist mood board from the artists listed in the information below and some of your own type the name of the artist under the art work.

4.    Visit a gallery or exhibition and create at least one A3 page based on your visit, collect brochures, take photos, make thumbnail sketches and brief notes about the art work you see and what you thought.

Architecture title - I recommend that you go ‘Thirty’ High Street opposite the Guildhall in Newport as there is an architecture exhibition on only until the 30^th July - collect University booklets.

5.    Take at least 24 photos for your title, try to include interesting angles, take photos of the same place or object at different times of day, different position, backgrounds, use compositional guidelines - leading lines, rule of thirds, contrast of colour, texture, light and dark, close ups etc.

6.    Complete at least one artist research page and response.

7.    Produce studies based on your theme experiment with at least 3 different media (pen, charcoal, collage, acrylic paint, watercolour, oil pastel, mixed media.

8.    Use different papers, brown wrapping paper, wallpaper, canvas, cartridge, sugar paper, tissue paper.

Optional                                                                                                             

a) Manipulate the images you have taken, create photocollages, experiment with a digital manipulation software – download a free app on your phone and experiment with ideas, print up your photos and paint ontop of them or extend them into a drawing.

b) Produce a final outcome either for this title or another outcome for the Y10 Sea project or your Y10 mock exam.

c) Create design(s) for a lino print, silk screen print or foam print based on your theme.

d) 2^nd photo shoot take another set of 24 images.

The more you do in the summer the better – You have one term left on your portfolio which is worth 60% of your GCSE.