Year 1 Art

Abstract Piece During a lesson, we walked to Riversly Park to get some inspiration in order to create an abstract response to what we saw, smelt, felt and heard. I had a plan before we left: I'd take a piece of paper and make markings of different surfaces, I decided to do this because the textures would vary depending on the material and would give an insight into finer details. I used pencil for these as I wanted the simple texture, not color. I also did a mindmap of what I could hear and what i could see, which would help me remember when I was creating my piece. This is the piece of paper I took out on the right, even the texture of the paper reflects the atmosphere of the park, the crumpled texture reflects the fact I had struggled to hold all the objects and the paper, and it was windy as the paper was blown around a little as well.  I also collected these objects from the park, mostly leaves, some bark and sticks and some rubber lining I found on the floor and a part of ...

In class, we created some drawings using dry mediums onto a concertina of paper where one side had been coated in emulsion paint. For the black and white side I used a mix of soft and hard pencils, charcoal and graphite. I used cotton buds and cotton balls as well as my fingers to blend to create softer lines and edges. On this side, I focused on the more obvious parts of the photo and used a view finder to help me. This other side didn't have any emulsion paint on, so was a lot smoother and had less texture. I used black, brown and grey chalk. I used these shades of brown because they reflect the old and worn out photo I was using. The wrinkles of the corners of the page and the small rips show signs of age and how this photo itself has been on a long journey. This was the photo I'd used to base my drawings off. I used this photo because of the history behind it. The man sat on the chair is my great grandad, the woman in the white dress is...

What is composition? Why is composition important in art? Composition, is the placement or arrangement of visual elements in a piece of art. Composition is important as it can change the meaning of a whole piece, and what it means. There are lots of different elements in composition which can be used when putting a piece together. Rule of thirds - which involved dividing the piece into thirds horizontally and vertically to avoid overlapping or bisecting which can sometimes be unpleasing to the eye. This allows for the main focal point of the piece to be set aswell.  Rule of odds  - by using an odd number of elements in a piece its seems to look more interesting than an even number. Symmetry - can be used to create balance within a piece, if everything is symmetrical it can be seen as quite pleasing and neat/organised. Unity  - how objects are placed, in still life especially, is important. When arranging objects they must look natural and not awk...

Gallery Visit - London To help with my research on artwork and the theme 'Journey' I attended a trip to London on the 5th of October to the Tate Modern and the Photographer Gallery. I had a brief plan of what I wanted to look at, but one of the main things I wanted to do was go to the 360 viewing platform at the Tate. I took a lot of photos of London from there, here are my favourites. View of the boiler room Millennium bridge  Looking at a tower in the distance Another bridge over the Thames Bruce Nauman Next, I looked at some work by Bruce Nauman. There were a few pieces that caught my eye and made me think, these were called Help Me Hurt Me (1975) and No (1981). These two had a similar style, they're both lithographs on paper. My first reaction to these pieces of work caused confusion and some sadness, the colours Nauman has used are quite dull and the cool tones of the blue add to the lonely and slightly anxious atmosphere of ther...

'Journey' ideas At first, I was thinking of doing my journey on biology and the development of cells and evolution, but as I've thought about that I don't think I could put enough emotion into it, so I want to base this 'journey' on something more personal and to do with my family. I'm going to start the ball rolling by looking at the history and life timeline of my great grandad, who had a very tough journey to make towards the end of his life, the Burma trek in 1942. I have some family records of this and I've done some research but I need to look more towards the artists in the country and in the same time period, as well as artists who expressed themselves about making life changing decisions, to the physical and emotional pain he would have had to have gone through, up to expression frustration almost as a family of today trying to look back at his history but there being minimal records. I found an article with contains a video showing el...

Movement / Styles and genres of art 1. Abstract expressionism This movement I find interesting as at first glance it looks very messy and random, but once you look deeper into the art it can portray different emotions, from the view and from the artist. The varied composition of colour and texture can provoke both positive and negative feelings. I like that the artists message and feelings behind a piece can be completely different to one view to another. Everyone has their own interpretation of what a piece of abstract expressionism means to them.                                                                                             2. Impressionism I like the style of impressionism as i looked at it slightly for my...