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Mixed Media Musings: Illustration Course Week 6
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Tuesday, 8 November 2016. Illustration Course Week 6. The theme for this workshop was 'drawing from literature' and I'd previously selected some excerpts from Mervyn Peake's gothic fantasy Gormenghast. This book (actually part of a trilogy) is rife with vivid descriptive language, so it seemed like a good pick for my illustration group to work from. Next week we'll continue to take our inspiration from classic literature, using HG Wells' The Time Machine. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I realise I o...
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Mixed Media Musings: May 2016
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Wednesday, 25 May 2016. The exquisite corpse is a collaborative drawing method first advocated by the surrealists; many of us will remember it from childhood as 'the drawing game' or 'fold over drawings.' My students worked in groups to make some gigantic exquisite corpses that now loom large around the corridors of our centre. A few of my Art teacher friends were really interested to see these giant exquisite corpses, so here they are! Links to this post. Monday, 23 May 2016. Links to this post. This le...
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Mixed Media Musings: November 2016
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Sunday, 27 November 2016. Illustration Course Week 8. This was the final class of the illustration course I've been teaching for The Public House. It's been a lot of fun to teach this course - the students have been receptive and have always taken on whatever prompt I've given them. Teaching this course has really made me reflect on my own artistic practice too, which is something I didn't expect. I'm really looking forward to January! Links to this post. Wednesday, 16 November 2016. Links to this post.
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Mixed Media Musings: Art, Love and Beauty
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Saturday, 31 December 2016. Art, Love and Beauty. Plato argues that 'love requires beauty and thus doesn't possess it.' As I re read this dialogue for the first time in many years, I was moved to consider what possible dilemmas this proposition might create for aesthetics. A traditional understanding of art is that it must be beautiful. In a previous post. Plato's argument throughout The Symposium. What, then, of the Sublime? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I teach Art in an alternative provision for...
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Mixed Media Musings: What I Mean By Visual Storytelling...
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Thursday, 22 December 2016. What I Mean By Visual Storytelling. I can remember being in Italy when I was around three or four. Actually, that's not quite true. I don't really remember where I was, but I remember being given a Spiderman. Comic printed in a language that I didn't understand. As I was so young, and couldn't read much English, let alone any other languages, my parents' thought I'd be perfectly happy with an Italian edition of Spiderman. And they were right! This Italian language Spiderman.
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Mixed Media Musings: April 2016
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Friday, 29 April 2016. This lesson was inspired by the cut outs of Henri Matisse. I also wanted students to get a chance to experience collagraph printmaking, as we haven't used this technique so far this year. Students had some time to acquaint themselves with Matisse's cut outs and then they each chose one to recreate as a collagraph. When the plates had been completed, students inked them up using rollers and then printed their collagraph out on to paper. Links to this post. Thursday, 28 April 2016.
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Mixed Media Musings: January 2016
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Saturday, 30 January 2016. Wednesday, 27 January 2016. In the past I’ve written about my interest in folk art and my integration of such naíve and raw aesthetic stylings into my own teaching program. This is something that has evolved steadily over time and I thought I’d use this opportunity to expound further on how the concepts and practices of folk art have become central to the work done in my classroom. The Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe provides the following definition of the term;.
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Mixed Media Musings: September 2016
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Thursday, 29 September 2016. I discussed this idea with my students and found that a few of them had done similar things with old books. They really loved the idea of altering unwanted books and turning them into some sort of sculpture. After carefully cutting out a section of the book with craft knives, the young people grabbed hold of PVA, tempera paint, clay, oil pastels and fabric scraps to produce these amazing pieces of work! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Mixed Media Musings: March 2016
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Friday, 18 March 2016. Pictures and Words Part 2. Awhile ago I posted some work that my current GCSE students had created in response to the theme 'Pictures and Words.' The original post can be seen here. Links to this post. Monday, 7 March 2016. Photography and Construction Toy Dioramas. Here's an example of what was created last time I ran this session. Links to this post. Edward Gorey and Dramatic Reversal. After perusing some of his works (I particularly like The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Students will be ...
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