Art Term 4 Week 4

 Art Term 4 Week 4

My theme for art is the past vs present. I am using females in my household to show the difference between the olden days vs the present days. 

Over the past 4 weeks I have been working on 3 different pieces of work for board 1. I have taken inspiration from Ava Seymour who takes people in black and white and puts them in coloured backgrounds. The style of her people that she uses have big bobble heads and usually look like little families. I decided that for piece 2 and 3 that I wanted to draw the heads for the ladies. They are all family members. I then photoshopped their faces onto butterick sowing pattern bodies and made them black and white. The photos I decided to use for the background are photos from when my house was first built in 1980. For piece 2 and 3 I have added a transparent background of lace and crotchet. Piece 1 I have used the youngest members from the family timeline and have also photoshopped the faces onto butterick sowing pattern bodies. To show the difference of past vs present I have kept them in colour as-well as the background.

My next steps are to do one more piece with the same image from piece 1 but the image will be the house now. I am also going to get my sisters together to stand in the same position. 

Piece 1

Piece 2

Piece 3

Update:

I have completed my 4th piece of my sisters and I.

Art Inspiration:

Ava Seymour

Ava Seymour

Art Update (Board 1 Complete)

 Art Update Term 4

Board 1 Complete

My theme for art is the past vs present. I am using females in my household to show the difference between the olden days vs the present days. 

Over the last couple of weeks of term 3, I have been working hard on completing all my artworks for board 1. The main artwork I had to complete was my family timeline inspired by Dick Frizzell's Mickey to Tiki. The Mickey to tiki artwork starts off with Mickey Mouse fading into a red outline turning into a Tiki. To interpret this into my artwork I decided to do a family timeline starting with my nana (the oldest) ending with me (the youngest). I went and outlined every person on the timeline with a red felt and then with a sewing machine I stitched a red outline around the head. To connect everyone together I decided to use the excess string and glue them to each person showing a connection. I really liked how this turned out and I fell like it will be a very important piece on board 1. This timeline also can help start board 2 (present). 

Art Update Week 8

Art Update Week 8

This week I had been focusing on finishing my board 1 and then starting board 2. My theme is females in my household (past vs present). 

The latest drawing I have done is of my ballet jewellery box which I'm going to put next to the drawing of the cabinet. I wanted to do it in black and white (pencil) because I want it to relate to the olden days when photos weren't in colour or tv weren't in colour.  

My artist inspiration for my board has mainly been focused around Sofia Minson. I love the way she has a realistic centrepiece with a solid, flat background. It makes the centrepiece stand out.

For board 2 my artist inspiration is going to be Ava Seymour. I love the way she has the background in colour and then the people are black and white and has weird features. 

My next step is going to be to complete board 1 (I need one more art piece at the bottom of my board). I'm also wanting to start onboard 2 by doing some photography. 

Board 1

My newest drawing of a jewellery box

These are some of my favourite pieces of Ava Seymour's artwork:

 

I like the way she has used the photo as the background of the artwork. Instead of doing the bobblehead people, I'm going to intertwine Sofia Minson's artwork by using pencil drawings of realistic people.  My plan is to take picture/collect pictures of my family members houses from the past and drawing "realistic" people into them to represent Sofia Minson and Ava Seymour.  

Level 1 Art, Term 3 Week 2 Update

Level 1 Art, Term 3 Week 2 Update

I am focusing on females and how things have changed (olden days vs modern days).
I like this theme because I can learn about the past and learn more about how things have changed.

My first art piece was of my great aunty (born 1934). This was actually the reason why I changed from doing wildlife enderangerment into olden days vs modern days. My artist inspiration is Sofia Minson and I decided to have flat, patterned backgrounds to incorporate her style into my art. I have also added gold to my art because it adds more dimension.

For my second art, I wanted to find something that I could add a flat background to. I found an image of a lady sitting on a stool but changed it to look more like it was taken in the past. I also like that instead of painting the woman I did a pencil drawing and painted the background. I changed the pattern on her dress to make it fit my theme more. For the background, I wanted something that had unique shapes and a pattern that I could add more than 1 colour to.

What wasn't working: My first theme that was wildlife endangerment. This didn't work because I struggled with coming up with ideas of what art to do.

What is working: I like doing the pencil sketch and then doing the flat background with paint.

What is my next step: Im going to try complete my second artwork by this week.

The ones with the hearts are the ones I have completed

First part to my second drawing of the woman on the stool

Final artwork of my great aunty

Im going to add one more coat of paint and then some gold foil and it will be finished

Week 6/7 Art

Week 6/7 Art

The artist model I have used is Sofia Minson. Sofia Minson uses patterned, flat backgrounds in her artwork. I used this as an inspiration to create my background. My background has hexagon shapes representing the turtle shell. The colours for the hexagon are warm tone colours like red, orange and yellow. I used these colours because I want them to represent the sun and I also want to use the hexagon shape throughout my other artwork. The inside of my turtle is the Earth which is melting from the sun due to climate change. 

My focal point: I want my focal point to be the turtle. I'm going to do this by having the turtle shaded by pencil or charcoal, whereas the background is going to be more vibrant to make the turtle stand out.

My Kaupapa is climate change and my subject matter is animal endangerment. I'm going to use a hexagon shape to tell a story as well as using warm colours but I also want to add cool tone colours as well. Using the hexagon to relate back to the turtle and using the warm colours to relate back to the sun/heat. I want to use cool tone colours to relate back to water/cold.

Starting my artwork

Plan of my hexagons

My plan

Level 1 Art - What is my art Kaupapa?

This year in art I will be focusing on animal endangerment as my Kaupapa. For my subject matter im going to base it around climate change.

I have chosen this theme as I really love animals and I think its important to keep them safe. I think animals are really important to our Earth.

The media I will work with are Paint, Magazine art and possibly photography.

The artists I have selected for 1.1 are: Robyn Kahukiwa & Sofia Minson from List one. From list two are: Shepard Fairey & Claude Monet.

My Mood-board

My artist focus for 1.2 and 1.4: I really like Sofia Minson because I like the way she uses the flat, patterned backgrounds.

My Theme:
I really like my theme because of the way I love animals. I think I can use this theme to spread awareness of climate change.

Ideas of drawings I could use

Planning my theme

I want to use fire, animals, nature as my subject matter. I want to use these because I think it can help me tell a story of my art and it relates to climate change.