CLASS AND HOMEWORK TASKS

Go to Coldfall Woods or the

allotment.

1. Collect leaves, dried grass twigs

etc

2. Take image of the woodland

floor or allotment close up angles

and ensure that there is plenty of

varied foliage and colour within

your images. Use reflections to

your advantage

3. BACK IN CLASS: Create a mixed

media painting. Use the objects

you have collected to build up

an interesting textures surface

Woodland task Students will need a camera for this task

Materials:

CameraBleachInkFound earthy objects: sand, leaves, twigs etcPaintPVACard to work on

MICHAEL PORTER http://www.michael-porter.co.uk/

ANSELM KEIFER

http://www.tate.org.uk/artist-rooms/collection/theme-environment

Related artists and links

ANSELM KIEFER

MARIO MERZ, Charcoal on

paper

Task – Map your own spaceJessica Rankin creates tangible spaces using information found by documenting overheard conversations and gathered text.

Her works represent ‘landscapes of the mind’

The small sections of text represent thought clouds. Rankin visually describes how she feels our thoughts present themselves.

Use one of the maps provided. Cover it with tracing paper, or tissue paper.

Highlight specific areas of interest to you. use basic shapes to outline these.

Create a word bank to annotate the work

The words could be used to link different areas on the map.

Some of you may want to stitch through the paper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtOVW8W6CY

MATERIALS

Tracing paper

Tissue paper

Needle & thread

fineliners

Related artist: Jessica RankinJessica Rankin’s work might best be described as mental maps. Working on a sheer fabric called organdie, her images invoke cartography or geographic diagrams. Made from thousands of tiny embroidered stitches, Rankin delineates shapes, boundaries, and contours, interconnecting and locating them with miniscule

text. In Hour To Hour, which incorporates 4 gossamer swatches, Rankin’s constellation appears to hover as gauzy illusion, with tiny green islands anchoring fixed location in nowhere. Labelled with poetic stream of consciousness text such as IHEARDTHEMBUTWASNOLONGERTHERE and COMPLETELYBYSURPP, Rankin’s map refutes

tangible space to chart the mystical terrains of memory, the subconscious, fiction, and passing time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C

UtOVW8W6CY&safe=active

http://www.timknowles.co.uk/

TASK: TREE DRAWINGThis task uses the wind as its motor

Attach pens or pencils to the branches of a tree, or to an object that is effected and moves in the wind.

Ensure that you have left your paper in a stable positions, and that the pens or pencils touch the paper.

Use varied colours over a longer period to monitor weather change

Film using a GoPro or stop motion camera

MATERIALS:

Pencils / pens

Tape

Paper

Tree or object that moves in the wind

Time (leave for a day to see results

HOMEWORK: Installation that sits in an outside environment .

It can respond to the elements or sit within a space. Look at

the below ideas to help you

Photograph and present in book

Andy Goldsworthy

EMMA JEAN KEMP

Wind walks: Tim Knowles:

http://www.timknowles.co.uk/tabid/502/Default.aspx

If you enjoyed this task….

TASK – DRAWING WITHOUT A PENCIL

• Use shredded material, staples and glue to create a wall hanging inspired by the artist

Elana Herzog.

• Some of you may want to add text to the piece.

MATERIALS

Stapler

Textiles

Lettraset

Cardboard or mdf to work on

HOMEWORK – DRAWING WITH CANDLESENSURE YOU INFORM PARENTS?GUARDIANS OF THIS TASK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z9dBZHwDm8&safe=active

Steven Spazk uses the imprint of soot left on the surface of the

paper to draw with. He then adds highlights by gently scratching or

etching into the surface to reveal the finer details.

Watch this video before you attempt to complete this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z9dBZHwDm8&safe=active

USE CARDBOARD PAPER to create a drawing/series of

drawings, using images of your choice, that relates to the theme.

You must demonstrate the below techniques:

1. ETCHING: wire wool, needle or pin, soft bristle brush, hog hair

brush

2. Add colour

3. Melt wax onto the page, add soot and colour to create a mixed

media piece.

ALTERNATIVES: dropping inks into water and talking photos

Marbling paper and creating a collage

1. WORK IN PAIRS. Melt wax in the batik wax heater

2. Drop you wax into a bucket of water (option to colour water

and photograph

3. Take photos of your sculpture

4. Draw a full page tonal drawing from your work

TASK: MELTING WAX INTO WATER

MATERIALS

Batik wax heater

Wax

Buckets

Ink to die water

camera

This task will highlight the distortion that can occur when objects

are place in water

Vary the water: create ripples

add colour

drop onto object

TASK: SUBMERSE OBJECTS IN WATER AND

PHOTOGRAPH

http://inhabitat.com/found-objects-become-

magical-works-of-art-submerged-underwater-by-forlane-6-studio/forlane-6-studio12-jpg/

MATERIALS

Small objects: Foil, Plastic, tissue paper

Camera

Photographs or images

Bucket

Water

Recycling and waste: plastic in water, destryoing the

seas, create sea creattures out of plastic bottles etc.

IDEAS TO OBJECTS IN WATER

WHEN MELTING PLASTIC ALWAYS

WEAR A MASK AND BE IN A WELL

VENTILATED AREA

Paint from a photo using watercolour.

Dip half the photo in water and let the paint run

See what the results are

HOMEWORK: Paint from a photo

JENS HESSE

TASKSErosion- bury, immerse, (burn), hang on a washing line- an image

for the last three weeks of the half term- document.