It has been a weird year. There has been a pandemic going on all over the world and its effecting everyone. The pandemic has been going on for half a year and its still going on. We have been restricted to what we can do and what we can't and who we can see and who we can't see. Freedom has been very limited because of the social distancing and something simple as going outside could get you sick. This has also changed the way that we get our education. Schools have had to adapt to the new normal and it hasn't been an easy process.We are even more limited as students as to what we can do, when and how. From wearing badges of our year group and staying in our bubbles, to wearing face masks in the corridors.
Instructions
In order to take photographs, you need to make choices. You also need to think about instructions set for your pictures, like below: How will you take the picture? Where will you take the picture? Lighting or no lighting? What angle? Long distance or a short distance? What instructions are set for the subject of the picture?
Mona Lisa
The ‘Mona Lisa’ is famous for 4 main reasons.Firstly, it was painted by Leonardo DaVinciand was highly regarded at the time. During the 1400s it was part of the French royal art collection and after the French revolution it was put on display at the Louvre.
Thirdly, in 1911 the painting was stolen; the French people had the feeling it was their property and wanted it returned. After being found in Italy the painting went on a tour of the country before being returned to France. Finally, in 1919 Marcel Duchamp drew a beard on a postcard featuring the painting.
Kensuke Koike
Kensuke Koike is a Japanese Asian artist who was born in 1980. His art has been featured in articles , galleries and museums all around the world.
Sharon Walters research
Sharon Walters is a London artist who creates hand assembled collages celebrating back woman. Each collage is celebrating black women and celebrating natural afro hair and beauty. Sharon Walters uses a combination precision cutting and layering to create her beautiful mixed media portraits. Here is some example of some of her work:
Examples of Sharon Walters work:
Matt Lipps research
Collaborative instruction-based collage
You will need a pair of scissors, a glue stick, a camera phone, a piece of A3 cartridge paper and a magazine (containing interesting photos).
Cut or tear out 5 pages from your magazine. Choose pages with interesting images.
Make a pile of these 5 pages on your desk.
Take the top page and cut a hole in it (Note: it doesn't have to be perfect).
Pass this cut out image to your neighbour (the person sitting nearest to you in class).
Put the page with the hole in it at the bottom of your pile.
Take the (new) top page and tear it in half. Pass one half to your neighbour (the same one as before) and put the other half at the bottom of your pile.
Take the (new) top page and cut out a shape (Note: you could cut round an object or simply cut a random shape of your own choosing).
Keep the cut-out shape, putting it at the bottom of your pile, and pass the page that remains to someone 3 places away (Note: make sure you don't end up with your own page).
Take the (new) top page and tear a strip from the (top or bottom) edge. Keep the strip and pass the remaining page to someone else in the room.
Place the A3 sheet of cartridge paper in front of you (portrait format).
Without altering them, arrange the pieces of paper from your pile on the A3 sheet to create a pleasing collage. Carefully photograph your first arrangement.
Again, without altering them, repeat this process, re-arranging the various elements on the A3 sheet until you are happy with the results. Photograph carefully.
You may now swap 1 or 2 elements with your neighbour. Make a new arrangement and photograph carefully.
You may now adapt the pieces in any way you like - cutting, tearing etc. Make a new collage, this time sticking them to the A3 sheet of cartridge paper.
Photograph your finished collage carefully.
On your Make Do and Mend web page add the title Collaborative Instruction Collage.
Copy and paste this list of instructions.
Add a Gallery and upload the images you have taken today of your collages.
Write a brief evaluation (WWW/EBI) reflecting on what it was like to make a collage by following instructions and how you feel about the results.
If you complete all of this, experiment with importing the photographs of your collages into Photoshop and experiment with manipulating them using the various tools available. Remember to take screen shots (Cmd + Shift + 4, then draw a box) of the process so you can also add these to your webpage. Also, remember to save the resulting images as Jpegs (File > Export > Save for Web, select Jpeg High) and add them to your website.
Prison Photography
Nicoló Digiorgis' Prison Photography
Google street view
Google street view bingo
Here's the list of today's Google Street View Bingo locations and subjects:
Taipei - Fruit
Rome - Graffiti
Nairobi - Sport
Athens - Yellow Car
Kingston - Arrow
Taipei - Tall Building
Helsinki - Animal
Asmara - Person Pointing
Paris- Coca Cola sign
Lima - Bridge
Blindfolded photo collage challenge
Here are some collages i made whilst blindfolded.
Collage experiment
In todays lesson we where blindfolded and we had to make a collage. The thought of making a collage blindfolded would never come to my head. It was a challenge because we didn't have our eyes to see what we where doing so we had to use our hands and let our hands guide us.
Personal project
In todays lesson I mind mapped some of the things I might want to do over the 6 weeks we have for our own self projects.
Research : Meghann Riepenhoff
Some of Meghann Riepenhoff's art:
Making Day
On todays making day i wanted to experiment with things. I got some old pinhole photos and cut them up i also used a magazine and cut things out of it. I used photoshop to mess around with my collage and used shapes and colours to get my final outcome. I didn't really know what make with these so i then went to the printer and changed the colours and scanned them and layed other colours on top. This is how it turned out.
After i asked some people to place the circles i cut out of the prints where ever they wanted on the collage and this is what it looked like.