Lesson 9: Review of initial responses

Starter: Challenge Ball!
You will each pick a challenge ball and answer the question on the ball in response to the work below:

Lesson Aims: To understand how to improve your own work and continue exploring new techniques
in response to your own photographs and artists.

Assessment Objectives: AO2 / AO3 / AO4

Lesson Objectives (During this lesson we will): 
1. Understand how to improve initial responses
2. Learn the potential and limitations of materials/techniques
3. Understand the work of Amy Friend and Wendy Kawabata and learn how to create their pinhole technique
4. Continue responding to your own imagery through a variety of chosen techniques and media
5. Receive 1-1 teacher feedback on artist board/s.
Extension: Experiment with a min of 1 new technique: pinhole rubbing, PVA transfer, experimental backgrounds: coloured dye/salt, marbling, bubble printing.

Pinhole Rubbing:

Next week you will complete your initial responses and finish mounting your 2nd board - make sure you are staying on track!

TASKS:

Initial Responses:

Reflecting on your descriptive words and using your 'Responding to an Artist' sheet continue to create your own work inspired by your artist/s...

Extension techniques:

Complete a series of creative drawing techniques exploring line and tone:

• Pencil held down (or pen!)
• Smudge (ink  / pen and water)
• Linear / Contour
• Opposite hand
• Blind
• Upside down drawing
• 2 pencils same hand / 2 pencils different hand
• Cutout line work (stencil)
• Overlaying multiple lines with different mediums
• Ink & bleach / acrylic wash with pen
• White pencil / chalk on black paper
• Tonal paint on top of photograph
• Brown paper with white acrylic and biro
• Transfers - Sellotape / Acrylic
• Monoprint / Linoprint

Example Boards:

Plenary: Review!

Experimentation:

• Have you experimented with a new technique this week?
• Have you explored the potential and limitations of materials in your responses?

Review and Refine:

• What could you do to improve your work?

• Do you all feel confident that you know how to improve your initial responses?

Homework:

1. Continue mounting initial responses as per example boards above
2. Ensure you have explored a min of one new technique this week

3. Complete min of 3 initial responses - you should have 4-5 by now (including Reading Week!)

Deadline: First lesson w/c 29th February 2016!