26th March 2010 Week 9 Last lesson of the term! Because it is Good Friday next week and we have art lessons every Friday. I was anxious as to whether I would get into trouble for not colouring in my flipbook drawings. I didn’t colour it in because I after I fixed up my insect leg’s I wouldn’t know if this would meet her standards so If I did colour it in and it wasn’t good enough, I would have ruined the whole thing. BUT, hopefully she just told the people who hadn’t coloured in to quickly get that done.
As we didn’t have art next week, Ms Naylor gave us some holiday homework. WHICH WAS: to completely finish the flipbook with the black cardboard and everything. Also, she informed us of the task beginning and middle which we should have started on. The whole class went: WHAT? What task beginning.. So did I.. Apparently we were supposed to know from week 1 by checking the Art OneNote package. And do a blog, which I had started on. But now I will decide to put it on the internet!
For the rest of the art lesson, I completed colouring in my insect and flower drawings. Oh we also received like a presentation outline as to how a presentation in Art should be. I found it very useful.
No more art till next term… oh well.
To conclude this term, here is a picture I found:
1:10 AM
19th March 2010 Week 8
Since Ms Naylor wasn’t here the previous week, we didn’t get to finish the art presentations so one last person performed their play. For the rest of the lesson, Ms Naylor checked our scratchboards and gave us each some feedback. She told me mine was probably too heavily scratched or I used the wrong tool and that I should improve a bit on my crosshatching. Hehe. I have a lot to do.
After she checked our sketchboards, I worked a bit more on my insect and plant drawings and adding more human bits to the flower by drawing glasses around the head of the flower and I also added glasses to the insect. (when I was told to by Ms Naylor) Then, she called anyone who would like to see her about the flipbook drawings to show her our progress. I was the first one to go and check with her. ^.^ So far I learnt that I needed to just include more human bits in my pictures and to seriously look at the details of a praying mantis’s legs. Overall, it was a good day.
That was basically today’s lesson. Felt very short today. Maybe it was because there wasn’t much to do.
1:10 AM
12th March 2010 Week 7
This week we had an substitute for Ms Naylor as she was away. MS GREW! I had her last year when we were doing the Vanitas drawings. She taught us how to use the scratchboards. Basically, what we had to do was to crosshatch with a scalpel on a piece of special black paper in whatever object you are drawing. The catch is that if some bits are black/dark or shadowy, you don’t scratch it out as the paper is black! My first attempt was very poor however I improved slightly on my second one. And this is what it looked like:
It was supposed to look like a little boy smiling. Apparently we are going to be working on these later on, so I hope I will improve by then . It was a very relaxing lesson in a way that the art assignment was out of the way.
1:08 AM
5th March 2010 Week 6
ART SPEECH OVER AND DONE WITH. Well this is how I felt when I was presented: NERVOUS AND BILLION POSSIBILITIES AS TO WHAT COULD GO WRONG. (as always) Anyway, my points were that the art grows on with time, the artist grows and that the audience which views the artwork grows along with it, therefore art is growth. I was so nervous about presenting though, initially my presentation was 6-7 minutes(even with really speedy talking) when I timed it at home but on the day it felt like 3 minutes! Other people similarly presented their opinion on Is Art Growth to mine, with the visuals and a speech. Everybody else did essays (in fact majority of the class did) plays and one even did a puppet show which was quite amusing. I think most of my class chose to answer that Art is Growth.
And yeah, so basically today we spent the whole lesson doing presentations, we even ran out of time to do them all. UNFAIR!!
This quote was used in my speech and many people also used it. Artistic growth is, more than anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy: only the great artist knows how difficult it is - Willa Carter
something to lighten up the day
1:05 AM
26th February 2010 Week 5
Today was the due date of the research assignment (FINALLY THAT IS OUT OF THE WAY) BUT there is still a presentation to go. I am presenting a speech with visuals at the back. After Ms Naylor looked at my research, she suggested finding more information on my second artwork which was the hardest to find information on! Everyone in the class was worried about their research so Ms Naylor kindly let us ask her about anything we are unsure about before next week’s presentations.
Then, we began to brainstorm some ways we could draw up our insect. The insects I came up with to draw were: Grasshopper, Moth, Beetle, Fly and a praying mantis. In the end, I decided to do a praying mantis with human arms as its middle legs. Haha, get it? Anyway, that is basically what I did today. It was pretty unproductive due to the fact that I could not find an image of the praying mantis so I just planned out what I was going to do. Today is a short post ^.^
feeling the stress
1:01 AM
19th February 2010 Week 4 I finally had started on my research (heh, it is a week late, still a week to go) and I could NOT find any info on my first two art pieces however I found sufficient details on my last one which was the Five Senses by Lubin Baugin. I found a pic of it, here is what it looks like.
I find this piece to be very intriguing and I am already guessing at which sense matches each object.
As for the other “mysterious” artworks, Ms Naylor told us that if it was too difficult, find similar artworks. For example: Similar time, artist, technique or theme. But I can not believe that I couldn’t find anything in the School library OR the internet. Who would have thought that there are some things you can't find on the internet.
In today’s lesson, our class went up to the library to find a flower to draw as ourselves. I was initially thinking about drawing marigold since it is my birth flower but it was too hard to draw (there were many intricate details in the head of the flower) and also I couldn’t find good photo of it. So, I ended up choosing Gladiolus which is one of my mum’s favourite flower. I drew a version of this image I found on google:
And as the human counterparts (plant as myself) for this gladiolus, I am thinkingto replace the end stalk with human legs (in the posture of the photo).
I THINK Ms Naylor also told to find an insect but not to draw yet, just to have some in mind…
12:55 AM
12th Feburary 2010 Week 3 After receiving the MOUNTAIN of work the previous week, this is what I had done:
ONLY to be found out that Ms Naylor didn’t check our books today for our homework. One of my friends who forgot to bring her VAD was so lucky!! Anyway, today we received a research assignment and to do a visual presentation on whether Art is Growth. I have to research the frames on an artwork, the artist’s practice and still life paintings. My first one was an woodcut painting of Narcissus and Hermodactyl by Otto Brunfels, followed by an Ancient Cretan three handled jar with papyrus decoration and finally, The Five Senses by Lubin Baugin, also known as Still Life with Chessboard. According to the other classes, it is very difficult to find information on the assignment. Oh well, I’ll just have to see for myself. As well as this, after the research, we must use that as evidence to answer the Big Question which is: Is Art Growth. Ms Naylor suggested multiple ways to present our findings. It has to be 4 minutes minimum!
In progress of my flipbook drawing of myself, Ms Naylor helped me draw the details on my face like the dimple line and helped me shade in bits of my nose better. On top of that she outlined the way my arms could look all within like 2 minutes. It took me 5 minutes just to perfect one line of my arm! Anyway, it looks pretty good right now. Next stage is colouring, which is also for homework.
School is so depressing. So much work.
12:37 AM
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
26th March 2010 Week 9 Last lesson of the term! Because it is Good Friday next week and we have art lessons every Friday. I was anxious as to whether I would get into trouble for not colouring in my flipbook drawings. I didn’t colour it in because I after I fixed up my insect leg’s I wouldn’t know if this would meet her standards so If I did colour it in and it wasn’t good enough, I would have ruined the whole thing. BUT, hopefully she just told the people who hadn’t coloured in to quickly get that done.
As we didn’t have art next week, Ms Naylor gave us some holiday homework. WHICH WAS: to completely finish the flipbook with the black cardboard and everything. Also, she informed us of the task beginning and middle which we should have started on. The whole class went: WHAT? What task beginning.. So did I.. Apparently we were supposed to know from week 1 by checking the Art OneNote package. And do a blog, which I had started on. But now I will decide to put it on the internet!
For the rest of the art lesson, I completed colouring in my insect and flower drawings. Oh we also received like a presentation outline as to how a presentation in Art should be. I found it very useful.
No more art till next term… oh well.
To conclude this term, here is a picture I found:
1:10 AM
19th March 2010 Week 8
Since Ms Naylor wasn’t here the previous week, we didn’t get to finish the art presentations so one last person performed their play. For the rest of the lesson, Ms Naylor checked our scratchboards and gave us each some feedback. She told me mine was probably too heavily scratched or I used the wrong tool and that I should improve a bit on my crosshatching. Hehe. I have a lot to do.
After she checked our sketchboards, I worked a bit more on my insect and plant drawings and adding more human bits to the flower by drawing glasses around the head of the flower and I also added glasses to the insect. (when I was told to by Ms Naylor) Then, she called anyone who would like to see her about the flipbook drawings to show her our progress. I was the first one to go and check with her. ^.^ So far I learnt that I needed to just include more human bits in my pictures and to seriously look at the details of a praying mantis’s legs. Overall, it was a good day.
That was basically today’s lesson. Felt very short today. Maybe it was because there wasn’t much to do.
1:10 AM
12th March 2010 Week 7
This week we had an substitute for Ms Naylor as she was away. MS GREW! I had her last year when we were doing the Vanitas drawings. She taught us how to use the scratchboards. Basically, what we had to do was to crosshatch with a scalpel on a piece of special black paper in whatever object you are drawing. The catch is that if some bits are black/dark or shadowy, you don’t scratch it out as the paper is black! My first attempt was very poor however I improved slightly on my second one. And this is what it looked like:
It was supposed to look like a little boy smiling. Apparently we are going to be working on these later on, so I hope I will improve by then . It was a very relaxing lesson in a way that the art assignment was out of the way.
1:08 AM
5th March 2010 Week 6
ART SPEECH OVER AND DONE WITH. Well this is how I felt when I was presented: NERVOUS AND BILLION POSSIBILITIES AS TO WHAT COULD GO WRONG. (as always) Anyway, my points were that the art grows on with time, the artist grows and that the audience which views the artwork grows along with it, therefore art is growth. I was so nervous about presenting though, initially my presentation was 6-7 minutes(even with really speedy talking) when I timed it at home but on the day it felt like 3 minutes! Other people similarly presented their opinion on Is Art Growth to mine, with the visuals and a speech. Everybody else did essays (in fact majority of the class did) plays and one even did a puppet show which was quite amusing. I think most of my class chose to answer that Art is Growth.
And yeah, so basically today we spent the whole lesson doing presentations, we even ran out of time to do them all. UNFAIR!!
This quote was used in my speech and many people also used it. Artistic growth is, more than anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy: only the great artist knows how difficult it is - Willa Carter
something to lighten up the day
1:05 AM
26th February 2010 Week 5
Today was the due date of the research assignment (FINALLY THAT IS OUT OF THE WAY) BUT there is still a presentation to go. I am presenting a speech with visuals at the back. After Ms Naylor looked at my research, she suggested finding more information on my second artwork which was the hardest to find information on! Everyone in the class was worried about their research so Ms Naylor kindly let us ask her about anything we are unsure about before next week’s presentations.
Then, we began to brainstorm some ways we could draw up our insect. The insects I came up with to draw were: Grasshopper, Moth, Beetle, Fly and a praying mantis. In the end, I decided to do a praying mantis with human arms as its middle legs. Haha, get it? Anyway, that is basically what I did today. It was pretty unproductive due to the fact that I could not find an image of the praying mantis so I just planned out what I was going to do. Today is a short post ^.^
feeling the stress
1:01 AM
19th February 2010 Week 4 I finally had started on my research (heh, it is a week late, still a week to go) and I could NOT find any info on my first two art pieces however I found sufficient details on my last one which was the Five Senses by Lubin Baugin. I found a pic of it, here is what it looks like.
I find this piece to be very intriguing and I am already guessing at which sense matches each object.
As for the other “mysterious” artworks, Ms Naylor told us that if it was too difficult, find similar artworks. For example: Similar time, artist, technique or theme. But I can not believe that I couldn’t find anything in the School library OR the internet. Who would have thought that there are some things you can't find on the internet.
In today’s lesson, our class went up to the library to find a flower to draw as ourselves. I was initially thinking about drawing marigold since it is my birth flower but it was too hard to draw (there were many intricate details in the head of the flower) and also I couldn’t find good photo of it. So, I ended up choosing Gladiolus which is one of my mum’s favourite flower. I drew a version of this image I found on google:
And as the human counterparts (plant as myself) for this gladiolus, I am thinkingto replace the end stalk with human legs (in the posture of the photo).
I THINK Ms Naylor also told to find an insect but not to draw yet, just to have some in mind…
12:55 AM
12th Feburary 2010 Week 3 After receiving the MOUNTAIN of work the previous week, this is what I had done:
ONLY to be found out that Ms Naylor didn’t check our books today for our homework. One of my friends who forgot to bring her VAD was so lucky!! Anyway, today we received a research assignment and to do a visual presentation on whether Art is Growth. I have to research the frames on an artwork, the artist’s practice and still life paintings. My first one was an woodcut painting of Narcissus and Hermodactyl by Otto Brunfels, followed by an Ancient Cretan three handled jar with papyrus decoration and finally, The Five Senses by Lubin Baugin, also known as Still Life with Chessboard. According to the other classes, it is very difficult to find information on the assignment. Oh well, I’ll just have to see for myself. As well as this, after the research, we must use that as evidence to answer the Big Question which is: Is Art Growth. Ms Naylor suggested multiple ways to present our findings. It has to be 4 minutes minimum!
In progress of my flipbook drawing of myself, Ms Naylor helped me draw the details on my face like the dimple line and helped me shade in bits of my nose better. On top of that she outlined the way my arms could look all within like 2 minutes. It took me 5 minutes just to perfect one line of my arm! Anyway, it looks pretty good right now. Next stage is colouring, which is also for homework.
School is so depressing. So much work.
12:37 AM
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Sisi Jia attends nsghs;year 8
email:sisijxd@hotmail.com or si.jia@education.nsw.gov.au
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