Grade 10 jewellery challenge

Grade 10's you have been asked to help a jewellery design student order their desk and
label their tools...

link to names of pliers

click here for an informative link on piercing and sawing

link on how to make paper beads

Grade 10: Dube Verster Jewellery Infographic

click here to view Dube Verster powerpoint

Remember to use your class worksheet as a checklist.

Grade 10- Design Process

Begin by mindmapping various thoughts around your theme art as healing

Create three thumbnail sketches of jewellery you would like to make

Include the following notes with your drawings:
- techniques you will use
- materials you will use
- colours you have chosen

Once you have discussed these with me you will then create a sketch of your final design.  This drawing will be the most detialed and larger than your previous thumbnails. 

Remember your theme is Art as Healing and begin designing with this in mind.



some examples of deisgn processes can be seen on Michelle Robyn's blog
for example her love for hydrangas inspired this piece


She was also inspired about 'Dis-arming' soldiers  this piece is called find a friend



click here to view Michelle Robyn's blog

You could also create your design ideas out of paper like andrew Verster

Grade 9- online learning

You can create mindmaps online using prezi

click here for help with prezi





click here to see examples of prezis from term 1 and 2

click here to join prezi

Grade 10: Jeweller Alert>>>

In line with our Jewellery project, we will be discussing Chris De Beer's work...

See if you can complete the following Challenge....

• What are the ideas/interests that inspire Chris de Beer's brooches?
• What is unique about the materials he uses?
• How does his work reflect the culture of South Africa?
• What is symbolic about his work?
• What formal elements and principles of art can you identify in his work and discuss?

 Link to Video on Rubber cutting

Click here to view Chris De Beer's blog

link to another blog by Chris De Beer

Link to Marlene De Beer's blog

link to Powerpoint on Chris and Marlene De Beer

Stunning dance photoshoot

Just thought i'd share a friends dance pics that intrigued me.... especially the contrast between the space and her graceful movement

Intriguing Blogger

                           self portrait with Robe of Precious Objects

                                 first sample of applique on organza, seen against a black background

"However I have found that writing the blog has really made a difference to how I see my work. I have found all sorts of connections within it – in fact WordPress is set up to make any connections easily apparent – I realise now that my work revolves around a few ideas that overlap and integrate – I had thought what I made was in separate compartments depending on the techniques/ outcomes involved.

Obviously this will only be apparent in a mature maker; but your students should be able to integrate their studies with their own lives, their likes, dislikes and comments are vital- it this is what makes creative design work connect beyond function – when the maker shines through the discipline.

I photograph my own studies/pieces then go searching for ways to connect them to the original sources – see Ongoing Work for this – the first post Burkha eyes. I also work into the sketch book as an ongoing discipline – in fact maybe I will start a sketchbook page on the blog – I have kept them since I was a student in the late 1960′s!!!!!!" An intriguing excerpt from Janet Haigh's blog.... 

http://janethaigh.wordpress.com/about/