Artist Alert: Zama Dunywa

link to Mrs Moore's post about Dunywa's work

link to article on Umemulo ceremony

Grade 8: Beadwork Artists

link to class powerpoint

Grade 10: Inspiration: Crochet wire

link to tutorial

Jeweller Alert: Samantha Vincent

Names with a v...vincent...A brooch of a miniature pair of moving scissors placed on a pattern like image which states: cut on the dotted line–  a metaphor for my heart being cut open

Vincent is an artist who created a series of heart brooches that expressed various aspects of the alaphabet and names. 

click here to see her blog

Grade 10: another look at inspirational jewellery

http://bybeadedstory.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html



http://sistagirlfriend.wordpress.com/



http://bijoucontemporain.unblog.fr/tag/daniela-hedman-se/

http://bijoucontemporain.unblog.fr/tag/galeries/facere/







Chris Giffin ‘Take Measure’Necklace – vintage cloth tape measures, tiny glass vial with fortune enclosed, enameled metal rivets, brass jump rings, chain, clasp
Facere Jewelry Art Gallery
1420 Fifth Ave, 108
WA 98101 – Seattle
United States
Telephone: 206/624-6768
Fax: 206/624-2852
website: www.facerejewelryart.com
mail: facereart@aol.com





http://bijoucontemporain.unblog.fr/category/createurs/charlotte-daffern/

Just a reminder on Infographics and working online...

You can create them on Powerpoint and upload them to Slideboom and email me the link or create them on prezi (and email me the link) or you can create traditional posters on A3 white card (and hand them in to me)...


don't forget to sequence your information in a logical manner. Also remember the skill of visual chunking!!!



another note about powerpoint is that you can change your slides to portable network graphics (.png) files and these can be easily uploaded to prezi.



click here for a link to prezi



click here for a link to slideboom

NB use your gmail account as your username  and create your own free account :-)

Artists Books: check out Cheryl Penn's website if you are interested in this technique

THE READING ROOM: ARTISTS’ BOOKS
Artist: Cheryl Penn
KZNSA Gallery

Night Crossing


Link to Cheryl Penn's site

Grade 9: Hanson articles

"I'm mostly interested in the human form as subject matter and means of expression for my sculpture. What can generate more interest, fascination, beauty, ugliness, joy, shock or contempt than a human being? Most of my time involves concentrating on the sculpting aspect. Casting, repairing, assembling, painting, correcting it until it pleases me. That takes some doing as I'm rarely satisfied."

 

--Duane Hanson, Nov. 26, 1981

link to an article on hanson


Hanson cast his sculptures from live subjects and fabricated them using fiberglass and resin, allowing for utterly lifelike detail. Thematically, Hanson was concerned with the man on the street and sought to portray the marginalized members of society he saw around him every day: “People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and who now and then show the hard work and the frustration … It’s all about human activity, it’s truth, and we all get there"culturekingsblogspot.com/2009/05/duane-hanson-exhibit-at-galerie.html

Revision: aerial/atmospheric perspective

Grade 8's
revise the definitions of perspective as well as the principles of aerial perspective.

Title: Landscape near Bologna

Painter: Frans Koppelaar

Year: 2001

Aerial perspective or atmospheric perspective refers to the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is viewed from a distance. 

As the distance between an object and a viewer increases, the contrast between the object and its background decreases.

The background become less detailed and the colours are duller (less saturated, ie. greyer or bluer or redder in a sunset...)

new texture link for Grade 10 powerpoint

Texture Powerpoint Link

Animation

Use Windows live movie maker to animate and upload your work online.....



http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-movie-maker-get-started

make sure you check your pictures resolution (72dpi for web).

Grade 8 Research project

Your task is to research other South African beadwork artists.  Below are some links to assist you.



http://campbell.ukzn.ac.za/?q=node/57
http://books.google.co.za/books?id=q3uueLZ4mwAC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=thandi+mchunu&source=bl&ots=kxaZ429K4g&sig=pq0TSzpZUoyFq9IVwnWDtCGP71w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JGZPT72bJIay0QXRms3nCw&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=thandi%20mchunu&f=false

Leora Farber's Website

Link to Leora Farber's website

Leora Farber interrogates the construction of gender and how colonisation and Western perception affects one's feminity.  She explores the female body as a discourse - "a site of plenitude and pain, control and excess, order and chaos, matter and form".
She uses the 'lived-in-body' as a site of experience, for example in her exhibition Dis-location/Relocation she worked with Strangelove to create a series of images of aloe leaves been grafted into her skin.

Grade 11 and 12

here is the  link to assessment rubric

Make sure you are fulfilling all your sourcebooks requirements.  You should already be working on your experiments and tonal drawings.  Don't forget to work from good sources. 

You can also use the scanner to create interesting collages

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.