Self-evaluation on Personal Geographies Practical: Grade 12

Link to PG self-evaluation Grade 12 Sturgess

Personal Geographies Self-evaluation Grade 11 Sturgess

Link to PG self-evaluation form

2014 Grade 11VA: Self-evaluation: Personal Geographies: LO2

Grade 11VA: Sturgess: Self-evaluation form: Personal Geographies LO2

2014 Sturgess Gr 12VA: Personal Geographies: LO2: Self-Evaluation:

 

Link to 12VA Sturgess Personal Geographies LO2 Self-Evaluation form

2014 Gr11VA: Personal geographies: Final Intention Evaluation

Link to 2014 11VA Sturgess: Final Intention Evaluation Form

2014: Grade 11 and 12: Personal Geographies: Final Product

Final Product:

• By this stage you should know which effects suit your work the most.
• Scan in your drawing as a TIFF at 200 or 300 resolution.
• Add your photoshop effects, adjust the levels and image size.
• Add your figures digitally or
• Print out  your work on a larger scale (at least A3).
• You may now start adding your final figures using collage methods.
• Your final product can be a mixture of drawing, Photography and collage.

Remember to hand in your original photos and screen shots of your editing process.

http://lenscratch.com/2011/10/success-stories-angela-bacon-kidwell/

 Angela Bacon Kidwell's new series, Traces of Existence, combines emotion, travel, the unknown, and the new, all mixing into new ways of working and seeing.

Layers Links: 
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Layers-for-Digital-Art

http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/photoshop/digital-tricks-for-hand-drawn-colour/

2014 Grade 11 and 12: Personal Geographies: Final Intention Postcards

So far you have completed and handed in the following stages:

Conceptual development:

• Illustrated Mindmap about your thoughts on the theme Personal Geographies
• Illustrated storyboard (thumbnails) of where you planned to take photos

Experiments

• At least 5 of your own Photos 
• Written Reflections  and diagrams showing the compositional techniques you used in your work
• Notes and Diagrams on the illusions of space illustrated in your photos and drawings.

Drawings

• Illustrations throughout your sourcebook especially in your mindmap and storyboard.
• Any experimental drawings you may have tried over the past few weeks.
• A competent drawing of  one of your photos (this should be at least an A4 size).

Section 2: Final Intention

figure drawing blog

• You have been creating various figures drawings that will fit into your landscape.
• You will now be experimenting with various compositional sketches of how you will layer your final product.
• Scan in your drawing and play with 6 different effects for example see how you could add collage/ ink wash layers to the drawing.  If scan your drawing at a low res, you can add the filters on pixlr.com

You can also create these effects using the filters on the 2010 version of Powerpoint.

For you final intention, you will hand in your six "postcards" and  your figure drawings and photographs.

Grade 11 Self-evaluation Personal Geographies

http://jillberrydesign.com/2011/11/25/blog-hop-book-giveaway-starts-today/
Link to Personal Geographies Gr 11 Va Evaluation

Self Evaluation: Personal Geographies

 
http://personal-geographies.com/2013/01/04/odd-and-interesting-maps-1413/

Link to self-evaluation form on Personal Geographies

Figure Idea

Colour Drawing Examples From the Art Room

There are two great resources in our Art Room Library on creating Colour Images:
Watercolour in ten steps and Pastels in ten steps, by Patricia Seligman and Ian Sidaway.

2014 T1: Grade 12: Personal Geographies Inspiration

Here Some Examples of Artworks and exhibitions that link with the theme Personal Geographies:

Exhibition: 9 LINOCUTS  December 2010/January 2011  iArt Gallery, 71 Loop Street

http://www.iart.co.za/all-images-archive/9-linocuts/

Colbert Mashile

Mma waka Montedi
2010
Linocut
210 x 105cm
Edition size: 10

Philemon Hlungwani

Xilo xi n wana ni n wana xi ni nkoka eka nw winyi wa xona
2010
Linocut
210 x 105cm
Edition size: 10

Sandile Goje

Bitter Sweet Journey of South Africa
2010
Linocut
210 x 105cm
Edition size: 10

Link to Homosapien Exhibition at the KZNSA Gallery

 This group exhibition explores various artists experiences of being human.

Fleshly Expectations and the Politics of Extremes

Artist: Sandra Hanekom

Price: R17,200.00

Medium: Oil on acid-free paint board

Size: 665mm x 565mm (framed)

Link to Mrs Moore's posts on examples from the Homosapiens exhibition
http://studio238dghs.blogspot.com/2013/08/painting-exhibition-homosapiens.html

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Link to an Exhibition on the Thokoza Women's Hostel

- I love the way the women great personal maps and drawings of their life experiences.

Also Angela Buckland's Photographs are hauntingly beautiful.

Room 18: Mabhengu from Mbumbulu, cushion maker. Resident 18 yrs

Artist: Angela Buckland

Medium: Photograph

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Hendrik Stroebel

Stroebel is one of KZN's leading artists and his ceramic and embroidery work has been critically acclaimed. Stroebel's love affair with the rich culture of the near East has lead him to a fifteen year adventure with travels to Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

Link to Stroebel's Reconnect Exhibition

Star and Crescent

Artist: Hendrik Stroebel

Year: 2011

Medium: Embroidery with wood frame

Size: 169 x 129cm

Parure

Artist: Hendrik Stroebel

Year: 2012

Medium: Ceramic and embroidery

Size: 92 c 65cm

2014 T1 Grade 12 Theme: Personal Geographies Rubrics

Installation view of Head On at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2013
Artist: Cai Guo-Qiang Exhibition: Falling Back to Earth 
http://www.caiguoqiang.com/artists-bio

Dear Grade 12's your theme for Term 1 2014 is Personal Geographies. 

click here for your set project brief

Some Definitions to Help you Begin:

"ge·og·ra·phy  (j-gr-f)

n. pl. ge·og·ra·phies

1. The study of the earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity."

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/geography

Link to the Definition of personal

Below are you rubrics- it is important that your sourcebook evaluates an idea that will allow you to do well in your final art piece.

SECTION A: SOURCEBOOK/WORKBOOK/JOURNAL (LO1)

CRITERIA

• Concept development 10 (e.g mindmap, intention)
• Research, investigation, experimentation, et cetera 15  (e.g inspiration artist, experiments, tutorials, photographs)
• Process drawings 15  (e.g thumbnails, illustrations, concept drawing)
• Presentation and overall view 10  (i.e time management, binding, aesthetics)
• TOTAL 50

SECTION B: THE ARTWORK (LO2)

CRITERIA

• Choice and use of materials/techniques 10 (this is on-going while you work)
• Use of formal art elements 10 (this is on-going while you work)
• Overall impression of work – originality, creativity, innovation 10 (this comes together towards the end)
• Interpretation and practical implementation of research 10 (this is on-going while you work)
• Completion and presentation of artwork 10 (this comes together at the end)
• TOTAL 50