Year 10 – Mixed Media – Craft/ Art Project

Project Name:  Letter Sculpture

Project Description:  To creat a Sculpture using letters of the alphabet

Curriculum Framework Value: Respect and concerns for others and their rights

Outcomes Addressed:

• Arts Ideas
• Arts Skills and Processess
• Arts Responses
• Arts in Society

1. Read the posts about each outcome.
2. On paper or in your blog make sure you have addressed the dot points for each outcome.

Letter Sculpture – Art Ideas Outcome

Have you done each of the following?

• participated in general class discussion about the project (making notes in your file)
• what word to base sculpture on (list of example words)
• design and decorate individual letter to realte to the meaing of the word
• collect images related to the word (topic)
• after completing your letter draw in 3 dimensions ways of assembling all letters made (at least 2 possibilities)
• colour and form are going to be the focus of art elements for this project

Letter Sculpture- Art Skills and Processes Outcome

Ensure that you have done the following things

• produce project divider which includes Project No. 1, student brief and your own personal decoration
• copy block alphabet from sample sheet
• choose your letter working in pairs but making one letter each
• make letter (teacher to give directions on making and cutting card)
• tissue paper – paint white
• colour page – chart primary – secondary – analogous – complementary – tone in colour, addition of black and white
• design development
  • how to progress from image to design for letter
  • consider strong contrasting colours
  • look at dot point one in Arts and Society Outcome section
  • paint or spray paoint decoration onto white letter

Letter Sculpture – Arts in Society Outcome

Review the work of the following artists

Northcote Koori Mural (created by a group of artists)

Keith Haring’s Work

TakashiMurakam.com

To address this outcome (do the following in your blog or in your file)

• choose one artist
• head a page (post) with their name
• write some information about the artist
• copy one of his/ her works and asnwer the following questions about the work (use the highlighted terms in your answers with a brief definition)
  1. Give examples of strong contrasting colour
  2. How ar large art works best viewed?
  3. Why is space important in the final structure

Letter Sculpture – Arts Responses

Write or post a blog which addresses the following:

• describes the process you went through to produce your finished letter sculpture
• include images of your and your finished letter
• be sure to use the words that you have learned during this project
• Answer the following questions:
  1. What is important about Sculpture and any other art works?
  2. Could you have improved your finished letter and how?
  3. Could the project have been improved? If so, how?

Rules for Blogging

Think about these rules for blogging. Do they make sense? Can you think of others we need?
1. Please, no last names, addresses, IM screen names etc. Never EVER EVER give out or record personal information on your blog. Your blog exists as a public space on the Internet. Don’t share anything that you don’t want the world to know. For your safety, be careful what you say, too. Don’t give out your phone number or home address.

2. Do not link to your personal blog/journal from your school blog; you might reveal information on there that you don’t want to reveal on your school blog.

3. If you want to write your opinion on a topic, make sure you’re not going to be offensive as you write it.

4. Always make sure you check over your post for spelling errors, grammar errors, and your use of words. Paste your post in a word processor and run spellcheck, or download a spellchecker for your browser.

5. Never disrespect someone else in your blog, whether it’s a person, an organization, or just a general idea. You don’t want someone making a stab at what you are passionate about; don’t do it to someone else. Again, your blog is a public space. And if you put it on the Internet, odds are really good that it will stay on the Internet. Always. That means ten years from now when you are looking for a job, it might be possible for an employer to discover some really hateful and immature things you said when you were younger and more prone to foolish things. Be sure that anything you write you are proud of. It can and will come back to get you if you don’t.

6. Don’t write about other people without permission; if you can’t get their permission, use first names only. Never share someone else’s last name.

7. Watch your language! This is part of our school community. Language that is inappropriate in school is also inappropriate in your blog.

8. Make sure things you write about are factual. Don’t be posting about things that aren’t true. Link to your sources. Never link to something you haven’t read. While it isn’t your job to police the Internet, when you link to something, you should make sure it is something that you really want to be associated with. If a link contains material that might be creepy or make some people uncomfortable, you should probably warn them by using a parenthetical note or some other word of caution.

9. Keep it education-oriented. That means that you probably shouldn’t discuss your plans for the weekend, the last dance etc.

sources:
http://intheknow.edublogs.org/rules-for-blogging/http://mccyeareight.learnerblogs.org/2006/05/01/rules-for-blogging/

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