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Sec 3 E-learning Week5

When you are given the white cotton, go home and wash it , dry it and iron it. When you get back to school you will mount it on a wooden frame and trace your pattern on the cloth.


Once this is done, you are ready to start waxing. Begin always with a frame so that the colour doesn't escape.

Sec 3 E-Learning Week4

Using Photoshop

After your 5cm x 5cm square has been scanned in, use Photoshop to flip, twist and further adjust the pattern more. When you are happy with this, use the colour picker to do 3 different colour schemes for the batik (No limit on the number of colours used.)

Colour plan for batik

Choose the best looking colour scheme and print it out in colour. Now you have to schedule the order the colours need to be waxed in. Batik colours start white (colour of the cloth) and gradually light colours added first and darker colours added later. Next to your colour plan write the names of the colours and put them in order of lightest to darkest. 

Lower Sec E-learning Week3

This week we will be practising our Composition skills for Art. What are basic composition skills? It is the ability to put a picture or an image together. Before you start drawing, you should look at how you want to lay out your paper. Would you want to place it in a "portrait" or a "landscape" layout? For example, if you were drawing a tree, you'd want to have your paper in a "portrait" format:-

To give the impression that the chilli is lying on a flat surface, we'd have use a "landscape" format.

Once you have decided on which format to use, try to make sure that you have a balanced composition by ensuring that the size and placement of items on one side are counteracted by those on the other. For example:-

Now try to create a balanced composition of your own. Use drawing block and hand it into your teacher when you come back to school.

Sec 3 E-learning Package Week 2

You should be making your repeated patterns by now. (Remember the 4 squares 5cm x 5cm ?) Do these in pencil. Look at your design. Does your pattern achieve a flow and rhythm across the square? Or do the shapes just stick like islands on a Geography map? One way to remedy this situation is to use lines to force the space round the shape into the background. For example:-

Can you see that the first design has too much white space around the shape of the torch?

To remedy the situation, Lines are put in the background. These force the white space back and also give a sense of perspective to the pattern. try this out in your designs.

E-learning Package (Lower Sec, week 1)

Welcome to the virtual FTPSS Artroom. This week we are going to look at visual language and words that we can use to analyse artworks.

Before we start the lesson, please go to this site http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm and look at these 2 paintings: Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" and Monet's "Waterlilies".

1. When analysing an artwork first begin with a short description.

For example:- Monet's "Waterlilies" is a view of many waterlilies floating on the surface of a pond or river. The painting shows us this view in the daytime as the blue sky is reflected in the surface of the water. The composition is arranged with some waterlilies closer to the viewer and some waterlilies further away.

Now try writing a 3 line description for Van Gogh's "Sunflowers".

2. Next look at the both artworks. Compare them to each other. What is the same? What is different?

For example:- The main subject of both paintings are flowers. However, the "Sunflowers" are painted indoors whlie the "Waterlilies" are painted outdoors. The colours used for the "Sunflowers" are brighter with yellow being the most dominant colour. Whereas the "Waterlilies" have a more realistic and natural colour scheme, with green and blues being the most common colours. The picture depth seems to be more limited for "Sunflowers" while the space for the "Waterliles" seems to go on into the distance.

Can you see anything else that is the same or different that you can write about?

Go to Moodle at http://www.ftpss.org/moo for your assignment.

Sec 3 Still Life Drawing

Step-by-step Still Life Drawing (Pencil)

Step 1: Draw a quick sketch of the placement of the objects.

Step 2: Start shading in all the dark areas. Concentrate on the folds of the cloth.

Step 3: Darken the ares that are further away and add the details on the objects. Ensure that the sense of contrast is maintained.