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.