An interesting technique to animate fixed images so they look like they are moving.
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This links to your current work in art and the architecture project. Have a look at this great animation of an ink drawing of the New York City skyline. Notice how he represents it from a one-point perspective. Empire State of Pen from BigAnimal on Vimeo. In response to the Surrealists drawing game know as 'exquisite corpse (EC)', pupils will construct their own EC using found images from the Internet to produce a collage that can then be worked into. Process 1. Start with a simple game of consequences to illustrate how they can combine their imagination to produce a unique EC. 2. Prepare a range of photocopied image of body parts ranging from the human body to insects/animal parts and fictional characters such as zombies and superheroes. You can also include images of everyday objects, mechanical parts and natural forms. Ask pupils to cut out shapes and experiment with different combinations onto an A4 sheet of paper. After a few experiments, they should start sticking down their final composition using glue. 3. Using tracing paper, pupils should trace over their collage using fine liner pens adding a variety of marks from hatching, cross-hatching and stipling techniques to build up a complex image. 4. Photocopy and enlarge the tracing paper pen illustration to A3 size on drawing cartridge paper (thicker than normal paper). 5. Pupils should work back into photocopies using watercolours. Extension
For pupils that wish to develop this further, they could work towards a large scale drawing using fine liners - see examples below. An initial sketch could be enlarged using an overhead projector if they wish to scale up an existing image or even layer images. For this task, pupils could look at how artists have interpreted portraiture through silhouettes. The Victorians created portraits through backlighting and tracing - see below: This technique can be tried out easily with a large sheet and overhead projector whilst the pupils outline the shape of the head and then paint with a fabric paint. Alternatively, it could be produced photographically. Photogram Silhouettes
Using cut out shapes of photocopies or photos of portraits (preferably from profile views), pupils create a photogram but half way through the exposure time they mask the paper with their cut out silhouette. The following examples were made like this and then toned. It is also possible to do such portraits as digital files using a scanner and photoshop, altering opacities on layers. Using Michael Craig-Martin's famous graphic paintings of everyday objects as inspiration, students will photograph their own everyday objects or trace the outlines to create a layered composition on tracing paper that can then be photocopied and worked into I.e coloured in using a fixed palette of colours. Craig-Martin uses industrial style colours. Alternatively, it could just become a formal still life study. First Hand Studies To challenge the students, you might start by getting them to sketch out their objects individually as line drawings from first hand observation, which can then be traced. Abstract Composition There are further opportunties to cut up the photocopied traced drawings and reconfigure into an abstract composition that could be the basis of a painting. Examples of Student Work Using a mixture of your own photos and/or off the internet, create a collage showing a normal, even mundane scene in which you transpose a superhero to create a contrast between the ordinary and extraordinary/supernatural.
Using tracing paper and pen, trace the characters and background and work into using the style of Ian Watson - see artist reference below. Finally, photocopy the tracing paper onto cartridge paper and enlarge to A3. To develop it further, you can add ink washes or use watercolours to add tone/colour. Produce a series of tonal drawing studies or paintings based on yourself or a member of your family growing up. Use photos taken at different periods of time that show the changes. Try to choose images that have a similar point of view and framing I.e close up. To present, you could mount your photos in old frames or those found in £1 shops. See examples below:
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