Year 7 Art Homework Please allow 40 minutes for each homework set.

1. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . Bring an A4 sketchbook to each lesson. It will need to be stapled or a spiral sketchbook and good quality paper. You will be using this all year and if it is glued together and cheap paper it will fall apart very easily. Also if you know you get messy in Art get an old shirt or an apron it will protect you uniform! Please keep it in your locker and bring to every Art lesson. Transfer each Art Homework task into the correct date of your planner. If your homework is not handed in on the due date you will be given 24 hours to hand it in before a detention is set. 2. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “Tonal drawing.” Find an object in your home that is a 3D cylinder such as a tin of beans. Place it in front of you and look at it. In your sketchbook draw the shape and add some detailing showing some of the label detail. Use shading where possible. 3. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “Colour mood-board” Create a mood-board on a single side (double page to challenge yourself) for one of the primary colours (extension – a primary AND secondary colour) collect and stick down as many images and items as you can that are a shade of the colour(s) you have chosen. On the mood board include the works that are linked to your chosen colour(s) – hot/cold, primary/secondary etc. 4. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “Full length Self Portrait - using biro.” Using a biro, draw yourself in proportion and shading. It’s important that you draw your whole body, not just your face. This will give you the chance to produce a self-portrait that is in proportion. Consider the direction of the main light source, include shadows and check for the correct proportions frequently. Try to use the largest mirror

you can find, make sure you are far enough away from it so that you can see all of you! Consider hatch work, cross-hatching, dots, scribbles and solid blocks of ink. 5. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “Photographic observation.” Take a photograph of someone in your family, it could even be you. Stick it into your sketchbook The photograph must be a current one to make it a very good photograph and to gain a higher level it must focus on the head on shoulders of the person and it must be taken when the light is good or with a flash 6. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “Mark-making” Using pencil tone highlights and markmaking Using a good variety of tone, highlights and markmaking to show textures make a copy of the photograph in your sketchbook that you did for your last homework. You could find your own image instead if you want to and produce a copy of it using your pencil techniques • use your 2B and 4B pencil • show at least 5 different tones • use marks to show the textures you can see • fill the whole page 7. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “Faceless portrait extension” Produce a tone and texture drawing of an object which is personal to you. Avoid really small objects. A5 as a minimum size. Make sure you use a soft pencil 2B or higher. The marking criteria will be based on your use of proportion, blending tones carefully leaving highlights and using mark making techniques to describe the texture(surface) 8. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “Texture”

Place your paper viewfinder onto an interesting textured surface at home. You could choose a table, wallpaper or a floor so long as it has a pattern or texture you can see. Look at the small area you can see through your view finder. Using the first page in your sketchbook, draw a square the same size as your viewfinder and use a pencil to make marks to show me what your chosen texture looks like. You can use dark and light shading to draw your chosen area. 9. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “The Boyle family” Find 2 examples of pieces of work produced by the BOYLE family. They created large ‘relief’ replicas of the ground in random places and made life like copies. Stick the examples you find in your book and underneath write the title and what it is made from. Describe each piece of work, what textures and colours does it have? What makes it interesting? Does the fact that it has been selected and made again as a piece of work make it different to the original? Is it Art? Try www.boylefamily.co.uk/works 10. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “My home” Draw your garden or view from a window using the textured drawing techniques from this image: • A4 size and working

in pen • sketch lightly the

basic details in pencil first

• look at the image to see the types of marks you could use.

Use a good a variety of marks including dots, dashes and crosshatching. 11. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “First Hand Observational Drawing - Outdoor Building” You need to first decide what building would be most useful for you to draw. It is a study of a building and will give you a chance to perfect your drawing and observation skills, while also adding to

your collection of visual research. It is important to consider shape, tone (light and shade) and surface texture. Please do not use a ruler or trace or work from photographs - this would not give you the full opportunity to improve your skills. Otherwise you will be expected to re-do this homework properly. Within your composition include all the tricks we looked at, in generating the impression of depth: Overlapping, large & small sized objects, light and shade, Shadows and Warm & Cool Colours. 12. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “Visual Research.” Make a decision about the Activity you wish to explore, it needs to involve moving figures; then begin researching it for visuals (images, photo’s, illustrations etc). It is important that the images are stuck into your Sketchbook. Consider all the objects you wish to include in your work and try to gather images that will help you draw and paint them more accurately. These visuals (images, photo’s, illustrations etc) need to be stuck into your Sketchbook, with your annotation written alongside them. Please note: that the term annotation refers to recording your thoughts, you should try to justify why you have selected the image - what does it mean to you; why do you like it; how you may wish to use it within your work; what ideas it gives you. 13. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . “Observational Drawing of your eye.” Using a mirror, A4 paper and Coloured Pencil Crayons, with a full range of tones and as many different colours as you can possibly fit in! Press hard in places as well as softly in others. Try to work on a large scale. Consider shape, light & shade and surface texture. 14. Hand in date for homework: . . . . / . . . . / . . . . “Visually explain how to produce an acetate etching - using a comic strip format.” Produce a step-by-step guide showing how to produce a screen print from the initial design, scratching out and actual printing process. Add colour if you can.