'changing style' extension work (year 8)

TASK 1: visit this blog about EXPERIMENTAL ALPHABETS where you will see a huge variety of hand-drawn lettering and experimental typography. Now, using the influence of what you see there, design your own alphabet!

TASK 2: Alter a page of text from a magazine or newspaper, in the style of artist TOM PHILLIPS. Experiment with making a totally new meaning as you cover and alter the words on the page. 

TASK 3: Select one of the abstract close-up images from the animation sets from the online GALLERY (don't worry if it's not your own photograph). Print out and, cover with big lettering from your poem (you could use your own alphabet from Task 1).  

R Davies

9H animations

can be found here

9G animations

can be found here

shoot that still life (yr9)

Year 9 pupils were given quite a challenge in their first three Art lessons of the year - to make the boring interesting! 

The Still Life genre is full of exciting examples of dull objects transformed into vibrant and meaningful art (go to the Tate Gallery website for a bit of context). We decided that animating conventional still life objects would be an interesting place to start. Pupils in 9G and 9H looked at artist Sam Taylor-Wood's seminal re-working of a still life convention, the decaying bowl of fruit, to get ideas for their animations. This film explores ideas about mortality and the fragility of human life. The latin phrase memento mori is used to describe a whole body of such still life art works. 

Pupils in 9G and 9H responded brilliantly to this challenge, but don't take my word for it - play the above films and see for yourselves!

R Davies