10th March 2009
On reflection. Year 8 Art class
I was greeted by David Bruffell just before morning briefing. I haven't seen David for many years and our meting took time to time away from talking about working together. A quick discussion (5mins) regarding his plans for this semester and glancing over the printed plan I realized he expected me to take the class this that morning. I was unprepared however due to my experience and the subject (The Human Form) I was able to provide a suitable class for year 8 which has worked many times before. One of my favourites.
The class commenced by David announcing that I was and old colleague and an Artist and I would be working with him for the next 2 terms.
I was then handed the class. I thanked David and the class for having me and after a brief into I requested that the student's move the tables into place and to get their journals and pencils out. This took 5 minutes and I was able to see who was the loudest students and the quietest as well. I set up a chair in the centre and asked the noisiest boy 'Tom' to be a model. He loved the idea and behaved as well. I had 3 models and David modelled too.
I kept their interest going right up to the end of their drawings which gave me opportunities to observe who understood the lesson and who didn't. I worked out there were 3-4 students who needed more time on this idea or something different next time. Possibly more time in discussing what drawing was all about before we started the contour drawing process.
I could also see there were a few good drawers and one very good drawer.
I referred to Leonardo di Vinci, Raphael and other Masters and how they would have had to draw exactly the same as they were doing. class into Cubism and abstraction in the next session. I planned to use the human form in the my next session using caricatures and cartoons so that David could continue the topic also to the next session.
The students had never done anything like Contour Drawing before.
They were perplexed buy fascinated by the exercises. Only one student rebelled and he was the very first model and the loudest student. David managed to monitor Tom's behaviour and implemented a warning system with consequences.;
Taking the drawing into 3D using wire is the next step for the students.
I hoped this was suited to the boys and they seemed to require a lot more challenges that they could relate to.
On reflection. Year 8 Art class
I was greeted by David Bruffell just before morning briefing. I haven't seen David for many years and our meting took time to time away from talking about working together. A quick discussion (5mins) regarding his plans for this semester and glancing over the printed plan I realized he expected me to take the class this that morning. I was unprepared however due to my experience and the subject (The Human Form) I was able to provide a suitable class for year 8 which has worked many times before. One of my favourites.
The class commenced by David announcing that I was and old colleague and an Artist and I would be working with him for the next 2 terms.
I was then handed the class. I thanked David and the class for having me and after a brief into I requested that the student's move the tables into place and to get their journals and pencils out. This took 5 minutes and I was able to see who was the loudest students and the quietest as well. I set up a chair in the centre and asked the noisiest boy 'Tom' to be a model. He loved the idea and behaved as well. I had 3 models and David modelled too.
I kept their interest going right up to the end of their drawings which gave me opportunities to observe who understood the lesson and who didn't. I worked out there were 3-4 students who needed more time on this idea or something different next time. Possibly more time in discussing what drawing was all about before we started the contour drawing process.
I could also see there were a few good drawers and one very good drawer.
I referred to Leonardo di Vinci, Raphael and other Masters and how they would have had to draw exactly the same as they were doing. class into Cubism and abstraction in the next session. I planned to use the human form in the my next session using caricatures and cartoons so that David could continue the topic also to the next session.
The students had never done anything like Contour Drawing before.
They were perplexed buy fascinated by the exercises. Only one student rebelled and he was the very first model and the loudest student. David managed to monitor Tom's behaviour and implemented a warning system with consequences.;
Taking the drawing into 3D using wire is the next step for the students.
I hoped this was suited to the boys and they seemed to require a lot more challenges that they could relate to.
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