1. Year 8: Autumn 2 Independent Learning Challenge
Art & Design Department
Year 8: Autumn 2 Independent Learning Challenge
What's inside the Jar..?

2. Art ILC
We advise that you bring in a USB stick so that we can save this terms ILC tasks onto it for you.

3. i Autumn Independent Learning Challenge
In this Learning Challenge you are going to produce a finished A3 drawing or painting of either a glass jar or drinking glass full of small objects.
My Learning Objectives:
-To improve and develop my observational drawing skills.
To understand each of the formal elements of Art and Design and know how to use them in a drawing task.
-To learn how to examine and look at the work of other artists using the ‘formal elements’ and make a comparison between their work and yours.
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4. My Time Plan: Week: Date: Task:1
Week commencing:
Monday 7th November 2016
Find an empty glass jar. Fill this with as many objects as you can fit into the jar. (See Slide 7) 2
Monday 14th November 2016
Complete Task 1a. Draw an A5 sized outline drawing of the objects in your jar. (See Slide 11) 3
Monday 21st November 2016
Complete Task 1b. Draw an A5 sized pencil tonal drawing of the objects in your jar. (See Slide 11) 4
Monday 28th November 2016
Christmas Card Design Competition entry plus complete Task 1c. Draw an A5 sized pencil tonal drawing of the objects in your jar. (See Slide 11) 5
Monday 5th December 2016
Complete Tasks 2a and 2b. Draw an A5 sized black ink pen drawing of the TEXTURED objects in your GLASS.(See Slide 12) 6
Monday 12th December 2016
Complete Task 3. Draw an A4 sized LANDSCAPE colour tonal drawing or painting of the objects falling out of your jar. (See Slide 13) 7
Monday 19th December 2016
Complete Tasks 4a, 4b & 4c, 4d. Present your work, assess it and write formal elements of art down. (See Slides 14, 15, 16 & 17)
Hand your work into your teacher during your first Art lesson back after the Christmas break.

5. Paper Sizes

6. Paper Orientation
Portrait
Landscape

7. This project is based on a competition to see how many small objects you can fit inside a glass jar.

8. If you don’t have a glass jar, then you could use a drinking glass…

9. JUST FOR FUN…
? QUESTION ?
How many different small objects can you fit into your jam jar so that the lid can still be closed?
The current winner of the ‘jam jar competition’ managed to fit 143 objects into their jar. Can you do any better?
The rest of this drawing project will be based on your jam jar or matchbox ‘small object collection.’

10. Introducing the Formal Elements of Art & Design…
As artists we use the formal elements to show how visual components go together to form any work of art.
? QUESTION ?
Can you work out what the 8 formal elements are below? Use a ‘Google search’ to help you! Write them down on the back of your drawings which you will do later on in this ILC!
C _ M _ _ _ I _ I _ N _ O _ E F _ R _
_ EX _ _ R _ S _ _ PE
P _ T _ _ RN L_ _E _ OL_ _ R

11. TASK 1:
This task looks at the formal element of ‘LINE’
This task looks at the formal element of ‘TONE’
This task looks at the formal element of ‘Colour’
1a: Make an A5 LINE portrait pencil drawing of your jar, remember this is line only so don’t shade it in!
1b: Make an A5 TONAL portrait pencil drawing of your jar, remember this time to add shading to it!
1c: Make an A5 COLOUR TONAL portrait drawing of your jar. Use can use any colour materials of your choice.

12. This task looks at the formal element of ‘TEXTURE’
2a: Collect a group of textured objects and place them into a drinking glass.(use a different container to your glass jar!)
2b: Make an A5 TONAL portrait drawing of your textured objects in your glass using a BLACK BIRO PEN to draw with.
Remember this time to add shading to it!
This task looks at the formal element of ‘TEXTURE’

13. TASK 3 You are now going to produce a final A4 (LANDSCAPE) colour drawing or painting of the objects falling out of your jar – this drawing will focus on the formal element of composition.

14. Task 4: Presenting your drawings…
4a. Using sellotape, join each one of your drawings together. Tape the paper from the back so you can not see it.
Mount your drawings as shown below.
Front of Colour drawing
Front of Texture drawing
Front of Line drawing
Front of Tonal drawing
Remember to tape from behind so you cant see the join!

15. Circle the effort grade below to show how hard you have worked:
4b. Print out this sheet and complete your self evaluation. Remember you are identifying the strengths and weaknesses in your work, before setting a new target for you to work towards in your next project! (If you don’t have a printer then you can write the questions and answers onto a sheet of paper) Glue this sheet onto the back of your drawings before handing it in to your teacher!
Circle the effort grade below to show how hard you have worked:
= X XX

16. Then…. 4c. Write down the number of objects which you managed to fit into your jar and a list of the eight ‘Formal Elements’ which you looked at in slide 5. Do this on the back of one of your drawings.

17. Finally…. 4d. Label your work with your Name, Tutor group and Art class. Glue this label onto the top right corner of your A4 colour drawing or painting.
Paul Jones
R/JK
Art class: 8A1

18. CHECK LIST….
Before handing in your ILC, please check that you have completed the following:
Task 1: - Completed the 3 A5 drawings of the items in your jar. (Line, Tone & Colour)
Task 2: - Completed the A5 texture drawing in black biro.
Task 3: - Completed the A4 colour composition drawing of the items falling our of your jar.
Task 4: - Joined all of your drawings together.

19. Congratulations on completing your Art ILC!
Once finished, you will need to hand in your project to your Art teacher during your Art lesson on…. (First Art lesson back after the Christmas break: Week beginning Tue 3rd January 2017)
Congratulations on completing your Art ILC!

20. Student Gallery
3 - High
Grade achieved:

21. Student Gallery
4 - Middle
Grade achieved:

22. Student Gallery
5 - High
Grade achieved: