Repeat Pattern Gift Box Designs

Here are some photos from a recent design project I did with year 7 and 8 vis com students. 

They were asked to design a repeat pattern based on flowers/plants.  First off we did a series of drawings using flowers from my mother in law's garden, and then an A3 colour pencil study of a flower from an image.  These drawings were simplified into various possible motif designs.  Students looked at the work of Finish textile design company Marimekko and Irish textile designer Orla Kiely for ideas on simplifying drawings into motifs.  They began the next stage by making a small square motif, which was scanned and imported into Adobe Illustrator.  Students then made 'live traces' of their motif and changed the colours and line thicknesses.  They then created a repeat pattern using reflection and repetition techniques.

The design brief given out at the start of the project dictated that the repeat pattern was to be used by The Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne on a series of gift boxes in their gift shop.  Students chose which gift box shape they wanted and then transferred their designs into the templates. 

Here are some of the wonderful end results.....

Year 6 Taster Days Polyboard Mosque Prints

Year 9 Cubist Work

The year 9 students completed their final cubist art works this week – with fantastic results.  Students studied Cubism in depth over a 2 month period, looking at the work of an artist, making research drawings and experimented with different materials.  It’s great to see such diversity in the final work – well done year 9s!
Shady's hot & cold musical instruments...

Chanel's piece has lots of different materials collaged-including some metal rings from her dad's work...

Clara's sculpture was a very ambitious piece, and absolutely fantastic in my opinion!...

This is Sondos's who is in Mrs Walsh's class...

Zahrah's shoes....

Harrison's cool sculpture...

Iman's piece...can you see the hidden faces?  She made hers using oil paints - and it still smells lovely!

Duncan's...

Faris's piece.  He really got into the Cubist spirit with this project and spent a lot of time at home coming up with all sorts of ideas - including sculpture and installation ideas.... 

Aseel's beautiful piece, which she spent hours on.... 

here is a detail from Aseel's.  She collaged magazine pages onto the surface, along with other materials.  She has such a lot of patience! 

 Kailey's final work...I love the monocrhome with a splash of bling...

Abrar's piece is busy and colourful... 



Year 10 Exam Work

On Sunday my year 10 students had a full day exam.  Their task was to produce a piece of work based on the theme 'Broken'.  They had 2 weeks to come up with some ideas and trial materials.  Here are their finished work...

Lucy's lino

Rebecca's paper collage, inspired by Matisse

Jessica's painting 

Owen's Hundertwasser inspired piece 

Gemma's 2 masks 

Numan's melting face, inspired by Dali's melting clocks

Joe's Picasso inspired face 

Sophie's coffee stained collage & painting (it smells really strongly of coffee) 

Clare's painting

Hollie's painting 

Adam's dinosaur head -the dots are inspired from Roy Lichtenstein's pop art paintings.  After firing Adam is going to paint this bright purple, a suspicious similarity to Barney the dinosaur I think!

Andrew's painting

Drawing Assessments

Over the last 2 weeks my year 7, 8 and 9 classes have participated in an end of year drawing assessment where they had 2 hours to complete a still life drawing.  Here are some examples of their work.  I think it's lovely to see the different drawing styles, and also I think that the students' characters are often translated into their drawings.  My favourites are always the 'wonky' ones.

(The shading looks particularly dark in these images)

This is one of the still life groups that they were drawing...