Year 9 – Natural form -String drawing - Frottage - Wallpaper Design

1. Year 9 – Natural form-String drawing-Frottage -Wallpaper Design

2. Produce a line Drawing of a shell • Make a line drawing of a still life shell by either hand drawing or tracing your chosen shell from the handout. • Top Tip: Try to draw the shapes you see before you draw detail (no tone ). • Materials needed: • One piece of square card • Pencil • Handout with shells to draw or trace from • Tracing paper.

3. String and glue • Measure the string to fit the lines of your drawing, do this a piece at a time. • Once it fits cut the string and dip the string in to PVA glue and lay it along the lines of the drawing • Do this for every line until your drawing is covered. Make sure all the bits of string are well covered with glue • Leave to dry on the drying rack for next week.

4. String drawing outcome

5. Frottage • The technique known as frottage, from the French verb frotter, meaning “to rub,” is an automatic drawing method developed by the artist Max Ernst. It involves rendering an image by placing a sheet of paper over an object or dimensional surface and rubbing it with a marking agent such as graphite or wax crayon. This relatively simple procedure—which combines elements of drawing, printmaking, and sculpture—generates unexpected compositions that captures the more indefinable properties of objects.

6. String printing • Using a ruler draw a squared grid the same size as your squared card on to a sheet of large paper • Roll out some waterbased printing ink on to a mixing tray • Using a roler and waterbased printing ink roll out the ink onto your print board (string drawing) make sure that all the string is evenly covered with ink. • Make sure to have your printing block on a spare piece of paper to protect the table underneath it

7. Printing your design • Place your printing block down on to the first box in your grid • With a clean roller, roll over the back of your printing block, this will apply the pressure needed to print on to the paper • Repeat these steps in each box throughout the grid this is how you will build your pattern

8. Building pattern • There are many ways of building pattern printing them one after the other or missing a box after every print or even changing colour each group will have a different pattern to try out.

9. Dart board question game: 1-11: Name two things you learnt in todays lesson? 2-12: Name three things that can be classified as natural forms 3-13: What could you have done better? 4-14: What will you do in next weeks lessons to continue? 5-15: Name three alternative materials to draw with apart from a pencil 6-16: Name something you did well in todays lesson? 7-17: What artists have you looked at so far this year? 8-18: What did you struggle with most in todays lesson? 9-19: What did you learn in todays lesson? 10-20: What did you enjoy most about todays lesson? MISS: answer the top two questions BULLSEYE: Pick a peer to answer any question listed above.

10. Second Print Block • Introducing a second print block to your wallpaper design will add to the over all effect of the pattern.