Material Properties: Which activity did you

What materials did you What could you add or Explain the things you not resolve? What
What did this skill What else could you
use? What are they change to represent did to fully resolve and challenges did you
Activity good for?
technique allow you to use this skill technique
your ideas and values improve each of the have with this work
do? material for?
What are their more clearly? works. and why did you not
limitations? resolve it?

I used a blending
pencil, 2B pencil
and paper with
grids ruled along
it. The grid paper
By using these I would maybe
helped me
materials and try using charcoal To get the
proportion my I could use this
their skill to create a more shading and I couldn’t quite
drawing, so it technique for
techniques, I detailed shadow colour the same create a definite
was all in line and other realistic
could create a and shading and as my reference shade of my
not wonky or out landscapes and
Proportion – self-portrait a better lighting image, I asked portrait because I
of place. The 2B objects because
Grid Drawing drawing of a of the photo so my teachers and found it difficult
pencil helped me its helps
black and white the shadows and peers for help to achieve the
make outlines of proportion the
image with highlighting of and advice to shade with 2
my drawing on drawing to make
different different parts improve my materials.
the grid paper it more exact.
shadings and look more drawing.
and the blending
shadows. realistic.
pencil helped me
blend in the 2B
pencil outlines to
create a small
shade.
Colour – I used warm and By using these I could use I would change To improve this The one
Landscape Painting cool colours of colours, I could blending paints the way we had artwork, I asked challenge I faced
paints. The paints create different for an art mural to mix together my peers and with this artwork
made everything shades of colours on a wall to colours instead teachers to see if was mixing
look realistic by just by mixing 2 decorate a space of just getting the colour I had colours to create
applying the paints together! or a room. that colour in the created matched the perfect
correct colours certain shade. It the colour of the colour to use.
 This was difficult
certainly would because we
have made my weren’t using a
painting clearer certain shade,
actual artwork
and blending in what it was but we had to
from my
them in properly. supposed to be if create our own
reference image.
I got a premade colour from
already mixed mixing warm and
paint. cool colours
together.
Etching stick,
black paint,
This skill allowed I would definitely
printing press, I could use this It was difficult to
me to transfer change my To fully improve
etching plate, a technique to get a good
the etching onto etching image this artwork, I
Recognising A Place – photo of transfer other rhythm of the
a piece of paper because I chose a asked my peers
Etching landscape, drawings from an tool because it
to make it more very hard image and teacher for
paintbrush, etching plate to was hard to use
vibrant and to etch and it help.
water in a tub, more. it.
prettier. took too long.
paper, tissues,
paintbrushes
I would definitely
This skill allowed I could use this
change the
me to make a technique to
object I drew To improve this It was difficult to
replica image of create other
Tone- because my artwork I asked smudge the
Charcoal, finger the shadow with drawings such as
Charcoal Drawing object was too my friends and charcoal to its
charcoal and a instead of objects
hard and teacher. right place.
finger blending maybe a
required a lot of
everything in. landscape.
skill.
Using a kidney I could use this I would definitely I asked my It was difficult to
Clay, kidney bean to smooth technique to change the shape teacher and start the actual
Texture –
bean, water, out my vessel make vases and of my clay vessel peers for help to vessel base and it
Clay vessel
sludge made my other things not if I had a bit more improve my took a lot of
creation look just a vessel. skill. artwork and effort to smooth
 out the vessel
make it more
much nicer. and add different
better.
shapes to it.

Evaluation: What part of these activities did you enjoy the most and why? Explain the new skills and techniques that you learnt, which helped you
to improve your artmaking. Are there any aspects of these tasks you would change, explain what?
The activity I enjoyed the most was definitely the clay vessel or the landscape painting. I loved the clay vessel because I got to experiment and
mould the clay into different things before making a decision. I loved the landscape painting because I love to paint in general but also because it
was fun to try and create the colours we needed with 2 different shades of warm or cool colours. I learnt a new technique called cross-hatching and
it helped me improve my clay work a lot. Although I did not necessarily use it in my clay work, I understood what it meant which made the clay
work much more sense and way more fun knowing that I could use the technique to improve my work next time. I would like to change grid
proportion drawing aspect where we had to draw our own self instead of drawing anything else. I think it would have been better to draw an object
as it would have been easier and less stressful for having to draw yourself.