A project for KS3 possible Year 8 looking at Surrealism and the ‘psycho-automatism’ of the artists.
Students develop a FANTASY LANDSCAPE for their own paintings out of ink blobs dropped onto their paper and out of random scribbles.
Students learn to use these abstract shapes creatively in a composition and are able to thus learn how to shade with paint from light to dark to create a 3D effect of form. The emphasis is on getting students to understand what is chiaro=scuro through the light and dark modelling of abstract shapes. The abstract shapes help them understand that there is no wrong and helps them focus on getting the 3D modelling right.
The students need to make a wash for a background with watercolour - using perhaps a sponge. The emphasis is on creating a sense of space with a horizon line and students have to compose their blob/scribble shapes in this infinite space to create a sense of depth on a flat surface. Students need to repeat the shapes and arrange them in different sizes. Students also need to create a sense of interest in the painting.
Their surreal shapes are repeated and they are able to change the scale of their forms to develop their fantasy landscape.
The second task is to do a black and white pen drawing of their painting, this develops mark-making skills and patterning. This is also a technical exercise where students have to then transform their painting into a black and white pen rendering.
This powerpoint has examples of student’s work which helps to support the development of these activities.
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I like this project, particularly the way in which it introduces students to the ideas of pictorial space and tonal modelling using paint. However, the author wrongly identifies a painting by Miro (Harlequin's Carnival) as being by Desmond Morris. This is a very famous painting, in the Tate gallery collection. Perhaps this could be amended for future publication?
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