Lower 6th - Tools Project Week 1 Checklist

Great to see all of you getting stuck in at the start of the course, to help you keep track of where you should be at with your current Tools project here is a checklist of work you should have complete by Monday 10th September when we will be checking sketchbooks in class:

• A range of photos of your tool - thumbnail prints of all your shots (20+) should be included in your sketchbook and 4 - 6 of your best shots printed off at A5 or A4 scale. Brief annotation identifying why you consider particular shots successful should also be present.
• A completed sustained tonal drawing from your tool photos done in pencil - this should be at least A4 in scale and represent 3+ hours worth of work.
• Set of 4 expressive timed graphite and chalk drawings done in class, mounted in book and briefly annotated.
• Prep task research into Jim Dine (tool drawings) and Florian Nicolle (collages) over at least 4 pages (see additional guidance in previous post) and include at least one visual response in appropriate media.
• Start of gold card plate cutting for printing next week.

If you have completed all that the following are suggested extension tasks:

• A second sustained tool drawing in a different media (e.g. Biro, fine liner).
• Visual responses to both research Artists.

Next week we will be focusing on printmaking techniques (gold card relief, monoprinting), digital manipulation of some of the imagery we have produced so far, and more drawing techniques including some large scale work.