NEXT ROUND COMMENCING FEB 2025

NEXT ROUND COMMENCING 28 FEB 2025

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Level 5 is a thematic class for intermediate level students who have completed the Andamento Level 3 course or equivalent. 
Level 5 brings together and extends skills learnt in previous levels.
All tasks are underpinned with visual arts theory, including discussion of a range of artists and artforms working in the area of focus.Students undertake theoretical research as well as practical exercises in a range of materials across the selected genres.

The Andamento Level 5 Class has multiple Units, each investigating different genres in visual arts and mosaic.

These genres include
Part A: Still Life
Part B: Landscape
Part C: Water
Part D: Built Environment
 
Students examine the development of the genre over time often going back to the bronze and classical age. It is interesting to understand how nothing is really new in art, humans are interested in expressing the same subjects, over and over again, in different ways, in different mediums, attaching meaning and building visual narratives of a personal, spiritual, political, cultural or historical nature

PART A: STILL LIFE

​Interpreting the Painted Still Life in Mosaic

Still Life is a genre with a long rich history. With its roots dating back to Egyptian Funerary and Greco Roman Art.
YES some of the earliest still lives were Mosaics and Frescos!!
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As part of our theoretical learning over the three lessons we will be taking a journey through The Still Life Genre and examine the work of Egyptian, Greco Roman, Northern Renaissance, Baroque, Modernist, and Contemporary Still Life artists.

Key areas of learning

• The genre of still life - visual arts history
• Interpreting the painted image 
• Identifying and applying comparative values
• Understanding and applying volume and perspective
• Exploring different approaches to andamento based on the unique attributes of the subject
• Developing a palette for multiple objects within the same image.
• Applying chroma knowledge to create depth and shadow.
• Light fall off and how it applies in still life.

Delivered over three 2 hour live online lessons with supporting study through the Level 5 Learndash Classroom. 

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PART B: LANDSCAPE

​Mediating a Landscape Image for Mosaic

• The Genre of Landscape - Theory
• Representations of landscape across mosaic and visual arts disciplines
• Representations of landscape in Aboriginal Art
• Understanding linear, and aerial perspective.
• The power of viewpoint.
• Enhancing perspective through the  manipulation of value and chroma.
• Learning to interpret and mediate an image using drawing, painting, collage, digital media, watercolour
• Selecting and working with mixed media and found objects.

Delivered over three 2 hour live online lessons with supporting study through the Level 5Level 5 Learndash Classroom. ​

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PART C: WATER

Interpreting Water in Mosaic

• The development of the representation of water in Classical Mosaic including Greek, Roman and Byzantine.
• Historical and contemporary representations of water in visual arts.
• Rendering water in mosaic in three ways
  • Shimmering Water
  • Ariel View of Water
  • Reflections on Water

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We will approach each task in multiple ways.
1. Looking at mosaics and relevant examples from other art disciplines
2. Practicing andamento through drawing and planning.
3. Developing a materials palette based on a colour study
3. Consolidating through making a physical sample.
4. Tasks are introduced and investigated in class and developed individually between lessons.

Tasks are uploaded to Google Classroom where written feedback is provided on each task once per cycle.

LEVEL 5 - Basic Materials Needed
1. Pencil, eraser, ruler, A4 paper, permanent marker
2. A4 Tracing paper pad, bulldog clip or clipboard
3. Clear Plastic (plastic sleeves are ok)
4. Board or card to support your work
5. Tesserae of your choice for samples
6. Cutters for your choice of tesserae
7. Cement Based Adhesive/ Thinset/ oxides
8. Substrates for samples 
9. Printed images for each task.
10. Optional Light Pad
11. Range of art materials to mediate imagery

Method: We are working direct onto plastic with cement based adhesive (thinset). When complete you can adhere your samples onto a more permanent substrate of your choice. 

Technology Required
1. You will need a reasonable and stable internet connection.

2. Classes are presented live via ZOOM. You will need to DOWNLOAD ZOOM  and ensure it is kept up to date. This is free to access for students as I have a Pro Account for hosting. 

​3. Class notes, video links, PDF resources and communication will be via Learndash. Students will be sent a link to join an online classroom.

4. Access to a printer. You will need to obtain good quality colour prints of several focus images. You may choose to print out selected pages other resources supplied. 

5. Classes are LIVE and all classes are recorded. Students have access to the classroom and recordings for several months after the course for consolidation and completion of samples. 

6. We have a Class Padlet for selected classes - this is an online image sharing, and collaboration space for creatives. This enables students to share their samples and progress with others in the class and receive additional feedback and encouragement from classmates.