Lesson video

Hello.

This is the fifth and final lesson on this unit of work on collage.

Again, we've been working throughout the term on lots of different things.

We've obviously experimented with different types of collage.

We've experimented with cupcakes and collage.

We've created lots of different drawings to do with cakes, different ways of creating cakes.

They're going to be coming in handy in today's lesson.

And then in the last lesson, we created different surfaces and textures that we can use in today's session.

So again, we spent four lessons so far, this is the final lesson in the unit, and you're going to create something quite spectacular I think.

So I'm looking forward to seeing what you produce.

Okay.

The thought lesson five of five, "Create a tasty collage cake stand "using your textured surfaces." So again, this lesson leads straight on after your previous lessons.

So you need to have those three sheets which we made ready for today's lesson.

My name's Simon.

I'm going to be taking you through this activity today.

First things first, what you'll need today is your textured surfaces from the last lesson.

So again, there are three textured surfaces that you created, one with crayon, one with paint, and one with colouring pencil.

You may have used a different coloured surface, and of course, you might even have just something else to hand.

If you've got some old wrapping paper or anything like that, sometimes that's quite interesting to work with as well.

As long as you have a textured surface to work with, that's going to be important.

Scissors, glue stick.

These are normal what you need when you're doing collage work.

And of course, you need your cake stand picture.

Now, if you want, you can create your own cake stand, but there is an attached handout, which you can obviously print out very easily so that you can use that to work on.

It can be A4, or you can blow it up to be much, much bigger.

You can see this is how big my one is, but of course, you can do it on A4 as well.

It's absolutely fine.

The main thing is, is that you got that cake stand to work on.

But again, like I said, you can draw it if you'd like as well.

In today's lesson, we are going to select successful drawings from the cake drawing lesson.

So when we spent one lesson drawing different cakes, we're going to be looking at them for reference when we're doing our designs today.

We're going to cut out shapes and forms for the cakes.

We're going to use our textured surfaces from the last lesson.

And we're going to create a collaged cake stand.

So your key words today.

First off, we've got background, which is what is at the back of your picture.

When we start putting these cakes onto this cake stand, you have to start thinking to yourself which cakes are going to be in the back and which cakes are going to be at the front.

And of course, the cakes at the front are in the foreground.

And when you're thinking about where things go, we're thinking about which cake goes where and which cakes look good where.

For example, I've got some small cakes here in the foreground.

That's called composition.

So again, composition is how you arrange your art piece.

So again, it's worth remembering those key words, background, foreground, and the composition, how it's arranged.

Layering is something we've talked about a lot with collage, which is no mistake.

Of course, layering is important, especially when we're thinking about which cake goes where.

And when one cake is in front of another, then you're obviously going to layer it in some way.

So those key words, again, background, foreground, composition, and layering.

Now, this could be a sketchbook activity, because you might draw the cake stand in your book.

Equally, you might have printed out the picture and stuck it in your book.

You might've kept it so that you have a cake stand separate to your sketchbook so you could frame it, so you can put it on your wall.

But this is your final piece.

So how you use use your sketchbook in this is absolutely up to you.

You're going to be cutting out different cakes, cupcakes, pastries, and treats.

These are small art pieces that can individually be stuck onto your cakes stand.

So each cake is an art piece almost unto itself.

And we're going to build up that cake stand one cake at a time.

Think, again, about your background and foreground as you compose your art piece.

So as you create it, think about where things go.

What goes in the background, what goes in the foreground, and what looks good.

Now, let's have a look at this cake.

What is the best way to create this small cake? And how could you make this even better? I want you to think about that, because your cake designs will be coming to the hand here.

So they're going to be something you're going to be turning to, and you'll have to think to yourself, "How can I turn this cake picture into a collage?" Now it's going to be your turn to do this.

Now, of course, you created lots of cakes in the previous lessons.

So in your third lesson, you created a page of different cake designs.

Now you're going to be able to use them in the future, but first you need to create that one cake, cherry on the top, square in the middle, and then the little bit of colour in the middle of it.

Now, well done.

Hopefully you have something very similar to the one which I've created there.

But you're going to have to start practising a little bit more now, because you've got many more cakes to turn to.

All these designs on the screen at the moment are the ones that I created.

But you should have a sheets, something similar.

Or you'll have a sketchbook full of your own cake designs.

Look at these drawings for inspiration.

Use them for your own cake designs.

You've got to now start cutting out different designs from the collage sheets of paper which we've created, and start thinking, how can you make a cake with them? Okay, you're going to be using those textured surfaces, and just like the small cake which you've just made, you need to make lots and lots of cakes to be able to put onto your cakes.

Let's make a few cakes with these designs.

You can see here we can use a bit of the brown for the cake.

See, that's a great kind of chocolate cake I've started there.

I might want a blueberry inside, that one was colouring pencils.

So you can see I'm going to have a little bit of this.

Just check that it does fit.

If it's too small, you can see it's slightly too small, like, what I can do is actually cut it away from this so it does fit a little bit better.

Like so.

And then we want a cherry on the top.

I've got some of my painted piece of paper so I can have a nice, big cherry or strawberry on the top even.

So you can see, if I get this glue, pop this bit a glue on top like so.

Stick it on the top.

I can even do a tiny bit of this cherry like so.

You can see I've got one little cake here.

There's obviously all sorts of different cakes that you can create.

And depending on what your design you want to do and what cake you have, you can do all sorts of interesting designs.

One thing which is always nice is obviously trying to do a cake that actually has multiple layers.

You see, I've got this first base, which is my main stretch of the cake.

And I pop that down.

I want multiple layers on this one.

So I'm going to have to think carefully about how thin these layers are going to be.

See, I'm cutting these out carefully.

And I do one, two.

And then on the top, I'm going to want it to be a little bit kind of melted.

Now, you see I'm being very careful with those scissors, turning the paper, and I'm not turning the scissors.

The scissors kind of stay in the same place.

So again, you can see it's slightly smaller, but I can always chop an edge off like so.

Like that, like that.

And of course, the same can be done with these multiple layers.

We're going to go for a triple-layer cake, always very, very tasty.

Tidy that edge.

Like so.

And then I'm going to do another one like so.

Now, I want you to think to yourself as I'm doing this, what have I forgotten? And of course, I've forgotten the topping.

You can see that might be my three-layer cake.

Well, we want to do something a bit more interesting on the top.

So again, I'm going to go to my colouring pencil worksheet now.

Get something different again.

Some cakes have a more kind of fancy finishing touch, and we're going to have this kind of piece sticking out of it, just like so.

I think that might look quite nice.

Like that's.

♪ Ta-da ♪ I'm going to stick a tiny bit of the glue to stick it onto the back.

And then you can see I've got my second cake.

So I've got like two cakes already there to go onto my cake stand.

Shall we do one more? Let's try and do a bit of a cupcake this time.

Let's do a cupcake stand.

You can see how I'm cutting out the sides.

But this is for those of you that want to try something a bit more tricky.

You can see by curving the base there and by curving the top there, it's got a bit of a 3D look to it.

Of course, if I curve around here, you can see it looks a little bit more like a cupcake stand like that.

So I'm going to place that down there.

I want to have that kind of cream on the top, which if you remember, we did in the earlier lessons.

So I'm going to get some nice, big.

I'm going to get a nice, big kind of blob of cream there.

I can always reshape this as I get closer to it.

But of course, at this stage, we're just going to see what works.

It's not far off, is it? Not far off.

But I need to cut a little bit off.

So I'm going to just cut a tiny bit off on this side and maybe get it a little bit of a point like that.

And that can sit like so.

Notice, it's a little bit bigger actually, but I can sit it in there.

So I just need to put a tiny bit of glue on this front area here.

And that's just so that the cupcake holder sits nice and neatly into it like that.

It would be nice to have something like hundreds and thousands in here.

So let's try and get that.

I'm going to place my little cake here.

Obviously, from this point, we can look at the painted sheet of paper, and think to ourself, "Okay, let's try "and get little pieces maybe of this blue here." 'Cause there's not much blue on that section there.

I'll move all this away so it's out of the way.

You can see there are cupcakes here.

And of course, like we did in the first few lessons where we do those small pieces, you can see I'll cut them on top of each other.

And then together, I can cut out this, lay them on top of each other, and then I can try and get these tiny pieces cut off.

So we've got lots of little pieces to work with.

So these little pieces, of course, we can stick on the top of the cupcake very neatly.

I just use the top of the glue, pop it on there.

Take it off.

Stick it on.

Then you take it off, stick it on.

You can see I've got loads left, so I could even add a few extra ones to my other cake designs.

So I can actually do enough so that I've got these little blue bits on the top of my cupcake.

Like so.

Of course, I could get this one as well, and go, "You know what? "I want to have a few different pieces on top of there." Like so.

So you can see there's three lovely little cakes there, which I could very easily put on my cakes stand.

It's your turn.

You need to be able to create lots of different cakes to put onto your cake stand.

Good luck.

Off you go.

You can see the example on the screen as well.

That's what we're working towards.

Obviously you're creating cakes on your own at the moment, which is absolutely fine.

It's important now to start thinking about the foreground and the background and where to place each cake.

You've got your cakes down in front of you now.

You should be thinking to yourself, "Okay, where are my cakes going to go?" If you just jam them all on or put one on each side, it can look a little bit lonely.

If you want a sheet of lots of different cakes and pastries, you need to start thinking which cake is going to go at the back and which cake are you going to maybe stick a little bit on top of it so that it looks like it's in front of it.

Okay? Make sure to place each cake on the plate.

You don't want anything falling off the edges, or like, making a mess or looking a little bit untidy.

Keep them all nice and neatly on that cake stand as you can imagine a cake stand would look.

It's going to be your turn now to create your cake stand.

So now each individual cake, which you've already made, you need to pick up and stick onto that cake stand.

It shouldn't take very long.

Good luck.

Well done.

This is a product of something you've spent weeks working on.

And you can see all those different collaged surfaces, you made yourself.

All those different designs are from your own research that you conducted in that third lesson.

Your understanding of collage and what collage can be is all down to everything which we did in the first two lessons.

So it's great to see a final piece that has used collage in such a way.

If you pop it into a frame, it would be perfect to hang up in the kitchen.

So maybe think about asking your family to stick that up somewhere to showcase your artwork.

Because again, art, especially something like this, should always be framed and on display.

Remember those key words, again.

Background, foreground, composition, and layering.

These key words are important, because even if you're doing paintings or drawings or anything else, background and foreground and composition are still important.

You still need to think about what's at the back of a picture and what's at the front.

How is your picture going to look? How is it going to be arranged? Those key words, background, foreground, and composition are crucial to any type of art piece.

Layering is obviously quite specific to collage.

Thank you for joining me on this collage project.

It's been wonderful to share with you some of these lessons, which I really enjoy teaching.

I love to see your work.

Again, this is something that it is many weeks in the process.

And if you've got this far, then of course, you're going to have some great work to showcase, and I'd really love to see it.

So please do make sure that you share this with us in some way, shape, or form.

Thanks for joining us.

And I look forward to seeing you again soon.

Please do ask your parent or carer for assistance if you're sharing your work to social media.