Lesson video

Hello everybody, Mrs. Barrasso here.

Welcome back to our fourth lesson.

We've already done so much and achieved so much, so I hope you're really proud of yourself.

I'm proud of you.

We've got more in store for you today.

Lots more learning and lots more fun.

So let's get started.

As usual, we're going to need the following things for today's lesson.

We'll need our sketchbook and pencil of course, so we can keep recording what we've been learning.

We're going to need a camera or a device that has a camera on it.

And like I always say, please make sure that you have permission to use it if it doesn't belong to you.

And a few other things we'll need.

Some cellophane or clear plastic.

I'm going to be using a clear plastic wallets, like what's in the photograph.

So if you've got one of those, that will be fantastic.

And a marker.

And we'll also need a tiny little bit of sticky tap, sticky tap, sticky tack or sticky tack or tape.

Got there in the end.

Sticky tack or tape, lovely.

If you need to pause now, go and grab what you need and then come back and we'll get started.

We'll start recapping what we've done so far.

Then we'll be moving on to a lovely warmup.

Then we're going to be focusing on capturing the space and then we're going to be creating our own piece of mixed media art, which I'm really excited about.

And then we'll finish, of course, with another recap of what we've learnt.

Some key words and key language that we'll need today.

The first is the word mixed media, which is what we're going to be creating today.

Mixed media is an artwork that contains more than one technique.

For example, a painting and collage together is a mixed media piece.

Series, a set of photographs that are linked together through an idea, theme, subject, or style.

And overlay.

An overlay is something decorative on top of another surface.

Let's go back and recap what we did last lesson.

Oh look, there's our little colander! If you've forgotten what we did last lesson, hopefully that's reminded you.

Last lesson.

We drew in our sketchbook without looking down at our hand.

Do you remember how hard that was not to look? Do a meme.

And then we used everyday items to explore and manipulate photographs.

We used the clingfilm, we used the sandwich bags.

We used the colander, cheese graters and hopefully we also got to use a shiny surface to try and create that lovely reflection as well.

Then we used our editing skills to change a photograph and considered the impact this had on the final image.

We edited, we cropped, we changed it into black and white or monochrome.

We did lots of interesting things.

Let's start our warmup for today.

Today, your challenge is to get bright and fresh page in your sketchbook, then draw four shapes.

Then fill each shape with a different pattern or design.

This is mine.

I've got some regular and irregular shapes, four different ones.

And I filled each one with a different pattern, doodle design or line.

One of them, I coloured in a little bit, you can see.

And one of them has some little smiley faces in there just for fun.

We'll be using these skills later on in the lesson.

Fill four shapes with different patterns, fill each one in with a different, line design or doodle.

Press pause now, come back when you're done.

Okay, so now we're going to move on to our capturing spaces section of today's lesson.

What you'll need to do is choose a space or a place that you would like to go and take photographs of.

That you want to go and investigate with your camera.

There's a space in my local village that I walk through almost every day.

So I've chosen that as my space.

Now you might need to get permission from your adult, if you are wanting to go somewhere a little bit different.

It might be to your local park or library.

It might just actually, you might want to just take photographs of your home or your apartment block.

Or you might want to take photographs of what you can see out of your window.

Let me show you mine.

And then it might help you with yours as you're thinking about where you might want to go.

So I decided to take photographs of the local church in my village.

I walk through this church yard almost every day and I always find it really interesting but I've never gone before as a photographer to capture it.

This is my church, well not my church.

This is the church.

And when I was there, I was thinking about three different things.

Three things from our toolkit that we've been focusing on so far.

I focused on angles.

I focused on light, our BFF, and I focused on play.

Let me show you what I mean by each of these.

For the angles, I went with my camera and I of course took a picture straight on.

Of course.

Then I went around with my camera at different angles to see what I could see.

At one point I lifted my camera up and took a picture of this tower section of the church.

And I thought, "Oh, that looks really great." So I stepped really close to the building.

I looked up and I took a picture.

And I thought it made the tower look really tall and powerful and looming and interesting.

So I felt that that worked really well.

Angles.

When we go around, we try and capture things from lots of different angles.

Light.

Light, our BFF.

I'm always asking the question, where is the light? What is the light doing? And on this day, when I went, the light was shining through the trees and I looked to see where it was going.

And I moved around looking in my view finder to find something interesting that I could try and capture.

I'm always, always thinking, "Where is the light? "What is the light doing? "How is line making my photograph interesting?" Play.

For my play section, I noticed something interesting.

I noticed this door.

And I thought that was really interesting.

Now, you can't tell from this photograph but that's a really small door.

Have you ever seen an old building? And have you ever noticed that sometimes the doors are really small? I think it's because people didn't grow as tall back in olden times.

I think we grow a bit taller and stronger today.

We're a bit healthier.

That was really interesting to me.

I wanted to know more about it.

What I did, is I got closer and I took photographs of all the interesting details in that door, the old wood, the knocker.

Can you see the knocker where you would knock on the door? The hinge, all the crumbly stonework.

I got close and I investigated just small little features that I found interesting.

And of course I've taken my toolkit with me.

And by that I had a sandwich bag and my bag.

I got my sandwich bag out and I took a photograph of the building.

Now you might remember this photograph.

It's one from last week's lesson.

You might not be able to see it great right now because my face is probably covering part of it.

But I put my sandwich bag over the lens and I found that old abandoned bell tower I was talking about, and I took a photograph through the sandwich bag just to try and create something new and interesting.

Your challenge today is to take a series of photographs of a space.

Choose a space you'd like to photograph, maybe a building.

Maybe your house.

Could be things out of your window.

Remember to use your toolkit to capture interesting images, focusing on three things.

Angles, trying to capture photographs from different angles.

Light, What is the light doing? Where is the light? Is it doing anything interesting? And play, capturing small details and even taking the sandwich bag, if you have one around.

Press pause and come back when you're ready.

Today we're going to now focus on creating our own mixed media piece of artwork.

What is mixed media? Is it artwork that uses only one technique? For example, a drawing Or is it artwork that uses more than one technique? For example, a painting and drawing together in one piece? Which one is it? Well done! It's artwork that uses more than one technique and the key word there is mixed.

It's a mix of things.

That's how I always remember it.

On your screen right now, you can see an incredible piece of artwork by artist Sebastian Del Grosso.

Sebastian Del Grosso is a mixed media artist who produces artwork combining lots of different materials and techniques.

This one is called Sketch and Paint.

Take a moment now, press pause and just look at it.

Then come back and we'll talk about it altogether.

I'd like to ask you some questions about this artwork.

The first one is, what do you think of it? Do you like it? I'd also like to ask you, if you've looked closely at it, what different techniques do you think this artist used to create it? And finally, if you had to use three words to describe this piece, what three words would you use to describe it? Now Sebastian Del Grosso has a website in which he shares lots of ideas and tips about how he creates his artwork.

If you would like to, you're welcome to look more after this lesson.

We're going to be taking some inspiration from this today.

We're going to be combining drawing and photography into one mixed media piece.

Wow.

Well, I feel so inspired after looking at that incredible piece of artwork.

I hope you also feel inspired.

I can't wait now to get started and to create my own piece of mixed media artwork.

I'm going to need the following things.

I'm going to need my piece of plastic.

I'm going to need a little piece of sticky tack, my marker.

And I'm also going to need a photograph.

This is the photograph I'm going to use for my piece of mixed media.

If you've got a printer, fantastic! You can print yours out.

I don't have a printer at home, so I'm just going to use my tablet, lit up to help me.

I'm going to draw on top of my tablet but I'm not going to draw on top of my tablet or I get into a lot of trouble.

I'll show you what I'm going to do in just a second, but pause now, if you need to.

Gather what you need and I'll show you what we're going to do.

If you look carefully at the photograph, you might be able to see what I've done.

The first thing I did was I cut my plastic down a little bit.

You might want to do that.

I found it a bit more helpful, but you don't need to.

Then I put it over my photograph, or in my case, I put it all over my screen.

I used for little bits of blue tack to hold it in place so that when I was drawing it didn't move around.

It stayed still.

Then I looked carefully at my photograph and I thought about this question.

What interesting things can I see in the photograph? You may want to look at your photograph now.

What interesting things can you see in your photograph? And then I wanted to pick out those details.

Those interesting things.

I started to draw over it.

Some little lines and ideas.

On each part of my photograph, I used my skills from our starter today.

And I filled in with little patterns, ideas, designs, and lines.

So look, cleff, cleffyy-- What is wrong with my words today? So look carefully now at the stonework.

Can you see all the lines, designs and doodles in there? That's me picking them out, filling them in with little patterns, bringing them to life.

Now the great part of having an overlay, something that lays over a design, our key word, is that I was able to do this twice.

The first time I did it in one way.

And the second time I did it in another.

Let me show you what I did.

Here we go.

Two different approaches to it.

Which piece do you prefer? Can you spot what the difference is? Well on the first one, the one on the left, I drew all that, everything that was there.

I put designs on every single part of my photograph.

On the second one, I didn't do that.

I just picked out a few little pieces that I wanted to draw over.

And that was all I did.

One's a lot more decorative than the other.

Which one do you prefer and how might this impact, what you do? Will you fill in everything? Or will you just fill in a few parts? And as always, I reflected at the end in my sketchbook.

Now you can see the two differences here.

When I've taken one overlay off and put it next with, that almost looks like a piece of art in itself doesn't it? Take some time today to reflect in your sketchbook.

Here are some questions you might want to think about as you do this.

How do you feel about your final piece? How did drawing on top of the photograph affect the final image? Did it change it? Did it make it look different? Did it change the overall theme or mood of it at all? And if you were to do this activity again, would you change anything? I really hope you've enjoyed today's lesson.

We've done so much again today.

In our warmup, we did some pattern work.

We drew designs and lines and ideas and doodles.

Then we investigated a space, as a photographer, looking for interesting things, focusing on angles, light, and playing.

And then we finished by creating a mixed media piece.

Drawing an overlay over a photograph to change the final image using all those lovely doodles and ideas in it.

I hope you've enjoyed yourself.

I hope you've had fun.

And I hope you keep on learning this week.

Lots of love.

Speak to you soon.

If you have created anything interesting that you would like to share with us, we would love to see it.

I would love to see it.

I'd love to see what you've been up to.

The hashtag is here.

If your adult says you can upload something, we'd love to have a little look at each other's work.