Lesson video

Hello, my name is Mrs. Tipping and I'm really looking forward to learning with you today all about me in a box, thinking about drawing and sculpture through personal representations.

We're going to do lots of thinking, talking and exploring together in this lesson.

So shall we get started? Let's go.

By the end of today's lesson, you'll be able to evaluate and refine your assemblage art box, considering its surface design.

Before we start, I would like to introduce you to some keywords.

We'll be using these keywords during the lesson, so it might be a good idea to write these words down.

The keywords we'll be using today are evaluate, joining techniques and surface design.

I'm going to say those again and I would like you to repeat them after me.

Evaluate.

Joining techniques.

Surface design.

Good job.

Now let's think in more detail about what these keywords mean by taking a look at their definitions.

To evaluate means to look at something carefully, to understand what is good about it, what could be better, and how it could be improved.

Joining techniques are the different ways materials can be connected or fixed together.

And surface design is the process of decorating, altering, or adding texture to the surface of a material or object.

Pause the video here to make a note of these keywords, and when you're ready to continue, press play.

These are the learning cycles that'll be working through together in today's lesson.

Evaluating your assemblage sculpture and refining your exterior surface design.

In the first learning cycle, we're going to evaluate your assemblage sculpture.

What could this artist do to improve their developing assemblage sculpture? Pause the video here.

Take a good look at this assemblage sculpture and discuss with your partner.

And press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? How could the artist improve? Well, perhaps you might have added some elements to your assemblage sculpture using joining techniques, and it might not be quite finished yet.

Sometimes artists pause as they are making their artwork to evaluate and reflect.

This helps them to build their confidence by recognising what is working well.

Also to help them think of ideas to improve and refine if necessary, and also to help them identify what they might do differently if they were to make something similar again.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Evaluation and reflection only takes place when the artwork is complete.

Is this statement true or false? Pause the video here and give yourself a moment to think and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said that's false, you're absolutely right, but why is that statement false? Pause the video here and have a discussion with your partner and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you discuss? If you said something like reflecting upon your artwork can be useful at any stage of the creative process.

It helps the artist recognise the successes and decide upon areas that could be improved and refined, then you're absolutely right.

Well done.

And begin by recognising what has gone well with your sculpture so far.

Sofia says, "I really like how my bird sits at the front of my sculpture as I wanted it to be noticed first." And she also says, "I think the colour of the box and papers work really well together.

Next, evaluate your artwork by considering what you could do to improve or to set new goals.

Sofia says, "I think my assemblage sculpture still looks a bit empty." So she says, "I think I could add some other items such as feathers to emphasise the idea of the bird." When evaluating, artists often identify areas to refine.

Artists can refine their work by making small changes to improve.

So look at this first assemblage sculpture here and then look at the improvements.

Can you see where Sofia has added some feathers and some other elements there to make her box look less empty? Sofia is considering what she would like to refine or do differently if she were to make something similar again.

She says, "I would like to refine my assemblage box by adding more natural objects." She says, "I think this would help my sculpture to tell a clearer story about my self-identity because I love nature and the coast." Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Why do artists evaluate their artwork? To finish their work as quickly as possible? To make sure it looks exactly like someone else's artwork? To understand what they did well and what they can improve next time? Pause the video here and have a think about why artists evaluate their artwork and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said that artists evaluate their artwork to understand what they did well and what they can improve next time, you're absolutely right.

Artists evaluate their work to help them reflect on their choices and become better artists over time.

This brings us to our first learning task.

I'd like you to first identify three things that have gone well with your assemblage sculpture.

So some helpful starters here could be the layout of elements creates a strong sense of.

My sculpture is successful because.

The technique I used here helped me achieve.

This piece reflects my self-identity through.

So pause the video here and have a go at this first part of this learning task and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Well, let's take a look at some examples.

Maybe you said the layout of elements creates a strong sense of balance and flow.

I think the viewer will want to keep looking.

Maybe you said this piece reflects my self-identity through the combination of different elements, such as my bird both reflecting a memory and people who are important to me.

And maybe you said the joining techniques I used to help me achieve a sense of depth in my box.

So you can see how Sofia has given herself this feedback around what's gone well in her assemblage box, and hopefully you could spot those things in yours.

This brings us to the second part of this learning task.

I'd like you to identify two things that you would like to refine within your assemblage sculpture.

Maybe you could start by saying it would be better if I.

Or I could refine the materials or textures by adding.

Or I might try to refine.

Or I could refine my artwork by.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to identify two things that you'd like to refine and press play when you're ready to continue.

How did you find that? Shall we take a look at some examples? So maybe, like Sofia, you said it would be better if I had used the space a bit more fully.

I could have placed more items on top of my box.

Perhaps you said I could refine the materials or textures to include more found objects, like toys or natural items, which represent my interests and experiences.

Or perhaps you said, "I might try to make some elements of my design a little more prominent." Now moving on to the final part of this learning task.

I'd like you to identify one thing you might do differently if you were to make another assemblage sculpture.

So perhaps you would say, I would arrange the objects differently to.

I could plan the layout more carefully to help.

I might use a stronger fixing method so that.

Or I would spend more time on to make it look.

So pause the video here and give yourself some time to think about one thing that you might do differently, and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? What was that one thing for you? Well, perhaps you might say, I might use a stronger fixing method so that my elements didn't move around so much.

I would spend more time on gathering my found objects to make it tell a clearer story to the viewer.

Or I would arrange the objects differently to make the natural elements stand out more.

Well done for having a go at evaluating your assemblage sculpture, thinking about what went well, what you would maybe refine, and maybe something you'd do differently next time.

This now brings us to the second part of our lesson.

We're going to focus on refining your exterior surface design.

After you have evaluated your sculpture, you can go back to make changes to it.

Making small changes to improve a piece of art is called refining.

You might start thinking about your surface design.

Sofia says, "My surface design looked a bit empty in places, like it needed more objects or textures to complete it.

Surface design refers to how a surface looks or feels.

The surface design of an artwork is the process of decorating, altering, or adding texture to the surface.

Artists might alter the surface design by combining materials with different textures, by sanding, scratching, piercing, or using paint to change the surface of the object, by layering materials to create different areas of interest or using joining techniques to add additional objects to your surface.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Surface design is the shape of a sculpture, how a surface looks or feels or the weight of an object.

Pause the video here and have a think about how you would finish this sentence and press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said surface design is how a surface looks or feels, you're absolutely right.

The surface design of an artwork is the process of decorating, altering, or adding texture to the surface.

Well done.

You can refine your surface design by layering materials or adding objects using joining techniques.

Sofia says, "I used tabs and tape to hold this dinosaur toy in place.

I was obsessed with dinosaurs when I was younger!" Now, you can use joining techniques, such as glueing , to join lighter materials.

So can you see here, these little rubber bands have been added.

Sofia says, "I used glue to add another layer of elastic bands to this collage area of my surface design to create texture." It'll have a really interesting feel, wouldn't it, having those elastic bands on the box.

You can also use piercing to create holes in your surface design to join or suspend objects.

So can you see here, using a pencil carefully, we've created a hole? There it is.

And that's where you could pop an object through to join it or maybe to suspend another object.

So something that would be floating, maybe on the inside.

Piercing works well for joining heavier objects as it is stronger than glueing.

Tabs or masking tape can be added at the back for extra support.

So Sofia says, "By piercing my surface, I was able to add another 3D object to my design.

I really like the way it brings another texture to my sculpture too.

Let's take a moment to pause and check our understanding.

Which joining technique would be best for attaching lighter objects? Pause the video here and discuss with a partner.

Would it be A, B, or C? And press play when you're ready to continue.

What did you think? If you said that it was C, glueing , you're absolutely right.

Glueing can be used for less heavy objects.

This now brings us to our final learning task.

I'd like you to use your evaluation to improve the exterior surface design of your assemblage art box.

You might think about combining materials with different textures, sanding, scratching, piercing, or using paint to change the surface design of the box.

Maybe you'll do some layering of materials to create different areas of interest, or you might use joining techniques to add further objects to your box.

So pause the video here and give yourself enough time to look back at your evaluation and to improve the exterior surface design of your assemblage art box.

And press play when you're ready to continue.

How did that go? Which of these ideas did you put into practise? Did you add some more materials with different textures? Did you use different joining techniques? Well, let's take a look at this example here.

Maybe you combined materials with different textures, like this wooden element that Sofia added here.

Maybe you sanded, scratched, or used paint to refine the exterior surface of the assemblage.

Maybe you layered materials to create different areas of interest, like glueing these elastic bands on the side of the box here.

Maybe you used joining techniques, such as tabs, to add additional objects to refine your surface design, like when Sofia added this dinosaur toy here.

And that was quite heavy, so it needed some tabs to hold it down.

Maybe you used joining techniques, such as masking tape to add additional objects to your surface, like Sofia has added some shells here.

Well, well done for having a go at refining your exterior surface design.

Hopefully through evaluating your box, you were able to see some ideas that you wanted to include and were able to refine those.

Before we finish this lesson, let's summarise what we've learned about assemblage on an exterior box design.

Artists might reflect and evaluate their artwork before it is complete to make improvements to refine their work.

Artists evaluate their work to help them reflect on their choices and become better artists over time.

And the surface design of an artwork is the process of decorating, altering, or adding texture to the surface.

Thank you for joining me in this lesson.

I hope you enjoyed learning about me in a box through drawing and sculpture.

I certainly did.

I hope to see you for another unit of learning soon.

See you then.