Hello, everyone.
How you doing today? Hope you're feeling really great.
My name's Ms. Afzal, and I'll be your art teacher for this lesson.
I'm excited about this because today, we're gonna be exploring emotions.
Our lesson is called "Expressing emotion through art." We're gonna be using doodling.
We're gonna be getting into 3D exploration.
We are gonna be having some fun today.
Our lesson comes from the unit of work "Art for life: expression and belonging." I hope you're feeling enthusiastic and ready for the lesson.
If you are, we will begin.
The outcome for today's lesson is I can explore emotions through line, symbols, and doodles.
Today's lesson is called "Expressing emotion through art" and it contains three learning cycles.
First of all, art as a visual language.
Next, processing emotion through doodling.
And finally, developing doodles into 3D outcomes.
Let's begin with art as a visual language.
Our lesson contains three keywords.
Let's go through them.
Emotion, symbolism, and doodle.
Emotion means feelings experienced.
Symbolism is the use of objects, characters, or ideas to represent something else.
And doodle is a casual, aimless drawing or pattern made while thinking about something else.
These are our keywords, emotion, symbolism, and doodle.
Art is like a language, but instead of words, it uses images, colours, lines, shapes, and symbols to share ideas and emotions.
"I feel excitement looking at this." "This evokes a feeling of pain." So we can see some contrasting feelings being experienced looking at artwork there.
And let's ask ourselves now, what is emotion? Pause the video and share with someone.
Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Let's hear from Lucas, "Emotions can be all sorts of feelings, from happiness to sadness and even excitement." Love that one.
And Alex, "I think emotion is a feeling, like if I get upset about something.
I don't think we always have control of our emotions." Everyone experiences a wide range of emotions, which is okay, and these might include fear, anger, hope, confusion, love, amongst many others.
Emotion is your brain and body's way of reacting to what is happening around you or inside your head.
Emotions help you to understand how something is affecting you.
Your body might react physically to emotions.
This might look like a racing heart, laughter, a tight chest, butterflies, heavy limbs, trembling.
Pause the video and share with someone, can you think of any other ways in which your body might react physically to emotions? Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Aisha and Sam are discussing their emotions.
"When I'm excited about something, my legs tremble and I become a bit jittery." And Sam, "My heart beats fast when I'm feeling anxious, and sometimes I have the sensation of butterflies in my stomach." Have you ever seen an artwork which evoked an emotion? Pause the video and share with someone.
What was the artwork, and what was the emotion evoked? Thanks for sharing your experience.
Take a look at this artwork.
Which emotions does this artwork evoke in you? Pause the video and share with someone.
Here's Jacob, "When I saw this painting, I instantly felt at peace.
The soft edges, colours, and gold swirly lines are soothing." Yeah, I can see how you feel that way, Jacob.
Now take a look at this image.
What emotions does this artwork evoke in you? Pause the video and share with someone.
Here's Sofia, "This artwork makes me feel uneasy as I think it's how the world will look in the future.
It's a bit apocalyptic." Oh, okay, that's, yeah, pretty strong emotions you're feeling there.
Check for understanding.
True or false? Thinking is an emotion.
Pause the video and decide if this is true or false.
Well done if you selected false, and now I'd like you to say a little more about your answer.
Pause the video while you do this.
Perhaps you said something like this: An emotion is something you feel, such as sad, happy, or excited.
Thinking is not something you feel.
Many artists express their emotions through their artwork.
They include Zarina Hashmi, who reflects the emotional experience of migration, belonging, and home by using simple lines and shapes within her printmaking, drawing, and sculpture.
Delaine Le Bas, whose textile and installation art is often filled with anger, grief, pride, and resilience.
Do Ho Suh, who creates installations using shapes that represent personal and cultural identity.
So there are many artists expressing their emotions through their artwork.
Sketching can help process emotions and thoughts, serving as a visual diary.
Freeform drawings can help us to express emotions or thoughts without judgement or worrying about what the viewer might think.
Symbolism is when an object, colour, shape, or image is used to represent something else.
What associations or emotions might this image of a seedling represent? Pause the video and share with someone.
Thanks for sharing your ideas.
For me, it represents hope and also resilience, this tiny little thing emerging through the cracks.
Symbolism might look like this.
"A clenched fist could stand for resistance or strength." Pause the video and share with someone, what do you think this is symbolic of? Let's hear from Jun, "A heart split into two halves could represent heartbreak, grief, or sadness." Well, this image could represent hope.
"I think of hope when I see seedlings.
It might also represent new beginnings or even potential." Oh, I love that.
Many artists use symbolism within their artwork.
Some artists include Anselm Kiefer, who works with paint, lead, ash, straw, and broken objects to represent history, memory, war, and hope.
Keith Haring, who often includes symbols of radiant babies, barking dogs, and flying saucers to represent life, love, and activism within his paintings.
Tommy Hollenstein is an abstract expressionist painter and sculptor who uses symbols to represent resilience.
So many artists are using symbolism within their artwork.
Check for understanding.
What is symbolism in art? Is it A, using objects or images to represent ideas or feelings, B, painting exactly what you see in real life, or C, making art with words? Pause the video while you decide.
Well done if you selected A, symbolism is using objects or images to represent ideas or feelings.
And now it's time for your first task.
Using images or symbols, create a quick sketch to represent an emotion that you have felt.
Use your art as a visual, so no words should be included.
Consider composition, the size, scale, and positioning, symbols or objects to help give meaning, use of line or mark-making to reflect emotion.
So pause here while you have a go at this task.
So how did you get on with using images or symbols to create a quick sketch to represent an emotion that you've felt? Here's Alex, "I drew a figure on an empty road to represent loneliness, which I have experienced at times in my life." Thanks for sharing that.
Sofia, "I drew jagged and tangled lines to symbolise what goes on in my head when I worry or get stressed." Really feeling that from that image.
Thanks, Sofia.
And now we're on to our next learning cycle, processing emotion through doodling.
Doodling is a valid and expressive art form that encourages ideas, emotions, and creativity to flow freely with no expectations.
Reasons to doodle might include to boost creativity, to enable self-expression, to help improve focus and memory, to promote mindfulness, that's one of my favourite things, and to help reduce stress.
So many great reasons to doodle.
Jun and Izzy are discussing their doodling.
"Sometimes I don't even notice I'm doodling until my paper is filled with random shapes or faces.
Doodling takes my mind off any worries." And Izzy, "Doodling helps clear my head when I'm stressed.
I'll start with a simple shape which often evolves into something random." Artists who are known for including doodles in their artwork include Jean-Michel Basquiat, who combined doodles and words.
Shantell Martin, who turns freestyle line drawings into large-scale, emotional works.
Laure Prouvost, who uses symbolic objects and storytelling to blur truth and fiction in playful, thought-provoking ways.
Check for understanding.
Why do people doodle? A, it's for people who can't draw realistically.
B, it encourages mindfulness.
C, it's just a way to pass time.
Pause the video while you decide.
Well done if you selected B, it encourages mindfulness, which is about being present in the moment.
Doodling is a great way to promote wellbeing and creativity.
There are many ways to doodle, and it might look like freestyle doodles, where shapes, creatures, symbols, or surreal scenes often emerge.
Oh my goodness! Look at what is coming out of this eye.
I love it.
Might look like this.
Zentangle, a drawing technique using repetitive patterns within shapes.
So we can see a whole bunch of different styles and patterns in this Zentangle.
It might look like this.
Neurographic art involves drawing free-flowing lines, then rounding off intersections.
There are many ways that practitioners approach art for wellbeing, and neurographic art is one such method.
There's something so pleasing about those curves in the rounding off.
Doodling could look like this.
Word doodles include letters, fonts, or words within images.
Obviously love this one, love art.
Check for understanding.
True or false? Artists cannot make a career from doodling.
Pause the video and decide if this is true or false.
Well done if you selected false, and now I'd like you to say a little more about your answer.
Pause the video while you do this.
Perhaps you said something like this: Many artists make a full-time career from doodle art, including Jon Burgerman, who worked with big brands, published books, and had global exhibitions.
Doodling can be a career.
And now it's time for your next task.
I'd like you to make a doodle which combines at least two doodle styles and reflects an emotion that you have felt.
You might choose to create your doodle using a traditional paper surface, an unconventional paper surface, such as an envelope or paper bag, felt-tip pens, fineliner or biro.
So pause here while you have a go at this part of your task, making a doodle which combines at least two doodle styles and reflects an emotion that you have felt.
I'll see you when you're finished.
It's great to be back with you.
How did you get on with making a doodle which combines at least two doodle styles and reflects an emotion that you have felt? Oh, wow.
I love this.
Here's Andeep, "I wanted to reflect the emotion," yes, you've guessed it, "love, with swirling Zentangle shapes and patterns going through a heart.
I added the word love in tiny letters." Oh, wow.
So beautiful and expressive and detailed.
Maybe you created something like this.
Here's Izzy, "I chose to make a neurographic doodle and incorporated words linked to calmness.
I use blue to reflect my emotion." Love the combination of styles you've used here.
Really great words as well.
Tranquil, peaceful, slow, calm, oh, feels great reading those, serene.
And now we're on to our final learning cycle, developing doodles into 3D outcomes.
Doodling has a rich history and has appeared across various cultures and time periods.
Examples include archaeological artefacts, stick figures from early Pompeii.
Japanese Edo period, artists made yokai, strange spirit characters and monsters.
Inuit carvings and drawings, spirits, humans, and animals in bold outlines.
And mediaeval books known as marginalia, where characters were drawn in the side margins.
Such a rich history doodling has.
Check for understanding.
What is marginalia? A, a type of flower depicted in botanical books, B, lines to divide pages in Victorian books, or C, doodled creatures in the margins of mediaeval books.
Pause the video while you decide.
Well done if you selected C, marginalia are doodled creatures in the margins of mediaeval books.
Although doodling often starts with simple lines, shapes, or patterns, they often evolve into something more, like faces, creatures, or scenes.
Take a look at this simple line.
"I've drawn a doodle.
I will pass it on to Lucas to see if he can turn it into something." Pause the video and share with someone, what do you think this doodle could be turned into? Let's find out if your guess is correct.
Here's Lucas, "I enjoyed turning the doodle into a dancer, floating through the air." Love that.
Andeep and Sam continue exploring doodling.
"I made a quick doodle and will pass it to Sam to see what he can turn it into." Pause the video and share with someone, what do you think this doodle could be turned into? What potential does it have? Let's have a look.
"I turned Andeep's doodle into some quirky buildings.
I think it would make a great clay sculpture," says Sam.
Many artists create characters within their artwork, including Jon Burgerman, who uses various mediums including drawing, sculpture, and digital art, often featuring playful characters, Lucy Sparrow, who makes quirky soft sculptures of food, objects, and people, and Kaylene Whiskey, who paints playful scenes full of characters and imagination.
So many artists creating characters within their artwork.
Check for understanding.
True or false? Doodles can be turned into 3D artworks.
Pause the video and decide if this is true or false.
Well done if you selected true.
Now I'd like you to say a little more about your answer.
Pause the video while you do this.
Perhaps you said something like this: Doodles can be ideas on paper that could evolve into sculptures, soft toys, clay figures, digital models, and more.
Drawing techniques, such as continuous line drawing, can be a great way to begin creating a doodle which can then be developed creatively.
Wow, I love how this continuous line drawing is progressing.
And now it's time for the first part of your task.
I would like you to explore evolving a line by creating a doodle creature.
First of all, create a line drawing to inspire your doodle.
Draw two continuous lines onto paper from one side to the other.
Let your inner emotions guide you.
Allow the lines to flow and have overlapping shapes, unusual angles, or curves.
Pause the video while you complete this part of your task.
Great to be back with you.
How did you get on with creating a line drawing to inspire your doodle? Here's Alex, "I can see lots of potential for creating characters within these shapes." Oh yes, there is a lot of potential there.
And now I'd like you to evolve the doodle shapes into imaginary creatures.
Consider adding tentacles, wings, horns, scales, and a tail.
Go wild.
Pause the video while you have a go at this part of your task, evolving your doodle shapes into imaginary creatures.
I'll see you when you're finished.
Okay, how did that go? What imaginary creatures did your doodle shapes evolve into, I wonder.
Oh my, look at these! Here's Izzy, "I evolved the initial lines by adding different features to each shape to create quirky characters in my doodle." Wow, so quirky.
And next, I'd like you to choose one of your imaginary doodle creatures and develop it into a 3D outcome.
What textures, shapes, or materials would bring it to life? It could look like a clay model, a character using textile techniques, or a wire structure.
So pause here while you choose one of your imaginary doodle creatures and develop it into a 3D outcome.
Enjoy your task.
Great to be back with you.
How did you get on transforming your imaginary doodle creature into a 3D outcome? Oh wow, look at this.
I love it, Jun! "I made my doodle character into a felt, textiles piece.
This character symbolises the emotion of peace, which you can see in the facial expression." We really can.
I love that.
Feeling so peaceful just looking at it.
And here's Aisha, "I imagine this doodle would look great as a clay model, or I could try using salt dough.
This creature has a surprised look." Oh yeah, look at those wide eyes.
And whoa! What a great outcome.
"I used paint to enhance my doodle creature.
The bright white eyes," love them, "helped to make the surprised emotion more obvious." Such a great outcome.
I hope you all enjoyed the evolution of your imaginary doodle creatures into a 3D outcome.
In our lesson "Expressing emotion through art," we've covered the following.
Art is a powerful way to express emotions.
Art can become a piece of visual language that tells your emotional story.
Doodling lets us show how we feel without needing to use words.
Freeform painting or drawing can provide space to express feelings without judgement or expectation.
Well done, everyone, for joining in with this lesson.
It's not always easy expressing emotions, and art and doodling can help us with that.
So I hope you enjoyed taking part in this lesson, and I love your 3D outcomes.
Well done for those.
I look forward to seeing you at another art lesson soon.
Until then, stay creative.