Video: Final Piece (Part 2)

﻿Good morning and welcome to Art with Ms. Corral for our final practical design completion lesson of empowerment and equality. What will you learn this lesson? The most important thing is this. We're going to be developing, we're going to be completing our personal and practical response. After all these units, this is where it all comes together and hopefully it will pay off. There'll be an aspect of evaluating your final composition idea. All of that that will come in greater detail next lesson. And the "what next", "what next stages"? What equipment will you need? It's unlikely that you'll need a computer tablet or phone now, but I always put it there, just in case you need to refer back. You are going to need all your prime surfaces as you've prepared, all your ingredients, any finished drawing, the materials that you're going to use. I'm going to stay with gouache. And toilet paper to clean up mess or to dab onto the paint, that kind of thing. Pencil sharpener, scissors, if you need to do any cutouts. I'm not going to use flower pattern because I already stuck it on my board, but if you need to, then it is the same equipment that I repeat every single lesson. You're probably already bored with me. But just in case, anything that you need, go quickly, get all those materials and artwork and pause if you do. I'm not going to say anything else until you come back. Recapping one last time, let's just have a last glance at all of these, because it's all going to come together at the end. So just to have it imprinted on your retina, the three different artistic links. My different responses. The first demo, I'm going to show you what I've done with this. So my final compositions... My two final compositions, I decided that these were my outcasts. An art teacher used to say to me, "you have to kill your babies", and you do sometimes do too much. So I'm going to leave these for another life or another day, when I'm in the mood. But just to retain the quality, I focused on two outcomes, which are the ones that you're going to see. And yes, this one here is this one. It's just that the fabric, patterned fabric gets covered at the end. Each task, all in all, will take me, as I said last lesson, about 30 minutes. Naturally, I work faster. You may need a little bit longer. Don't be too over ambitious, unless you prepare to put the time outside of the lesson. It's best to keep it simple and retain the quality. It's not about quantity. It is about quality. Let's see how I did it. So using the same process as I used in my other lessons, starting with highlights, mid-tones, watered down 'cause I'm using a photocopy. Now what I noticed is I didn't prime this image and it wasn't as observant as my previous one. When I went to draw the mouth, I had the big black blob. So just be mindful of those things. when you're working with watered down paint. Now I'm trying to embellish parts of the drawing and give it a bit of a colourful effect. This is the section where I'm adding the patterns. I don't know what went in my head, but I just went for blues and greens, I think it was getting the world's image. As I said, things get imprinted on my brain and I just react. See how I dab when I get too much paint, you can always correct. And then an extra little bit of pattern. Very metropolis. I am blocking the background. It's quite nice to do a colourful image for a change. And you see how the fabric pattern is there, but it isn't there. I quite like that effect, it's no longer a halo. It's just something else. It's gorgeous when things just take a life of their own. It never ceases to surprise me what my own hands do without me having any conscious awareness. That is the end of this first demonstration. Well, all in all, 20 to 30 minutes to develop this final composition. So if you're ready and itching to get on with it, pause and restart when you're finished and you're ready to move on to see my final design. So I call this my final composition because with this one, I was using the photocopy for my photo peer design. Whereas this one is a free tracing or free drawing from my initial drawing, using the techniques that I showed you already with the charcoal. So the two stages, the one that you saw last lesson, how I transferred the drawing and the William Morris pattern. And then I went a bit free agent to do a little bit of extra, and this is my colouring exercise using gouache. Now the first thing to, for me, as I noticed, is when I did the transfer, there was a lot of dark because of the charcoal on my surface. So I decided to use white gouache and block, almost like putting a mask of white cream or makeup, a stage, a theatre play, and block all the areas. The downside of that is that I lost some of my features, which, it's okay because I wasn't too happy with how I'd traced the nose and the lips. So I did want to do some correcting. But you have to be mindful of that, that if you lose the features, are you able to regain them again? If you get a bit lost, pause, let things dry and then work back with the pencil. Don't do it with a fine liner, unless you're a hundred percent sure. This stage took me about five minutes, maybe 10. Then I, when I was sort of happy with the face, and I know I have to still work on certain areas, like the nose and the lips, but I did that with colour. I blocked some of the background elements because here I quite wanted the industrial print, but I also wanted to focus on the word "notice". Then after the highlights, came the black outlines, just like I did on this exercise, to bring the expression in the triangular area of the face, eyes and corners of the mouth, also the movement of the hair, and then the touches of colour. Bit of blue. Little bit of pink and brown. I started mixing the white of the gouache paste with browns and reds to add a slightly softer carnation, like it's the sort of skin tones on the face. Always observing the lights and the shadows. Overall, this will be tasks about five minutes. You're going to see the demonstration now. So with this final demo, I'm adding the highlights all around the face, and that is because you got to be careful when you apply and transfer with the charcoal, that you don't lose the details or that you stain the background too much. So you can see it's like applying a big facial mask. In my other section of the lesson, when I was talking through this, I mentioned that I wasn't happy with the features. So I am on purpose, blocking certain areas, which I'm going to rework again. So I'm taking this opportunity to make part of the drawing disappear. So this image is going to have more of a painterly effect. In any of my other exercises, it's the very first one. So no grid nor reliance on the pencil. Gouache dries really quickly, so it's really nice to use. Once you're confident, you'll get to that sweet spot where you don't water it down too much and you start getting less transparencies and enabling you to block those solid areas of colour you may wish to have. So I'm beginning to use the medium more as a painting medium than a drawing medium, because there is a bit of a difference. Now with a black fine liner, and remember what I said, if you don't, sorry, not black fine liner, if you don't have a black, thin brush, avoid it. Work with a fine liner, or just leave it with the pencil, otherwise you're going to ruin it because it's going to look crude. I am trying some blue shades and this is where I start adding some colour. We call these the carnations of skin tonality. So a bit of warm and a bit of cold. Very gentle. And that is the end of the final demonstration. Pause if you do, if you want to give this a go and finalise your composition Between 20 to 30 minutes is what it will take. Restart when you're finished. I can't wait to see the end outcome. So voilà, these are my two masterpieces. I've already got a taker for this one. And I think my mum wanted to keep this one too. So that is nice. When people want to keep them. I hope that your members of the family are proud, and going, "wow", and doing all these sounds. I wish I could be there. So what went well? Even better if overall, it was a bit fun and expected outcome. I thought I was going to go more hand written, but my creative thinking hands sometimes have a life of their own, and I don't tend to just stick to plan. I tend to improvise. Maybe it's because I've got experience. How was it for you? If I had more time, I would definitely like to add some text here. Obviously these are small little print outs and... Oh, and one more thing. I would love to add some touches of gold with my gold pen on the leaf. So I'll do that later on. These works sort of looks very similar to the work that I do professionally at home, anyway, I do use a lot of patterns. So for me, it's almost like I've reverted to what I do anyway. I would be very interested to see what's happened to you. I hope that it's gone up all right, but just remember, as I always say, I feel very uncomfortable with the final thing because it feels very definite. It's like an exam. Nothing is final. These are all experiences. If it's gone wrong, take it as an experience. Move on. You have learnt as much from success as a failure, and that's always going to be the case. So let things dry, tidy up your mess. You don't want to have anybody telling you off. And let's move on to the end of our lesson. So what will we learn next lesson? Since we've finished, we're going to be evaluating the final composition idea. What went well, what could have even been better. Then ask yourself what are going to be your next creative stages with the amount of skills and knowledge that you should have acquired, and I'm not being sarcastic. We're also going to look at how to describe the artist's work and how to develop a kind of mind map visually so that you can structure your thoughts and your ideas. And that's all to come for the last session of empowerment and equality. So if you're finished, like I always say, it's time to take the end of the lesson quiz and see what stuck from today's learning. Nearly there. Have a lovely rest of the day and goodbye.

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Completed: Final Piece (Part 2)

In today's lesson we will complete our piece/s inspired by the different artists. I will be completing my two final patterned pieces using gouache and mixed-media.

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