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﻿Good morning. Welcome to art with Miss Corral. This lesson of today, of empowerment and equality, looking at the work of Gabrielle Garcia Roman. What will you learn this lesson? We're going to look at adding colour, texture and pattern to the images she took. Last lesson was a fortress. We are going to be looking at a crevice and we're going to be experimenting with mixed media. What equipment will you need you need? A computer, a tablet, or a phone to follow the lesson and to do some extra research. If you need to edit some imagery, that would be great. Your edited handwritten artwork. If you completed it last lesson, and if you didn't complete it, just bring it to numb. Anyway, your ideas are constantly evolving and developing. You are going to need scissors, glue, printed photos. Now, this is important. I want to stop here for a second. If you don't have a printer at home, which I did in the last lesson for the sake of this exercise, either work with a drawing or work with an image from the magazine or from an old photograph. And later on in the unit, we are going to be covering the digital editing tasks. It's just getting that balance right between what we did last lesson, which was mainly digital. And also looking at the more traditional media. We are going to need some background materials, which we'll explain later and the usual pencils, pens, fine liners. If you've got a cutting knife, scissors, glue, all of that will come really handy. So first of all lets pause the video, gather the materials we start when we're ready. Just a quick recap on the work of Gabriel Garcia Roman. Another view of the work that he's done, some of it has handwritten components. Some of it doesn't, it is like a photography and let's look at an individual example, which we mentioned last lesson. So this is gay icon Fei Fernandez, I was using the word she, I should have you referred to them and they, but please, excuse me. I'm still trying to get to terms with the personal pronouns, but in the advil variations here, they are different colour backgrounds, they're different patterns on the front of her clothes, on them clothes and on the halo and that's been achieved using collage and there is handwritten, it's the same text, it's just changed in colour. It's the same composition. So how are we going to do that ourselves? And by the way, just a little pause button there again. Last lesson, if you really, really do not like the handwritten component, you want to add handwritten, take it as an extension for this desk. We are going to focus on colour and the buttons and on backgrounds mainly. So the handwritten of how you embedded, it's your choice, the scales, we did the same, look at how Gabriel Garcia Roman has developed himself in four very different and exciting ways. So that's what I did last lesson, this one, my handwritten responses using photo pier, the digital app, I didn't feel that I had explored the technique as well as I wanted. Plus, as I said, last lesson, I didn't have a plan as to what I was going to write, I kind of improvised. So what we're going to do very quickly next is do another little demo just with handwritten. And as you can see here, this is an array of the work that I have developed. It's all Donald traditional media and a really bad quality printer, but that's all I have available at the moment. Now, obviously you may have a different platform. You may have a photocopier, you may be using a magazine, but what I find worked for me, and this is my own choice, it doesn't have to be how you do it is that I printed four smaller pictures underneath a piece of paper. As I said, I have got a bad printer here that is align, but I didn't use those pictures. It just helps for the planning. And that empowered me to use a the fine liner, this one, and have another go at that. I want to play this demonstration very fast. I started with a fine pencil and attempted to change the composition. I tried highlighting as well as adding some shapes. It did look quite busy, but then the fine liner helped me go over the text. I think that was rubber. Then I try to focus on a halo maze kind of design. I think this one works better.

And just because I had the images, I try to, to side asking questions. What is the point of quiet if nobody's listening? What is the point of loud if nobody's listening? And that became and has become the question, mantra, statement or affirmation that I've used for my empowerment theme. Now, your turn, you do it. If you need to, or if you want to develop your designs further handwriting using a pen. This task should take you about five minutes. And when you have completed press restart and we will move on. Our next stage is going to be collage and what you will see on the screen are two examples of work that I developed with different backgrounds. Some I use some spray ink and some other paintings that I found in the department, sometimes students leave things behind, but you can use whatever is available at home. Even if it's just rubbing with coloured pencils or using water colours, using makeup, anything you want, it's just for you to cut and stick your images in. It could be also wrapping paper or packaging. So you are going to need some backgrounds, magazine images. If you want to, again, introduce some components. You'll see some examples later on of how I changed the top as an extension. I used ink washed paper, charcoal tinted paper and that's red spray paint paper. The different steps, you're going to see a series of demonstrations that are going to be about one, five minutes long. This is the order in which they are going to run. First step, you cut your photo. That should take you about one minute. Second, if you are going to be looking for magazine, cutouts, spend about five minutes. But if you want to use different materials for the halo, that is exactly the same, five minutes to cut out some circles, five to 10 minutes to resource some coloured backgrounds or patterns, then glueing the different components together should be about a minute, sticking another minute, marking the frame another minute and cutting the frame, which is the final task, another minute. That should be what your finished collage would look like at the end of this lesson. This is where I'm cutting the image with scissors, be careful and then I've used a craft knife for the inside areas. I am protecting the table with a wooden board, as you can see. Easy peasy. This isn't the searching through magazines. I found an image that I liked, and I am going to cut it out. Good size, I'm using my scissors again. As I said, if you don't have a religious image, anything will do, wrapping paper, chocolate wrapper. Beautiful. It's time for glueing . First a halo, it did take me a while to get it right, then the background that I chose. Nice. Finally, it's time to cut the design. Please be careful if you're using a craft knife. You can use this as equally. It's always a bit scary when you make this commitment I think, because I was very proud of that lovely background and this is it. The moment of the unveil of the masterpiece. Let's have a look. Beautiful, don't you think? Very effective. Only know it should take you about six minutes to complete and repeat this task, maybe a little bit longer but don't worry if it takes longer, it takes longer as long as you're enjoying it, that is what matters. When you are ready, press restart and we have a look at the extension material for this lesson. So big extension ideas. Let's just look for a moment again at the sample of designs that I've done. I did one with the red background, you can see that I have then added hand writing over it, with a gold pen and a black fine liner, I have got a top that looks glittery but it isn't but I did want that impression because i do feel uncomfortable with glittery clothes then a more understated one with the inks and the greys which you really like and then I've got one with charcoal, which I'm going to live without text because I like it I like the simplicity of it and I'm still deciding whether I'm going to cut it little square or I'm going to have it bigger What you see on the other side is how I have also tried to develop my ideas with digital media. There are endless variations I could spend just a whole unit looking at how we could develop this further but I'm afraid we don't have the time so maybe during the next course of lessons we will have a chance to have a look at some. Let's start by looking at how to do the clothing. Mine was a bit tricky because I had the hand on my chest so I had to cut around my fingers. For this task you can use tracing paper or use a window and a thin bit of paper that you can use as your pattern to cut around. Let's have a look at it at how I did this. First I use some baking paper and the thin pencil to mark the area I wanted to replace with the top. Cut around just so that then you can refine the shape. Hopefully you won't have it hands to content with. Now that is my little pattern I am not going to cut out the hand otherwise it will be too difficult but what I've done is I've marked the back and the inside so I'm, first of all, tracing the outer edge of the pattern and then I have gone over the lines on the back and I can transfer the pencil marks It's just that the case of refining the fingers and when I'm ready I cut out and you can see that I have tried using the same method. Once you have a pattern you can do it over and over with different bits of paper to see which one i like the best. So try it with a spray ink, one with washers. Look like tie dye top and I was keen on that one so I spent a bit of time refining it. That's where I add the other side of the top and then finally I was lucky enough because my Gabriel Garcia has got cold on the tops of his models, now I didn't have any gold paper or anything shiny at home but I found this other image and you see how effective it is it is a tree, reproduction of a painting. I'm actually now using another one of the cutouts that I used as a pattern because it was thicker than tracing paper. So you can do that yourselves, so that's me trying again. I've always been very indecisive, so many options so little time, and then I decided to go for the glitzy one because it's very not me and that was precisely the point I was trying to make with this image. Voila, so provided you have got some of the material available, this extension task could take you five ten minutes, if you are me it will take you twenty because I could have carried on. I had so much fun and I'm so indecisive but pause the video have a go, if you have time and we start when you're finished. Now this other extension again please don't feel the pressure if you think I've done it all, I've spent an hour. It's depending on how fast you work. If you did want to add that little extra with pen work, I have added handwritten on top of the halo and around the halo, and I've also added a little dotty pattern. I love putting dots in my work and it's on the clothes. This extension work is actually a second design that I produce because as I said I do get very carried away when I am having fun, which is good. It should take you about 10 minutes and introducing text brings in a narrative, so it adds another layer of meaning to your empowerment image. Think about it if you've got time, let's see. First that's the little test so I could see the gold pen and the silver pen and then how they go adding a little bit of those dotty patterns around the halo and the clothes. I don't know why but I find very therapeutic to add dots, very relaxing. Then I wrote my affirmation around the halo with a silver metallic pen and then I went and added almost like a little not outline, full outline, but like a little projected shadow with a fine liner I thought that was very effective because it made the text pop out. With the red one I used a gold metallic pen, not as successfully I don't think and then try to repeat the same task with fine liner but I think the surface I was using wasn't as absolute. What is nice about doing variations is that each one just takes a bit of a life of its own. Perhaps this was a bit too much. So I try to kind of, cover it and this is just finally another third design that I did but this time I remove the top, so I worked with a negative space and I kept it very subtle. What do you think? So all in all the pen and dotty extension task took me about five ten minutes. They're doing the other design probably another 10. You doing that but as I said these are extensions, it is whether you have time or whether you just want to carry on and do a little bit more. Pause the video if you want to do this and then press to start when you're finished and we will move on to finish and complete the lesson. So, what else could you have done now as I said if I had lots of time I would have then shown you how to use digital imaging. I did say I was going to but I am going to keep that under my belt for another lesson in the unit because I thought it was important for you to be exposed to the digital on lesson one of Gabriel and then i listen to a handmade one to keep everybody happy if you like, but have a play if you want to with Adobe Sketch. If you are interested in digital imaging, you will know how to download, you can find your way around most of my students in the character design club, they have been teaching me. Adobe Sketch is brilliant as I said for acrylic, for ink and for charcoal and this one is done with Photopea, both apps as I said are free. Both are really good fun. I will show you how I did this in the next unit because it's actually the next response but I will avoid the handwriting. So check out future lessons to learn the skills and what are we going to do next lesson? Well, next lesson we're starting with Tim Okamura, a fantastic and really interesting artist. Now for this you need to review the photographs of this of portraits that you took. If now that you've matured you think the pictures I took are a bit not very good, then go and take new shots. We are going to be doing a drawing but that's why I'm going to keep the digital aspect for next lessons, the next two lessons, in fact the next four lessons because some of you will want to do the great drawing and you'll be fantastic at drawing and shading. Some of you will think that now I can't draw for toffee so then you may want to do a digital tracing or even a natural normal tracing with white paper. Anything is encouraged to keep your ideas developing in this task especially when you are working at home. So, great drawing, new photos needed, make sure you've got a good self-portrait and that is all we have time for today. It's time to take the end of lesson quiz to see what stuck from today's learning and as always a real pleasure teaching you. Until next lesson, goodbye.

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In today's lesson we are overviewing a range of mixed-media techniques to develop design variations inspired by Gabriel Garcia Roman's work.

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