Video: Sunga Park (Part 1)

﻿Hi, and welcome to Architecture: Understanding the world around us. This is lesson three of 16 and lesson one of two lessons where we're going to be looking at the artist Sunga Park. Who is Sunga Park? How can her work influence our own? And what skills do I need to create a Sunga Park inspired piece of artwork. These are the things that we're going to be covering in today's lesson. So who is Sunga Park? Sunga Park is a Korean artist, which means she's from the country Korea. Her art work explores the buildings and architecture she finds while travelling around the world. She's also a graphic designer and an illustrator. Sunga uses watercolour and ink to create a washed over effect in her work, which you can see in the example, just there. Her signature style only shows fragments of architecture to allow the viewer to piece together the rest. So you can see in this example that there are windows, but the windows aren't necessarily mirrored in the bottom. I'm sure there would be windows there, it wouldn't be a blank wall in that building, but she hasn't added them, but because she's added them at the top section, the viewer and yourself can just look and you understand that there probably are a windows there and you know what they look like, because they'll just look the same. So she's written, she's taken into consideration what is necessary to add and what is unnecessary to add. And it makes it more interesting for the viewer to look at and you can use your imagination a little bit more there as well. She's got some really fine and intricate details there. You can see with the light she's added and the spires at the top of the building and the facades around the windows, that she's really thought about the detail that she's added and she's been really intricate when she's adding that detail. If you were to create an artwork in the style of Sunga Park, what key features would you pick out? Look at this image of St Paul's Cathedral in London and think about what parts of that building are integral to the aesthetic of the building. So what would that building look like? If it didn't have the certain parts, if it didn't have the spire, if you drew it and you didn't draw the columns around the edge, what would that look like? Are they really important? Do you need to keep them, or can you take them away? Pause the video and consider the task. Here is another building. It's La Sagrada Familia, I think. I think that's how you pronounce it. If you were to draw this building, what would it look like without, without all the details? Would you need the stained glass windows? Do you need the spires at the top? What can you take away and what can you add? Have a little think. Pause the video and complete your task. So now we've considered Sunga Park's techniques and style, we can begin making our own work. So we're going to be drawing a piece of architecture, inspired by Sunga Park's techniques of selecting the key features of a building. You're going to take your time when creating your artwork, it's not a case of getting it done, but rather a case of doing it to the best of your ability. If you need to practise first please do, this is about developing your skills to create something new and original. If you need to pause the video and watch it again, please do, like I said, this is about developing your skills and creating a piece of artwork that you can be really proud of. Make sure you're proud of what you'd like, of what you've got at the end of it. So resources, this lesson you're going to need, paper, a pencil and a printed image of a building. Pause the video, collect your resources and then come back to me. So this is my demonstration for you. It's really fast, so I'm going to talk you through it. So what I'm doing here is, I'm scribbling on the back of my photograph. You'll see why. So I've printed off a picture of a building that I wanted to draw. And I'm really just scribbling all over the back of it, making a right mess, and really trying to get a lot of pencil on the back of my page. I'm getting this piece of paper for me to work on and I'm going to, it does help if you tape it at the bottom so it doesn't move. So get some masking tape and tape your photo to the front of a plain piece of paper. Now I'm using a ruler, so my lines are straight and crisp and I'm drawing over all of the features and all of the key details of my work. You're going to see why in a moment, cause it is, it's like a magic trick, it's really cool. So every inch of my picture at the moment, I'm not being selective, I'm drawing every bit, I'm getting all of the details in, really putting some pressure on my pencil because you want, you're going to see, but you'll want it to come through. So press down hard, and get every detail. It's really helpful to use a ruler actually, not just to keep the line straight and crisp, but it just works a bit quicker. I found using a smaller ruler a bit easier. So I didn't have to, it's quicker to move around. And if you don't have a ruler, you can use the edge of a library card or a school card, or just a piece, something that's straight and hard. So any kind of piece of plastic, it's not ideal to use the edge of a piece of paper. And there we go, so this is this trick. I'll pause the video just so we can look at that again. I get to the end and pause it, there we go. So you can see it's very, very subtle, but I can now see every detail of my building, and it is all perfectly in proportion and the details are all there. You could draw it from scratch, but that's not what we're looking at today. We're not looking at our drawing techniques. There always, it's always great to improve them, but this is just another skill for you to develop on. And now I've got a really light outline and I understand the proportions and the composition of that piece of work. Next lesson I can think about adding my colour wash and putting in all those details and the, and the intricate parts of the buildings that I want, that I want to select and have. So it's super light. So it can be rubbed out easily with a rubber because it's pencil on the back. So how it works is, it works like a printing technique. When I scribbled on the back of my page, it meant that all the graphite was left as a deposit on that page. So when I flipped it over and put pressure on the paper, that pressure then transferred like a printing onto the clean piece of paper behind. So I want you to pause the video and complete the task and you do that to. Next lesson, we're going to be looking at what types of art media, Sunga Park uses and adding further details and tone to our artwork. Make sure you share your work with the Oak National. I would love to see it and take some time at the end of the lesson to complete the quiz. Thank you, have a great day.

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In today's lesson we are going to be looking at the artist Sunga Park and starting our ink and wash drawing.

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