Pigeon Portraits - 703

To see all of the portraits click on the picture and it will take you to the flickr page.

Coup

Coup 1 by Samantha Zaza

On Saturday morning I discovered these fabulous paintings by the artist Samantha Zaza, who lives and works in Istanbul and is an Urban Sketcher. There are 16 paintings in the series and I am posting them here especially for the Grade 703 who recently completed a series of Pigeon Portraits.

Make sure that you click on the picture so that you can go and look at all the other portraits as well as explore the rest of Samantha's work. Enjoy.

A special thank you to Ms. Zaza for generously sharing her artwork with us.

Pigeon Portraits - 703

After making your Paper Pigeons the class shifted gears and started on another tangent of Pigeon Art: Pigeon Portraits in water colour. Each one of you has been working on and completing portraits inspired by your original Paper Pigeons. This week you will be making sure that your Portraits are complete and in class discussing how to display all of the paintings as one large piece. You will also be recording your progress in your Development Sketchbooks.

Kapadokya Projects 2 - 703

We talked in class about getting your Development Sketchbooks into order and up-to-date, so here is your homework for Friday, November 21:

• In your DevSkbks you will write 1 entry for the Kapadokya Project assignment, Paper Pigeon 1:

Paper Pigeon 1

1. Write the date: 31 October 2008
2. Write the Title: Paper Pigeon 1
   
3. Write an explanation of the Project. In your Explanation include the following information - (a) As a Group you decided on completing 2 types of Pigeons, a Paper Pigeon and a Sewn Pigeon, (b) Explain that firstly you are completing a Paper Pigeon, (c) The idea came after Experimenting with different ideas for Sculptural type Pigeons and it became evident that you needed to work from a template (d) The idea of a template led us to Origami.
4. Write a description of the class period when we experimented with different Origami patterns and then decided on the one that is shown in the post above. I will provide you with a copy of the instructions to put in your DevSkbks.
5. Make a small Paper Pigeon to put into your DevSkbks.
6. Describe how you have also decided to Paint and Sew onto the Paper Pigeons.

Kapadokya Projects 1

Grade 7
The Kapadokya Projects are taking shape. We saw some good progress in developing ideas in the Fresco Group and the Pigeon Group.


7_01 Shadow Boxes
You know that I expect to see some real collaboration and progress this week. You have a lot of work to do to make up for the last two lessons where only Group 1. Skyline/Landscape were able to come together and be productive. The other two groups: Group 2. Göreme/Town/Churches and Group 3. Underground City have some serious research and brainstorming to do. If you do not get it together this week, we will have to re-group and seriously assess what to do.

7_02 Ceiling Painting/Fresco

The fresco quadrants are getting transferred in class using the projector. You have already completed half of the tiles and I think that this week you will complete the rest of them, that means that next week you will be able to start painting.

While waiting for the tiles to be transferred you have been assigned a Collage Portrait as a pre-cursor to your Self-Portrait that you will be completing after the Kapadokya Project is finished.



7_03 Pigeon House and Pigeons
This past week we made some great Paper Pigeons and many of you brought in a wealth of supplies for us to experiment with. As a group you have agreed to make a life-size Paper Pigeon first, embellish it by cutting feathers and adding details through sewing. Your second Pigeon is going to be a soft sculpture aka a Stuffed Pigeon. This week please we will concentrate on the Paper Pigeons.