1. Summer Tasks 2012
Fine art
Make the tallest structure that you can and document it.
Buy a charity shop jigsaw puzzle. Paint it all one colour and try to put it
together. Document the results.
Make a scale model of a structure that you see everyday.
Make a drawing of the first thing that you see in the morning. Do this
every day of the summer break.
Watch a television programme. Write down everything that happens as
a sequence of events. After the programme, pick a sequence at
random and make a painting about it.
Take 10 of the most beautiful photographs that you can think of. Now
take 10 of the most ugly photographs that you can think of. Present
them on facing pages in your sketchbook. Ask a selection of people
their opinion and document their responses on the same pages as the
images.
Exhibitions to see
Visit the exhibitions. Document your visit by making notes, collecting
images and any information about the artists or the work. Buy
postcards and present all of this in your sketchbooks.
Patrick keiller – ‘The Robinson Institute’ – Tate Britain
The Tanks – Tate Modern
Damian Ortega – ‘Traces of Gravity’ – White Cube, Masons Yard
The London Open – Whitechapel Gallery
AS Equipment List - Fine Art
Large Hardback sketchbook (A3)
Pens
Variety of pencils
Variety of brushes
Pritt stick
Masking tape
Spray mount
Watercolour set
Access to a digital camera
Fishing Tackle box – to store and carry your equipment
Independent work will require you to start collecting additional
materials.
Reading List
John Berger ‘ Ways of Seeing’
Mathew Collings ‘This is Modern Art’