Mini Exhibition: Joy Walker Inspired Tape Drawings

A few doors down from Artspace there's a coffee house that displays some of the art that is made by the students at Artspace.  The photo above shows the randomly selected tape drawings that the coffee house has on display now. The  art that wasn't chosen for the coffee house are on display at Artspace. You can see them in the photograph below.

The lesson was based on Joy Walker's  tape drawings. We talked about lines and their use in creating art, the different types of lines in Walker's art and how to make our own tape drawings.

As always I allowed a great degree of freedom for my students to explore the media assigned to the day's art lesson and their own ideas.

Happily I was not disappointed. The students explored line length, thickness and creating shapes and space. They also made great use of colour in their projects and in some cases adding
even more pattern with their paint.

All the art created yesterday went above and beyond my expectations. I have never been let down in my expectations for what my students can create. This lesson was no exception. It was a great beginning for the fall term and a great lesson.

Topping this weeks lesson is going to be quite a feat

Line and Pattern with Tape

Tomorrow I'lll be teaching the first Painting and Drawing lesson of the year. I've been building my lesson plans on a foundation of the elements of art.

During my research for this term I came across a textile artist from Canada named Joy Walker. Part of her practice includes creating line drawings with tape on paper and other surfaces. I loved how these drawings were great examples of creating space, and pattern with lines alone. This is a time lapse example of what I've got planned for tomorrows lesson. I will post a more detailed entry for the lesson once it's done.