GCSE exam students are to complete 6 tasks over the first 2 weeks relating to artists and art techniques: 1) Draw intricate cityscapes using fine liner pens on A5 paper and take progress photos. 2) Create a portrait weaving together cut strips of old and new photos of a famous deceased person. 3) Make a polystyrene print of a tree showing growth rings and add childhood memories. 4) Collect tracings from marked surfaces around school and paint overlapping sections. 5) Create a clay sculpture resembling a fossilized obsolete object like an iPod. 6) Work on photocopies of London landscapes to recreate apocalyptic scenes using pens, paint and collage

1. YEAR 11
GCSE EXAM 2017
BEGINNING AND /OR END
FIRST 6 LESSONS
COMPLETE ALL TASKS
MAKE SURE YOU PRESENT ALL TASKS IN YOUR BOOK CONNECTING THEM TO
THE RELEVANT ARTISTS IN THIS PRESENTATION. YOU HAVE CLASSWORK AN D
HOMEWORK TIME TO COMPLETE THESE OVER THE FIRST 2 WEEKS.

2. TASK 1: FINE
LINER DRAWINGS
The architecture found in Sack’s artwork
spans centuries, from gothic cathedrals to
towering skyscrapers, underpinned by
patterns of urban sprawl reminiscent of
European cities with a healthy dose of
science fiction. If you look carefully you
might even recognize a familiar landmark
here and there.
With meticulous determination and a
steady hand, artist Ben Sack picks up a
black 0.05 Staedtler pigment liner pen and
begins to draw the dense, intricate details
of fictional cityscapes: buildings, roads,
rivers and bridges.
TASK:
On a sheet of A5 paper make intricate
drawings using fine liner pens and cover
the entire paper using the resource images
provided.Take 3 photos of your drawingat
the beginning with one building drawn,
then when it is half full, and then once
completed. Stick the images in your book
to show this growth.
HOMEWORK:
BRING in 2 A4 photos of a celebrity that
passed away-one young and one old
photo for next lesson!

3. TASK 2: WEAVE OLD
AND NEW PHOTOS
Clarksville, Tennessee photographer Greg Sand‘s series entitled ‘Remnants’ is about recollection
and remembrance. Each ‘remnant’ in the series is composed of three found photos–each from a
different point in the subject’s life–that have been cut into strips and woven together to form a portrait
of a person who has passed away.
Choose a famous person (somebody who you like and who has passed away.) Find 2 photos of
them-young and old. Measure and draw a grid onto 2 photos. Then cut up into strips. Put back
together by weaving one photo into another.
Make a detailed drawing of your weaved collage.

4. TASK 3: PASSAGE OF TIME
What is the soul of a tree?
The question is subjective,
the answer in the eye of the
beholder. From the tree’s
perspective, it might be the
sum of the seasons of its life.
The droughts suffered, the
sunshine savoured. But the
tree cannot bear witness to
its own greatness. It cannot
see its own deep roots, or the
influence of its own
spreading branches. It is up
to the observer to give
meaning to the tree’s
existence
Bryan Nash Gill

5. TASK: POLYSTYRENE PRINTING
Copy an image of a cross section
of a tree onto polystyrene.

6. PRINT ONTO PAPER
Try to keep early memories in the
centre and your most recent on
the outer rings
ADD CHILDHOOD MEMORIES BETWEEN THE RINGS

7. TASK 4: TRACES
INGRID CALAME generates abstract
forms by tracing the contours of
stains such as graffiti and paint spills
directly from city streets and other
locations. She then constructs
overlapping arrangements of these
tracings into what she terms as
"constellations"
TASK:
Walk around school with a piece of
tracing paper and trace areas of the
floor that have been marked in some
way over time. Collect as many as you
can overlapping each drawing.
Bring back to class and paint each
section onto paper/card in flat colour.

8. TASK 5: RELIC
Today’s top of the line technology will
soon be the relics of the past… and it all
happens so quick. Your brand-new
iPhone will be miles behind in 3 short
years.
Christopher Locke’s project explores
this societal fact by greatly accelerating
time in his series Modern Fossils. Here
we see the cutting-edge tech of the not-
so-distant past transformed into rock-
encased objects: from a PlayStation Dual
Shock controller, to a truly obsolete 8-
track tape TASK: Create your own fossil in clay.
Collect images of old objects that are now
obsolete or not used by us anymore. An
i-pod, an old cassette tape, a telephone
box on the street etc. are all good
examples of this. If you have an object at
home, bring it in to help you create your
sculpture in the style of Christopher
Locke.

9. First take a lump of clay and create textures in the surface of this.
(TIP: You may need to take impressions from rocks /concrete)
Take your old object and press into a section of your clay carefully leaving a clear
impression.
Leave to dry.
Next, make detailed drawings of 2 different objects in class using different materials.

10. TASK 6: APOCALYPTIC POSTCARDS
TASK: Work on top of photocopies of landscape scenes of London to recreate the end of
the world! Use pens/paint/collage.
In their series “The World of The
Last of Us“ John Walters and
Peter Baustdaeter, two artists
from New Zealand, have
imagined what the world might
look like in a post apocalyptic
universe. Heavily inspired by
video games, the work depicts
ruins of famous places from
Europe.