1. Homework
Develop your title page by including at least two figure studies that are suitable to be added to the project.
Art Challenge:
Develop figure study with a background that could be used for your artwork.

2. Action Figures Warm up task.
Stick the learning focus sheet into your sketchbook.

3. Action Figures
Week 1

4. Action Figures Today’s learning focus is:
What are you expected to learn in this project?
What are you going to do?

5. Action Figures
You will learn how to work with mixed media to create a 3 dimensional figure.
You will learn about proportion and about structure.
You will learn about how balance is important for both movement and effective artwork.
You will learn how to use skills from other subject areas to help you create effective artwork.

6. Action Figures Things you will do.
You will explore different ways of creating suitable poses.
You will study the work of artists and their work.
You will make an action figure as part of a group, based on your preparation work.

7. Action Figures
Here are some different approaches that artists have used

8. Action Figures
This is a bronze sculpture by the Italian artist Umberto Boccioni.
What do you think he has tried to emphasise by the way he has described the figure?

9. Action Figures
This is a contemporary figure by the Canadian artist Wendy Bailey
What are the similarities and differences between this work and the previous one?

10. Action Figures
This is a figure by the Italian artist Antonio Giacometti.
How would you compare this to the previous sculptures?

11. Action Figures This is a figure by the French artist Edgar Degas.
What is different about the pose of this figure.?

12. After the Misdeed and was painted around 1850.
Action Figures
This is a painting by the French artist Jean Beraud.
It is called
After the Misdeed and was painted around 1850.
It is an action pose but how would you describe the kind of action that you can see?
What kinds of clues might the title give you about story behind the painting?

13. Today
You Must: Work in small groups to create a short mimed role play which uses poses to communicate what is happening.
The following clip might help you. Does it remind you of any of the artworks that you were shown?
You Should: Individually select 1 pose that you will use as your first study.
Take a photo of that pose. This will be available for you in the next lesson.
You Could: Improve on your title page by adding ideas, colour and images to change it into a mood board.