ST led Workshop

As a part of entering our SE2 placements we must teach our own specialist practices, and so to prepare us, we practiced teaching our own practices by teaching Student-led workshops to several of our peers.

Detailed below are the lessons and outcomes of each, including my own.

Jerry's Workshop:

Audio-image manipulation

For Jerry's workshop, we were asked to record the sounds of our environment for three minutes and then use that data to distort a virtual object in time with those sounds.

We followed along to Jerry's instructions and below you can see the result.

Above is my work I created, using node-based digital softwares to create visuals that respond to audio information.

My Workshop: Bleach Painting.

Milton Sterilising Fluid is a form of bleach and contains sodium hypochlorite 2%. It is recommended over other bleach formulations as it does not contain colouring agents or perfumes, so it is less likely to cause stinging or irritation. - This has been employed in some schools, however, as bleach painting will be taught in my current placement school with bleach itself, I used this and tried to think of alternative safety measurements instead.

Ventilation: There was no ventilation inside so the workshop was done outside, masks were also used (with a protective factor of 95% (P95)).

Materials:

• Artificial paintbrushes only - other paintbrushes will melt away, important to be small as possible to achieve finer details and as a small amount will have a big effect.

• Cups - One with Bleach, one with Bleach and water and one just water.

• Masks - must be P95

• Ink and ink brushes - best not to mix the bleach into the ink.

The session began with establishing why its important to be careful with the bleach, passing round examples and then completing the demonstration at each stage with the students.

The session was split into one wet bleach on dry ink (wet on dry) and one wet bleach on wet ink (Wet into wet).

Examples:

Experimentation sheets:

ST responses:

Ria's Workshop:

Political Installation

For Ria's workshop, we created a collaborative installation using fabrics, paints, and suspension. This was a very heuristic process of learning, but it was interesting to think through materials and collaborate in a very organic way. Below is our artwork we created together.

Bethany's Workshop:

Dichromatic oil painting

For Bethany's workshop, we created paintings using two shades of oil paint.

This was to practice employing a limited palette, but was also with two very unusual colours which I would not generally gravitate towards using in combination. The painting was a still life of a banana, some flowers and the skull I had brought in for my bleach painting lesson.

It was good practice in using oil paints again, and a refreshing reminder to control paint density, use less brushstrokes to avoid muddying the colours, and mixing contrasting colours together to achieve more neutral, darker shades.

Exemplar:

My work:

Other student work:

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