Year 8 Visual Arts

Cubism
Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.

Surrealism
A twentieth-century literary, philosophical and artistic movement that explored the workings of the mind, championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary. Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality.”

In my artwork, I’ve used multiple perspectives and facial features with a variety of art/shading techniques. I have also included tone within certain areas in my artwork and composed a complex arrangement of geometric shapes. While creating my cubist self-portrait, I have learnt many different art techniques I could use in my future artworks. I enjoyed being able to draw myself, something I’ve never done before. Cubism was something new to me and I like to try new things.

Chelsea-Nicole Caraig

While making this artwork, I learnt how to draw faces more realistically and how to shade faces to give them more depth and form. The thing I enjoyed most about making this artwork was I got to step out of my comfort zone and draw things I wouldn’t usually draw.

Erin Blanch

Techniques I have learnt and used from these artworks are shading techniques such as stippling, cross hatching and more, and techniques such as blending colours and contrasting different colours. Things I have enjoyed during the process were that I felt greatly challenged in creating a unique drawing and when incorporating my imagination, I felt very proud and accomplished when looking back at how much I learnt and achieved along the artmaking practice.

Jericho DeLeon

For the cubism artwork, I used a variety of techniques, such as shading techniques; stippling, cross hatching and hatching to create detail and demonstrate texture. I have learnt a lot of skills and techniques to create this artwork such as drawing from different views/positions, structure of facial features and shading techniques. Art truly is something of passion and reflection, I have enjoyed portraying my emotion and stepping outside my comfort zone for this artwork. 

For the name creature artwork (surrealism). I have used a variety of techniques such as: blending, texture, contrast, harmony and repetition of patterns. The skills/ techniques I have learnt whilst creating this artwork are mirroring the image and symmetry. I have especially enjoyed drawing patterns and mirroring it because it brought me tranquillity.

Zaira Chowdhury

The art movement of my artwork is called surrealism. The skills and techniques I have learnt and demonstrated are texture, repetitive pattern, detail and blending techniques.

I enjoyed making the artwork itself because it was a creative concept of mixing reality and fantasy. I also enjoyed exploring surrealism since this art movement uses different materials and techniques.

Alyssa Guillermo

The art movement that I have done is cubism artwork. I have learnt how to properly shade certain parts of my face to make them look more realistic. I loved drawing specific parts like my eyes and my braces were a personal favourite to draw. I loved completing this artwork and I would definitely do it again.

Ava Mulroney

The skills and techniques I developed when drawing these two Art Pieces were, being able to shade different gradients of colours (Name Creature). I was able to use different drawing techniques such as blending, shading and cross hatching for both my chosen pieces. What I enjoyed while creating these art pieces was being able to experiment with creativity and colours, to explore depths of pencil art and shading techniques. To be able to view the colour wheel and create something that represents you using your own imagination.

Athieu Majok

The style of the cubism movement is based around geometric shapes, each containing features (such as facial features). I learnt many new techniques that I had never heard of or used before. One of the most important techniques that I learnt over the creation of my artwork was how to properly incorporate shadows, highlights and tonal variation within my drawing. Shading was crucial to this artwork because without it, the final product would lack the realism.  I enjoyed many aspects of my cubism artwork, but the part I enjoyed the most was looking at the end result with pride. It was challenging trying to draw my exaggerated facial features and trying to make the shading look realistic, but it is satisfying to look at the final product.

Angelo Sayas

I have learnt many different artistic techniques, for my cubism artwork I used a lead pencil and learnt shading techniques which included stippling, hatching, Cross-hatching, blending and tonal variation. For surrealism, I used coloured pencils and used techniques including blending, contrast, repetition and pattern. Even though this was an assessment I really enjoyed myself because I got to use my own imagination to create artworks from scratch and used a variety of techniques to help enhance them to their full potential.

Nicholas Limpiado

My surrealism portrait drawing is about how I love sports and have a passion for it. My favourite sports are basketball, soccer and golf. I feel I expressed my love of sports really well through my creative mixture of my favourite sports as well as the specific placement of them which are in relation to human facial features. Through this experience I learnt how to use tone, textures and how to merge your favourite interests through a surrealist drawing and overall to become a better artist.

Dominic Watson

Cubism is a form of art where there are different dimensions and viewpoints such as front, side and back. When creating cubism art we need to include contrasting shapes, slices and distinctive sizes. Cubism is changing the reality of a person, object or place. This is what makes cubism unique compared to other techniques.  My Cubism experience of drawing tones, textures and perspectives of different objects was quite interesting as it helped me detect the shadows and shading of an object or face.

Euleila Barret

During this semester we learnt about the different techniques that are used when making cubism artworks. Some of these techniques include tone, texture, perspective and two dimensional shapes. After becoming familiar with these techniques, we started drawing our cubism self portraits. We drew three perspectives of our face onto our portraits. These perspectives include front view, side view and three quarter view. I really enjoyed being able to experiment with tones and texture on my artwork. Cubism enabled me to express my knowledge of art without worrying about making mistakes or making my artwork perfect. I really enjoyed this style of art.

Frienczel Espino

Pauline Ryan
Leader of Learning Creative Arts