Artists: Year 4 students, 2020
Medium: Photography and digital artwork
Year 4 students viewed and responded to the series 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life by David Hockney. They investigated Hockney’s use of the art elements of space and colour within their compositions.
Utilising photography and digital editing apps, the students composed self-portraits in chairs to communicate ideas, emotions and persona. They considered their use of space, the position of their body, and their interaction with the chair.
To enhance a sense of atmosphere, the students explored a variety of digital art processes such as modifying colour saturation and hues, using directional light, changing contrast and brightness, and applying filters.
The artwork in this exhibition was produced during a period of off-campus learning.
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The artistic process
Here, two student artists explain the thought and creative processes they used to develop their artwork.
“The most important things about the picture are the contrast between the dark boring parts and the light interesting parts, and the size (space) of me in the chair.”
Jonathan
“I edited my picture to make it look jazzy. The floorboards were a different colour because I edited it. My body was straight, so I just looked not sad but in between. My tone of colour was pretty light to make it look happy and dark.”
Miller K
