The first workshop we went to was the art workshop. We looked at an artist called Bob or Roberta Smith. This is an artist who goes by these two names , even though neither are actually his real name (Patrick Bill). Bob and Roberta Smith’s trademark artwork is printing and he uses different phrases and words to get points across. Many of which are passionate statements about art. He also used bold colours to fit the bold statements. We then went onto coming up with our own bold statements about areas which were passionate to us. First we came up with our own statements and then we went into groups or pairs to create prints. This involved writing the words down in a bold black pen and tracing it into a piece of foam card. We then rolled paint onto the side which we had stencilled and then printed it onto a bit of paper. The outcome was this – 

The results were very good and worked really well with the statements we had come up with. I really enjoyed doing printing and I would love to use it in a classroom. This could be used for children to express how they feel about certain topics. They could also use it to create pictures of different things. It is also a relatively easy and effective way to create powerful art in a really simple way.

The next workshop we were in was music. During it we looked at we looked at rhythm and beats. By doing this we first looked at shapes (circles and squares). The world circle has two syllables, and then word square has one. We then looked at different patterns using them shoots and clapped out the syllables the patterns made. This created a ground basis before notes were introduced and showed the different rhythms. We then looked at the value of notes and how they could even be used to show fractions in a classroom. After this we got drumsticks and done some tapping with them to help gain better understanding how the notes looking in music and the different rhythms they created. Overall I think this would be a really good lesson to use in a classroom over the course of a few weeks to help children gain an understanding of the different note values and slowly introducing them in how to read music and note values.

The integration of the two workshops today taught me that by breaking the artwork down into different components and building it up that way, really effective artwork can be produced. For example we created the prints step by step and part by part using really simple methods and materials. This same method could also be soon during the music work shop due to the fact we broke the music down into small components to help teach it and then were shown how it can all be pieces together to create music and learn how to read/play music.