hamishpere

2012-01-31T11:47:00.001+08:00

206 Christmas

Trace a hand.

Triangle Christmas Tree

Hand Santa

Draw your own hand Santa.

Hand Santa & Trinagle Tree

Snowman

Green Triangle Tree

Show your pictures to the class.

205 Christmas

2012-01-31T10:04:00.002+08:00

205 Christmas

In this lesson we encourage students to draw
a christmas tree, a snowman, some presents and Santa.

A fun way to draw a Santa is to trace a hand.

Color it red like Santa

Here are some more pictures of Santa

Trace your hand

Color it like santa.

Concentrate on color.

Enjoy your work.

Draw a snowman.

Use triangles for your tree.

Use rectangles too.

Use many colors.

Many triangles make a christmas tree.

Thinking.... What will I do?

Control my pencil.

Merry Christmas everyone :)

206 Stars parts 1 2 3 4 & 5

2012-01-08T16:46:00.001+08:00

Class 206 Stars

Part 1

Look and Listen

circles rectangles squares & triangles

(light and mountains)

Look at Van Gogh's paintings.

Look at the stars.

Look at the light in the sky.

Watch the teacher draw.

Part 2

Draw

Your turn to draw.

Draw the mountains first. (triangles)

Catch the lihgt on the mountains.

Use color.

Draw wind and water.

Draw near and far away.

Watch the teacher draw triangles for mountains.

Students draw triangle mountians.

Draw a line through the triangles.

Triangle mountains.

Circle hills.

Rectangle buildings.

A rectangle or square house with a triangle roof.

Color one side of the mountains one color.

Color the other side another color.

Where is the light coming from?

Draw circle stars in the sky.

circles rectangles squares and triangles

Use upside down triangles and draw Taipei 101.

Part 3

Sculpture

Now we can make a star sculpture.

We make a paper box...

...and put our work inside the box

We work in pairs and share the brush and disc.

We use the disc to make a clay circle.

Use both your hands.

...then...

We use the brush to make a hole in the clay circle.

Show the teacher when you finish.

Then make stars.

Roll little balls.

Pinch stars.

Make the balls into stars.

Make as many stars as you want.

Put your stars onto the clay circle.

Then make what you want to make.

Use your imagination.

Part 4

Paint

Part 5

Glitter

Thankyou 206 :)

205 Stars parts 3 4 & 5

2012-01-07T21:12:00.022+08:00

Class 205 Star Sculptures

Part 3

Sculpting

Take a piece of newspaper

Make a paper box.

Hold it up and show the teacher when you have finished.

Write your name in your box.

If you have a question raise your hand.

Roll the clay in your hands.

Make a clay-ball.

Press the clay-ball flat into a circle.

Gently rub the surface of the circle until it is smooth.

Make a hole.

Show the teacher once you have made your hole.

Make some stars.

Roll some small balls.

Pinch the sides of the ball five times to make stars.

Put the stars on your circle.

Press your stars into the clay.

After you have made your stars...

...make what you want.

Enjoy your creation!

Use water to keep the clay wet.

Use a towl to keep your desk dry.

Think about what to make.

With patience you can do it.

Look at your work.

Make patterns in the clay.

Show us what you can do.

Roll in your hands.

Roll on the desk.

Roll roll roll!

Use your imagination.

Roll clay on the desk.

Roll clay in your hands.

Consentrate on your work...

and enjoy yourself.

Pinch and push the clay.

clay hands

We can clean our hands on our towl.

Part 4

Painting

Take out your paints.

Squeeze out some paint.

When the clay is dry we can paint.

We can paint stars.

We can paint rainbows.

We can paint lines.

purple

orange

yellow

cute stars

pink yellow and orange

many colors

Control the paint.

Keep your desk clean.

Keep your colors clear.

Keep the paint off of your desk.

experiment

Mix your colors.

Share your colors.

Work carefully.

Everyone paint one yellow star...

Then choose another color...

...and squeeze it out...

...then keep painting...

....or choose many colors.

Paint a blue background....

Put them in their boxes and let them dry.

Part 5

Add Glitter

Thanks 205

205 Stars parts 1 & 2

2012-01-02T23:17:00.010+08:00

Class 205

Stars

Part 1

Look & Listen

Look at stars and sky on the screen.

Watch Ham Draw for you on the blackboard.

Part 2

Draw

Trianlges can be mountains.

One side of your mountains should be one color.

The other side of your mountians should be another color.

105 & 106 make your name

2011-12-22T16:57:00.005+08:00

105 & 106

Part 1
Get Ready

Students arrange their own desks row by row.

Turn you own desk and chair around.

Join four tables together.

Part 2
Paint

Work together in groups and share your things.

Each Group has four students.

Painting patterns, lines and dots.

Painting different shades of color.

One water pot per four students.

Learn to share water pots and paints.

Students take turns to choose a new color.

Painting rainbows.

Painting over wax designs.

Painting over wax drawings.

Painting with sponges.

Keep your sponges on a piece of paper.

Dab the sponge on your piece of paper.

Take turns to squeeze out the paint.

Work together and share the sponges.

One sponge one color.

Be organised.

Fill your painting with color.

Use many colors.

Afterwards let them dry.

Part 3

Cutting

Once your painting is dry it is time to cut.

Before we start cutting we must get ready.
Choose one of your paintings.
Then prepare your scissors pencil and eraser.

Cut a long rectangular strip out of a colorful part of your painting.

Cut the long rectangular strip into small rectangles, squares and triangles.

Keep cutting until you have many shapes.

some rectangles,

some squares,

and some triangles.

A lot of triangles.

Many shapes.

Part 4
Paste and Glue

Then one by one stick the rectangles, squares and triangles onto the card.

Keep going until you have made your name.

106

Do parts 1 2 3 & 4

After you have made your name

then make a picture from your imagination.

First cut your shapes.

circles

rectangles

triangles

Cut any shapes you want.

Then glue the shapes.

Rectangles, squares and triangles

can make many things.

2011-11-06T22:53:00.000+08:00

Art in the Classroom

106 &105 Shape Faces

2011-11-06T21:49:00.001+08:00

Class 106

(105 below)

Drawing faces with shapes

Class 105 shape faces

2011-11-06T21:34:00.003+08:00

Class 105

Drawing Coloring Painting

Big circle EYES

rectangle mouth

circle eyes

trapezoid mouth

Big blue sky

Semicircle mouth

Heart mouth

circle eyes

rectangle hair

circle eyes

triangle mountians

triangle nose

triangle eyes

triangle hair

good idea

triangle mouth

triangle teeth

circle hills

circle face

circle neck

heart mouth

square eye

shapes inside shapes

triangle colar

rainbow reality

circles in circles

diamond mouth

shapes in shapes in shapes in shapes

Colorful rectangles

I'm looking at you.......and I'm hungry....

diamond nose

I see stars

creative

every color every shape ALIVE

semicircle mouth

r a i n b o w life

trapezoid & rhombus eyes

Ham talking about painting

2006-12-21T20:01:00.001+08:00

rainbow reailty - shapes in shapes

26th of January 2oo7 exhibit - a book in progress - ideas at the heart of my work.

在2007-01-26歡迎大家邀大家~~一起來到哈密瓜的油畫幻想世界,聆賞畫作且聽哈密瓜(HAM)說說他的獨特原創構思(香蕉櫻桃...)進入畫中的故事,期待與大家在""小客廳""見面 ~~~~~~~~

Hervie plays piano.
I play guitar.
I talk about painting - concepts on canvas.

2006-02-24T13:54:00.001+08:00

Life LearNING

Painter: Hami
Series: Hybrid Cryptic (1998-200) Hybrid Cryptic Revision (2005)

Life LearNING was commisioned by Andrew Cooper (ACe) in 2005 and takes as its subject the idea of a life of ear learning. Listen and learn.

Where as in the Hybrid Cryptic series each painting features two disciplines.
In the Hybrid Cryptic Review each painting features two ideas.

At the center front of the painting 'Life Learning' sits the pianist Bill Evans. Many other musicians are in the painting; Bill Evans; Beethoven, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian and many others. All the musicians are musical role models whom dedicated their lives to a 'life of learning' - music.

2006-02-24T13:34:00.000+08:00

Mathematics and Biology

Painter: Ham
Series: Hybrid Cryptic 1998-2000

Each painting in the Hybrid Cryptic series feature two disciplines. The above painting Mathematics and Biology contains images from those subjects.

Math and Biology are two disciplines that have become powerful enough, in common knowledge, to shape our world. Reflecting upon and meditating, with ideas and concepts present in everyday life, is the process I use to generate the hybrid cryptic paintings. Math and Biology inform us with knowledge about living bodies and their environment. Concepts and ideas learnt in Math and Biology allow us to think in a disciplined way so as to organize our lives.

Mathematics
In the upper left hand corner of the painting is the word mathematics. Under Mathematics is a sphere shape representing earth in which we can see a clock, representing time, and the lines of longitude and latitude representing space. Time and space are two concepts we use to locate and organize ourselves with, in everyday life. Without Math we would not have the knowledge of time and space that we have today.

Biology
On the left we can see two hands playing with hair. In the middle of the painting we can see a pair of legs and on the right we can see a torso and head. Clearly this body is divided, split up and seperated across painting. The idea of splitting the body up into parts represents a biological view of the body which is that the body is a living organism that can be studied in parts. Where as the traditional, enchanted spiritual view of a sacred body being the house of a soul is very different to the biological view. Some argue that biological interpretations of the human body, developed since the enlightenment movement, challenges many traditional spiritual doctrines. In fact, over time an unenchanted biological labelling of the body and all its parts has emerged independent of religious thought. Therefore, ideas about disciplines of knowledge and their power in organizing human life need be understood, not just in an abstract way, but also in a social and political context. The French author Michel Foucault explores not only how things have come to be, but also how we have come to be things. An interesting idea indeed.

It may be argued that thinking with disciplines in mind and being able to realize a philosophy of existence, in abstract thought independent of spirituality, is a rather modern phenomenon.

Censorship and the Imposition of Form

2006-02-24T12:54:00.000+08:00

Censorship and the Imposition of Form, 1997, Oil On Canvas

Painter: Ham
From: Poly-morph series.

Censorship and the Imposition of Form like the other paintings from the polymorph series is constructed from repeating shapes. The characters and the environment are largely created from fruit shapes.

Using circles, rectangles, squares and triangles is more than enough to create an interesting composition. The cherry present joining the main characters in the foreground is then repeated across the center of the painting in the shape of the mountains. The cherry is comparatvely sublime in the back ground compared to its foreground counterpart, still it looks like a cherry nontheless, however if the painting was painted without the cherry in the foreground would one notice the cherries as mountains at all? The association between the shapes and their analogous form is the essence of the painting, as if, it is two things at once. In short, the cherry shape of the mountains echo the foreground image, repeating it and hinting at a metaphor with both shapes remaining to be their own things and yet they are so similar in shape they appear similar. Alternatively, they invite the realisation that we may think the imposition of the triangular form in the foreground is analogous to the repeating trianguar forms present in the background. Similar forms and shapes allow us to realize similarity and metaphor or analogy come to mind, but distinguish their difference and reveal details present in one form compared to the other and then to make sense of the image we must censor one thing as not being the other. Thus censorship and the imposition of form is realized as a distinguishing function of thought.

French author Pierre Bourdieu wrote two books that inspired this painting they are 'The Feild of Cultural Production' and 'The Rules of Art'.

2006-02-24T12:37:00.000+08:00

Bubble Economy, 1998, Oil and Canvas.

Painter: Ham
From: Poly Morph series.

In this painting I used the same idea I used in the Fruitface Guardian painting. I used fruit to make a face and call this idea 'Poly' because I use many things to make one thing.

In the Bubble Economy on the left handside of the painting one can see ant hills and buildings. I imagined the ant hills were like buildings and people are like ants. Implying that one thing is like another thing deepens the paitings meaning by infering the analogy of ants being like people, or having something in common with people, as both ants and people build structures to live in that can house millions. Human colonies + ant colonies etc. In this respect we can say hay this looks like that or that is similar to this and use these ideas to create meaning within a painting.

Paintings can tell stories. When we look into paintings they enter us through our eyes. The more we look the more we might see this is like that and that is like this. Look more what else can you see and what does it mean in relation to other things. What is a 'Bubble Economy'?

2006-02-20T07:42:00.000+08:00

The Fruit Face Guardian, 1997, Oil on cavas

Painter: Ham
From: Poly-Morph series.
This is the first painting in which it is easy to see how things such as fruit are used to make other things. In this case, food is used to make a face. Many artists use this idea. Eggs are used for eyes and bananas are eyelids etc.

The Fruit Face Guardian is from my Polymorph series of paintings, being the series in which I created my polymorph characters. These characters were then further developed over the next ten years populating the Hybrid Cryptic. The basic idea of using objects or things such as fruit to make other things such as a face softens ones perspective towards looking into things to see what they are made of. In short, enjoy a deeper understanding of things. The idea of looking into ones self in order to learn more about the world youlive in is the crux of my work. The idea of looking in and reflect upon the knowledge one has obsorbed is like working out a puzzle. Likewise reflecting on what one is seeing by recognising smaller things within bigger things and their relationship to the whole is something I like to do. So once again The Fruit Face Guardian is an esay puzzle to figure out because it is obvious. You can easily see bits of food forming a face.

Whether one reflects upon what one is looking at or not all my paintings are created with my love of finding things within things. So if you look into them you will find a story being told about a journey within that is detailed and thus understandable. A magical maze of characters and their creation unfolds.

2006-02-09T09:23:00.001+08:00

Hi my name is Hamish.
I am a teacher and I enjoy studying art and music.
I was born in Australia and am currently living in Taiwan.