1. Horror Project
Year 8

2. Art Classroom Safety
RULES
Don’t run around
Wear an apron when using wet materials
Tie long hair back
Don’t wear loose clothing
Wear sensible footwear
Always wash paintbrushes, palettes and water pots
thoroughly
• Return materials at the end of the lesson
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3. Task 1
Learning Objectives
To create a full page drawing of a haunted spooky
house
Learning Outcomes
All students Create a detailed line drawing of a spooky
will:
house, using the images for inspiration. Range
of mark making. Thoughtful use of water to
blend marks in the most appropriate places.
Most
students
will:
Create a spooky atmosphere by adding tone
Some
students will
also:
Refine tone and detail by blending ink with
water. Use a variety of marks to enhance their
drawing

5. To gain a level 4
To gain a level 5
To gain a level 6
I have shown a couple of different ideas that
satisfy the brief.
I demonstrate some understanding of how the
composition will look and have drawn detail.
My drawings show some elements of care and
presentation.
I have shown a variety of detail and
added some tone.
I demonstrate good understanding
of light and shaded areas in the
piece. My drawings show some good
care and presentation skills.
I have shown texture when drawing in
detail and have experimented with lots
of different mark making.
I demonstrate excellent understanding
of how to vary tone to create a shadow
effect.
My overall piece is produced with care
and attention to detail

6. HOMEWORK: DUE NEXT LESSON
1. Bring in a shoe box to the next art lesson.
2. Create a portrait of Frankenstein’s monster from the description in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’
below.
Try and be original with your work, Ensure you use a whole page, Level 6-7 use colour.
‘It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.
His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!--Great God! His yellow skin scarcely
covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly
whiteness; but these luxuriance only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the
same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.’
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1823
GLOSSARY
dun - dull, empty
lustrous – shiny, glossy
Luxuriance – richness, extravagance
Shrivelled – shrunken, withered
Toils – hard work, labour

7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=patgT_qG65U&safe=active
Identify 3 scary features in this
film clip. Talk to your partner
How can you use these
features when creating your
homework?

8. HOMEWORK: DUE NEXT LESSON
Either dress up yourself or work with a friend/relative to dress up as a
ghost/vampire/zombie. Some of you may want to use interesting props or
body extensions, as shown in the examples below.
When you complete the zombie effect, take some photos of your work.
You should all take a close up of the face and another angle.
Your images will be used for the backdrop to your spooky house.
If you don’t have access to camera then you can search on Google or
take screen shots of a creepy action games or films. Choose a variety of
images and present across one page in your sketchbook
Level 4-5: Take one or two close up pictures
of the face and of different angles
Level 6-7: include props and experiment
with creating shadow when photographing
your scary character

9. Tone
Use half a page in your
sketchbook to recreate
the tone bar.
Start with white and
slowly add small
amounts of black to
make a darker tone

10. Complete the 5 boxes
using 5 different
tones, starting with white
and finishing with black

11. TASK 2
Learning Objectives
To create a successful composition for your house. To
start considering the mid-ground (inside) your house.
Learning Outcomes
Mark out the main features such as doors,
windows and other elements go on the
shoebox
Most students Use a variety of door and window shapes to
will:
make the foreground
All students
will:
Some
students will
also:
Have more detailed doors and windows, for
example a door that can open, cracks on
windows, window panes. Some will consider
the shape of their house – roof and
extensions.

12. STARTER: Write down what you think
the word COMPOSITION means on
a post-it
The combining of parts or
elements to form a whole.
The way in which such parts are
combined.
• How can we create a good
composition in our houses?
• Proportion
• Equality
• Balance

13. Does your house have to have a symmetrical
composition?
VERSUS

14. • Collect your house
• Discuss the ‘composition’ of your house
with your partner.
• Ie. Where the doors and windows are:
• Proportion
• Symmetrical
• balanced
• WWW
• EBI

15. Task 3
Learning Objectives
To refine boxes by adding collage effects.
Learning Outcomes
Covering the outside of box with different
textured images and grey paint to age the
outside of their house.
Most students Cover the house and use paint to blend the
will:
white edges of the collage paper.
All students
will:
Some
students will
also:
Refine the detail on their houses by
demonstrating use of varied tone and adding
smaller foliage detail

16. What sort of textures can we add to
hour box to make it look more like a
house?

17. How can we create an effective collage?
Use a sponge to help ‘know
back’ the textures.
This will especially help if they
do not all match!
• SMALL pieces of paper
• Use paint to add tonal variation or to highlight areas

18. TASK 4
Learning Objectives
To refine boxes, visually and structurally
Learning Outcomes
All students will:
Most students
will:
Some students
will also:
Refine the interior and exterior of box by
using paint and images. Ensure box is
structurally sound.
Develop boxes using different tones
Refine box by using varied techniques to
apply tonal value with paint, ensure
windows and doors are structurally stable

19. Richard Hawkins
The
Last
House
EXTENSIONS ON YOUR HOUSE
VARYING SHAPE OF THE ROOF

20. Use the images provided of
door and window frames to
help decorate you house.

21. EXTENSIONS ON YOUR HOUSE
VARYING SHAPE OF THE ROOF
Wafa Hourani
SOUND
LIGHTING
CLICK HERE to watch a short video of the installation at the Saatchi Gallery

22. TASK 5
Learning
Objectives
To create a background
composition for your
house.

23. Year 8 Homework due Tuesday 20th March
ARTIST RESEARCH
Choose ONE of the artists below.
Jan Svankmajer - Alice
Francesca Woodman – Space 2
Wafa Hourami - Qalandia 2067
Using book and/or
internet as
research, complete the
question below
1. Choose an artwork by your ONE of the above artists and draw a version of this in your sketchbook.
2. Answer the following questions about the chosen artwork:
Level 4 i. Describe what is going on in the artwork/photograph?
Level 5 ii. What materials has the artist used to make the art work?(film/photo/sculpture)
Level 6/7 iii. Discuss the ideas behind the art work and the
intentions of the artist.

24. All :
To start to develop a background composition using your
homework as inspiration.
Most:
Use your original image to create a background for your
house. Add some detail and tone to enhance the
‘spookiness’ of the image.
Use silhouettes to create a foreground figure in window or
door/section of window or door. Use 2 or 3 different
techniques with your pen to create texture
Some:

25. REMEMBER THIS HOMEWORK????
Your images will be used for the backdrop to your spooky house.
If you don’t have access to camera then you can search on Google or
take screen shots of a creepy action games or films. Choose a variety of
images and present across one page in your sketchbook

26. MARKS YOU CAN USE WHEN TRACING YOUR WORK
hatching
Scumbling
Cross hatching
Contour hatching
Random hatching
stippling

27. Use a variety of marks to enhance
image.
Use a variety of marks to enhance
image.
hatching
hatching
stippling
stippling
Scumbling
Random
hatching
Cross hatching
Contour hatching
Scumbling
Random
hatching
Cross hatching
Contour hatching

28. What feelings are conveyed
by the artist who took these
pictures?
The artist intended to…
She did this by… (describe something
in the image)
She wanted us to think / react ……
Francesca Woodman 1958 -1981

29. Behind the Scenes at 'Place
(Village)'Rachel whiteread places
(village)
Rachel Whiteread
Racheal Whiteread talks about her
work skip to 2.59 for good discussion
of the content of this work
Place (Village)

30. Video Questions – Place Village
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3g-1jcpMNQ
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How does Whiteread say she uses light in her work
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What sort of objects does she work with?
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Why is the work different to her usual work?
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How is it similar? Name 5 ways in which it is similar
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What does you think she means by ready made?
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What do the light do to the work?
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How did Whiteread want the viewer to experience the work?

31. Look at the 3 artworks below and answer the questions in your sbk:
In what ways are they similar?
Choose one of the
In what ways are they different?
works to copy into your
What sort of atmosphere do the works create?
sketchbook
Rachael Whiteread Place
Richard Hawkins The Last House
Wafa Hourani - Qalandia 2087

32. EXIT CARDS
Write your name on the post it and draw small diagrams of
each of the following:
Scumbling
Stippling
Cross-hatching

33. TASK 6
Learning Objectives
To complete tracing: use a variety of
mark making techniques.
Use a variety of materials to enhance
spooky house
SHOE POLISH TO SCUFF UP HOUSE
GLUE GUN FOR COBWEBS!

34. NAME:
STARTER Fill in as many of the
boxes as you can
NAME:
STARTER Fill in as many of the
boxes as you can
Scumbling
stippling
Scumbling
stippling
hatching
Cross hatching
hatching
Cross hatching
Random hatching Contour hatching
Random hatching Contour hatching

35. SWAP HOUSES WITH YOUR
PARTNER
• Identify 3 different marks they have used
on their work.
• Make a suggestion as to how they could
improve their background: think about
tone, detail, composition
• Make a suggestion as to how they could
improve their whole composition: think
about composition: fore, mid and
background

36. 2. EXIT CARDS: Look at your drawing and write down
on a post it note the name of 2 mark making
techniques YOU have used this lesson.
Scumbling
Cross hatching
hatching
stippling
Random hatching Contour hatching

37. TASK 7
Learning
Objectives
To complete tracing using
a variety of mark making
techniques.
To ensure that the
completed drawing is
securely attached to the
box

38. All of You: Mark making
techniques to use on your
work this lesson
hatching
Scumbling
Cross hatching
Contour hatching
Random hatching
stippling
MOST OF YOU: Use silhouettes to
create a foreground figure in
window or door/section of
window or door.
SOME OF YOU: Attach their
tracing paper to the back of
their box

39. EXIT CARDS
Write your name on the post it and draw small diagrams of
each of the following:
Scumbling
Stippling
Cross-hatching

40. Plenary
• Evaluate the project:
• Have you used effective paint blending on
your house?
• Have you use a variety of marks on your
tracing paper?
• Have you attached your drawing successfully
& neatly to the box?
• Stick monoprints into sbk
• Stick other papers into sbk

41. Homework
Below is a scene from a film by Jan Svankmajer. In your sketchbooks create a before and
after scene of what you think happens in the story.
AFTER?
BEFORE?
1. STICK SHEET IN SKETCHBOOK
2. WRITE H/W IN DIARY

42. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd03-wm6DDM
4mins
How does Svankmajer create a sense of horror in the animation?
Could we use any of the effects he has used in our final collaborative piece
How do you think this work was made?

43. How does Svankmajer create a sense of
horror in the animation?
Could we use any of the effects he has used
in our final collaborative piece?
How do you think this work was made?