Secondary Art Work During ISO

- We can No-tan!

We can No-tan!

 

Notan is a Japanese word meaning the balance between dark and light. It is also an artform involving paper-cutting positive and negative shapes. For their first remote learning task, students in years 6 and 7 learnt and used key Art vocabulary to create and describe their Notan designs.

 

I was so impressed with the work ethic displayed by our students! Some requested feedback, learnt from mistakes, and persisted to refine their work. A few worked remotely with peers. While others independently researched ideas and planned intricate artworks. Overall, this task highlights students practising our School Value of Learning. Well done to my budding artists!

 

Shannon Widdeson

Teacher of Visual Arts and Animation Design

 

Notan is from Japan and you use light and dark paper to make contrasting shapes. You cut out a shape in the black paper and flip it over so it looks like a mirror image. The fun part of Notan design was cutting out the shapes and flipping them over. I learnt how to make a cool piece of art from another country.

Ben D – 6A

 

 

Something that was fun about Notan Art was that you could be creative and create your own shapes. For my Notan design, I found some scissors that were wavy and that’s how I made some of the squiggly geometric shapes.

Harmony O – 6D

 

 

I learnt what positive and negative shapes are and contrast. The best part was making the drawings and looking up some awesome inspiration. The most difficult part was making a circle and drawing the lines. I overcame this by using a lid to draw the circle and for the lines I just kept my hand really steady.

Swayam N – 6A

 

 

For our Art remote learning task, we had to create a Notan design which is a type of artwork that includes positive and negative shapes and contrast. The Notan design was created by cutting out various shapes and showing the positive and negative space on our artwork. The thing that was most fun for me was experimenting with the shapes and cut-outs that I put on my design. From this task I learnt how about how positive and negative shapes and contrast can be included in a design and how to use proper Art vocabulary. I also enjoyed learning about how Notan designs are created.

Olivia K – 7B 

 

Notan is a form of Japanese Art that allows the artist to play with shapes to mirror dark and light tones. While creating my Notan design, I had lots of fun creating and experimenting with different shapes then gluing their opposing pieces together to create a dark and light reflection. I learnt how to recognise positive and negative spaces in Notan Art, and during my research I learnt about the famous Japanese Yin-and-Yang symbol, which is an example of positive and negative space.

Jaxson S – 7A