Stamps From Around The World!

Research! 

A Wide Range of Stamps from Ireland to Sierra Leone!

* Sierra Leone invented the first self adhesive stamp! 

Some stamps are playful, light hearted and others are intricate designs with lots of information.

 Look at the SHAPE of the stamp! Not all stamps are rectangles - Some here are circular, Triangular and even heart shapes (very last image!)

Consider the LAYOUT also - where is the information placed (literacy and numeracy - Eire 60c and even possibly a slogan/some writing)

  

  

Stamp- Visual Aids So Far

 2nd Year Stamp Design 

 Theme : Go Green - Solving Global Warming by Doing Something! 

Teacher Visual Aids for students to re-engage with for ideas - follow tasks and plan! 

Mind Map

Research Development : Primary Source engagement - Drawing through different materials 

Development : Considering Imagery - Placement and Balance of the layout. Considering Stamp shapes from support studies of stamps from around the world! Annotated* sketches of possible ideas! 

Keywords: 

Primary Source, Balance, Layout, Colour, Composition

Art History - Iron Age Stone Carving

Pre Christian / Iron Age Stone Carving ! 

Iron Age - https://arthistoryleavingcert.com/pre-christian-ireland-2/iron-age-la-tene-in-ireland/


Here are the Questions & Answers from our Kahoot game!

A number of stone idols and dressed stones have been found scattered around the Irish countryside that date to the Iron Age

The stone idols are visually quite dramatic, while the dressed stones with their carved designs are certainly aesthetically pleasing.

The exact function of the Iron Age stonework is not fully clear. They dressed stones may have been boundary markers or the stone idols may have been created by landowners to frighten off strangers approaching their land. 

Whatever their function these stones demonstrate the artistic skills of the Celtic people at a time when available materials would have been minimal

Turoe Stone, Co. Galway. (c.200BC)


Castle strange Stone (200 BC- AD100)


Crock Head (c.AD 100)


Tandragee Idol

Art History - Newgrange & Websites to visit

Below is a link to a 

VIRTUAL TOUR of Newgrange itself! 

http://www.voicesfromthedawn.com/newgrange/

Art History Slides from Newgrange and some websites for your own research!

 Entrance Stone 

Kerbstone 52

 

Motifs

Here are some really great links to Art History Leaving Cert, they have great imagery and short factual information that may be helpful! 

Dolmen - https://arthistoryleavingcert.com/pre-christian-ireland-2/dolmen/ 

Court Cairn - https://arthistoryleavingcert.com/pre-christian-ireland-2/court-cairn/

Newgrange - https://arthistoryleavingcert.com/pre-christian-ireland-2/newgrange/

Bronze Age - https://arthistoryleavingcert.com/pre-christian-ireland-2/bronze-age/

Iron Age - https://arthistoryleavingcert.com/pre-christian-ireland-2/iron-age-la-tene-in-ireland/

Here are also some helpful Exam questions and their marking schemes so you can see what information their looking for! 

https://arthistoryleavingcert.com/pre-christian-ireland-2/exam-questions-and-marking-schemes-for-pre-christian-era/

1st Years- Observational drawing. Hatching & Cross Hatching

Developing and exploring a new technique is never easy. 1st Years referenced and examined artists work using the Hatching & Cross Hatching Technique. 

Tania Nault, Susan L. Carr and Rembrandt van Rijn

* Note these images have had their brightness lowered to develop a clearer depiction of the pencil studies