LO: Create a character & transfer to London location

UK artist Uh-Oh, also known as Nick Shove is from Leicester and specialises in painting graffiti art and characters on canvas.

His monsters (characters) start life as a doodle in his sketchpad and after some tweaking, erasing and re-drawing the lucky ones get penned in and marked out. The monsters are eventually created using a mixture of spray-paints, paint pens, markers and acrylics. He also paints on skateboards, shoes and anything else he can!

In some of his work he has combined bold, colourful, black out-lined characters in various locations or famous landmarks. This combination is so effective!

Today, students created their very own Uh-Oh inspired character and placed it in a London location.

Instructions
1. Roughly sketch as many Uh-Oh style characters in your sketchpad as possible. Look at the artist research sheet if you need some inspiration.

2. Decide which character you like best and transfer onto white card. Try your best to make your character blend into your London location.

3. Use a black felt tip to create the bold out-line.

4. Give your character colour using felt tips or paint.

5. Finally, when your character is dry, cut out and glue onto location.

 

Take a look at their amazing creations.....

@ The Shard

@ The Shard

@ The British Museum

@ The Wellington Monument (Hyde Park entrance)

@ Westminster Bridge

@ The Shard

@ The Tower of London

@The Heron Tower

@ The Houses of Parliament

 @ The Gherkin (Swiss RE)

@ Westminster Abbey

@ Hyde Park

 @ Tower Bridge

@ The London Eye

@ The London Eye

To conclude todays lesson all students are asked to complete a minimum of two sentences in their conclusion book. There is sentence starters at the front and a glossary at the back if they need any guidance.

I hope Nick Shove is as proud of these creations as I am?! Well done Art Club! :)