Tattoo Design
Achievement Standard Visual Arts 91325: Produce a resolved work that demonstrates control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions
Resource Title: Tattoo Design
Credits: 4
Assessment type: Internal Assessment
Due in: Week 8 Term one
Resource Title: Tattoo Design
Credits: 4
Assessment type: Internal Assessment
Due in: Week 8 Term one
Achievement
Produce a resolved work that demonstrates control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions. |
Achievement with Merit
Produce a resolved work that demonstrates sustained control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions. |
Achievement with Excellence
Produce a resolved work that demonstrates facility with skills appropriate to cultural conventions. |
Tasks
Introduction
This assessment activity requires you to produce a design for a tattoo for yourself. You will be assessed on your ability to demonstrate control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions. Your final design should appropriately reference tattoo designs from your cultural background, demonstrate a personal style, and innovatively meet the requirements to fit the form of the body. You will produce your final design for a tattoo as an ink drawing. You will need to indicate how your design references the various cultural conventions. You have 6 weeks of class and home time to complete this activity. Note: There is no expectation that the tattoo will be applied to the skin, either as part of this assessment activity or following it. Part 1: Investigate tattooing in your culture
Collect imagery and information from tattoo cultures that are relevant to you. This could include your ethnic culture(s) and also sub-cultures that you belong to. Investigate at least two tattoo images from each culture of tattooing you want to incorporate into your final design. Attach the tattoo images to an A3 page and annotate using the headings in Resource A. Part 2: Plan a tattoo
On one A3 page, produce at least eight thumbnail designs for a tattoo for yourself. Select the two designs that you think most effectively represent your personal and/or cultural history. Consider where on your body a tattoo would be most appropriately placed in terms relevant to cultural conventions. For example, moko would normally be found on the face and an anchor would usually be placed on the forearm. On a second A3 page refine each of your two selected designs, so that they more effectively represent your personal and/or cultural history and accurately fit the form of your body. Remember that your body is not a flat surface and so the design will have to be modified accordingly. You may need to cut paper templates to assist you with this fitting. Drawing the design on a fellow student’s skin using water-based ink may also help you refine the design. If you do this, then you need to photograph each drawing for recording purposes. Part 3: Produce a final design
Select the two most successful of your refined designs from Part 2. Using Resource B as a guide, evaluate these designs and identify their unique strengths and weaknesses. Using an A3 page for each design, produce two new versions that enhance the strengths and eliminate the weaknesses. Use suitable media to produce one full size finished tattoo design in ink. Fine tipped ink pens are a suitable medium. Make sure your choice of colour, line, and tone demonstrates your understanding of tattoo conventions from your selected culture(s). Include a brief statement that explains the personal symbolism of your design and how it reflects established tattoo conventions. |
Examples
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Resources
Resource A: Tattoo investigation
Annotations The culture I am investigating is: Tattooist (if known): Date (if known): In this culture, tattoos are applied by: (mechanical gun, bone chisel, other) The designs for tattoos in this culture are: (geometric patterns, images of specific objects, stylised images, positive/negative balance, include lots of text, single or multiple colour, line only, or line and a range of tones?) In this culture, tattoos are worn to show: In this culture, the imagery in tattoos represents: Summary The main pictorial conventions used for tattoo designs in this culture are: In this culture, tattoo designs represent: Resource B: Tattoo evaluation My design represents … I have chosen to refine this design further because … To make my design more clearly show my skills appropriate to the conventions of tattooing in my culture, I need to make the following improvements: Tattoo Wikipedia entry
A good general introduction to Tattoo Tattoos, The permanent art A doco on the art of tattoo Maori Tattoo, Moko The history of Moko Tattoo Museum A whole lot of info on tattoo |