Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Thursday 9.15.11 A bowl of Marbles
Even though we gridded our Faces yesterday we are going to work on and complete the "Bowl of Marbles" as a preliminary to our gridded portrait...
But even before that let's talke about Value...
What is Value... in the drawing sense...
Value is...
The lightness or the darkness of a color
To get a grasp of this we made a 6 sectioned Value Scale....
starting by sectioning of a note card
then making the far right rectangle the darkest value.
Then going to the second retangle from the left and creating the lightest value next to the pure white of the paper. After that we found the middle tone of retangle # 4 and once we visually found the halfway value between #2 and #6 we found the half way value of #5 by comparing #4 and #6. We found the half way value of #3 by comparing #2 and #4.
It is helpful to squint to compare the relationships of value.
starting by sectioning of a note card
then making the far right rectangle the darkest value.
Then going to the second retangle from the left and creating the lightest value next to the pure white of the paper. After that we found the middle tone of retangle # 4 and once we visually found the halfway value between #2 and #6 we found the half way value of #5 by comparing #4 and #6. We found the half way value of #3 by comparing #2 and #4.
It is helpful to squint to compare the relationships of value.
Values are tricky - because we are hard wired to interperate color/ value in context or inrelationship to what is around them...
Case in point - please view the following video...
Finally we are worked on a Hand-Out that helps us shade and practice our values.
Replicate the following gradations of value on the worksheet below.
Thanks to Artfactory for the example.
 Exercise 2 |  Exercise 3 |
 Exercise 4 |  Exercise 5 |
 Exercise 6 |  Exercise 7 |
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| |  Tomorrow (Friday - the 16th) the following drawings are due: 1. Penny and box drwg. 2. Shapes with depth 3. Squiggle turned into an item 4. 5 shapes overlapping 5. Copy the squiggle in the box 6. Grid puzzle drawing 7. Upside down person/horse |
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Wednesday 9.14.11
In Preparation for Drawing a Self Portrait..
All of the Students Faces were Printed in a 8 x 10 Black and White format.
Here are just a few of them....
Then We Sharpied a 3/4" grid on to a plactic sheet cover and placed it over the photo
like so:
Finally We penciled a LIGHT 1" x 1" grid or larger on to a white construction paper.
In the coming days we will draw the portrait on to the gridded construction paper slightly growing the image .
All of the Students Faces were Printed in a 8 x 10 Black and White format.
Here are just a few of them....
Then We Sharpied a 3/4" grid on to a plactic sheet cover and placed it over the photo
like so:
Finally We penciled a LIGHT 1" x 1" grid or larger on to a white construction paper.
In the coming days we will draw the portrait on to the gridded construction paper slightly growing the image .
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Day 2 - My favorite Lesson
After the Warmup:
We looked at the following examples of a Contour Drawing
A clever and much used method by artists to measure and acertain correct proportion of a item or subject matter being drawn is to measure with an out stretched arm and a pencil.
To establish the relative size of an object…. Hold your pencil at arm’s length – elbow locked – one eye closed - aligning the top of the pencil with the top of the object to be measured. Slip your thumb down the pencil to the place where the bottom of the object lands on the pencil. That is your basic unit of measurement. Everything else is measured in relationship to that unit. If you are measuring a Chair… find to overall height. Then measure the width using the pencil in the same way and determine what percentage of the overall it is.
As in, the height was ½ the length of my pencil but the width is ¼ the pencil length.
When you draw your chair, you will draw the width ½ as long as the Height.
To Establish the visual axis of a wall or item etc... Use your pencil also by holding it up and alining it with the item to be drawn. Maintain that angle as you lower your pencil to your drawing paper and scribe that as the true visual line of the item. It is surprizing how often our preconcived ideas are at odds with what we really see.
Finally My favorite part!!!
Drawing upside down.
Since we tend to draw in code or symbols and not what we really see....
when you invert a drawing and concentrate on the bend and the shape of the line you will draw what you see not what you remember.
What I love the most about this lesson is that....
once people give this an honest try the begin to believe that they can draw...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
First Day
We're Back!
We started with Smartboard Instructions
We started with Smartboard Instructions
Students drew from memory in the first set of boxes
In the second set they were given a penny and a wooden block and asked to draw from sight
In the third set they were asked to use the penny shape to create a cake or a top hat
and the box shape to create a TV or a table.
Tomorrow we will discuss the three modes of drawing Memory, Sight and Creative.
The rest of the period was used to explain:
- The benefits of Art - really seeing, problem solving, technique, discovery
- The drawbacks of art - fear, lack of skill, the blank page
- Expectation in Class -
- Different mediums we will cover
- Point values of assignments, projects, quizzes
- Students must provide their own spiral bound Sketchbook
- Events of art Class include: Field Trips, Art Show, Living Masterpiece, Elementary Collaboration.
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