Contour Line Drawing: Tennis Shoe
As an intro to the art room, students will conduct a drawing practice my creating a contour line drawing of a shoe from a side view and one alternate view.
Project: Right vs Left Brain Illustration: 8/29/2011
This first art lesson is designed to challenged your creativity, drawing, and illustration skills. We will explore the differences between your right and left brain and how we use them to draw in art class. Your assignment, to take the Art Institute survey below, identify your traits, and use your findings to create an illustration about your findings. Your illustration can use any 2D media, must use a 'brain' image of some kind, and be creative! This is more than just a science fair poster. I want this to be a work of art! Take inspiration from the Mercades Bendz ads. Notice how they use both left and right brain ideas to create their images.
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Right vs. Left Brain Survey
http://www.wherecreativitygoestoschool.com/vancouver/left_right/rb_test.htm Brain Anatomy: http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/Publications/Unraveling/Part1/inside.htm |
M.C. Escher Metamorphosis Drawings
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Metamorphosis Drawings: 9/08/2011
Metamorphosis Drawings
The art of creating transformations
Lesson Overview: This lesson is aimed at challenging your drawing skills, imagination, and critical thinking. Your challenge is to take an inorganic object and transform it into an organic object by drawing the metamorphosis of the process in a series of 5 drawings. Your goal is to make this transformation appear possible. Imagine if you could wave a wand and make your object twist, pull, and turn into the something completely different.
Essential Questions:
What is value? What kinds of art tools can you use to render value?
How do artists use their imagination to change an object?
How can you come up with ways to transform an object into something completely different?
How do artists plan a work of art?
Practice makes perfect, which drawing is your favorite? Are you happy with the results?
Day 1 Brainstorming: This is the most important step, you have to have a PLAN before you begin to draw. First, find your object. You can bring one from home or from the art room. Using this object, come up with some ideas to transform it. For example, a Pear to a Sailboat, or Sunglasses to a Lily flower. Come up with sketches for your metamorphosis drawing
Day 2-4 Creation: In a series of 5 separate drawings; start to illustrate your metamorphosis. Use contour line to sketch out all 5 stages, from inorganic to organic object. Use colored pencil to shade and add value to your sketches. The challenge will be to make the transformation relate with color as well. Maybe the colors blend, or slowly disappear in your new object.
Day 5 Critique: On this day be prepared to matte your artwork so that it can be easily views. Each piece should be matted either separately or together as one piece. After work is displayed, each person will share his or her decision making process to the class regarding their choices made and answering the Essential Questions. Finished work should be turned in with the self evaluation sheet for grading.
The art of creating transformations
Lesson Overview: This lesson is aimed at challenging your drawing skills, imagination, and critical thinking. Your challenge is to take an inorganic object and transform it into an organic object by drawing the metamorphosis of the process in a series of 5 drawings. Your goal is to make this transformation appear possible. Imagine if you could wave a wand and make your object twist, pull, and turn into the something completely different.
Essential Questions:
What is value? What kinds of art tools can you use to render value?
How do artists use their imagination to change an object?
How can you come up with ways to transform an object into something completely different?
How do artists plan a work of art?
Practice makes perfect, which drawing is your favorite? Are you happy with the results?
Day 1 Brainstorming: This is the most important step, you have to have a PLAN before you begin to draw. First, find your object. You can bring one from home or from the art room. Using this object, come up with some ideas to transform it. For example, a Pear to a Sailboat, or Sunglasses to a Lily flower. Come up with sketches for your metamorphosis drawing
Day 2-4 Creation: In a series of 5 separate drawings; start to illustrate your metamorphosis. Use contour line to sketch out all 5 stages, from inorganic to organic object. Use colored pencil to shade and add value to your sketches. The challenge will be to make the transformation relate with color as well. Maybe the colors blend, or slowly disappear in your new object.
Day 5 Critique: On this day be prepared to matte your artwork so that it can be easily views. Each piece should be matted either separately or together as one piece. After work is displayed, each person will share his or her decision making process to the class regarding their choices made and answering the Essential Questions. Finished work should be turned in with the self evaluation sheet for grading.
Wet Paper Folding Origami
Following artist Eric Joisel, students used damp paper and paperclips to create abstract facial forms out of the paper.
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Hand Drawing With Charcoal
Using your own hands as subject matter, students will create 2 drawings with charcoal, one on white paper with dark charcoal, and one on black paper with white conte.
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Key to Creativity
Students will design a skeleton key that will be their "Key to Creativity", the design inspired by what gives the student creative inspiration. The keys represent something called an ALLEGORY: where meaning is represented through symbols.
Students will create a series of sketches and one final design.
Students will then building an ARMATURE out of newspaper, rolls, tape, and wire.
Each project will be paper mache with newspaper and paper towel.
Each Design will be painted, added to, and finished with a spray.
Students will create a series of sketches and one final design.
Students will then building an ARMATURE out of newspaper, rolls, tape, and wire.
Each project will be paper mache with newspaper and paper towel.
Each Design will be painted, added to, and finished with a spray.
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Andy Warhol PrintmakingFollowing the same inspiration as Pittsburgh naive Andy Warhol, students will create a Pop Art Print from popular candy and linocut.
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Harvest Weaving Drawing
Students will take a look at drawing from observation by working on a still life based from seasonal items. In the harvest weaving, students will create two drawings. One drawing will be completely done in ebony pencil and the other in chalk and oil pastel. By weaving the two pieces together students can create one unified work.
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Paper Quilled Snowflake
Students explored the colonial art form of paper quilling in their next assignment. American crafts and folk art have become a holiday tradition in American and students used modern technologies (ie. shredding the paper in a machine, cutting plastic needle eyes to create a coiler) to invent their own paper quilled designs.
Each student created one large snowflake plus two small snowflakes for a grade.
Each student created one large snowflake plus two small snowflakes for a grade.
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Folk Art Holiday Painting
Students were to create a holiday themed painting on a piece of sanded wood. This gave students and opportunity to work with alternative materials to create their paintings. Each student created two scenes on a piece for a grade. Students practiced thier brushwork skills as well as thier critical thinking skills in preparing images to paint.
Papel Picado
Students focused on the traditional cut paper art of Papel Picado, or paper designs created to represent holidays and traditions celebrated in Mexico. Students had to choose a season, imagery, or Mexican holiday to transform in their own papel picado.
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Fractured Bicycles, Acrylic Painting
Students took a look at the inspirations behind contemporary paintings as well as the process and use of complementary colors. Each student drew sections of a fractured bicycle and choose a complementary color scheme. The students then filled each section of the bike or background with a transition of value or gradient.
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Self Portrait
Few things can be more intimidating to an art student than the words...SELF PORTRAIT! Fear not! You can be successful if you break down the drawing process. Students practice by drawing sets of eyes, noses, and mouths then facial proportions worksheets. Finally, students started a good copy on drawing paper, working from a mirror, drawing from observation. Check out the results and handout....!
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Black and White Portraits
Using the grid drawing method and white china marker, students created a portrait of their favorite person
Zentangle Drawing
Students will study the art of India and henna tattoos to create thier own zentangle. Each section should contain at least 15 different designs in marker then in colored pencil
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Doodle for Google
This years theme for doodle for google was....'IF I could travel through time...I'd visit____". Can you tell where our Art II students would like to visit?
Wire Jewelry and Wire Sculpture
Students got a chance to work with a new material...WIRE...in this unit. Artwork inspiration was focused on the creations of Alexander Calder and his large mobiles and delicate jewelry. Check out some of the neat-o results!
Ceramic Ugly Mug
You have an ugly mug! Maybe this sounds like a British insult, but your mug is your head! In this project students will construct a slab build mug composed with facial feature. Here are some of the unglazed results.
St. Patrick's Day Celtic Knot
In this art lesson students learned about traditional Irish culture and the true story of St. Partick's day. They then learned to compose their own celtic knot using the drawing techniques outlined in the attachment below.
Watercolor Origami
This lesson was divided into two mini lessons--one in which students experimented with non-traditional watercolor techniques including resists, rubbing alcohol, plastic wrap and rubber cement, one creating at least 3 successful pieces of origami folds, and one combining the origami they folded along with watercolor techniques practice to create a contemporary watercolor composition.
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Paul Gaugin Still Life
Students studied the life and travels of artist Paul Gaugin and re-created a mini jungle still life
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Two Point Perspective Buildings
Taking a look down town, students learned about how perspective affects the way we see. Together students created an imaginary 2pt perspective landscape of buildings with some color.
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Animal Armor
Our animal armor incorporates ideas of prosthetic limbs, movement, steam punk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk, and art techniques
Mask Making
Students choose a culture to take inspiration from to create their own plaster mask.
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Skateboard Design
Taking a look at graphic design, ART II came up with template plans and designs for their own skateboard, snowboard, or surfboard.
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Coffee Painting
Using watercolor techniques practiced this year, students invented their own coffee painting idea.
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