1. Turn in art fee – $15
2. Quick critique on paper bag drawings.
3. Introduces Charcoal
4. Artist Robert Longo
5. Introduce first assignment
6. Practice with the materials (Vine and compressed charcoal).

Tuesday: Paper bag drawing. (White Charcoal on Black paper) Wednesday: Practice one more day with charcoal.

Thursday and Friday: Start Final Drawing

The still life has a long and storied tradition in learning, practice, and symbolism. You will continue this tradition through various studies in line and value. Developing your connection between your hand, mind and eye is the key to still lives.

• Task:Explore the mark and the medium. Create multiple gesture drawings. You are to create multiple artworks culminating in a final charcoal still life emphasizing value. You will begin with line gesture drawings as well as line contour of various objects ranging from your hand to small one object still lives. You will then begin a larger composition emphasizing value through charcoal.
• The Final Charcoal Drawing
  • Bring an object from home to draw or an original idea.
  • Exploration of the mark.
  • A final charcoal drawing that has a full variety of value.
  • The overall composition is balanced.
  • Drawing takes up the whole sheet of paper

Vocabulary

Line: An element of art that is the path of a moving point through space. Although lines can vary in appearance (they can have different lengths, widths, textures, directions, and degree of curve), they are considered one-dimensional and are measured by length. A line is also used by an artist to control the viewer’s eye movement. There are five kinds of lines: vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved and zigzag.

Value is how light or dark and area appears.

Contour Line: A line that defines the edge and surface ridges of an object.

Still Life: Painting or drawing of inanimate (nonmoving) objects

Formative assessment: In process critique

Week 2

Dec.9-13

Week 3 

Dec. 16 – 20

Criteria:

• Contrasting colors
• Drawing takes up the whole paper.
• Composition may be cropped.
• There are various types of line (dark, light, smooth, jagged, continuous, broken, etc.)

Vocabulary:

Shape is a closed line. Shapes can be geometric, like squares and circles; or organic, like free formed shapes or natural shapes. Shapes are flat and can express length and width.

Forms are three-dimensional shapes, expressing length, width, and depth. Balls, cylinders, boxes and triangles are forms.

Scale (proportions) -Scale in drawing refers to the proportion or ratio that defines the size relationships. Models, architectural plans, maps and paintings/drawings all use scale to create the illusion of correct size relationships between objects and figures

Color is light reflected off objects. Color has three main characteristics: hue or its name (red, green, blue, etc.), value (how light or dark it is), and intensity (how bright or dull it is

Space is the area between and around objects. The space around objects is often called negative space; negative space has shape. Space can also refer to the feeling of depth. Real space is three-dimensional; in visual art when we can create the feeling or illusion of depth we call it space

Week 4 – 5

Jan. 6-17

Monday: Sketch Book Assignment Due

Week 6

Jan. 21-24

Tuesday: Critique Oil Pastels – Sketch Book Assignment Due

Wednesday: Alternative Ways of Seeing Landscapes: Introduction.

Wednesday and Thursday: Practicing with Pen and india ink.

Friday: Share ideas – mini critique. Start final.

Alternative Ways of Seeing Landscapes:Introduction:There are other ideas about how to create space in a drawing. Many Asian drawing canons emphasize the casual perspective principle of placement as an indicator of space. Very often buildings, boats, and people are shown as being very small in comparison to the landscape. These drawings reflect the philosophy that people are only a small part of the natural world.Assignment:Come up with a unique/ creative landscape artwork from your own personal imagery. Create studies and concepts to complete the final work in a medium of your choosing. Siz

Objective:

Look at unique solutions to the problem that landscapes can give.

Criteria:

Artwork is “unique” and “creative”- Not a “usual” landscape

Material:

• 4H, india ink and illustration board

Artwork is complete as could be

Artwork shows:

1. Great craftsmanship
2. Great effort (Worked continually through all classes)
3. Creative and original problem solving
4. Understanding of Design Principles

Week 7

Jan. 27 – 31

Monday – Friday Work days on Alternative Ways of Seeing Landscapes (pen and ink)

Week 8

Feb. 3 – 7

Tuesday:

Week 9

Feb. 10 – 14

Week 10

Feb. 17 -21

Week 11

Feb. 24 -28

Week 12

March 2 – 5

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday: End of the Trimester