Post Your Zentangle

Upload your Eyes, Nose, Mouth, and Water drop

After you upload your drawings answer the following:

1. Rank the difficulty of your drawings. Which was the easiset? The most difficult?

2. In which drawing did you use the least amount of LINE?

3. Which drawing used the most amount of VALUE?

4. What would you improve upon next time? What will you do differently?

5. On a scale of 1-10, how well did you perservere while drawing? If you think you gave up easily give yourself a lower score, but if you really stuck to it, even though you got discouraged, give yourself a higher score.

Post Pumpkin Drawings and Self - Evaluation

Post both drawings of your pumpkin. For each specific drawing answer the questions.

1.Drawing from observation

a. Describe how you used different tones, effects, techniques and why.

b. Describe the difficulties you had and how you tried to overcome them.

2.Drawing using the grid

a. Why might an artist choose to use a grid?  In what ways is it helpful? 

b. In what part of your drawing is your lightest value used?  

c. How did you use Value? Where are the two middle values used?  Where does your darkest value appear in your drawing?  

3. Overall questions

a. What is your favorite part of this art project? Observational or Grid?

b. If you were to do these drawings again, what would you do differently? 
c. What did you find most difficult about these drawings? 

4. What letter grade do you believe you deserve for this project?  Why?

Pumpkin

Line - Shape - Form

line

Shape

Form - Warm and Cool Color

Form -  - Grayscale - Value

Line to Shape

Final Notan

Using the Grid System to draw accurately

Today you will be using a grid to create accurate drawings.

First, write your name and block on the back of the page.

Second, label each grid  square in the following manner:

Label each square across the top A through k on both the picture and the blank grid

Label each square down the side 1 through 8 on both the picture and the blank grid

Next, start with a square of your choice and use the grid over the picture to where find each line or shape lies. For example, the center of the flower lies in square F3.

On the grid below precisely draw each line as it appears in the picture.

Draw the Flower, Hand, Pizza, and the Mystery grid, in that order. Take your time on each one. If you don't finish we'll work on them next week.

Picasso - Cubist Self-Portrait

Picasso

Pablo Picasso was one of the most well known and influential artists of the 20th century. He was a painter, sculptor, print-maker, and ceramicist.

Take a look at Picasso in action. He was constantly making art, and worked in many different styles:

Picasso at Work Video

Picasso developed a style known as Cubism. Cubism is an abstract art form that was influenced by Egyptian, African and Native American art. Cubist art is very flat and angular, and shows multiple views of an object, such as the front and side, in the same composition.

Cubism

Picasso started as a traditional painter, but his style changed over the years.

Take a look at the many moods of Picasso in the video below:

Picasso's Portraits of Women - Evolution of His Masterpieces

TODAY'S ASSIGNMENT - PICASSO STYLE SELF PORTRAIT

Your assignment today is to draw a Self - portrait based on Picasso's Cubist Style. Watch the video below for instructions:

Self Portrait Picasso Style

There is paper at your desk, there are sharpies in the box for your outlines of your portraits, and there are crayons on the wire shelf in the middle of the room. MAKE SURE YOU PUT BACK ALL MATERIALS WHERE YOU FOUND THEM!!!!

Mr. B will pick up the portraits when you have completed them, be sure to add your NAME and BLOCK on the back of your portrait.

Notan Excercises - 9-15

Post your 3 Notan excercises.
1. Notan - Reflection - Organic
2. Notan  - reflection - Geometric
3. Notan - Translation - Tesselation

Reflection - Organic

Reflection-Geometric

Translation-Tesselation

Shaded Drawings - 9-15

Post your shaded drawings today...
Title it
 Shaded drawings 9-15

Progress 9-3

Value scale

Big still life

Value - Lights and Darks

Today we will begin learning about Value in Art. We are not talking about how much a painting is worth, but about the range of lights and darks in a picture.

We will create a 10 Value Tone Scale using one pencil.

More Practice

For the last 2 classes we have learned and practiced how to find correct proportions using units of measure and correct angles using the pencil and clock method.

We will practice drawing ellipses today, and then draw a Still Life of tube 2 and the box, using all of the methods of the past classes.

BLOG POST DUE TODAY - Post the drawings from last class and todays work. Title the post, Drawing practice - 8-27

Finding Angles

When you are drawing object you also need to find correct angles.

Use the following technique to sight the angles with pencils.

Tilt your pencil to align with a feature in your image.

Then compare it to the horizontal border of your paper. 

The angle should be as close to the actual angle as possible.

It might help to imagine the angles as hands on a clock. What time would the angle above be?

Continue the process until you find all the angles...

Drawing in Proportion Using Units of Measure

Today we will begin to learn the skills we need make a realistic drawing.

First we need to make a drawing that is in Proportion, meaning that all elements of the object are in the correct ratio to each other.



How do I find proportion in what I draw?

Use your pencil and thumb to measure a distance on the object. This is called the Unit of Measure.

Then use the unit of Measure to find out how tall the tube is. Drop your pencil and thumb down the length of the tube and count how many widths you find.

1 width

2 widths

..and the tube is almost 3 widths tall.

Here is a link that goes into much more detail about this process.

Upload your 6 drawings to your blog and answer the questions

Today you will upload your 6 drawings to your blog and answer the following questions:
What drawing do I like best? Why?
What are 2 specific things that I did well in my drawings?
What are 2 things I would like improve in my drawings?

First drawing

Today we will complete our first drawings.

You will need to turn in your:
Chair
Hand
Corner of room
Lamp
Self Portrait
and don't forget the drawing of your choice.

We will also practice uploading our drawings to our blog.

I suggest using the 

I would like each of you to take a picture of each of your drawings and email it to yourself. It may take a few tries to get this right.

After that we will move the photos to a folder you make on the desktop of your computer.

From there it is an easy process to upload the photos to a post on your blog.

When can post photos successfully you will begin drawing the cardboard tubes on your desks. 

First drawing

Welcome to Art Foundations!

Welcome to Art Foundations! I hope you are ready for a creative year ahead.

Today we'll go over the syllabus and other important information.

Please read this at home with your parents and ask them fill out complete this confirming they have read it:

Syllabus Review Confimation Form

Creating your blog

Today we will create our own blog. This blog will be used to upload projects, research, comments and also to measure our progress in class.

We will learn how to:

• Log in to blogger
• Make a new blog with a title and address
• Create a post
• Add a link to the post.

You will then send the address of your blog to my google email at:

johncazort@ga.ozark.k12.mo.us