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Post your color wheel project

Include the color wheel, worksheet, test wedge, and self-evaluation.

Post Your Portrait and Complete the Self Evaluation

Upload your Self Prortrait and the very first portrait from the beggining of the year.

 Grade yourself on the items below:

Scale 1-10, 1 being the lowest, 10 the highest

1. Personal Effort
2. Wise Use of Class Time
3. Neatness
4. Correct Placement of Facial Features
5. Attention to Detail
6. Shading, Shadows, and Highlights

Answer the following questions (look back at earlier blog posts of yoyr drawings)
Describe the progress you have made in drawing during this year?

What areas have been challenging or easy?

Describe the strengths and weaknesses in your work.

How did observational skills play an important role in your learning during this unit?

Please provide examples to support your statements. example: Instead of saying "A strength in my work is my hair because it looks good," you should say "A strength in my work is the hair because of how I used highlights and gradation to make it appear 3D."

Design Your Mask

Before we start to actually use clay, we need to draw sketches of our mask ideas. 

• First, draw 5 small sketches of different ideas.

• Next, pick your favorite and draw a full size skecth with all of the details you will add to your mask.

Exploring Masks

For this unit we are going to create a mask based on a tribal culture.
Print out this graphic organizer and use the links below for your answers:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson395/organizer5.pdf

After you complete the questions you will create 5 thumbnail sketches of mask ideas. Discuss your ideas with me then draw a full size sketch of the mask design.

AfricanMasks
African Mask History, Rebirth African Art:http://www.rebirth.co.za/African_mask_history_and_meaning.htm

 Art of the African Mask, University of Virginia: http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/African_Mask.html

Faces of the Dead: Egyptian Mummy Masks: 
http://www.akhet.co.uk/faces.htm

Masks of Africa, Museum of Ancient and Modern Art: http://www.mama.org/collection/afc/afc001.html

Asian Masks
Ceremonial Masks from Java and Bali Indonesia:
http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/indonesi/masksjbc.htm

Ceremonial Masks of Mongolia:
http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/mongolia/tsam.html
http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=1617

Masks of India:
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/masks/

Masks: Reflection of Culture and Religion (India): http://www.dollsofindia.com/mask.htm
New Guinea Masks:
http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/nuguinea/maskspko.htm
http://www.jungleoutpost.com/cart/masks-papua-guinea-c-23.html

Japanese Noh and Oni Masks:
http://www.nohmask21.com/
http://www.thefind.com/movies/browse-japanese-noh-mask
Noh Mask History, Media Information Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan: 
http://www.nohmask21.com/

Central and South America
Dominican Republic:
http://dominicanmasks.com/
Guatemalan Masks:
http://www.coloresdelpueblo.org/Masks.htm
Maya Masks;
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/mayan-masks.htm

European Masks
Masks in the Ancient Greek Theatre:
http://www.greektheatre.gr/masks.html 

Venetian Masks: http://www.bergencounty.com/costumes/maskitalia/history.html

North American Masks
Alaska: The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks: http://www.tribalarts.com/feature/riordan/
Mexican Masks:
http://www.mexicanmasks.us/
Aztec Masks:
http://aztec-empire.com/masks.htm
West Coast Indian Art Tribal Masks: http://www.freespiritgallery.ca/nwartmasks.htm


More Masks Examples
Masks from Around the World