Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Elements of Art: Line and Value
Beginning Art
Today you will be exploring two Elements of Art: Line and Value. Line, is a mark made by a moving tool. Value, is the lightness and darkness of a color. These Elements are essential to many works of art! We will begin today by drawing our self portrait using only line! About the middle of class we'll break and create a value scale using graphite and colored pencil.
Standard
BV12 Apply the Elements of Art and Principles of Design to create art.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
100 Day Creativity Challenge
This will be a bell ringer for all Visual Arts classes this year. Make sure you have your own pencil and sketchbook each day!
100 Day Creativity Challenge
This is an ongoing bell ringing throughout the semester. Please
work in your sketchbook/journal.This challenge has a bit more flexibility, of
course. It will work for writing and art. It is the most flexible 100 Day
Challenge you can find. Please work in order.
- Beginnings
- Warm
- Grateful
- Peace
- Spell
- Woods
- Fair
- Wish
- Potion
- Element
- Spirit
- Fear
- Winter
- Rain
- Clouds
- Snow
- Trapped
- Blood
- Twisted
- Falling
- Evanesce
- Mind
- Music
- Spring
- Flowers
- Dew
- Windows
- Reflection
- Mirrors
- Breeze
- Morbid
- Sacred
- Hollow
- Departed
- Heart
- Dirt
- New
- Voice
- Flowing
- Floated
- Motion
- Hello
- Lost
- Sleeping
- Dreaming
- Middle
- Fall
- Moon
- Orange
- Sun
- Food
- Thanksgiving
- Dust
- Take
- Rainbow
- Fantasy
- Red
- Awaken
- Twilight
- Fear
- Linger
- Distance
- Glance
- Candle
- Quietus
- Sensorial
- Despond
- Hold
- Break
- Shiver
- Wish
- Summer
- Green
- Ice Cream
- Water
- Warm
- Stars
- Camping
- Swim
- Light
- Thunder
- Memories
- Fragile
- Whisper
- Consume
- Memory
- Midnight
- Ripples
- Quixotic
- Languor
- Symbol
- Beg
- Tear
- Optimist
- Pretend
- Festival
- Carnival (or something like it)
- Branch
- Wrong
- Ending
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Drawing Challenge: Color and Value
Intermediate Art
Ready to warm up your drawing skills!
-10"x10" White Paper
-Draw a grid that consist of 2"x2" squares
-Fill each square with a circle
-Select 25 abstract images from magazines using circular compositions
-On you drawing paper, Recreate the 25 images using colored pencils
-Focus on Color and Composition (Color bearing down Hard for intense darks! Create contrast!
Standard
IV21 Generate innovative solutions to artistic problems.
Art History Introduction Assignment
Reading Assignment
Read the introduction in Stokstad (pp. xxix-lii) and the Starter Kit (pp. xxiii-xxviii) outlining the premises and basic concepts of art history.
Writing
Assignment
Select any Western painting,
sculpture, or work of architecture from Art History
that is included in the chapters we will cover in this course. First, write a
complete visual description of the work by analyzing its overall composition
and subject matter. Strive to create a mental picture of the work so that
someone who has no prior knowledge of the work or of art history can recognize
it from your description. Next, write a thorough formal analysis of the work in
which you discuss its formal elements (i.e., line, color, texture, space, and
composition) and utilize relevant art historical vocabulary to discuss its
style, medium, and other pertinent issues.This assignment will be due Wednesday 8/27/14 When this paper is returned to you, save it. For the final assignment, you will rewrite it in light of what you have learned during the course. You will not receive a grade for the initial paper, but you will receive a grade for your revision.
Exquisite Corpse
Beginning Visual Arts
Exquisite Corpse A Blind Collaborative Among Surrealist techniques exploiting the mystique of accident was a kind of collective collage of words or images called the cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse). Based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution.
The technique got its name from results obtained in initial playing, "Le cadavre / exquis / boira / le vin / nouveau" (The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine). Other examples are: "The dormitory of friable little girls puts the odious box right" and "The Senegal oyster will eat the tricolor bread." These poetic fragments were felt to reveal what Nicolas Calas characterized as the "unconscious reality in the personality of the group" resulting from a process of what Ernst called "mental contagion."
We are
going to try this classic Verbal and Visual collage to a collective level in
the Art room today. The game was adapted to the possibilities of drawing, and
even collage, by rotating the small collages to each player as the various
parts are added the create the surreal collage.
What you
need:
Background
Heads
Arms
Legs
Body
Funny
little objects
We
will start by all finding a background, we will next pass what you started to
another classmate and then begin finding a head, then we will switch again and
all find a body, and so on…….
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Welcome Back Fall 2014!
I am so excited and privileged to be your teacher this year! Bradley's Art Room is my blog where you will find your projects and lessons. This semesters classes include: 1st Art History, 3rd Beginning Visual Arts, and 4th Intermediate Visual Arts. You will visit this site often! I love to create lessons using Google Sites embedded with Video links. I also like to include your project rubrics here so you'll always know what is expected.
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