Drawing Exercises

1.  Receive a Camera Angle handout.  Fold it into 8ths (following the directions being given at the front of the class) and read through it once folded.  Understand the camera angles presented in the handout.

2.  Watch Fantasia 2000's "Rhapsody in Blue" Animation.  Raise your hand when you see one of the Camera Angles from the handout on the screen.  We will freeze the screen and take 6 minutes to draw what is on the screen, therefore practicing the Camera angle.

3.  Once the movie is over, return to the Fantasia Drawings from yesterday (the drawing's made that were inspired by music.)

 




Look at your drawings.  While the music is playing again, on a separate piece of paper, answer the following questions about your drawing.

1.  What season is this picture taking place in?
2.  What is the temperature?
3.  What are people wearing?
4.  What time of day is it?
5.  Where on Earth is this scene happening?  Is it happening on Earth?

After answering these five questions about your Fantasia Drawing, come up with five questions of your own about the Fantasia drawing and answer those.  You should have 10 questions answered total.

Once your 10 questions are answered, using your answer, draw your Fantasia Drawing again considering the details of what you wrote.  If you prefer to SCULPT an element from your Fantasia Drawing, please do so and leave in the plastic bin by the end of the day so it can be baked.

Quarter 1 Final Assignment

The painting is a fairly accurate representation of the American flag, in encaustic on collaged paper and fabric, a favorite medium for Johns. But the artist approached the flag with the gestural hand of 

Action Painters

 like 

Willem de Kooning

, eschewing the crisp, clear coloring and delineations of America’s national symbol in favor of rougher edges and a textured, impasto surface.As such, Flag calls into question its relationship to the American flag: Is Flag, in fact, a flag? Is it a representation of a flag? Is every American flag simply a representation of some predetermined notion of the American flag, a mere reflection of an idea? 

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. Do something else to it. 

-  (Jasper Johns)

This week, students will make a final piece. 

They will consider placement, titles, and the role of exhibition has in connection with their work.  


1.  Typography

2.  Seltzer Water Project/Advertising/Graphic Design

3.  Image Enlargement/Painting/Coloring

4.  Collage/Dadaism

5.  2D to 3D (clay, cardboard, Felt, Found Object, Etc.) or 3D to 2D

6.  Observation Drawing

7.  Camera Angles (Perspective Drawing Review)

8.  8 Page Booklets/Character Design

Looking back at all our projects, do a final project that combines what you learned from three of the following eight lessons.  

For examples, a student could make a collage, enlarge it and then paint a neat typography on top of it.  

OR

A student could make an 8 page mini comic using a lot of different typography, make a 3D figurine of the main character.  

OR

A student could make a collage on a seltzer water bottle and then do an observation drawing of it.  

IF YOU CANNOT DECIDE, ROLL A D8 three times and correspond your results to the above assignments.  

You will be graded based upon your engagement in class, which should be the whole class.  You will be graded based upon how much exploration of materials you showcase in the studio art room.  You will be graded based upon the reflections you make on today's opening question.  Please write a 4-6 sentence response to the question.  

Question:  How does your final art project reflect what you have learned this quarter?  




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