ISB PLACE DRAWING
Depicting memory and experience related to the theme of Place
This first unit we will delve into in Grade 8 Art is the Place Drawing. There will be plenty of sketchbook exploration beforehand so we will be prepared to do our drawing.
Purpose:
Essential Questions:
How do people express themselves through art?
How does art communicate?
What factors influence artists and artistic expression?
What is the significance between place and memory?
Sketchbook Sequence:
Purpose:
- To learn about depicting space and depth into a 2D drawing using placement, value and size relationships of objects
- To express and share a personal connection to a place on our large ISB campus, a place we spend the majority of our time of the year together.
- To learn how to create the illusion of texture with line quality.
- To learn how to collage multiple papers together to fit.
- To learn about the importance of value and to use it correctly in realistic drawing, on white paper and on toned paper.
Essential Questions:
How do people express themselves through art?
How does art communicate?
What factors influence artists and artistic expression?
What is the significance between place and memory?
Sketchbook Sequence:
- Tommy Kane, Koosje Kooene and Danny Gregory Videos
- Questions for Danny Gregory, Tips from Tommy and Koosje
- Outside Drawing in the OLE-2 sessions on white paper in sketchbook
- Outside Drawing in the OLE-1 session on toned paper
- Value Scales-1 cross-hatching with pen, 1 on toned paper with pen and white charcoal
- List of 3 places here at ISB that you have a personal connection to
- Write up a free flow piece of writing about your chosen place-this can be a poem, a descriptive memory etc.
- 4 Photos of 1 chosen place at school
- 2 Composition plans
- Final Plan using photo and toned paper cut outs
Studio Project Sequence:
- Cut out A3 photo of your place and toned paper to suit your final plan design-paste with glue.
- Reserve a space for your writing section (top, bottom or one of your sides is easiest)
- Look at the original photo and with a pencil, connect all your major lines. The little bits of photo should help you locate lines and angles on your drawing.
- Go over your pencil lines with black water resistant/permanent pen.
- Add textural lines to areas of your work depending on the photo (dots, dashes, spirals, zig zags lines etc)
- Erase all the pencil lines
- With a water pen, and a porcelain palette and Chinese black ink, begin to add in EITHER the DARKEST values OR the LIGHTEST values first. Basically, start at 1 end of the value scale and move to the other.
- Once your darkest values are done, begin to work backwards in terms of values. Begin to paint in your dark greys, then medium grey, and light grey at the end.
- Add the dark values onto the toned paper. Refer to your toned value scale to reserve the actual paper color as a value.
- Once all the ink painting is done, you are ready for white highlights with white charcoal pencil onto the toned paper.
- Draft your written section in your sketchbook following the prompts below. Look up a unique font style (www.datfont.com) for the NAME/TITLE of your place.
- Once your written draft is done and you have a plan for your title, you may begin writing on your final paper.
Creative Sensory Writing to support your drawing
Sketchbook Draft
"Show don't tell."
WRITING:
Notice the words, "CREATIVE" and "SENSORY". This needs to be a piece of writing that transports us to this place you have chosen to draw. The goal is that the viewer will be able to read your words and look at your drawing and come away with the essence of this place for you and why it's special.
Think about the 5 senses: taste, hear, see, touch/feel, smell
Go to this link for sentence starters and this link for sensory vocabulary to help
Essentially, how you choose to transport the viewer through words is up to you.
- It could be a sensory free write about being in the actual place.
- It could be a sensory poem about the place.
- It could be a sensory detailed piece about a special memory you have while being in this place.
You are welcome to go to the actual place you've chosen and sit and write there.
TITLE: Choose an interesting font for your title. The font style should be styled to match with your scene.
www.dafont.com
http://www.pinterest.com/aimeezart/typography/
-You can choose the name of the actual place, or give it your own creative title.
Example: Instead of The Garden, I could have the following as a title:
-Hands in the dirt
-Growth
-Creativity and Soil
ETC.
**Draft this in your sketchbook first, and then when approved, transfer it to your final project.
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