Some of the art students drawing landscapes. Sept. 17/08
Visual Art 4012008/09
* Portfolio creation
*The Five Perceptions:
1.) Exercises on the perception of edges
2.) Exercises on the perception of space
3.) Exercises on the perception of relationship
4.) Exercises on the perception of lights and shadows
5.) Exercises on the perception of composition
*color: wheel
Intensity
Value
Technique
*monochomatic
*Landscaping
Modelling:
paper-mache
Art History and art appreciation:
A portion of every class will involve a study on art and art appreciation.
Assessment:
Students will be marked on projects, exercises, homework, and class conduct.
Studio Fee:
There will be a studio fee of $25.00.A 9″x 12″ sketch book – with at least 30 pages, white paper not yellow.
Note Book, eraser – white plastic, Pencil crayons – a package with 24 colours
Pencils – you may want to have a variety ex 2H, HB, 2B.
Sept. 05/08
Homework: Due Wed. Sept. 10th
Pre-instruction drawings:
A valuable record of your art skills
* Your masking tape
* A small mirror, about 5″ x 7″, that could be attached to a wall, or any available wall or door mirror
* Something to use as a drawing board – a breadboard or a sturdy piece of cardboard, about 15″ x 18″
* An hour to an hour and a quarter of uninterrupted time.
* “Self-Portrait”
* “A Person, Drawn from Memory”
* “My Hand”
1. Tape a stack of two or three sheets of paper to your drawing board or work in you pad of paper. (Stacking the sheets provides a “padded” surface to draw on – much better that the rather hard surface of the drawing board.)
2. Sit at arm’s length (about 2 to 2 ½ feet) from a mirror. Lean your board up against the wall, resting the bottom of the board on your lap.
3. Look at the reflection of your head and face in the mirror and draw your “Self- Portrait.”
4. When you have finished, title, date and sing the drawing in the lower right-had or lower left-hand corner.
Pre- instruction drawing #2:
A person, drawn from memory
1. Call up in your mind’s eye an image of a person – perhaps someone from the past or a person you know now. Or you may recall a drawing you did in the past or a photograph of a person well known to you.
2 To the best of your ability, make a drawing of that person. You may draw just the head, a half- figure, or the whole figure.
3. When you have finished, title, sign, and date your drawing.
1. Seat yourself at a table to draw.
2. If you are right- handed, draw you left hand in whatever position you choose. If you are left-handed ,draw your right hand.
3. Title, date and sign your drawing.
When you have finished the pre-instruction drawings:
Be sure that you have titled, signed, and dated each of the three drawings.
Write a few comments on the back of each drawing, noting what is pleasing and what is perhaps displeasing, what seemed easy and what seemed difficult in the process of drawing. You’ll find these comments interesting to read later on.
New Posting Sept. 15th
Don’t forget your homework assignment this coming Wed. Sept.17th – another upside down drawing.