Unit 1: Get Your Hands Dirty!!!! Learning Objective: 1.1.a Demonstrate skills that utilize the characteristics and expressive features of art and design to communicate meaning. In English: Students will demonstrate skills that use the elements and principles of design (the language of art) in order to communicate.
Standard 1: Observe and Comprehend
Expressive features of Art
Historical and Cultural Context
Purpose and Function
Assessment: Clay and Glass Rubric
http://artisun.blogspot.com/search/label/Clay
I. Elements and Principles (page copied in sketchbook)
II. Clay Page (in sketchbook)
a. Wedging, score and slip
i. How and why paragraph
III. Aesthetic Moment Page (in sketchbook)
a. Date this week (describe)
IV. Project steps
a. Wedge clay
b. Design project (color)
i. Shape representational or not
ii. Interesting carved spots
iii. Show repetition and variety
iv. Balance of space
c. Slab roll 1/2 inch
d. Trace idea let dry till leatherhard (begin drawing exercises)
e. Carve out where glass will be 1/4 inch deep (finish wonderfully)
i. Stamp?
ii. Texture
f. Dry, fire, place glass and fire again.
V. Analyze
a. Purpose, function....
b. Cultural connection...Clay in history...glass in art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stained_glass
c. What does your chosen shape mean to you? Is it art?
VI. Vocabulary
Wedge
Score and slip
Leather hard
Greenware
Bisque
Fire
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Unit 2: Drawing !!! Learning Objective Students will demonstrate an understanding of the design principle emphasis as well as show understanding of drawing techniques including, sighting, shading, perspective and abstraction.
I. Drawing Exercises (pre-assessment bowl w fruit)
a. Sighting (Draw what you see)
i. Bowls and cup
b. Completion
i. Work sheet
c. Upside down
i. Try it. Why does it work?
d. Gesture and Contour
i. Expressive
http://www.ndoylefineart.com/gesture3.html
http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_RenBar/pages/REN_lesson4.shtml
e. Value Scale
f. Perspective
Possible Assessments:
1. Sighting Assessment
a. Still life: Fruit and plate by four
2. Line Assessment
a. Bone contour drawing: See Basic Art I Rubric= principles focused on... positive/negative space, emphasis and balance.
b. or Contour shoe drawing Shoe Rubric
4. Perspective Space
Creative Sky Scraper: rubric below
Or Dream House: rubric below
or Imaginary space: Rubric and examples
a. Sites to visit
i. One point basics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOMWFOSlISk&feature=youtu.be
ii. Two point basics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HptTj2Y9sw&feature=relmfu
iii. Drawing structures in two point
iv. Other perspective links
Over view of 1,2,3 point using drawing software: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TbuoulofcE
Shadows:
Stairs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFwevKdC-r8
Ellipses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z06dMQMgwe4
Unit 3: Color!!! Learning Objectives Students will demonstrate an understanding of basic color theory. Students will show skill with acrylic paint, mixing and blending colors. Students will critique and analyze a bit of art history by studying and emulating a famous work of art.
Assessments: 1. Color wheel
a. mixing color
b. color schemes: Analogous, complementary and triad
See color tutorials on Cool Links page
2. Famous painting emulation
a. Steps:
1. Pick famous image from notebooks provided
or visit the following websites. You must use one of these sites.
From this site, go to the art museums link and explore. Usually go to the museums collections link. Find a piece you like. Write down the name of the piece and the artist. You may then need to search the web for an image that is at least 800px to print.
2. Print high quality color image
3. Make black and white copy
4. Gesso used canvas or mesonite
5. Paint with light, thin, underpainting color.
6. Lightly grid canvas:
See attachment below How to Grid . This method uses geometry.
The links below discuss how to grid using measuring and math.
http://www.art-is-fun.com/grid-method.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_7567305_enlarge-using-grid.html
http://www.ehow.com/video_4953768_grids-paintings-transposing-images.html
7. Draw image shapes
8. Begin to paint with light colors first
9. Write Five paragraphas about your artist and your painting.
Include:
Paragraph 1
painting name
artist name, birth date
artist style (Define the style)
interesting fact about artist
Paragraph 2-5 (Brief Analysis of Painting)
2. Describe: What do I see?
3. Interpret: What does it say? Have fun with this one!
4 Analyze: How is it said?
Talk about ALL the Elements and Principles of Art
5. Judge: Is it art? Why or why not?
Do I like it? Why or why not?
Unit 4: Intro to other art technique: Fusing Glass, Wire Ring and photogram Learning Objective: Students will create three pieces to show they have explored a new technique. A fused glass piece, a wire ring, and a photogram. All these will also serve as a review for the principles of design.
Assessments and activities: 1. Learn to use glass cutting tools with safety.
2. Learn to use the grinder
3. Learn how glass fuses.
4. Learn to manipulate wire and how to use the mandrel.
5. Assessment: completed glass tile and wire ring. See 3-D rubric
6. Experience the dark room, use the enlarger, develop a photogram.
Critique Review: Analyze the following painting using the Elements and principles of design
http://impressionist1877.tripod.com/postimpressionism.htm
Talk about harmony, variety, emphasis, movement, space, balance, color, line, shape.