patterns and properties
Part 1: Broadening your world
Artists draw their inspiration from the world, so let’s start looking closer at our world!
Video introduction to this unit.
Watch this first!
Purpose: Learning to draw from the patterns and properties of an object can help you to make believable drawings that have a touch of uniqueness in them since you are riffing on the norms. A huge part of drawing with an object's characteristics requires you to know and observe those objects.
Goals for this unit
Identify patterns in objects
Recreate the properties of objects
Create the illusion of space in your work
Understand the “norm” of things so that you can change it into something unique
Assignment 1: Look closer
1. Find 5 objects in the room and take a close up photo of each item.
2. Focus on the texture of the item (is it jagged, sharp, fuzzy, soft, etc.)
3. Create a pic collage using your 5 photos.
4. Label each texture in your "closer look" pic collage.
5. Turn your assignment in by adding to your slideshow in google classroom.
Assignment 2: Look differently
Go outside (with permission) and find the following types of lines in natural objects:
Wavy
Straight
Curly
Thick
Angled
Spiral
2. Use a drawing app to trace the lines in your photos and to label the type of line in the photo.
3. Create a pic collage of "lines in nature" to turn in your work.
4. Turn your assignment in by adding to your slideshow in google classroom.
Assignment 3: Look from a new perspective
1. Pretend you are the size of an ant. Get down on the ground and take photos of 7 items around you. (indoors or outside)
2. Create a pic collage of the photos from the ant perspective.
3. Label the items in the photos.
4. Turn your assignment in by adding to your slideshow in google classroom.
Assignment 4: Zoom in on Nature
1. Go outside and find 5 different types of leaves.
2. Take a close up photo of each leaf that shows the outline of the leaf as well as the pattern of veins within the leaf.
3. Save in your camera roll.
4. Create a pic collage of your photos.
5. Turn your assignment in by adding to your slideshow in google classroom.
Example Non-example
Assignment 5: Look from a new place
1. Google “beautiful landscapes from around the world” and save 7 landscapes into your camera roll. Hint: (when you see text inside of quotation marks “ ” , type exactly what you see into the search bar)
2. Create a pic collage of your landscapes.
3. You do not need to label the photos.
4. Turn your assignment in by adding to your slideshow in google classroom.
Part 2: Using the properties of an object
Your brain is hardwired to create meaning from patterns in nature. Focusing on basic properties (characteristics) of an item when rendering (drawing) that item help your viewer to establish meaning. You have to observe the properties, and then you have to include them!
Assignment 6: Using the properties of trees to draw unique trees.
1. Watch the following videos.
2. Think about using the 10 x 2 observation protocol to help you find the properties (characteristics) of objects.
3. Take notes that will help you to do your work after the video. These might be written notes or sketching.
Second video is to assist with drawing the leaves on the trees.
4. Draw 5 unique deciduous trees using the properties of trees that you’ve learned.
5. Use a reference photo if needed.
6. Refer back to your notes and sketches from the video. Remember, your trees need to be believable, not exactly like the tree you are looking at.
7. Find a partner and do a peer edit.
8. Turn your assignment in by adding to your slideshow in google classroom
Assignment 7: Applying what we’ve learned to drawing plants.
1. Watch the following video.
2. Think about using the 10 x 2 observation protocol to help you find the
properties (characteristics) of objects.
3. Take notes that will help you to do your work after the video. These might be
written notes or sketching.
4. Draw 5 unique flowering plants using the properties of plants that you’ve
learned. Use a reference photo if needed.
5. Refer back to your notes and sketches from the video. Remember, your
plants need to be believable, not exactly like the plants you are looking at.
6. Find a partner and do a peer edit.
7. Turn your assignment in by adding it to your slideshow in google
classroom
Assignment 8: Applying what we’ve learned to an item of your choice.
Step 1
1. Think about something that makes you happy. (be sure it is school appropriate!)
2. Do a google search for an image of that item.
3. Save a photo, or multiple photos, of that item into your camera roll.
Step 2
1. Create a list of the properties of the item you have chosen. You may
write your observations out on paper or in a document or drawing app.
2. You may also point out your observations on the photo of the item.
3. You need to make a minimum of 15 observations about your item.
4. Turn steps 1 and 2 in by adding to your slideshow in google classroom
Step 3
1. Using your observations and a reference photo, draw your item of choice
to the best of your ability. Remember, it doesn’t have to look exactly like the
item, it just has to be believable!
2. Self assess: Does your item look believable? If you are happy with your
drawing, take a photo of it and add it to your slideshow in google classroom.
If you would like to improve your drawing, please check in with Mrs. Kiwiet!
Assignment 9: Applying what we’ve learned to life drawing
1. Find a real, live tree.
2. If weather permits, go outside. If not, look through the window.
3. Draw the tree using what you have learned in this unit.
4. Self assess: Does your tree look believable? If you are happy with your
drawing, take a photo of it and add it to your slideshow in google classroom.
If you would like to improve your drawing, please check in with Mrs. Kiwiet!