Fractured Flowers

Objectives-

Students will create contour line drawings from a still life, fracture the drawing and picture plane and then paint using tints and shades.

*Below is this project's rubric (how your work will be graded) - please review before you start and again when you think your work is complete, in the least.

Vocabulary-

Tint: When a hue (color) is mixed with white, a tint of that hue is created

Shade: When a hue (color) is mixed with black, a shade is created

Tone: When a hue (color) is mixed with grey (white and black), a tone is created

Inspiration Artwork

Step 1 - Value Scales with Tints and Shades

Practice creating a value scale with tints and shades (2 days)

Step 2 - Thumbnail Sketches:

Using a flower as your still life, draw loose contour sketches of your flower - focusing on composition for your picture plane (your big paper)

You need at least 6 thumbnail sketches (3" x 3" min.)

When you are done, choose one and show Mrs. Lusk ….you will be given your final paper (1 day)

Step 3 - Contour Line Drawing:

While looking closely at your still life flower, you will create a contour line drawing using the best composition you choose from your 4 thumbnail sketches
You do not need shading but you will need some details or textures to keep your painting from being too simple/childish.
Keep in mind that you will be painting in each area you draw a different shade/tint/tone
Add a background - keep it simple but give it a sense of place... your subject matter should not be floating in empty space!

Step 4 - Dividing or Fracturing your Image:

When you have the contour line drawing complete you will fracture or divide the picture plane (the whole sheet of paper) in some way.
1. - Diagonal, wavy, curved, circular, zig-zag etc….
  - Lines can cross in a set pattern or randomly
  - You can use the outline of a shape (ie a circle, a leaf, triangle) and repeat/overlap over the page
When you are done with both your flower and the fracturing lines, show your work to Mrs. Lusk so we can make sure you have enough divisions.

Step 5 - Split Complementary Color Scheme

You will choose a color combination that falls into the split complementary color scheme

(*If you have a different color scheme in mind, run it by Mrs. Lusk for permission to use it - know what type of color scheme it is (the name) and why the colors look good together.)

Ways to come up with a color scheme:
1. - You can create one by looking at the examples here
  - You can come up with one by playing with a color wheel
  - You can use the Color Scheme Generator to the right!
    1. Open the link
    2. Drag the single circle to the main color you want to use
    3. The other two colors with follow your's and give you the split complementary colors (including

Adobe/Color Palette Creator

Create color themes, find pantone colors, select from images & more

Step 6 - Painting Your Image:

Now you will fill each section you have created with a tint or shade of a color.
Choose the color you want for your flower/background. Then you will create the color in a small paper cup. You will use this color to create tints and shades to fill in all of the sections.
Take your time and make it neat! When choosing a shade vs. a tint
Each day, you need to store your wet work on the drying rack and your paint cup in the class’s plastic bag.

Helpful Videos -

Very simplified (think elementary aged) version of what we are doing

Simplified version and in monochrome

Step 7 - Rubric (How your work will be graded ):

Student Examples

Advanced Option - Cubism

Cubism

Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.

Using the Cubist Style in an advanced way

In the examples and videos below, notice that we can go beyond painting each of the fragmented areas a flat color. Below, cubist artist manipulate their subject matter to create more planes/surfaces than actually exist.

You do this by using shading - the same way you would create the illusion that something is 3-dimensional on a flat surface in a realistic way...but in a non-realistic way.

Ways you can do this:

Create a "fade" of shaded/tinted area in your fragmented areas to create areas that "recede" or go in a different angle than the section next to it.
Create breaks in your objects where they leave the realistic contour lines
Repeat the outline shadows/highlights of an object more than once
Repeat the actual object or part of the object more than one
Extra Advanced - Repeat something from a actual different angle and have it replace part of the original