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Activity on the day: Drawing a head
Activity on the day: Drawing a head
Try this out
Try this out
Drawing a head using simple structures to create the features and apply shading.
This example was made on an iPad and you can follow along and pause and play the video to go through the steps and draw your own version.
Fine Art introductory day - Four Easy Summer Tasks after the session
Fine Art introductory day - Four Easy Summer Tasks after the session
Pencils
Pencils
A3 for more worked up drawings and larger experiments A5 for quick sketching
Sketchbooks
Sketchbooks
For general all round pencil drawing, a 1B or 2B pencil is the best choice. If you prefer working with a pen, try a fine line or Superfine or even the Pentel brush pen. Whichever medium you pick, make sure that you keep it safe in a box or bag with you and have a sharpener, and use a rubber for corrections.
Task 1: Do some drawing - take your sketchbooks on holiday - produce three drawings
Task 1: Do some drawing - take your sketchbooks on holiday - produce three drawings
If you can't go anywhere:
If you can't go anywhere:
If you aren't going on holiday, make similar drawings of locations near where you live: your house, garden, street or a park or row of shops nearby. Draw things you can see as accurately as possible.
Make at least one of your three drawings a line drawing. A line drawing is just the outlines and features no shading.
Make your drawings fill the page.
If you can get away somewhere:
If you can get away somewhere:
If you are going on holiday somewhere, (you might, if only for a weekend) take at least one of your sketchbooks along and do three drawings. You could make drawings about the landscapes or buildings that you see on location or, a still life drawn from cups, saucers, plates, and bottles on a table after a meal.
Task 2: Look at some artists - three and one
Task 2: Look at some artists - three and one
Artists
Artists
Eric Ravilious - landscapes
Casper David Friedrich - landscapes
Edward Hopper - white buildings
David Bomberg - drawings of London
George Shaw - streets and houses
What you need to do:
What you need to do:
Find out where and when these artists work(ed).
Write down no more than five bullet points of information.
Print out a reproduction (optional) and make half page copies of three of these artists' works.
Choose one, make a response in your larger sketchbook with a full page drawing of your own picture
Use the style and techniques that you have observed in the work of one or more of these artists.
Have a look at the Exhibitions site and also the art history site to see if you can get any help with finding the period of these artists
Task 3: Do some more drawing - one drawing
Task 3: Do some more drawing - one drawing
Make an accurate drawing of a building or a view from a landscape of your choice.
You can work in black and white or colour.
You can produce a line drawing or a shaded drawing.
Go large! Be bold! Fill a page!
Task 4: See one show - make a drawing and notes
Task 4: See one show - make a drawing and notes
Shows this summer in Chichester, Eastbourne, Hastings and London
Shows this summer in Chichester, Eastbourne, Hastings and London
All links to exhibitions this summer: https://sites.google.com/chrome.sussexdowns.ac.uk/exhibitions/2022-23/summer-shows-2023
Look at our ling list of online resources on our art history site : https://sites.google.com/chrome.sussexdowns.ac.uk/arthistory/online-resources
Get a simple print friendly version of this assignment
Get a simple print friendly version of this assignment
Print out friendly PDF format of this assignment : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pq-KL_KS2igLfWEKLyXKEJACsRX_iUmL/view?usp=drive_link
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