Expressive & Creative

Blind Contour

Expressive & Creative

BLIND CONTOURs

Objective:

We will use our blind contour drawings that were created from observation, and then creatively and expressively manipulate them to make them into an expressive and unique final product.

Final Student Examples:

Student Examples Creative Blind Contour

Basic PROCESS: Start with making large scale blind Contours

A person playing a guitar

Hands

Step 2: Transforming your Blind Contour into something Creative and Expressive

What is Artifice?

The word Art comes from the word Artifice. Many cultures don't have a separate word for art making, as it just blends seamlessly with life. In western cultures we do separate art from life. Art and artifice stress creative skill or intelligence, but it also implies a sense of falseness and trickery. Art generally rises above such falseness, suggesting instead an unanalyzable creative force inspiring emotion and thought in viewers and makers.

What is Creative and expressive mark making?

Visual Examples:

Artmaking, it's about riding that wave between observation and artifice.

Turning your Blind Contour into a more creative finished piece

Student Examples with india Ink

Ms. Thomas Example of Mr. Rodgers

Turning In Your Work:

You will be given two grades. A quality grade, and a presentation grade. Your Quality Grade is over the quality of the artwork, and your presentation grade is over how well you digitally present your work in the class slideshow. You will still turn in your final works to the class folder so they may be displayed physically on campus, but this is separate from how you are graded.

Quality Grade: Attachment in Google Classroom
Presentation Grade: Collaborative Slideshow in Google Classroom

Rough Timeline:

3 Days in class to create your Blind Contour Collection

1-3 Days in class to experiment with different media. As a whole class do some watercolor techniques together

4 Days to alter and manipulate one into something more creative and special.

Quality Grade Rubric

Commitment to Quality (20pts)

Were you committed to doing your best and applying feedback?

Beginning with Blind Contours (20pts)

Did you start by creating several blind contours that you could work from?

Media Experimentation (20pts):

Were you able to experiment with various media to discover what would be best for your artwork before jumping into making your artwork? Did you continue to experiment during your work as it developed?

Creative Risk Taking (20pts):

Were you able to push yourself to take creative risks to create a more expressive artwork?

Balanced and Unified Composition (20pts)

Blind Contours and outwardly expressive pieces can end up with a lot of variety, despite this were you able to create unity and balance within your final composition?

What could be improved?

2D Art: Creative Blind Contour What Could Be Improved?

Need tech help turning things in? Video Tutorials here?

Attaching an image file to GC with the App

Inserting image into slides with the App

Attaching an image file from drive using chromebook

Inserting an image into google slides from drive using chromebook

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