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Overview
Overview
Arrange and draw a still life using objects that have personal significance.
Project Requirements
Project Requirements
Create a still life using objects that represent parts of your personality, interests, likes, etc.
Understand how objects can represent ideas or themes in art
Use drawing techniques to accurately draw from life
Use shading techniques to create value and depth in your stil life
Document your progress by taking photos
Reflect verbally and in writing
CAS Visual Art Standards
CAS Visual Art Standards
3.1 Establish a practice of planning and experimentation to advance concepts and technical skills.
3.2. Ideate and build works of art and design to demonstrate growth and proficiency in traditional and new art media.
4.2. Develop proficiency in visual communication skills that extends learning to new contexts.
Academic Vocab:
Academic Vocab:
Value, light, dark, shade, value scale, contrast, balance, composition
Materials:
Materials:
Pencil, eraser, objects, smudger (tortillion), ruler, newsprint, final paper
Tools and Techniques:
Tools and Techniques:
Pencil, graphite, 2B pencils, 6B pencils, HB pencils, tortillion, smudgers, erasers,
Tips for Setting up a Still Life: Rule of Thirds, Reverse L, Rule of Odds, Overlap, Triangle
Student Examples
Student Examples
Blind Contour Drawing
Blind Contour Drawing
Drawing Techniques
Drawing Techniques
Shading Techniques and Tools
Shading Techniques and Tools
Robyn O’Neil’s signature monochromatic graphite drawings range from intimate landscapes to large-scale, multi-panel works. Often surreal or symbolic, her drawings reference personal narratives and art historical allusions, dealing with themes of memory and self-identity (Talley Dunn Gallery).
Kiel Johnson
Through layered narratives and story telling, my work speaks to my travels and adventures through everyday life. I think of myself as an explorer, setting out each day on an unchartered path of mediation manifested in drawing and sculpture. My work is a springboard for metaphorical investigations of the world I inhabit. Using line to explore places, objects, and spaces that exist in my imagination, I catalog my observations and seal them in time. The idea of work as play is central to my practice: handmade, hard work, and having fun. I believe in a laboratory approach of experimentation to problems without finite solutions. Inspired by odd discoveries, coincidence and chance, I seek to personify inanimate subjects. Drawing acts as a seismograph, witnessing my experiences and recording the vibrations; sculpture advocates my quest for understanding how things are held together. My intention is to bring a sense of curiosity and exploration to the viewer, asking them to consider their approach in navigation. An unstoppable force keeps me in the constant act of making without end to the journey. I am captivated by the transformation of material into a visual language. Approaching life with a heightened level of inquisitiveness and a playful mind, I continue to source new forms of communication. https://www.kieljohnson.com/about
Through layered narratives and story telling, my work speaks to my travels and adventures through everyday life. I think of myself as an explorer, setting out each day on an unchartered path of mediation manifested in drawing and sculpture. My work is a springboard for metaphorical investigations of the world I inhabit. Using line to explore places, objects, and spaces that exist in my imagination, I catalog my observations and seal them in time. The idea of work as play is central to my practice: handmade, hard work, and having fun. I believe in a laboratory approach of experimentation to problems without finite solutions. Inspired by odd discoveries, coincidence and chance, I seek to personify inanimate subjects. Drawing acts as a seismograph, witnessing my experiences and recording the vibrations; sculpture advocates my quest for understanding how things are held together. My intention is to bring a sense of curiosity and exploration to the viewer, asking them to consider their approach in navigation. An unstoppable force keeps me in the constant act of making without end to the journey. I am captivated by the transformation of material into a visual language. Approaching life with a heightened level of inquisitiveness and a playful mind, I continue to source new forms of communication. https://www.kieljohnson.com/about
Vanitas and Memento Mori
Vanitas and Memento Mori
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