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Art Project #1: Zentangle
The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. We call these patterns, tangles. You create tangles with combinations of dots, lines, simple curves, S-curves and orbs. These simple shapes are the "Elemental Strokes" in all Zentangle art. These patterns are drawn on small pieces of paper called "tiles." We call them tiles because you can assemble them into mosaics.
Instructions:
Brainstorm different shapes you could use as the outline or frame of your Zentangle. You will want to choose something recognizable, like the images on the next page.
When you have decided on a frame, draw it out on your paper using pencil.
Draw in some “strings” to fit your “tangles” into. These lines can be random, or they can help make your frame into a recognizable object, like the eyes and feathers of the bird above.
Choose at least 5 patterns from your design matrix to use in your Zentangle. Be prepared to tell me how the patterns demonstrate at least one of the elements or principles of design.
Fill in your Zentangle with your tangles (patterns). Think about balance and unity when filling in your design. You should use at least 8 tangles in your completed image. At least 5 must come from your design matrix.
When your Zentangle is complete, go over everything with black marker.
Art Project #2 - 2 Point Perspective
Basic, or linear perspective rests on the fact that although parallel lines never meet, they appear to do so as they get further away from the viewer towards the horizon, where they disappear. The sides of a road, or later, railway lines, are obvious examples. In painting all parallel lines, such as the roof line and base line of a building, are drawn so as to meet at the horizon if they were extended. This creates the illusion of distance, and the point at which the lines meet is called the vanishing point. Things look smaller the further away they are, and perspective enabled painters accurately and consistently to calculate the size things should be in relation to their supposed distance from the viewpoint.
Linear perspective was invented in Italy in the early fifteenth century and first developed by the painter Paolo Uccello.
Art Project #3 - Chuck Close
Chuck Close reinvented painting with his monumental portraits, rendered with exquisite, exacting realism from photographic sources. Playing with ideas of scale, color, and form, Close has become famous for his rigorous, gridded application of individual color squares, which, although abstract up close, form unified, highly realistic images from afar. “I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made,” he said. “I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.” Close’s artificially restrictive painting techniques stem in part from physical limitations—he suffers from an inability to recognize faces, and had a spinal injury in 1988 that left him largely paralyzed.
Art Project #4 - Op Art Worm Holes
Project Description:
The worm project combines design elements and color to create an optical illusion.
LearningTargets:
The student will:
- Identify and create artwork based on the elements of art and on the principles of art.
- Recognize, compare and use different media to create their artwork.
- Recognize and compare differences in several art mediums.
- Create representational and abstract art.
- Learn to create proper shading and blending.
- Understand terms that are basic to art media, procedures and techniques, as well as art appreciation.
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