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Develop Craft
Develop Craft
The Studio Habit of Mind that will be explored in this unit is Develop Craft.
To develop our craft as artists we must learn to use the tools (such as wire and pencils), materials (such as paint and clay), and practices (artistic conventions like composition) of a particular art form. We must also learn to care for them in our studio space through proper cleaning and maintaining. Developing craft in an art form is also cultivated and continued over time through practice and exploration.
Just as in all of the Studio Habits of Mind, the ability for an artist to learn more about their craft and the process of creating it takes repeated practice and time.
Give an example or two, in the art room, where you've developed your craft?
Give an example or two, outside of the art room, where you've learned to be better at your craft?
Artistic Concept
Artistic Concept
A concept is an abstract idea. Artists use different concepts to take those ideas from abstraction to reality. The concept being explored through the lens of the Studio Habit - Develop Craft is Exploration.
Exploration lies in an artist's ability to try a number of new things with an open mind. These new things may be within or outside of the artist's comfort zone. An artist explores new media, ideas, practices, and techniques by taking risks, making mistakes, and learning from all outcomes.
Why is it important to explore as artists?
Elements of Art & Design
Elements of Art & Design
The elements and principles of art and design are the foundation on which all art is created. They can be thought of like a sentence. There has to be words in order to make a sentence; no words, no sentence. The elements of art are like the words. Without the elements - line, shape, color, value, texture, space, and form - there is no art. That doesn't mean that all elements of art must be used in an individual artwork, just like not every word has to be used in a sentence, but at least one must be present.
Develop Craft will focus on the following elements of art & design:
Discover some interesting aspects about the most fundamental element of art & design: line
Discover some interesting aspects about the element of art & design: shape
Exploration
Exploration
Explore Design through Thumbnails
Create a sketch of three different animals or creatures using only their contour line (outside edges).
Your animal can be from real life, or a fantasy creature from your imagination or another source.
Your animal/creature should fill up the entire space. What pose could it have? Can you still tell what creature it is by just the outside lines?
You can work vertically or horizontally.
Keep in mind the artistic concept of exploration.
Thumbnail sketches are quick, rough drawings that plan out the composition of a piece and work through numerous visual "solutions" to a design "problem."
Thumbnail sketches are a great way to explore as they are a space to try out new things. Since they are quick drawings with little detail, they are a safe place to make mistakes, learn, and revise. Artists create a lot of thumbnail sketches as a way to pre-plan an artwork and work out potential areas of concern.
Principle of Art & Design
Principle of Art & Design
If we think of the elements and principles of art & design like a sentence, with the words being a metaphor for the elements, then the principles of art & design are the ways in which the words are arranged. The way in which you arrange the words of a sentence dictates the feel and meaning of it. More descriptive words, and the sentence gives more detail; less words, and the sentence reads sharp or abrupt. The principles of art and design are the way in which an artwork is arranged. Does it appear uneasy, or relaxed? Without the principles of design - pattern and repetition, contrast, movement, emphasis, balance, rhythm, and unity - an artwork would not have a unique look and personality to it. The principles of art and design are more subjective as well. This means that they can be viewed and interpreted by one person differently than they are viewed and interpreted by another.
Develop Craft will focus on the following principles of art & design:
Discover some interesting aspects of about the principle of art & design: pattern and repetition
Discover some interesting aspects about the principle of art & design: contrast
Artistic Conventions
Artistic Conventions
A convention is an accepted way in which something is done. It's a variety of things that artists do to create a piece of artwork. Artists use their knowledge of the numerous different artistic conventions with corresponding methods and techniques to portray meaning in an artwork.
Each Studio Habit of Mind will explore different artistic conventions. In this example, the artist is using the artistic conventions that this unit will explore - variety of sizes, overlap, line weight, and negative space. Variety of sizes can be seen in the ovals on the clarinet. Overlap can be seen in the trumpet in front of the music waves. Line weight can be seen in the lines on the drum. Negative space can be seen in the black.
Variety of Sizes
This convention refers to the artist's use of an element of art & design in different sizes. Some big, some little, and some in-between.
Overlap
This convention refers to the artist's placement of an element of art & design in front of or in back of another element.
Line weight
This convention refers to the artist's use of thick and thin lines throughout the artwork to create variety and interest.
Negative Space
This convention refers to the artist's use of the empty space in an artwork. The empty space is just as important as the filled space.
Getting Started
Getting Started
Learn about the 4 different types of designs that artists use to create patterns.
Instructions
Instructions
Inside your animal or creature silhouette will be a pattern that connects visually to that animal/creature and uses one of the 4 different pattern types you learned:
radial
organic
symmetric
asymmetric
Use the exploration sheet to create a variety of different sketches for your pattern. The one that suits your idea best will be the one that is redrawn within the animal/creature silhouette.
Bring it Together
Bring it Together
Select the animal/creature contour line silhouette that you like the best or can imagine being the most interesting to turn into
Learn abut Reduction Block Printing
Learn abut Reduction Block Printing
Reduction block printing can seem like a "backwards" way to create an artwork. The areas that we carve away on the block do not hold the ink, so you can see the previous color, or color of the paper underneath. It can be a bit confusing.....
With reduction block prints, we have to plan our colors out before we start. In printmaking we work from lightest colors to darkest colors. We also work with large areas - or background to more detailed areas - or foreground.
When we carve, we carve from the same block every time. We don't get a new block, but we carve away the next color layer from the block each time we want to change colors.
What is carved away from the block each time we carve DOES NOT hold the ink - it's blank on the block so that the colors from the other times we printed show through.
When we carve we work to detail - the last time we print on the paper, the block has very little left on it. The darkest colors also tend to be on the last printing.
Practice Time
Practice Time
Let's try making a smaller block using a simple shape, carved and printed twice to learn the process before we begin on our final design!
The Process
The Process
Draw a simple shape design on a sized piece of paper.
In printmaking the block looks "backwards" to what the print looks like.
Trace the design onto a piece of tracing paper.
Flip the tracing paper upside down onto your linoleum block. Using your finger nail, scratch over your design. This will transfer the graphite onto the block. Keep your tracing paper design page.
Using the carving tools and the techniques demonstrated in class, carve out the background around your design.
You'll get two sheets of printmaking paper for your final designs. Start by printing the solid block (not the carved side) onto one paper using the steps demonstrated in class.
After cleaning your materials, apply a different color ink to the block on the carved side. Print that using the steps demonstrated in class onto both pieces of printmaking paper.
Draw a different design onto your first tracing paper copy - something that can be carved away to show a different color layer.
Flip the tracing paper upside down onto your linoleum block - making sure to line it up with what you previously carved. Using your finger nail, scratch over your design. This will transfer the graphite onto the block.
Using the carving tools and the techniques demonstrated in class, carve out the design you just transfered onto your block.
Print your final carved block in a new color onto each of the two different printmaking papers. Make sure to use the registration techniques demonstrated in class to line up your block properly to ensure it prints right.
Objectives
Objectives
To apply the concept of exploration to a variety of ideas
To understand four of the different types of design by creating examples.
To use the reduction block printmaking process to create a print using the same block with three different carvings.
National Art Standards
National Art Standards
Anchor Standard #1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Anchor Standard #2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Anchor Standard #3: Refine and complete artistic work.
Let's work on the final piece!
Let's work on the final piece!
do color mockup on photocopy
separate out color layers onto different tracing paper sheets
transfer down layer 1 onto the block
carve out layer one
create registration marks on printmaking paper
using back side of block (not carved side) print two papers in a solid, light color of choice
print carved side of block - one color set on the two blank pages; different color set on the two pages with a light color already applied
clean materials
transfer down layer two from the tracing paper onto the block
carve out layer two from the block
print again as before
clean materials
transfer down layer three from the tracing paper onto the block
carve out layer three from the block
print final time as before
clean materials
PRINT IS DONE!
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