The Art Page - Fifth Grade

Fifth Grade

Value is the Element of Art

that describes light and dark

There are two kinds of Value. Value using color, and value using mark making

Rule of Thirds

is a "rule of thumb" or guideline which applies to the process of composing visual images such as designs, films, paintings, and photographs. When objects aligning with these guideline it creates a composition than focuses more on the areas of importance.

Project 1: Contour Line Candy Drawing

Students will create a composition using the rule of thirds to reference when creating a contour line drawing that shows value using mark making.

Complementary Colors

Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel are considered to be complementary colors (example: red and green).

Project 2: Enlarged Candy

Using their sketch as a reference, Student will choose one candy to enlarge. Students will use contour line and value with mark making to create their image. When adding color students will choose a background color that is complimentary (opposite) of the candy, to help the candy pop off the page

Relief Sculpture

is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo, to raise.

Origami

Origami is the art of paper-folding. Its name derives from Japanese words ori (“folding”) and kami (“paper”). Traditional origami consists of folding a single sheet of square paper (often with a colored side) into a sculpture without cutting, gluing, taping, or even marking it.

Paper was invented in China around 105 AD, and folded paper most likely emerged shortly after. By 900 AD, paper yuanbao, or gold nuggets, were a staple at traditional Chinese funerals.

Created by meticulously folding gold or yellow paper into ingot currency, these ephemeral ornaments were crafted with the intention of being thrown into a fire at the end of the ceremony.

Eventually, paper-folding would become a common practice. Though similar to Japanese origami, more modern Chinese paper-folding exhibits an interest in representing inanimate objects, like boats and boxes.

Paper was introduced to Japan in the 6th century. During this time, the practice of paper-folding emerged as a ceremonial Shinto ritual. It was not until Japan’s Edo Period (1603 – 1868) that origami would also be viewed as a leisurely activity and art form.

information cited from: https://mymodernmet.com/history-of-origami-definition/

Origami Kite

Origami Arrowhead

8 Artists Pushing Origami To The ExtremeThe Creators Project takes a look at some of the most compelling creators of contemporary origami.

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Origami Arrowhead.mp4

Origami Pyramid

Origami Pyramid with Stairs

Origami Pyramid.mp4

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Project 3: Origami Relief Sculpture

Students will use the are of origami to create a radially symmetrical relief sculpture using four basic folds.

Jen Stark and the paper sculptures | WPBT2 ArtsJen Stark is a Miami contemporary artist creating paper sculptures, drawing & animation.

Jen Stark's work draws inspiration from microscopic patterns in nature, wormholes, and sliced anatomy. She studied at the New World School of the Art, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA majoring in Fibers with a minor in Animation. From her studio in Little Haiti, Stark explains her source of inspiration.

TRaditional Aristocratic Portraits

Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and private persons, or they may be inspired by admiration or affection for the subject. Portraits are often important state and family records, as well as remembrances.

Historically, portrait paintings have primarily memorialized the rich and powerful. Over time, however, it became more common for middle-class patrons to commission portraits of their families and colleagues. Today, portrait paintings are still commissioned by governments, corporations, groups, clubs, and individuals.

Kehinde Wiley

Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world.

What first got you interested in painting?

I began with studying art back in LA as a young kid. I first went to art school when I was about 11 and went to big museums in Southern California. I grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the late 80’s and was very much a part of the environment that was driven by some of the defining elements of hip-hop: the violence, anti-social behavior, streets on fire.

What typically inspires a painting?

Classical European paintings of noblemen, royalty and aristocrats. My goal was to be able to paint illusionistically and master the technical aspects, but then to be able to fertilize that with great ideas. I was trained to paint the body by copying the Old Master paintings

Project 4: Digital Self Portraits

Inspired by the work if Kehinde Wiley, students will create digital self portraits using the app called Adobe Draw. Students will learn to use layers and various tools to create line and color in their portrait digitally. In the background students will create ornate backgrounds by hand using a choice of various tools. When complete students will animate one aspect of their backgrounds in an app called sketch motion to be used in collaboration with the Hanlon music teacher Mrs. Pickering during the 5th grade move up ceremony.

Intro to Perspecitive (1).mp4

Perspective drawing

Perspective is what gives a three-dimensional feeling to a flat image such as a drawing or a painting. In art, it is a system of representing the way that objects appear to get smaller and closer together the farther away they are from the viewer.

Stephen Wiltshire

is a British architectural artist and autistic savant. He is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once. His work has gained worldwide popularity.