Portrait - Day 2 and 3

Last class we created a 2 inch on our papers and took pictures.

Today we will:

• Create a 1 inch grid on our papers 
• Draw the outline around the edge of your face and head, including your hair, clothes, and ears.

MOUTH

• Add a 1 inch grid in the area of the mouth on the drawing paper and a 1/2 inch grid on your picture. Grid even smaller for best results.
• Add mouth lines including upper and lower lip lines. Draw the teeth very lightly if you can see them. Pay attention to where the lip lines cross the grid lines

NOSE

• Add a 1 inch grid in the area of the mouth on the drawing paper and a 1/2 inch grid on your picture. Grid even smaller for best results.
• Draw the nose lobes and nostrils. DO NOT outline the upper part of the nose. You will shade this later.

Motif Research

A NewTwist on an Old Idea

Kehinde Wiley

Virtual Tour: Blue Mosque

Realistic Drawing from Observation

Reminder - Your Final Notan is now due and should be posted to your blog.

Today we will draw a pumpkin by observation.

Before you draw remember the strategies we used for drawing realistically.

Before starting your drawing, use your thumb and pencil to find a unit of measure.

Think about the following:

What would be something in the arrangement to use as a unit of measure?

Draw everything in proportion to each other. Make sure the pumpkin is not too large or small compared to the box. 

Before drawing the box, use your pencil to find angles and compare the angle to the hands on a clock.

Use your grayscale to find shadows, midtones, and highlights.

Next, observe the details of what you are drawing. How many sections does the pumpkin have? Are they all the same size or shape?

Is the stem short or long? 

Compare the values of the paper, the box, and the midtones and highlights of the pumpkin? Where do you think they would be on the value scale?

Remember that you are learning how to see these details at the same time you are making connections between your eyes, brain, and hands. 

Take your time, observe carefully and you may be surprised at how real your drawing turns out!

Work Session Today - Finish your Notan

Today you will complete your Notan. If you finish before class work on the Mystery Grid.

Take a picture of each project when you finish. we will post to the blog next class.

There will be a QUIZ NEXT CLASS on the Notan vocabulary. make sure you study!!!

Using a Grid to Draw Accuratley

Today you will be using a grid to create accurate drawings.

First, write your name and block on the back of the page.

Second, label each grid  square in the following manner:

Label each square across the top A through k on both the picture and the blank grid

Label each square down the side 1 through 8 on both the picture and the blank grid

Next, start with a square of your choice and use the grid over the picture to where find each line or shape lies. For example, the center of the flower lies in square F3.

On the grid below precisely draw each line as it appears in the picture.

Draw the Flower, Hand, Pizza, and the Mystery grid, in that order. Take your time on each one. If you don't finish we'll work on them next week.

Notan - Translation - Tesselation

Today we will work on the second type of Notan movement. The Translation. 

We will also create a Tessellation from our shape. A tessellation is a pattern you create that has no overlapping and no gaps between shapes.

The artist MC Escher used Tessellations to create his art.

The Flying Horse Video

After we have completed the Translation and Tessellation we will post them to our blog.

Notan - Expansion of the Square

Create a cut paper collage with a composition where both positive and negative spaces are REVERSED. Use either Symmetrical or Asymmetrical Balance in creating your design. USE GOOD CRAFTSMANSHIP -BE NEAT!!!

LIGHTLY Draw your designs from the edges into the center of the square. Think of the designs as shapes. You MUST cut from all 4 sides. Do not cut off the corners & don’t go past the center of the paper with any designs.

1. Begin cutting shapes from the sides of the square. 

2. Glue down the main base in the middle of your background either straight or diagonally.

3. Place all the cut shapes back into the square.

4.  Flip shapes & glue down in the mirror image from where it was cut. The basic idea is to cut out the piece, flip it out so that it mirrors the cut out space, and then glue it down onto a 18×24” paper.

Thanks to createartwithme.com, and Notan - Expansion of the Square by Dorr Bothwell for the lesson plan!