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This project will take a look at Ancient Egyptian figure proportions. You will create a modern day person (clothing, hair style) with Ancient Egyptian proportions, OR you will create a cartouche of your name.
This video discusses Ancient Egyptian proportion.
PROJECT 1
Using the video above and the picture below as a reference, create a modern day person using Ancient Egyptian figure proportions.
PROJECT 2 Cartouche
Follow The steps on the website to write your name in hieroglyphics.
1. Draw your cartouche using the example in class.
2. Fill the cartouche with color.
3. Write your name in hieroglyphics. Make the characters fill up the space in your cartouche
During this project we will look at the cubist movement and Pablo Picasso. You will create a piece in the cubist style and color it using oil pastels.
Pablo Picasso was the most dominant and influential artist of the first half of the twentieth century. Associated most of all with pioneering Cubism, alongside Georges Braque, he also invented collage and made major contributions to Symbolism and Surrealism. He saw himself above all as a painter, yet his sculpture was greatly influential, and he also explored areas as diverse as printmaking and ceramics. Finally, he was a famously charismatic personality; his many relationships with women not only filtered into his art but also may have directed its course, and his behavior has come to embody that of the bohemian modern artist in the popular imagination.
STEP 1: Choose your subject matter. This artist chose french macarons. Find an image to use as a reference for step 2.
STEP 2: DRAW YOUR ITEM 3 TIMES Vary the sizes of the objects, but draw them fairly large. Just a simple contour drawing- no shading. Arrange them on the paper so there is a fairly equal balance between positive and negative space.
STEP 3: OUTLINE WITH BLACK MARKER
STEP 4: Next- cut the drawing apart into 3-5 puzzle-type sections.
Use straight angle cuts, not wavy lines.
Again, vary the sizes and shapes, but nothing too small. Outline all the edges with black marker.
STEP 5: Then, re-arrange the pieces into a new composition: a fragmented version of the original drawing.
For the final, take another piece of paper the same size as the original (about 12 x 18"), and carefully place it ON TOP of the cut pieces. Carefully trace, with a black marker, the entire composition including the edges of the cut paper.
STEP 6: Finally, color in the design with oil pastels.
Choose 3-4 colors for the objects and then 3-4 contrasting colors for the background.
You should practice blending these colors together beforehand with your fingers.
You should work on creating value changes and soft gradations which is a typical characteristic of the Analytical Cubist style.
Our next project will take a look at Pop Art and Andy Warhol. You will be creating your own soup cans based on pop culture references that are relevant to you.
Watch this video to hear about Andy Warhol and why his soup cans are significant in the world of art.
Now take a look at the first slideshow below for an intro to your project
After you finish watching this slideshow you will begin brainstorming your soup ideas. Use the worksheets that I provided for this step.
After you finish brainstorming and your ideas are approved by me you can take a look at the second slideshow.
The second slideshow has more in depth instructions that explain how to make your soup cans.
Alana Dee Haynes is a contemporary mixed-media artist who uses photographs as a base for her zentangle styled drawings. She draws meditative patterns across the face and body of the models in the photos and in the backgrounds of the artworks.
DIRECTIONS:
PROJECT 1
You will be randomly assigned a photo of a celebrity/model for this project.
Using a sharpie, add zentangle patterns to your model.
Use at least 5 different patterns on your piece. Take your time and make complex patterns following instructions on TanglePatterns.
You can use a pencil first if you like.
Please return sharpies back to the appropriate bucket when finished.
Use tanglepatterns.com to find interesting patterns to create for your
Our next project is a fun Halloween project. You will use the worksheets as a guide as you roll a die to randomly select the parts of a monster to draw. After you draw your monster you will need to color it in full color. You can also add extra details and textures to make your monster unique. Monsters need to be drawn on the provided paper and fill the page. (No tiny monsters!) You will create two monsters for this project.
DIRECTIONS: There are 3 different options below.
1. Choose one of the worksheets.
2. Using the virtual dice, roll for each part of your monster and draw that shape.
3. You may add details and extra additions to your monster at this point.
4. Add a background for your monster.
5. Color your artwork.
6. Repeat the steps above for your second monster!
Día de los Muertos acknowledges the symbiotic relationship between life and death. El día de Los Muertos is celebrated on November 1st and November 2nd, in which the spirits of the dead are believed to return home and spend time with their relatives on these two days. To welcome them, the family build altars in their honor. These altars have a series of different components that vary from one culture to another that mostly include yellow marigolds, candles, photos of the deceased ones, papel picado or cut tissue-paper designs, as well as food and beverages offerings for the dead.
Check out this video to learn some history about el Dia de los Muertos
and here is a video about Sugar Skulls
DIRECTIONS:
For your next project, you will be creating Sugar Skull collages.
We will focus on creating symmetrical balance and unity in our sugar skull designs.
Symmetrical balance refers to balance that is achieved by arranging elements on either side of the center of a composition in an equally weighted manner. Symmetrical balance can be thought of as 50/50 balance or like a mirror image. In other words, the image would look the same on either side of the center.
UNITY in art is about separate parts working together in a composition. In an artwork, unity creates a sense of harmony and wholeness by using similar elements and placing them in a way that creates a feeling of “oneness.”
Take a look at the examples below and at the link below for many sugar skull examples.
Step 3- While your paper is still folded, you can trace the skull shape you just drew on the opposite side of the paper. When you finish unfold your paper and check out your skull. You can also trace your skull with a sharpie now.
Step 4- Using the construction paper and the scrapbooking paper, create shapes for one side of your skull.
REMINDER: Please try to not waste paper, cut from the edges of colorful paper, not the middle.
We DO NOT cut pizza or paper this way!!!
Here are some links that show some how to draw tutorials on sugar skulls and their designs.
Step 5- Trace each shape you make ONE time to create your mirror image on the other side of your skull. At the end of this step you should have two shapes that are the same.
Step 6- Glue all of your colorful shapes down onto the skull. You may add overlapping shapes to create a more complex design.
Step 7- Cut out your finished skull and glue it down to a large rectangular black sheet of paper.
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