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Welcome young architects and city planners! Today, we'll embark on an exciting creative journey where you'll work together to design and draw a futuristic cityscape. Your task is to draw two innovative skyscrapers that could exist in the future, incorporating unique features like sky gardens, solar panels, or even landing pads for flying cars. Once everyone has completed their buildings, we'll combine all the drawings to create one massive, collaborative city of the future on a large display board. Remember, in the future, buildings might look very different from what we see today, so let your imagination soar while keeping your designs realistic enough to stand tall!
Our first project will take us halfway around the world to an ancient tradition practiced for over 5000 years. You will create a henna design on a hand using the zentangle method and then color your design using crayons or colored pencils. Zentangles and henna designs will create awesome patterns and textures in your artwork.
The art of henna (called mehndi in Hindi & Urdu) has been practiced for over 5000 years in Pakistan, India, Africa and the Middle East. There is some documentation that it is over 9000 years old. Because henna has natural cooling properties, people of the desert, for centuries, have been using henna to cool down their bodies. They make a paste of henna and soak their palms and soles of the feet in it to get an air conditioning affect. They feel its cooling sensation throughout the body for as long as the henna stain remains on their skin. Initially, as the stain faded away, it left patterns on the skin surface which led to ideas to make designs for decorative purposes. In the ancient Egyptian times mummies wore henna designs and it is documented that Cleopatra herself used henna for decorative purposes.
Henna was not only a popular adornment for the rich but the poor, who could not afford jewelry, used it to decorate their bodies as well.
Henna in the West
Today people all over the world have adopted the ancient traditions of adorning their bodies with the beautiful natural artwork created from the henna plant. It became a very popular form of temporary body decoration in the 90's in the US and has become a growing trend ever since. Celebrities like Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Yasmine Bleeth, Liv Tyler, Xena, and many others proudly adorn their bodies with henna and show them off in public, movies, videos, etc. People throughout the west have adopted the eastern tradition in their lives by having their hands and feet painted for weddings, bellies painted while in pregnancy, heads adorned with henna while going through chemotherapy, scars camouflaged to make them unnoticeable, etc.
DIRECTIONS:
STEP 1: TRACE YOUR HAND, PUT YOUR HAND TOWARDS THE TOP OF THE PAGE SO YOU CAN HAVE SOME OF YOUR WRIST TO DRAW ON.
STEP 2: CHOOSE A TRADITIONAL OR ZENTANGLE STYLE HENNA HAND DESIGN.
STEP 3: CREATE YOUR DESIGN IN YOUR HAND. USE THE WEBSITES PROVIDED ABOVE TO HELP WITH YOUR DESIGNS.
Hello and Welcome to Artimus Prime and the Art Room!
My goal for you this semester is to learn about all different aspects of art. From artworks to art careers we will take a look at many different aspects of the art world. This year we will be using this blog as a space to find information and ask questions about your art projects. Every project and sketchbook assignment will be posted on this blog for you to reference whenever you need to.
Today we will discuss the blog, sketchbooks, and regular class procedures. As we begin, take a look at these videos about art and creativity. I hope they will inspire and challenge you to create some awesome artwork as we continue throughout this year.
Exquisite Corpse
Create an exquisite corpse drawing with the people in your class.
Welcome to Artimus Prime! This is where you will find all of your information to make it through middle school art this year. We will make many artworks throughout the year utilizing many different art methods and techniques. I hope that you enjoy my class and the challenge that being creative brings to you. Work hard and turn in your work to Artsonia on time and we will have a GREAT year!
Today we will discuss some art rules and procedures that will need to be followed everyday in class for everyone to be successful in the art room.
Create a Name Tag
Your first project is to create a name tag for your box. Use bubble or block letters to write your name and fill the space with color.
AR Standards 5th: P.4.5.1 P6.5.1 R7.5.2 CN11.5.1
AR Standards 6th: P4.6.1 P6.6.1 R7.6.2 CN11.6.1
Shoe designers are fashion designers who develop original footwear for an independent label or a company. You must have a good understanding of texture, color and fashion while developing creative new concepts. You also need an extensive knowledge of shoe construction materials, the ability to identify attractive patterns through fashion trend analysis and an understanding of the fundamentals of footwear construction.
There are many shoe factories in the US alone, in fact there are over 900!
According to these stats on this website this is a thriving market in the US with lots of competition for artists and designers.
For your project you will be designing a 3d shoe based on the Nike SB Dunk. You will be given the basic template and you will choose how to create your shoe.
You may use a brand that exists or. you may come up with your own brand and logo for your shoe.
YOUR SHOE NEEDS TO BE BASED ON SOME KIND OF THEME- (Mario, Basketball, Chess, Skittles, anything you can think of!)
You will completely color your shoe, cut it out, and fold it to create a 3d mockup of your shoe design. You will then add shoelaces using one of the many types of thread that I have.
During the Renaissance one artist was centuries beyond his time--Giuseppe Arcimboldo. While the Great Masters such as Michelangelo and Raphael focused on rendering human figures realistically, Giuseppe Arcimboldo created surreal portraits of his subjects made of vegetables, plants, fruits, sea creatures, tree roots, and books. In this class we will create our own paintings mimicking Arcimboldo’s unique style using fruits and vegetables.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo(also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 - July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books - that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.
Arcimboldo was born in Milan in 1527, the son of Biagio, a painter who did work for the office of the Fabbrica in the Duomo. Arcimboldo was commissioned to do stained glass window designs beginning in 1549, including the Stories of St. Catherine of Alexandria vitrage at the Duomo. In 1556 he worked with Giuseppe Meda on frescoes for the Cathedral of Monza. In 1558, he drew the cartoon for a large tapestry of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, which still hangs in the Como Cathedral today.
CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW ARCIMBOLDO'S COMPLETE WORKS ->
UNITY - A principle of art, unity occurs when all of the elements of a piece combine to make a balanced, harmonious, complete whole. Unity is another of those hard-to-describe art terms but, when it's present, your eye and brain are pleased to see it. VARIETY - A principle of art concerned with combining one or more elements of art in different ways to create interest.
How does Arcimboldo create unity in his artworks?
How does Arcimboldo create variety in his artworks?
How will your create texture on your items to make them look realistic?
YOUR PROJECT is to create a portrait of a person using vegetables, fruits, or other objects to make the person's face.
You may use any items you would like to make your person. Like Arcimboldo, your items should all relate to each other to create a theme for your portrait.
AR Standards: CR1.6.2 CR2.6.1 R7.6.1 R8.6.1 CN11.6.1
This project is based on drawing from observation or drawing from life. You will use your hand as a reference for all of the hand drawings that you create.
