Advanced Drawing/Painting: Sketchbook DUE Monday MAY 18th
Sketch 1: Free Draw, write, paint or collage ideas having to do with your concentration work.
Sketch 2: Free Draw, write, paint or collage ideas having to do with your concentration work.
Sketch 3: Free Draw, write, paint or collage ideas having to do with your concentration work.
Sketch 4: Free Draw, write, paint or collage ideas having to do with your concentration work.
Sketchbook Assignment: Advanced Drawing and Painting DUE MONDAY MAY 11th
Character Development Through Experimental Drawing
Objective: You will create four new characters through a series of experimental drawing activities.
Process and Requirements:
Character #1
Blind Contour
Choose an animal photo from online or National Geographic. Try several blind contour line drawings. Choose one to enhance (add facial features etc.) and then add color to the background using color pencils, watercolor pencils or markers.
Character #2 Scribble and Outline
Using markers, color pencils or watercolor pencils; make scribble lines. Search for your character and outline it with pen. You can add facial features and other details if needed.
Character #3 Ink Blot
Using the ink jars with an eyedropper. Drip and drag the ink on your paper to make a person or animal. Place a paper towel on top and dab it. Add color. You might need to mess around with swapping eyedroppers for non-eyedropper if jars begin to run out of ink. If you can’t find the time to do this in class, then look for a black marker that you can draw with and then add water over it to make it bleed.
Character #4:
FREE CHOICE, develop a free choice experimental method to make your own character. If you are drawing a blank, try making a character with the hand opposite to your dominant hand.
Advanced: Journal Assignment DUE FRIDAY MAY 1st
Remember:As you develop your concentration use these assignments to help come up with new ways to explore and represent your theme. You will depict figures in this week’s assignment. It is always best to draw from life but work from photos if need be.
Sketch1: Create a drawing of a small group of people. Utilize your skills in design to emphasize the negative space between them. Be creative when dealing with line and shape. Draw from life if possible. Work in Gesture if time is an issue.
Sketch 2: Create a mixed media collage and then use figure drawing to add subject matter on top of the collage. Make sure the media does not overwhelm the drawing. Focus on strong weighted line, value, and contrast to pop the image. Draw from life if possible.
Sketch 3: Use a paint brush with coffee, tea, dark colored juice like grape or soda to create a simplistic drawing of people or a person with shadows. Do not use too much wet or the paper will wrinkle. Once dry, come back in and emphasize line, shape and value with a dark contrasting media. Be expressive and work from life if possible.
Sketch 4: Free Draw, write, paint or collage a portrait or figure.
Sketch Journal Assignment: Due Friday April 24th
Theme: It’s Earth Day this week so your theme is
THE ENVIRONMENT.
Create FOUR pages of anything you would like to express about the theme of the environment. Experiment and explore some new ideas and techniques on these pages.
Sketchbook Assignment 6 and 7 Due 3/30 and 4/6
3/30: Four Rough sketches for the Duvall Fire Fighters Art Contest
4/6: One final drawing on good white paper with pen and color for the Duvall Fire Fighters Art Contest
3rd ANNUAL
DUVALL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION
ART CONTEST
We had so much fun and success from last year’s contest, that we are trying to make this an annual event. The Duvall Fire Fighters Association (DFFA) is asking you to submit a design that we may use to incorporate onto T-shirts, hats, coins and other possible items to represent the DFFA. We will be selling challenge coins at this year’s pancake breakfast that have both first and second place winner’s artwork from last year.
INCENTIVES
· 1ST PLACE WINNER: $50 I-TUNES GIFTCARD
· 2ND PLACE WINNER: $25 I-TUNES GIFTCARD
GUIDELINES
· MAKE IT FIRE SERVICE RELATED (LADDERS, AXES, FIRE HOSE, MALTESE, HELMETS, FIRE… etc.)
· DESIGN MUST INCLUDE “DFFA” or “DUVALL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION”
· NO MORE THAN 3 COLORS IN THE DESIGN
· TRY NOT TO PUT TOO MUCH SMALL DETAIL IN IT (harder to reproduce in coins and prints)
· WE MAY HAVE TO ALTER/ADJUST DESIGNS TO WORK WITH REPRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS
· HAVE FUN!!
Sketchbook 5: Due Monday 3/23
CREATE FOUR PAGES OF IDEAS FOR YOUR CONCENTRATION. Remember, your concentration work is independent art work that revolves around a single theme, subject, media OR technique. Your first one will be due in early April so use this assignment to hammer out your ideas for all of your concentration work.
Sketchbook 4: Due Monday 3/16
1: Complete 4 BLIND contours in your journal. Attempt to make them last 5+ minutes. Optional: Consider going over your lines with pen/sharpie or adding color if available.
2: Choose an object and a single light source perhaps a lamp or flashlight. Focus on the values and shading.
3: Choose one of the following topics to make a page about:
A. 2 Old drawings torn apart and made new
B. Draw on top of an old drawing
C. INSECTS
Sketchbook Assignment 3: Due 3/9
Five things You Love About You
DEPICT OBJECTS YOU LOVE. ON FOUR PAGES CREATE A STRONG COMPOSITION UTILIZING INTERESTING IMAGERY. AT THE END OF THE WEEK, YOUR DRAWINGS SHOULD REPRESENT AN OVERALL VIEW OF WHO YOU ARE and WHAT YOU LOVE.
Sketch 1:Create a drawing that uses expressive line. Be bold. Work the piece until it has a free, but finished look. Utilize strong contour line and color. Create a center of interest.
Sketch 2:Create a drawing that utilizes strong contrast. Use media of choice.
Sketch 3:Create a drawing that utilizes repetition to achieve rhythm. Think creatively.
Sketch 4:Create a drawing that utilizes mixed media. Do not overwhelm the drawing. Be graceful with your media and allow it to direct you to the drawing.
Sketchbook Assignment 2: Due 3/2
Goal: You will begin to understand how to apply a personal theme or subject matter to your art. This is to help prepare you to pick a “Concentration”.
Sketch 1: I AM….Who are you? This seems like an easy straight-forward question, but when was the last time you really tried to articulate an answer? Take some time to ponder and then WRITE OR SKETCH an answer.
Sketch 2: What is your story? Sketch a narrative of a section of your life. It could also be a mythology from your life, meaning a made up story or dream that you have had about yourself in the past present or future.
Sketch3: Random Words. Write a stream of consciousness or grab a book and simply make a list of random words. Draw a sketch to go with them.
Sketch 4: Write or sketch ideas, subjects or themes you would like to explore in your independent art work.
Sketchbook Assignment 1: Due 2/20
Directions: Your first assignment is about getting over the fear of a blank book and allowing for freedom and creativity. You will simply be covering pages with backgrounds and borders that will be drawn over top of in future assignments. Each page can now be “used” and hopefully the white page syndrome of the sketchbook will fall by the wayside. Remember you are not creating finished works, but creating interesting surfaces or borders to draw onto later.
Complete 8 pages, here are SOME options you could explore: REMEMBER THESE ARE SIMPLY SUGGESTIONS, YOU CAN COME UP WITH YOUR OWN TECHNIQUES TOO.
You could draw a border around a page that is made up of doodles with pencil or pen-Put your drawing tool on a page -Close your eyes and draw for 30 seconds - Create a two color wash on the page.(wash=watered down paint, or watercolor) - Collage text on the page - Scribble on the page with pencil; blend with a paper towel to create a value - Create a one color wash on the page - Cut squares in the page - Draw a childlike drawing on the page and paint over it - Create a repetitive pattern on the page using a geometric shape - Find a simple object and cover the page with simple contour drawings of it - Using muted colors paint a page - Create a texture on the page with paint by lifting paint with a towel - Create a negative space painting with a wash - Cover the page with writing about your first day and summer - Collage random pieces on the page - Cut strips of colored paper and glue to the surface - Doodle on the page with a pen - Trade books and have another student treat the surface of a page - Tear a page out and re-collage onto another page - Find a leaf outside - Represent the leaf in some way on the page.
First Semester Sketchbook Assignments
Sketchbook Due Tuesday 1/20 and Friday 1/23
4 Sketches of your ideas for the Duvall Fire Fighters art contest. Click here to see the handout with contest criteria.
1 Final drawing on white paper with pen and color pencil. Remember only 3 colors allowed
Sketch1: Answer this question with an image:
At age six I was ________________________
Sketch 2: Answer this question with an image:
Now I am_____________________________
Sketch 3: Answer this question with an image:
At age 25 I will be______________________
Sketch 4: Free Draw, Paint, Collage or Write
Sketchbook 8: Due Monday Dec. 5th
Remember:As you develop your concentration use these assignments to help come up with new ways to explore and represent your theme.
You will draw figures in this week’s assignment. It is always best to draw from life but work from photos if need be.
Sketch1: Create a drawing of a small group of people. Utilize your skills in design to emphasize the negative space between them. Be creative when dealing with line and shape. Draw from life if possible.
Sketch 2: Create a mixed media collage and then use figure drawing to add line, value, and color. Make sure the media does not overwhelm the drawing. Focus on strong weighted line, value, and contrast to pop the image. Draw from life if possible.
Sketch 3: Use a paint brush with coffee, tea, juice or soda to create a simplistic drawing of shadows, do not use too much wet or the paper will wrinkle. Once dry, come back in and emphasize line, shape and value with a dark contrasting media. Push darkness in the back in an exaggerated way to push the figure forward. Be expressive and work from life if possible.
Sketch 4: Free Draw, write, paint or collage a portrait or figure.
Sketchbook 7: Due Friday 11/14
Sketch 1: Think of patterns, shapes and forms that are visible in the sky. Sketch them with or without color.
Sketch 2: Sketch a landscape from real life or a picture. Notice the values and how the colors change as you look towards the background of the picture or scene.
Sketch 3: Look up paintings of landscapes, find an example that you like and sketch it. Tell me why you like this example and write down the artist's name and the name of the piece.
Sketch 4: Look up paintings of landscapes, find an example that you like and sketch it. Tell me why you like this example and write down the artist's name and the name of the piece.
Sketchbook 6: Due Friday 10/24
Sketch1: SKETCH ONE OF YOUR HANDS.
Sketch 2: SKETCH A PIECE OF FABRIC WITH FOLDS AND TEXTURES.
Sketch 3: SKETCH IDEAS FOR YOUR NEXT CONCENTRATION IDEA.
Sketch 4: SKETCH MORE IDEAS FOR YOUR UPCOMING CONCENTRATIONS.
Sketchbook Assignment 5: Due Friday 10/17
Remember:As you develop your concentration use these assignments to help come up with new ways to explore and represent your theme.
Create FOUR Sketches using four of the topics from the following list.
1. 2 old drawings torn apart and made new
2. Draw on top of an old drawing
3. Insects
4. Man made vs. natural
5. Opposites collage
6. Less than an inch, small objects in repetition
7. Mechanics of an object…create a drawing as a designer would have first drawn it
8. A chair as a self-portrait
9. Mundane
10. Accidents…random acts of art
Sketchbook Assignment 4: Due Friday, 10/3
This week you will complete one very detailed drawing. Copying a masterwork can help build your drawing skills. Choose one of the color copies of a Renaissance Masterworks(color copies provided by the teacher). Study it and then copy the piece into your journal.
If needed, you can use classroom supplies to complete this assignment.
Sketchbook Assignment 3: Due 9/26
Sketch1: Make a list of concepts, descriptive terms, phrases and/or sporadic thoughts that describe what you want your concentration to be about
Sketch 2: Draw concentration concepts, examples and/or theme possibilities.
Sketch 3: Draw concentration concepts, examples and/or theme possibilities.
Sketch 4: FREE DRAW! This drawing doesn’t have to be a concentration concern.