Charcoal
What were the 3 styles you could choose from for our charcoal project?
1. realistic
2. Gesture
3. Tim burton
What is a gesture drawing? List 3 facts about this style.
Fast, loose, general shapes, quick lines, no facial features.
What is the line that separates land and sky called?
Horizon Line
What are the two ways of breaking up the painted papers into usable pieces?
scissors
ripping
What was our first project this year called?
Exquisite corpse
Explain 3 ways you can respect charcoal tools in art class
1. hand pencil sharpener
2. gentle drawing
3. Clean up charcoal dust with a towel
4. Don't contaminate the white charcoal tortillons
What are 2 things we drew in the gesture style?
bodies/poses, hands, eyes, free choice for project.
What is a vanishing point?
Where all lines/perspective converges on a picture plane.
Explain the collage glueing process.
Rip a paper in half, use half for glueing and half for pressing the papers together.
What was the first professional artwork I showed you on the first day of class?
Banana taped to wall
List 3 aspects of Tim Burton's art style
1. black and white
2. Large eyes
3. Angular features
4. Simple mouths/noses
What are the steps of the marker wash process?
pencil, pen, (erase), marker, water/brush.
What are two ways an artist creates depth in a landscape drawing?
1. Winding path/road/stream
2. Diagonal lines
3. Overlap
4. Change in size
What 2 pieces of advice would you give someone painting papers for this project?
1. Fade or blend
2. texture
3. At least 3 colors
Which artist is famous for drawing dots?
Yayoi Kusama
Name and spell the other name for the charcoal blending tool
Tortillon
Challenge another table to a gesture drawing contest. You may draw hands or a human pose (student volunteer). You have 45 seconds. The class will vote on the winner.
see competition
Explain Foreground, Middle Ground, and Background. What are 3 key aspects?
1. Foreground: larger, detailed, objects overlap things behind them.
2. Middle ground/Background: less and less detailed, smaller, get overlapped.
Who is the artist who created Hungry Hungry Caterpillar? Why did we look at his work?
Eric Carle paints on thin paper, cuts it up and uses it for his collages.
Name the artists that created these works:
1. Mona Lisa
2. The School of Athens
3. Sistine Chapel Ceiling
4. Statue of David
Leonardo (da vinci)
Raphael
Michelangelo
Donatello
What is a value scale, and how many different values should there be on a traditional scale?
The value scale is a system of organizing values. It consists of nine values ranging from white to black, with several shades of gray in between.
Send a member of your table outside. Draw an object from the room. If they can guess what it is, you get the points. You have 1 minute.
See art
Draw a cube in 2 point perspective. You have 1 minute.
see art
Name one of the artists I told you to research at the beginning of the lesson
Thomas Hart Benton
Georgia O'Keefe
Answer at least 1 correctly:
Which artist painted Barack Obama's Portrait?
Which English artist is known for using a pseudonym, making graffiti, and being an activist?
Kehinde Wiley
Banksy