Studio Art 2015-16Livoti

Sept 8-11

Tuesday 9-8Aim: How is Decorating your portfolio similar to early cave

paintings and Street Art?

• Do now: Meet and Greet 5 new people in class

Homework: Supplies are due Sept. 11

Grade Level Assembly TodayWed 9-9

Thurs 9-10Aim: Why do artists use blind contour techniques?

• Do now: List activities you have done that build eye-hand coordination.

• Homework: Supplies Are due Sept. 11th

Starting to draw begins with observing edges.

Do you see lines pre-drawn on objects?

What are other words that describe edges?

Art Vocab! Write it down:Contour lines describe all

the edges of an object, both the inside and outside.

Contour Line

Blind Contour

• Why do artist’s practice blind contour drawing?

• How is playing sports or video games similar to blind contour drawing?

• What looks different about a blind contour drawing?

• Blind contour drawings are made when you look more at the object than you do your paper, and you don’t lift your pencil while you draw!

Friday 9-11Aim: How will abstract art influence our Tile design project?• Do now: Look at the images below (The Gray Tree by Piet Mondrian and

Pennsylvania Landscape by Andrew Wyeth) and compare and contrast them.

Homework: Supplies due tomorrow

Abstract Art

• Abstract art is non-representational

• Some abstract art is simplified completely into the elements of art, while some abstract art still has some recognizable aspects of the subject.

László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian born painter and photographer known dor his Bauhaus style. He died in 1946 in Chicago.

Fernand Léger was born in France, 1881. Known for his abstract style.

Positive Space and Negative Space

• The space the subject of your artwork takes up is positive space.

• One way to make your object look more interesting is to draw it so it creates shapes in the negative space, or the space around the object

• VIEWFINDER: allows you to find a composition and crop!