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Key Concept - Examination the Elements of Art - Line

Objective: students will a) Review the Elements and Principles b) Review composition c) review line

Procedure - a) Intro and review - review elements, principles & composition b) discuss "What is drawing?" Why do we draw? What is the importance of line? Where do we find it? Can line have emotion? c) Concept of the Sketch and thumbnail idea capturing, visual note taking. d) Contour and gesture drawing, fast and slow line, doodle, the erased line

Procedures

Project 1 a) Contour - blind and modified b) Complete one finished drawing of each above of and object or objects Artists – Giacometti, Van Gogh, Matisse <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Materials – pencil paper

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Project 2 <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">a) The doodle – What it is? What it does? <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">b) 0n 9 x paper begin to doodle, make lines, think it draw it, let the conscious flow, free form – non objective <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">c) Begin to give form to the shapes using contour lines <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">d) Incorporate pattern by bending, stretching, elongating, twisting and smear. <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">e) Incorporate an eraser

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Artists – TBA <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Materials – pencil, charcoal, ink, paper 12x pens

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Project 3 <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">a) Take an object, draw it in contour <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">b) Repeat the contour to set a rhythm. or repetition <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">c) Repeat until subject disappears – Fragmentation/Abstraction <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">d) add color if desired <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">e) torn paper as line? What is a line? What can it be made from?

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Materials – 24x paper, marking tools open pastels oil pastels <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Artists – Picasso, Joan Synder, Richard Debenkorn

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Assessment: <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">a) Tie into objectives. <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">b) Check craft/quality of drawing – line <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">emotional line, fast, slow, thick, thin etc… <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">c) Craftsmanship- handling, cutting and gluing. presentation <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">d) Composition <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">CCS: 1.1b, 2, 1.3,1.4b,1.5a/b

__<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">The Elements of Art __

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">These are the building blocks of art. They are concrete things meaning you can see them and move them.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Line - A mark on a surface, usually created by a pen, pencil, or brush. Lines vary in width, length, direction, color, and degree of curve, and can be two-dimensional or implied.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Shape / Form - A two-dimensional figure created by connecting actual or implied lines that enclose an area of space. A shape can be geometric (such as a circle or square) or organic (having an irregular outline).

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Form: A three-dimensional object or, in an artwork, the representation of a three dimensional object, defined by contour, height, depth, and width.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Color - Color: Also referred to as hue, color is the appearance of an object created by the quality of light it reflects. The term color also can refer to a paint, dye, pigment, or other substance that conveys color.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Value - Value: The lightness or darkness of a color. For example, pink is a light value of red, while navy is a dark value of blue.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Texture - Texture: The way a surface feels (actual texture) or looks (visual texture). words such as rough, smooth, shiny, and dull are used to describe texture.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Pattern - Pattern: The regular repetition of colors, lines, shapes, or forms in an artwork.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Space/Depth - Space: The open or empty area round, above, between, within, or below objects.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Shapes and forms are defined by the empty space surrounding them (negative space) and by the space they occupy (positive space).

__<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Principles of Design __

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">These are the concepts or ideas, the theories or states of being to be used to put together the Elements above. If the Elements are the ingredients, then the principles are the recipe for a good picture. Of course these do not secure a good picture. Creativity and means of expression play a huge part in making a piece of art. Also the importance of your statement and it's place and time.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Focal Point / Emphasis - The visual accent, stress, or sense of importance created in an artwork by

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">The color, size, shape, and placement of an object or area; the area or object to which the viewer's attention is drawn. Focal point is positive space or shape surrounded by negative space or shape.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Contrast- Differences in color, shape, scales, proportions to make a statement or to draw attention

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Variety - The use of different elements of art to add interest to an artwork.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Rhythm / Movement - A sense of movement achieved by the repetition of one or more elements of art, such as colors, lines, shapes, or forms in an artwork. Movement also relates to the movement of the eye through the painting.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Scale / Size - The relationship between the size, placement, or amount of one part of an artwork to that of another part of the whole. For example, an artist drawing a head will keep in mind the size relationship of the nose to the face.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Harmony and Unity - A sense of all parts working together

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Balance - Balance: The arrangement of the parts of an artwork to give an overall sense of equality in visual weight. Balance can be symmetrical, asymmetrical, or radial.

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Composition

<span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">Composition is a placement or arrangement of visual elements like colour, objects, things in a way that is pleasing to the eye or, a work of art. <span style="font-family: 'Traveling _Typewriter'; font-size: 14pt;">It is also the organization (Arrangement) of the Elements of Art according to the theories of the Principles of Design.

__<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">the Rule of Thirds __



Tension points are at intersections. The center also works because it is surrounded by the tension points.

Look at the tree and the singer below.





Examples using the Rule of Thirds. Notice how the focal point travels along and overlaps a tension point or points.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Rule of Odds

The Rule of ODDS has to do with numbers of things.



It is easier to balance odd numbers than even numbers. Where there are even

numbers of things, the negative space becomes very important to the balancing act.

Just look at the trees above.



Two Cones, Wayne Thiebaud Is it an even number of things or odd?

What about the negative space? The picture does feel balanced but why?

Probably just gut feeling, Huh?

Rule of thirds?



Rule of odds or thirds?

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The Golden Triangle


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Rembrandt using the Golden Triangle as a way to balance the focal point and divide the subject into equal parts visually.


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The Golden Triangle Notice framing at angles. Could the three points of the triangle be a symbol for the Trinity?

The Golden Triangle dates back pre Renaissance When the major patron of art was the Roman Catholic Church. A patron commissions the artists to paint a painting or fabricate a sculpture, therefore they get to pick the subject. This is simplistic but at the top would be Angels where the bottom right might be animals or earthly beings and the left side would be the wise man or something of that nature. All of these in turn are looking at the center or the focal point, Christ's feet which lead up to Christ's head and outstretched arms. Notice the nail in his feet. This is important as to the expression on Christ's face and being crucified.



Here we have another example of the Golden Triangle and over laid on Mona is the Golden Mean or Phi which simply put is a mathematical equation that works out similarities and perfections and balance of proportions.