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Create a color painting/design that represents a specific tree (birch, maple, willow, etc.). Design the entire picture plane, giving consideration to the principles of design. This is a full color design using your choice of color medium (or combination of media).
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You will paint at least one landscape in watercolor during class (of the BHS grounds), and create a second color landscape for homework (of your own yard, neighborhood, or nearby park) using watercolor or the color medium of your choice. Due: One week Medium: Watercolor on watercolor paper Objectives:
Steps: 1. Use a viewfinder to establish placement and accurate proportions. 2. Draw thumbnail sketches with tonal value to establish placement of lights and darks in the composition. 3. With a light pencil line (HB or 2B pencil), draw your composition on watercolor paper. Be careful. Be accurate. Add some details in light pencil. 4. Paint with watercolor, capturing accurate hues and values of the actual observed scene. Be conscious of color shifts due to ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE. Try to maintain the delicacy of the medium. Start with more transparent color. 5. Modifications and details can later be added with slightly more opaque colors. ------ 6. Once you've completed the watercolor painting, experiment with gouache, another water-based medium. 7. Use gouache to add pattern, texture, and stylistic effects to your watercolor painting. Anything goes, but work thoughtfully to make a strong finished piece. Student work below: 1. Paint watercolor scales:
2. Make a grid of 1” squares on watercolor paper, and mix to match the colors of a master landscape painting of your choice (from the reproductions in the room). Project: Draw a landscape en plein air (on site, from direct observation). Use a viewfinder if you have one. Draw from life, draw what you see, and don't make things up. Compose the picture thoughtfully, so that you use the Golden Section for placement of important elements. Emphasize some focal points that you guide the viewer's eyes to settle on. Add a full, wide range of tonal values, using a set of drawing pencils or a single ebony pencil. Objectives:
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Resources Examples of student work and masterworks can be found at this link. Grading Criteria:
Self Critique Questions As you draw, ask yourself if you are doing the following (You should be!):
Due: One week Project Description: A landscape drawing (of your family's property or somewhere in your neighborhood) that differentiates foreground, middle-ground, and background Objectives:
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To Start: Lightly block out the basic arrangement of major forms in your view. "See the forest through the trees", in other words. Don't get caught up in detail in the beginning. Helpful Resources The images below were found at these sites, where you will be able to find more information about the artists as well as other examples of landscape drawing and painting: The Fitz Museum: Peter Paul Rubens The British Museum: Canaletto Encyclopedia Britannica: Durer Remember to:
Master drawings and paintings by American Realist artists Grant Wood and Edward Hopper: This is classwork.
Project Description: A refined, finished line drawing of a flowering plant with multiple parts (stems, leaves, petals, etc.) or a branch with overlapping leaves. Draw large, and use the full picture plane. At first, draw lightly, to get the essence of the shapes you see and to place them on your picture plane to maximize the drawing’s visual impact (composition). Once the composition is established, use a variety of pencils and draw carefully, capturing accurate contour lines, shapes and proportions. Notice the shapes of the negative spaces as well as the objects themselves. Vary the line quality. Any tonal values (“shading”) that you make should be created with lines by hatching and cross-hatching. Size: 11 x 14” (or larger) drawing paper Media: To start, a variety of drawing pencils (HB, 2B, 4B, 6B) You can use other materials in additional drawings, such as charcoal, pastel, ink, and paint. Grading criteria:
Due: One week
Objective: Develop a habit of regularly using your sketchbook and looking closely and carefully at things (particularly nature). Assignment: Fill up four pages of your sketchbook with pencil sketches, ink drawings, color pencil studies, and watercolor paintings of natural forms and scenes done from observations. Make multiple entries on each page. In the end, you will have between one and two dozen drawings in your first week, following the model of Clare Walker Leslie's books. Use Drawn to Nature as a model of the form that your sketchbook will take over the course of the semester. Have a variety of subjects, which may include: Close-ups: leaves, branches, acorns, Groupings: branches with clusters of leaves; plants with many parts Spaces: sections of landscapes painted on site or through your window Animals Colors of the sky at a particular time Cloud formations Etc. Rubric for Nature Journal Introduction to the work of Claire Walker Leslie Clare Walker Leslie is a nationally recognized wildlife artist, naturalist, educator and author. She attended the School at Rose Valley from 1950 to 1957, during a time when according to Clare “children grew up outside.” Clare grew up in Swarthmore. After leaving SRV in 1957, Clare went to the Swarthmore public schools. She received her B.A. from Carleton College in Art History. Her father, Bob Walker, taught in the Art History Department at Swarthmore College, and her mother, Alice, was very involved at SRV during the 40’s and 50’s. Clare’s older sisters also attended the school, Allie from 1943 to 1953, and Betsy from 1944 to 1954. Clare studied at the Bear Tooth School of Art in Montana, as well as in France and Scotland. For more than twenty-five years Clare has conducted yearlong residencies and short-term workshops for students and teachers at many nature centers, colleges and universities, public and private K-12 schools, and professional organizations throughout the country. She helped found the Habitat Institute for the Environment in Belmont, MA and has published eight books including Nature All Year Long, Nature Drawing: A Tool for Learning, A Naturalist’s Sketchbook: Pages from the Seasons of a Year, The Art of Field Sketching, The Ancient Celtic Festivals and How We Celebrate Them Today, and Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You. Assignment:
Write about your life in diary/journal entries. Then, create a composition that illustrates several meaningful moments in your life, ideally in the past year or so. Include multiple events. Then, incorporate some of the actual text you have written into the artwork in an artistic and unifying way. Apply all your knowledge about good design to make the artwork as dynamic and visually interesting as possible. Do your best to make this a thoughtful and idea-filled artwork. Steps: 1. Brainstorm. Come up with several events and ideas. 2. Write "diary" entries. 3. Draft your compositions by drawing a number of thumbnail sketches. 4. Develop your best composition into a finished full-sized drawing. 5. Refine your image. Add detail, ink, and color. Project Length: One week Size: Any size between 11 x 14” and 18 x 24” Media: Drawing in pencil, then black ink, color (watercolor, acrylic, color markers, color pencils, or a combination), or mixed media. Style: Any Objectives:
Step One: In your classroom journal or your sketchbook, write in detail about important moments and memories. The more detailed content you develop, the better. Some things to consider:
Grading Criteria
This is a pre-assessment to find out what you already know, and I will be observing work habits and your process, your final work, and your participation in the final critique of student work. By observing your approach to the project, I will gain insight into your strengths and of how you could grow throughout the year. Apply what you know about the elements and principles of art, and pictorial composition, to this complex image. As the measuring tool, I will be using this rubric: Rubric: Art Studio Habits of Mind Self-Assessment: Please answer these questions after you've completed your artwork:
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