Art 1 –
Warm Up: #31 – Still Life
1. Draw the still life on your table
2. Add color
Today’s Focus: Still Life/Composition Notes
Eye Tracker Technology – Focal Point
www.catherineolander.com – Research: Eye Tracker
Homework: This week’s homework is ________
Choosing Your Composition
Keys to a Good Design
· View Finder- Frame Focus
· Zoom in and Crop
· Run off the page
· Asymmetrical
· 5 Values at least – Think light, medium, dark
· Interesting Positive and Negative Shapes and Spaces
· Check your proportions
· Check your angles
· Contrast – make 2 things next to each other different values
· Texture – make the surfaces look different
· Draw what you see
· Think in odd numbers
· Draw BIG!!!
Focal Point
More Contrast in Values
More in Focus
Sharper/Crisper
More Detail
Color
Checklist/Rubric for Still Life
1. Fabric and texture
2. Metallic, White and Transparent Objects
3. At LEAST 5 values (darkest darks/lightest lights and at least 3 values in between.
4. Run off the page
5. Pick 1 Shading Technique (hatching/cross-hatching/blending/stippling or some type of shading technique)
6. Pick 1 composition – Triangle, Oval, L-Shape, Diagonal
7. Have a focal point – (tic-tac-toe) In focus, more detail…
8. At LEAST 1 geometric form
9. At LEAST 1 organic form
10. At LEAST 3 objects (think in odd numbers)
11. (Color)
Art 1 –
Warm Up: #32 – Choose your Still Life Composition
PLEASE DON’T MOVE THE STILL LIFES!!!
1. Divide your warm up space into 4 sections.
2. Draw 4 different thumbnail sketches of different compositions of the still lifes.
3. Include at least 3 objects in your sketches.
4. Triangle, Oval, L-Shape and Diagonal
5. Use the view finder and review your composition notes and focal point check list.
Today’s Focus: Still Life
Homework: View through a door or down a hall…
OR
Art 1 -
Warm Up: #32 – Art Career: Graphic Designer
Use the information I give you to make an informative, awareness poster.
You are an artist – make it creative, beautiful and grab someone’s attention.
Do the sketch in your warm up section, then make a big one on the pink paper.
Today’s Focus: Breast Cancer Posters & Work on Still Life
Homework: Homework Drawing - View looking through a door or down a hall
Art 1 –
Label your warm up #33- Clear or Shinny
Warm Up: #33 – Clear or Shinny
1. Draw a clear or shinny object.
2. Paint the object with watercolor paint today to add color in your warm up.
3. Clean up your area and make sure the watercolor paint and brushes are clean and organized better than you found them!
Today’s Focus: Work on Still Life
Homework: Homework Drawing (Thursday) View looking through a door or down a hall
Art 1 – 3.16.11
Warm Up: #34 - Watercolor
1. Draw the still life you plan to draw for your final drawing .
2. Color it in with watercolor paint.
3. Put the paint and brushes back BETTER than you found them!
Today’s Focus: Work on Still Life
Homework:
Art 1 –
Warm Up: #35 – Wet on Wet Watercolor Techniques
1. Divide your paper into 4 sections
2. Label each section:
A-Wet on Wet (Wet paint brush on Wet Paper)
B-Dry on Wet (Relatively Dry brush on Wet Paper)
C-Wet on Dry (Wet paint brush on Dry Paper)
D-Dry on Dry (Relatively Dry brush on Dry Paper)
3. Experiment with each technique.
Today’s Focus: Work on Still Lifes
If you finish your still life, Begin a new still life and composition using watercolor today!!
Art 1 –
Warm Up: #36 – Stream of Consciousness
1. Fill up your warm up space with your thoughts on:
I think… or I believe… or I feel…
2. Then paint over your words with watercolor
Today’s Focus: Finish Drawing Still Life Drawings and Begin working on Watercolor Still Life Paintings
and Vis J if time
Homework: This week is ________________________
Art 1
Warm Up: #37 – Layers
1. Create an image today with multiple layers.
2. You might overlap words, pictures, media, techniques, etc…
Today’s Focus:
Still Life Drawings, Watercolor Still Life, Visual Journal, Finish anything you are still working on
Homework: This week __________________
Art 1 - Warm Up: #38 – Found Text
1. Find text you can cut out of a newspaper, old book, telephone book or magazine, etc..
2. Glue the text into your warm up and use it in some way – mark through words, cut the words out into a shape, overlap words to make textures, etc….
3. Get creative with the found text, then try it in your visual journal some time!!
Today’s Focus:
Still Life Drawings, Watercolor Still Life, Visual Journal, Finish anything you are still working on
Homework: This week _______________________
Art 1
Warm Up: #39 – Drawn Text
1. Draw large and dynamic letters and words into your warm up.
2. Try block letters or bubble letters.
3. Experiment with the size, style, shape and color of the letters as you hand draw your text and words.
4. Try using drawn text in your Vis J sometime!!
Today’s Focus:
Still Life Drawings, Watercolor Still Life, Visual Journal, Finish anything you are still working on
Homework: This week _______________________
Art 1 - Warm Up: #40 – Quotes, Poems, and Lyrics
1. Meaningful quotes, poems and song lyrics are another source of text for your journals.
2. Use your own quote, poem or song lyrics of your choice as the inspiration in your warm up today.
3. Make sure you give credit to the person who said it!
4. If you can’t think of a quote, poem or lyric you may use the following:
“I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.”
-Georgia O'Keeffe
Today’s Focus:
Still Life Drawings, Watercolor Still Life, Visual Journal, Finish anything you are still working on…