1st 6 weeks

ART I

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

• Perception

• Creative Expression/Performance

• Historical /Cultural Heritage

• Evaluation/Response

1st 6 weeks Overview

• The student will have an understanding of the elements of art and principles of design.

• The students will learn about artists, their style and the historical happenings of their time.

• The student will learning pencil, ink, colored pencil, and charcoal techniques.

• The student will learn to draw what they see not what they know is there.

• The student will have an understanding of the critique process and be able to evaluate themselves and their peers.

Schedule Week 1• Tuesday:

– Parent White packet goes home today – Art I Survey– School policies and procedures

• Wednesday: – Continued Policies and Procedures– Attendance, seating, expectations– Review Syllabus– What is Art?– Pre-Draw Hand holding craft stick– Heading– How to do a border

• Thursday:– Pre-Draw a student in this classroom– Art Kits go on sale:

• Basic Kit without colored pencils $27.50• Basic Kit + Crayola colored pencils #31.50• Basic Kit + Prismacolor collored pencils $ 52.50

• Friday:– Pre-Draw corner of the room– Pig Personality Drawing– Guidelines of Composition

Guidelines of Composition• Place your focal point in the approximate

center• Rule of Thirds• Don’t ever float, give it a location and

ground• Break the border on 3-4 sides• Be aware of negative space• Come in close-zoom in• Plan, Plan, Plan: Thumbnail sketches

Schedule Week 2• Monday:

– Start Art Sparks (warm ups)– Composition exercise (circle, square, triangle)

• Tuesday: – upside down name– Artists’ marks and your own lines

• Wednesday: – Upside Down Mona Lisa (exercise to focus your right brain)– New seating chart

• Thursday: Artist Talk=Leonardo Da Vinci– Upside Down Mona Lisa

• Friday: – Quiz on policies, procedures & Leonardo Da Vinci– Upside down Mona Lisa– Introduce Shading Techniques (Value through the use of line)

Composition Exercise

• Draw 9 different compositions, using these 3 shapes, use each 3 times in each composition.

• let some shapes go off the edge of the drawing

• let some shapes point to other shapes

• overlap shapes

• use the rule of thirds

Leonardo Da Vinci

• He was right brained and was a creative inventor

• He was ADD

• He created the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa and used his self portrait as a guide

• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows-Do you remember why?

Schedule Week 3

• Monday: Shaded Boxes• Tuesday:

– Studio for Shaded Boxes– Introduce Pen and Ink Line Design

• Wednesday: – Studio Pen and Ink Design– Discuss Journal reflection using Chunk Writing

• Thursday: Studio Pen and Ink Design– Colored Pencil Techniques

• Friday: Studio Pen and Ink Design

Shaded Box exercise

Colored Pencil Techniques

Pen and Ink

Chunk Writing (Davis)

• Answer the Question

• Tell why the answer is correct

• Prove it-example

• Prove it-explain

• (Baggs to begin this writing in Second 6 Weeks period)

Schedule Week 4

• Monday: – Elements of Art Notes– Studio Pen and Ink Design and Elements of Art

activity• Tuesday: Elements of Art Notes and studio time• Wednesday: Elements of Art Notes and studio

time• Thursday: Principles of Design Notes and studio

time• Friday:

– Quiz: elements and principles– Elements of Art Packet due with activities done

Elements of Art

• Line

• Shape

• Value

• Texture

• Color

• Form

• Space

Principles of Design

• Emphasis

• Proportion

• Balance

• Movement

• Rhythm

• Variety

• Unity

Schedule Week 5• Monday:

– Introduce Contour / Pattern Radial Design (Draw outlines of 3 simple contours & 2 human forms) and Rubric Evaluation Process

– Work on Principles Packet activities• Tuesday:

– Contour / Pattern Radial Design Studio Time (Draw 1”border, find the center of a square, cut out 4-6 copies of the simple contours)

– Work on Principles Packet activities• Wednesday:

– Reteach / review Elements of Art and Principles of Design by creating Octahedron Forms with examples of each

– Contour / Pattern Radial Design Studio Time• Thursday:

– Discuss M.C. Escher (www.mcescher.com) use netbooks– Discuss copyright laws– Studio time: Contour/Pattern Radial design, Principles Packet,

Octahedron review/reteach• Friday: Studio time & finish missing assignments

Contour / Pattern Radial Design

Objective: You are going to create a radial design using simple contours. PERCEPTION, CREATIVE EXPRESSION/ PERFORMANCE, EVALUATION/RESPONSE.

Procedure: Create a simple contour for 2 human figures in action and 3 simple objects. Cut out 4-6 copies of of the simple contours. On your final paper add a 1” border and find the center of the 8”x8” frame. Now repeating the shapes at least 4 times each trace the simple contours in a planned design. Get teacher OK. Sharpie design. Incorporate signature in the radial design. Use thick and thin lines. Add 10 patterns minimum in a radial fashion. Add a maximum of 3 colors. Put heading on back.

Evaluation:

4 large human in actions

4 small human in action

4 simple objects

Uses radial balance well

Space between contours are even

No more than 3 colors

Colors are neat and clean

Lines vary in thickness

10 textured patterns minimum

Ink lines neat and clean

No pencil lines showing

Signed Correctly

Octahedron

• Create an 8 sided form that shows the examples of elements of art

• Create an 8 sided form that shows the examples of the principles of design

MC Escher

• Traveled to Spain, Italy, and Switzerland• During World War II he used sketchbooks from his

travels to create prints• Messotinting is a printmaking process he used that is

also used to create money• He attended the School of Architecture after not doing

well on his high school exams but after one week switched to Graphic Arts

• He is known for tesselations, drawing impossible structures, being a geometrist, and pieces like “Ascending and Descending”, “Reptiles”, “Metamorphosis I”, and “Sky and Water”

Copyright

• Always ask permission to use someone else’s work

• To be considered original you must modify at least 85% of the work

Schedule Week 6• Monday:

– Studio Time– Quiz: M.C. Escher, Copyright, Elements of Art, & Principles of Design– Missing Assignments Reviewed– Hang Octahedrons– Start Wrinkled Paper Drawing

• Tuesday:– Missing assignments Studio time– Review for 1st 6 weeks test– Studio Time: Wrinkled Paper Charcoal/Pencil Drawing

• Wednesday: – 1st 6 weeks test– All missing assignments are due for this 6 weeks– Charcoal Manikin exercise [Charcoal Techniques/Value/basic human form and proportions]– Studio Time: Wrinkled Paper Charcoal/Pencil Drawing

• Thursday:– Studio Time: Wrinkled Paper Charcoal/Pencil Drawing– Artist Focus: Michelangelo (if we have time)– Individual Critique Process using Cornell Notes

• Friday:– Studio Time: Wrinkled Paper Charcoal/Pencil Drawing due Monday EOC– Do a critique of a Michelangelo art work due Tuesday (If we have time)– End of the grading period

Critique Process

• Describe-Title, Media, Artist, and Elements of art

• Interpret-Principles of Design

• Analyze-Mood /Feeling or Artist Intent

• Evaluate-Like/Dislike, Why, Style, Theory, compare to other works

Michelangelo

• Painter of the Sistine Chapel

• Known for religious art work like La Pieta

• Kimball Museum has The Torment of Saint Anthony (1st acquired in Western Hemisphere of the World)-he was 12 when he created it

• http://www.michelangelo.com/buonarroti.html

Wrinkled Paper DrawingObjective: The student will be able to draw

what they see with a focus on the element of value. The student will show an understanding of chiaroscuro in the proper usage of charcoal, ebony or 6H pencil. PERCEPTION, PERFORMANCE/CREATIVE EXPRESSION, EVALUATION/RESPONSE.

Procedure:1.Take a 8.5 “ x 11” piece of paper and

crumble it up, then undo some or all of it.2.On your drawing paper, create a 1 inch

border.3.Now based on observation, draw what

you see paying close attention to the lighting.

Evaluation Criteria:1. 1 light source present minimum2. proper use of medium3.accuracy of drawing what is seen4.filled the page/composition follows guidelines5. craftsmanship/quality6. proper heading