Object viewpoints 2016_b_nathan_new
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This document provides an overview of lessons on still life drawing and techniques. It includes questions, examples, and instructions for various assignments focused on still life arrangement, tonal studies using ink and charcoal, negative space, monoprinting, and the works of artists such as Morandi. Students are given homework assignments practicing different mediums and subject matter, such as copying a Craig-Martin painting, drawing a bedroom corner, and creating a tonal still life drawing. The document provides guidance, examples, and criteria for completing the lessons and assignments.
Object viewpoints 2016_b_nathan_new
- 2. Objects and Viewpoints What can you say about these images?
- 3. Lesson 1: Still Life
- 4. Q1. What is a still life? Q2. What then, is NOT still life? Q3. Why have artists used still life? Q4. How might we create our own still life in our lesson? NOW: ON THE PAPER IN FRONT OF YOU: Write down the following questions GROUP QUIZ (6 groups)
- 5. Still Life A1. Inanimate objects, not living, arranged in a particular way used by artists to improve drawing or painting skills. These objects could be natural or man made. A2. Moving living things, the human body. A3. As a way of practicing drawing and painting to improving skills and create artwork. A4. By arranging objects and recording them from a specific viewpoint
- 6. Still Life Portrayal of something inanimate: a representation of inanimate objects such as fruit, flowers, or food, often in a domestic setting, in paintings, pictures, or photographs.
- 7. 1. With your neighbours (2s or 3s)… • Use the materials to make small abstract sculptures • Bend, squeeze, tie, fold, roll • Organise your sculptures in a still life arrangement which you’ll draw YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES STARTER ACTIVITY
- 8. 2. Gestural drawings Make a small drawing of the objects from the angle you are sitting at. You have 60 SECONDS to include ALL of it
- 9. 3. Continuous line Now repeat the drawing using one continuous line- you must NOT take your pencil off the page until the drawing is complete
- 10. 4. Contour Drawing Use the remaining time up until the last 10 minutes of the lesson to make a detailed outline drawing
- 11. Preparation: Now that you can see how much information you can record in a short amount of time, you are going to create a REALISTIC version of your piece. Using all the techniques you have already tried, create an OBSEVATIONAL drawing of your chosen objects. ALWAYS LOOK AT YOUR OBJECTS. MAIN ACTIVITY
- 12. Using a green pen… WWW, EBI Which is your best technique? why? how could you improve your work?
- 13. Lesson 2: Tonal ink study
- 14. Tonal ink study What is a tonal ink study? What do we mean by study? What kind of Ink? What method do we use? Recap from last week: What is ‘still life’? What is the purpose of ‘still life’? What object is our ‘still life’ today?
- 15. Lesson objective: Produce a tonal ink study from a single viewpoint. Tonal ink study Success criteria: 1. Use three tones 2. No outline 3. Add a shadow under the object A tonal ink study is a type of artwork produced using multiple layers of ink. It does not contain outline, but it does contain light and dark areas.
- 16. * Year 8 examples
- 17. NOW: Analyse this Art work… • What is the medium? • What is it? • Describe the tones. • Describe the shapes? • Who is the artist? • Subject matter? NOW: On the piece of paper you must all write at least ONE key word to describe the art work GROUP ACTIVITY
- 18. Jim Dine born 1935, America • Jim Dine is an American pop artist. • Jim Dine is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, illustrator, performance artist, stage designer and poet. • He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, in conjunction with musician John Cage. • In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground- breaking New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps at the Norton Simon Museum.
- 19. Lesson 3: Negative Space
- 20. Negative space
- 21. • Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space occasionally is used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image. Negative space
- 23. Negative space, used in a FedEx logo
- 24. Lesson 4: The Hand of the Artist
- 25. Drawing Hands by M. C. Escher Drawing Hands is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in January 1948. It depicts a sheet of paper out of which, from wrists that remain flat on the page, two hands rise, facing each other and in the paradoxical act of drawing one another into existence. Although Escher used paradoxes in his works often, this is one of the most obvious examples. Now Produce a drawing in the style of the artist M C Escher Success Criteria: • The hand you draw must be life size (1:1 scale) • Add detail of your skin texture • Your drawing must include a background
- 26. NOW: Analyse this Art work… • What is the medium? • What is it? • Describe the tones? • Describe the shapes? • Who is the artist? • What is the subject matter?NOW: On the piece of paper you must all write at least ONE key word to describe the art work GROUP ACTIVITY
- 31. Lesson 5: Michael Craig-Martin
- 35. NOW: Analyse this Art work… • What is the medium? • What is it? • Describe the tones. • Describe the shapes? • Who is the artist? • Subject matter? NOW: On the piece of paper you must all write at least ONE key word to describe the art work GROUP ACTIVITY
- 36. Michael Craig-Martin born 1941, Ireland • Michael Craig-Martin, CBE RA, is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter. • He is noted for fostering the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught, and for his conceptual artwork, An Oak Tree. • He is Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths
- 39. Lesson 6: Charcoal and chalk tonal study
- 43. * Example
- 45. Image 1
- 46. Image 2
- 47. Image 3
- 48. Setup
- 49. Ink up
- 51. Place paper down
- 52. Place photo down. Start to draw!
- 53. You must use a range of mark making techniques to describe the shape and texture of the object. Pencil marks, before Ink Monoprint, after
- 54. Light and dark tone? Mark making? 3D form? Contrast? Texture?
- 55. Background? Foreground? Negative space? Expressive?
- 56. * Example
- 57. Lesson 8: Giorgio Morandi
- 58. Artist: Giorgio Morandi b. 1890 , d. 1964 • He was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialised in still life. • His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety. • He often paints and draws simple subjects, such as vases, bottles and bowls. Think pair share: What do you notice about the viewpoints?
- 60. Medium: Ink / mexed media Lesson objective: By the end of the lesson everyone will produce a tonal ink drawing. You will be using black ink or mixed media, working from the lightest tone to the darkest tone. Remember to use the whole page and consider composition. Arrange items such as paint pots and bottles to produce an interesting still life in the style of Morandi.
- 61. Homework: 1 Produce a full colour copy of a work by the artist Michael Craig Martin. See examples below or pick your own. Success criteria: 1. Use vibrant colour 2. Use a fine pen to outline the shapes 3. Fill the entire a4 page. Homework: 1 Produce a full colour copy of a work by the artist Michael Craig Martin. See examples below or pick your own. Success criteria: 1. Use vibrant colour 2. Use a fine pen to outline the shapes 3. Fill the entire a4 page.
- 62. Homework: 2 Draw the corner of your bedroom as illustrated in the example below. You should use tonal pencil or charcoal for this homework. Success criteria: 1. Draw at least 5 objects in situ 2. Use at least 3 tones. 3. Make sure to add lots of detail 4. Fill the whole a4 page Homework: 2 Draw the corner of your bedroom as illustrated in the example below. You should use tonal pencil or charcoal for this homework. Success criteria: 1. Draw at least 5 objects in situ 2. Use at least 3 tones. 3. Make sure to add lots of detail 4. Fill the whole a4 page
- 64. Homework: 3 Arrange a series of object to form a temporary still life. Draw this using tonal pencil or charcoal from an interesting viewpoint. Success criteria: 1. Draw at least 5 balancing objects 2. Use at least 3 tones. 3. Make sure to add lots of detail 4. Fill the whole a4 page Homework: 3 Arrange a series of object to form a temporary still life. Draw this using tonal pencil or charcoal from an interesting viewpoint. Success criteria: 1. Draw at least 5 balancing objects 2. Use at least 3 tones. 3. Make sure to add lots of detail 4. Fill the whole a4 page
- 65. 1. Use a range of tones 2. Add lots of detail 3. Fill the A4 page 4. Create an interesting composition Success criteria… Year 8 cover: Objects and viewpoints • Produce an A4 tonal drawing of an arrangement of objects from your pockets. You should use objects such as your keys and things from you pencil case. NO PHONE OR LANYARD allowed.
Editor's Notes
- #16: Instructions: Start with very transparent ink, darken very slightly each time, 4 layers min, finish with very dark tone for shadows.