Drawing a Pumpkin

Today we will draw a pumpkin by observation.

Before you draw remember the strategies we used for drawing realistically.

Using your thumb and pencil to find a unit of measure.

Draw everything in proportion to each other.

Use your pencil to find angles and compare the angle to the hands on a clock.

Use your grayscale to find shadows, midtones, and highlights.

Work Session - Complete your final Notan

Today you will complete your Notan. If you finish before class work on the Mystery Grid.

Take a picture of each project when you finish. we will post to the blog next class.

There will be a QUIZ NEXT CLASS on the Notan vocabulary. make sure you study!!!

More Grids

Today we'll work on grid drawings again. I want you to focus on drawing each square accuratley.
When you have completed the drawings post them to your blog.

Drawing with a Grid

Today you will be using a grid to create accurate drawings.

First, write your name and block on the back of the page.

Second, label each grid  square in the following manner:

Label each square across the top A through k on both the picture and the blank grid

Label each square down the side 1 through 8 on both the picture and the blank grid

Next, start with a square of your choice and use the grid over the picture to where find each line or shape lies. For example, the center of the flower lies in square F3.

On the grid below precisely draw each line as it appears in the picture.

Draw the Flower, Hand, Pizza, and the Mystery grid, in that order. Take your time on each one. If you don't finish we'll work on them next week.

Notan - Translation - Tesselation

Today we will work on the second type of Notan movement. The translation. 

We will also create a tessellation pattern from our shape. A tessellation is a pattern you create that has no overlapping and no gaps between shapes.

The artist MC Escher used tesselations to create his art.

The Flying Horse Video

After we have completed the Translation and tessellation we will post them to our blog.

Notan - Rotation

Notan - Expansion of the Square

Create a cut paper collage with a composition where both positive and negative spaces are REVERSED. Use either Symmetrical or Asymmetrical Balance in creating your design. USE GOOD CRAFTSMANSHIP -BE NEAT!!!

LIGHTLY Draw your designs from the edges into the center of the square. Think of the designs as shapes. You MUST cut from all 4 sides. Do not cut off the corners & don’t go past the center of the paper with any designs.

1. Begin cutting shapes from the sides of the square. 

2. Glue down the main base in the middle of your background either straight or diagonally.

3. Place all the cut shapes back into the square.

4.  Flip shapes & glue down in the mirror image from where it was cut. The basic idea is to cut out the piece, flip it out so that it mirrors the cut out space, and then glue it down onto a 18×24” paper.





Thanks to createartwithme.com, and Notan - Expansion of the Square by Dorr Bothwell for the lesson plan!