Foundations 2- Continue 3 point perspective (week of 4/27-5/1)

Please review the last post and re-watch the links if you need to refresh your memory on 3 point perspective.  You should have chose a clean photo reference that you can see the entirety of 3 skyscrapers.  Consider whether you want a birds eye or worms eye view.  Remember to begin the same way you would with a two point perspective by creating a horizon line with a vanishing point on both ends and then choose the location for your third point.  Please ask questions if you have them and have fun with this!  We will continue working on this through next week but please email me a picture of your progress this week.

All Middle School Exploratory classes (week of 4/27-5/1)

I hope you all had a nice week away from your chrome books!  Here is a choice of two creative prompts, choose one to draw and have fun!   Again, always use the drawing process you have been taught, no outline drawings.

Create a watch for a ghost

Develop a nail polish line for cows

Foundations- Two Point Perspective (week of 4/27-5/1)

I hope everyone had a nice April break!  We are going to continue building skills with perspective by moving from one point to two point perspective.  This week we will do the same thing as last week by drawing two objects above and two below the horizon line for a total of four objects, this time in two point perspective.  Begin by drawing horizontal line in the center of the page which is your horizon line and then establish a vanishing point on the far left and far right of that line.  Begin your first of four objects by drawing a vertical line that represents the corner where the left side of the object meets the right.  Once you draw this line, connect the top and bottom of the vertical line to the two vanishing points you establish on the horizon line.  You can establish the back edges of the object  by drawing a vertical line anywhere between the two lines on each side of your initial vertical you started with.  The top or bottom can be established by using the vanishing point on the opposite side of the page.  

Watch the video below for a demonstration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sWa5ANwWC4

Take your time and don't be afraid to make mistakes and re-watch the video if necessary.  This process simply requires repetition to get comfortable with.  

Some students got ambitious last week and did both one point and two point perspective drawings.  If you already did that work, you can skip this week.  If you would like to do more practice, challenge yourself to focus on craftsmanship and make sure each line directly originates from the vanishing points.

Have fun!

Advanced Art- M.C. Escher (week of 4/27-5/1)

Please watch these three links in order to get an introduction to M.C. Escher who combined math and visual art in a powerful manner.  The first video will give you a short intro to some facts, the second will give you some great examples of what tessellations can look like.  The third video will give you a sense of what we will be doing with this project.  I will post a handout for the assignment that I feel makes the process easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcc56fRtrKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njp6yexWbfw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNVyrxdlrGQ

Please comment to let me know you watched them and if you have any comments or questions by Friday 5/1.

Some free and discounted online classes in the arts, worth checking out!

https://www.kadenze.com/courses?fbclid=IwAR2PTRO6XE_8XTPi8VlTpH_Y0SLE1bixHg__t_tzgkM7tXfpop58mCqPFJ0

Design- Architectural Design week of 4/27-5/1

Our next project will be architectural design.  To begin, here is a link to some amazing (and brief) video tours of various Frank Lloyd Wright buildings.  Please take the time to watch them all carefully and take notes to find at least 3 things you see that turn up in several (or all) of the videos that can define FLW's "style".

Make sure to sign in first and leave a comment below, due by Friday 5/1 that includes:

Three different qualities that define FLW's vision or style that reoccur in the videos.  Be as specific as possible.

Your name


https://thespaces.com/12-frank-lloyd-wright-buildings-are-now-hosting-virtual-tours/ 

ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL ART EXPLORATORY CLASSES

This week you will have a choice of three creative challenge prompts to draw (using the drawing method we always use)

When creating this consider the constraints you would have and what materials you would use:

Create a coat for a chilly cactus

Develop a chair for an octopus

Help a short necked giraffe reach the tree leaves

Please email me your creative solution by Friday the 17th before we take a week to recognize April break

Foundations 1 &2, Design, Advanced Art- Create An Ad update. GRADED ASSIGNMENT FOR Q4

The Daily Hampshire Gazette has not decided what is going to happen with Create An Ad so considering a number of factors I have decided to discontinue our work on this year's contest.

This WILL be a graded assignment for quarter 4.  Please read carefully as you work is due by Friday 4/17 before we take the week off from remote learning to acknowledge April break.

FOUNDATIONS 1&2
You should have already turned in your work buy now.  The expectation is that you have put 6 hours into designing 3 different concepts, included all of the elements outlined in the March 31st post, and developed your work based on the feedback you received from me via email.
Please email me the latest work you have by Friday and grades will be posted on Powerschool next week.  
You should also turn in part one of the Perspective project by Friday 4/17

DESIGN AND ADVANCED ART
You are expected to have put in 9 hours of work on this project designing 3 different concepts, borders and  included all of the elements outlined in the March 31st post, and developed your work based on the feedback you received from me via email.
Please email me the latest work you have by Friday and grades will be posted on Powerschool next week.  
Design should have turned in Industrial Design work as well.  Both of these projects will be graded.

Advanced Art please make sure you have turned in the finished Alphabird Project by Friday 4/17

Foundations- One Point Perspective assignment due Friday 4/17

After watching the videos in the last Perspective post we are ready for the first part of this assignment, one point perspective. The purpose of using perspective is to create the illusion of an object receding into space. Your assignment is to create two objects above the horizon line and two below. (The object must have four sides, so no triangles)  I recommend placing your horizon line in the center of the page so it leaves you with plenty of room.

Watch the video that I emailed to you and please comment with any questions below. Use a pencil and any straight edge you have available.

This assignment is due by Friday April 17th and will be graded.

Please take a picture and email it to me by that date. 

Ceramics Slabs sketches are due by Wednesday 4/15, Untraditional Tiles are due by Friday 4/17

You should have turned in sketches for slabs by now and gotten feedback from me. Make sure you developed those sketches based on the feedback and get images of those sketches to me by Wednesday April 15.

Untraditional Tiles sketches are due this week so if you have not emailed me images to look at, make sure I have them by Friday 4/10 and then you turn in finished sketches by next Friday where you develop your sketches based on the feedback I give you.

Please remember that you are expected to put in about two hours of work per week so if you send a 15 minute sketch I will ask you to put in the time before showing me your work.

Both of these assignments will be graded so make sure you do your best work and email me with questions please.

Have fun and be creative!!

Handy

If you are bored at home and want to spend $1.99, this app, Handy is amazing for references.  You can choose point of view and lighting.  The only way to learn anatomy is practice and this is a fun tool to help!

Design-Industrial Design project

This will be your first graded project for quarter 4

What does an industrial designer do?

 Almost every factory-made object has been designed or planned by an industrial designer.These designers make detailed drawings of 3-D objects to show sizes, shapes and textures of the product. They specify the materials and processes of manufacturing. Often, industrial designers will also make models of the product for testing. Industrial designers try to anticipate all the ways a person might use --or misuse--the object. Industrial designers are artists. It is their job to make products look good because as Raymond Loewy, an influential industrial designer, said, "Ugliness doesn't sell." Henry Dreyfuss, one of the great industrial designers of the twentieth century, sums up the role of the industrial designer, "If people are made safer, more comfortable, more efficient-or just plain happier, the designer has succeeded."

Choose an everyday piece of furniture that you want to improve.  You can begin by searching: Industrial design furniture to get some ideas flowing.  Maybe you have a piece of furniture in your home that you don't find comfortable or aesthetically pleasing.

Divide a sheet of paper in half and make two lists. On one side list all the things the object does well--the things you like about it. On the other side, list the things the object does poorly--the things you dislike about it.

Note the changes you want to make on your thumbnail sketches. They should include changes in size, shape, materials, and color.

Your finished image will show two distinctly different points of view in the same scale of your re-designed item.

Send a picture of your sketches by the end of the week.  Email if you have questions

All Middle School Exploratory for the week of 4/6-4/10

hi everyone!  I hope everyone is doing well at home!  Every week will be doing a half hour's worth of work to keep up our skills.  Please remember every drawing should always be done with the same process we have used since day one with basic shapes, center line, construction lines etc...

As we discussed on day one, make sure if you do not see your class on the first page, you scroll to the bottom and click "older posts".

Take your drawing from last week with the there overlapping objects and create at least 6 DIFFERENT values using hatching and crosshatching.  Again, no scribbling or blending.  Focus on your craftsmanship.

Email or comment on this post with questions.  Please email a picture of your work when complete.

Foundations 1 and 2- Perspective

Please carefully watch these videos on one point and two point perspective.   

LEAVE A COMMENT on this post after watching the videos carefully. (give yourself a half hour)  Let me know if a) this makes sense or b) what questions you have so far

We will be working towards creating drawings of objects both above and below the horizon line in BOTH one and two point perspective as well as a series of evenly spaced objects receding back into space.  This will be the first graded project of quarter four.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByTxhyGtk-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFE8X6vqIbA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29-bPAhvzFI


Foundations 2- 3 point perspective
These are two different approaches.  We will be using rulers to craft our pieces in class.  You will all need a high resolution photo reference on your chrome books featuring at least 3 skyscrapers next to each other.  Consider your perspective from either a worm's eye or bird's eye perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI6BsHnpGfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu2iZf8Jyfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwcldMKlzjg