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Art Knowledge:
Lesson 4
This lesson describes how you may suggest depth and distance in your art.
The eye automatically recognizes that some things are close to us
and some farther away from us. We can call these features simple perspective.
Using a horizon line. Horizons most often appears in an outdoor
setting. The horizon is always the farthest possible distance away. It
generally separates earth from the sky. Sometimes the horizon or eye level
is covered by objects and is hidden. But eye level will always be the
horizon.
Foreground is near the bottom of the picture frame,
middle ground is between bottom and horizon and
background is the area closest to the horizon.
Overlapping objects
indicates that one form is closer than another because it blocks the object
partly. If you just glance around you will see objects that are nearer
to you blocking objects farther away.
Raising in the picture frame (picture plane) toward the horizon. This
locates regions known as foreground, middleground and background.
Darkness and detail of near objects presents these to our eye as
being closer to the viewer.
*When
you are drawing a picture representing 3 dimensional space, you will also
need to draw forms so as to make them look 3 dimensional.
Simple size change, and overlapping.
Imagine some of these flags and balloons being closer because they are
larger and they overlap objects that are behind them.
This
line sketch illustrates size change and overlapped landscape features.
The addition of tone using a liquid wash or a dry medium such as pastel
brings 3 dimensional solidity to the objects.
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Art Skills:
Lesson 4
SKILLS TO WORK ON IN THIS LESSON:
Continue drawing the E-Z way to produce straight and curves. Applying
tone to objects, shading gradations (light to dark)
Applying wash tones with brush.
Using dry medium (chalk, pastel) to produce tone within areas or objects.
Take a half of a stick of a color of pastel remember we are using this
medium for tone rather than matching colors.
Firmly stroke an area of color on a piece of paper so that you have a
concentration of that tone to use as a palette. Use a piece of a cotton
ball or a q-tip to add tone to the area you want to show shadowed.
Observation skills: Recognizing the horizon as an important reference
to distance.
Most out of doors
photos can reveal the position of the horizon or eye level. Here are some
examples of Near and Far images, with near objects over- lapping more
distant objects.
ACTIVITIES FOR LESSON
4:
Use your imagination or find a picture of outdoor objects. Use a horizon
to represent the most distance at eye level. Include both near by and
far objects. Forms in the distance are closer to horizon. Repeat some
objects. Use overlapping to show how one object stands in front of another.
Hint: use your imagination and don't skimp on the creations living
in your world.
Places
to see the work of great artists.
THESE ARE SOME OF
THE ART SKILL LESSONS (DEMOS) WE WILL COVER
WITH A LITTLE PRACTICE THEY CAN BE APPLIED QUICKLY TO YOUR OWN ART
EXPRESSION.
THESE SKILLS APPLY EASILY TO ALMOST ANY AGE OR CLASS LEVEL
THE
ART SKILL LESSONS (DEMOS) COVERED IN THE MINI - ART SERIES:
PRACTICE SHOULD GO ALONG WITH EACH LESSON
APPLY PRINCIPLES TO YOUR OWN ART EXPRESSION.
THESE SKILLS APPLY EASILY TO ALMOST ANY AGE OR CLASS LEVEL FROM
AGE 10 UP
Lesson 1: Drawing the easy way. The
difference between, compositions, studies and sketches. Thumbnail
sketches. What are paradigms? Paradigms that apply to creativity.
Three parts in any creative art project. Terms: line, space, shape,
art media.
Lesson 2: Review EZ drawing. Expressive
lines, Descriptive lines, Shapes. 2 dimensional forms, 3 dimensional
masses, shading, illumination. Using tone in drawing and sketching
- Reminder: please have a small plastic container to use for wash
drawings next week
Lesson 3: Exploring drawing 3 dimensional
objects, What makes a form appear to be 3 dimensional? turning
2d into 3d forms. Interpreting common objects into 3 dimensional
components, apply methods of shading
Lesson 4: Learning to show depth using,
simple perspective. Size changes, Overlapping, Distant horizon,
raising on picture plain. Weekly sketch book assignments
Lesson 5: Using the total space, Primary
spacial breakup, Mapped spaces, Secondary stages of drawing,
using the areas within shapes. Practice interpreting pictures as
spacial areas. Weekly sketch book assignments
Lesson 6: Draw human faces, three
views of face, cartoon and caricature styles Weekly sketch book
assignments
Lesson 7: Drawing the human body, gesture,
proportion, foreshortening, quick sketch methods. You will be
a model for your partner and visa versa. Weekly sketch book assignments
Lesson 8: Compositions Interpreting themes
with forms or symbols
Lesson 9: Adding detail to drawing, black
and white and color, stylization and pattern
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updated 01-2025
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