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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: Drawing with detail, add pattern,
stylizing detail
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