Showing posts with label figurative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label figurative. Show all posts
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Figures In Action - A Freestanding Sculpture
Videos of break dancers and sporting events and ballet rehearsals gave us practice with gesture drawings. Bent hangers cured in plaster-filled cans. Proportional bodies were built using newspaper, tape, and plaster gauze. A final coat of runny plaster put the finishing texture on the figure before applying a metallic acrylic paint.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Figures in Motion
*Studio Drawing and Painting*
Students created 4 or 5 proportional human figures in motion; the figures were simplified into shapes, collaged using colored tissue paper, and the background was painted using neutral tints and shades of acrylic paint.
Preparation: Practice drawing 'eight head adult' in sketchbook, child, take notes on gestures, thumbnails, human proportion. Spend 1 day giving extra credit for student models and quick gesture drawings in sketchbook. Show gesture drawing techniques so students can choose their own style. Provide figure drawing packets--people in various dance, video game-like action poses, etc.
Student Checklist:
4-5 figures sketched in motion
figures follow the average rules of human proportion
collage is used on figure shapes
background is painted using neutral tints and shades
neatness: did you need to sharpen the figure's edges after paint was applied? (pencil, pen, paint)
Students created 4 or 5 proportional human figures in motion; the figures were simplified into shapes, collaged using colored tissue paper, and the background was painted using neutral tints and shades of acrylic paint.
Preparation: Practice drawing 'eight head adult' in sketchbook, child, take notes on gestures, thumbnails, human proportion. Spend 1 day giving extra credit for student models and quick gesture drawings in sketchbook. Show gesture drawing techniques so students can choose their own style. Provide figure drawing packets--people in various dance, video game-like action poses, etc.
Student Checklist:
4-5 figures sketched in motion
figures follow the average rules of human proportion
collage is used on figure shapes
background is painted using neutral tints and shades
neatness: did you need to sharpen the figure's edges after paint was applied? (pencil, pen, paint)
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Brown Bag Figurative Portrait in an Interior Space.
*Studio Drawing and Painting*
Students drew seated classmates and glued them into an imagined interior space using oil pastel contours, tempera, and colored pencil patterns.
Artists to show: Alice Neel, Henri Matisse
Student Checklist:
PowerPoint on Alice Neel and Henri Matisse
Interior Space contours drawn in pencil and oil pastel on large brown grocery bag
drew 2 long seated poses of classmates on brown lunchbags
cut out figure(s) and glued into interior
painted with Tempera. Showed value gradients and mix with like/analogous colors
chose one pattern from fabric swatches and used colored pencils. Pattern must be apparent in at least 2 different areas to create movement and balance.
Both figure and background should have pattern.
Facial expression practice in sketchbook--figure(s) should show an emotion in final work.
Students drew seated classmates and glued them into an imagined interior space using oil pastel contours, tempera, and colored pencil patterns.
Artists to show: Alice Neel, Henri Matisse
Student Checklist:
PowerPoint on Alice Neel and Henri Matisse
Interior Space contours drawn in pencil and oil pastel on large brown grocery bag
drew 2 long seated poses of classmates on brown lunchbags
cut out figure(s) and glued into interior
painted with Tempera. Showed value gradients and mix with like/analogous colors
chose one pattern from fabric swatches and used colored pencils. Pattern must be apparent in at least 2 different areas to create movement and balance.
Both figure and background should have pattern.
Facial expression practice in sketchbook--figure(s) should show an emotion in final work.
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| Before tempera and colored pencils were applied... |
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| STUDENT WORK |
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| STUDENT WORK |
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