Connector • Look at the textures you created last lesson.

Now look at a a Karl Blossfeldt photograph.

• Can you identify at least 2 textures in your work which appear in the Karl Blossfeldt photograph?

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• Watch demo

• Begin drawing from Karl Blossfeldts work

• Practice tone

• Add tone and texture

Learning outcomes

• All will begin to draw from their chosen Karl Blossfeldt photograph

• Most will be able to identify a few different textures shown in Karl Blossfeldt’s work and apply them to their own work

• Some will be able to accurately combine at least 4 levels of tone and several different textures in their Karl Blossfeldt drawing

Who was Karl Blossfeldt?

• Karl Blossfeldt 1865- 1932

• German artist

• Began his artistic career as a sculptor and teacher of art.

• Now most famous for producing photographs of seeds and plants which he originally used to educate his pupils about patterns in nature

• He was self-taught in photography.

• Blossfeldt merged art and science by making a homemade camera that could magnify the plants and seeds he photographed up to thirty times there actual size.

• He was able to revealed extraordinary details about the surface and structure of plants.

• It was not until 1928 at the age of 63 that he became world famous when he released a book about his photography which amazed everyone

In 2001 his book, Urformen der Kunst was included on a list of 101 Books which were voted most important photographic books of the Twentieth Century.

Review

1. Karl Blossfeldt is a good artist to look at for our natural forms project because ...............................

2. The textures I have created relate (link) to Karl Blossfeldt’s work because......................................

3. Being able to create texture in my own work is important because ....................................................

Texture

improve

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Level 4

photographs

Natural forms

Black and white

detail

Karl Blossfeldt Your mark making