Day 14 Bell stART ELEMENTS of DESIGN

Write in your sketch book: Thumbnail sketches are shorthand notes for artists.

Today’s Goals:1. As a class, share and analyze your homework: the contour

drawings of your feet.2. Use thumbnail sketches to aide in the composition of the

still life drawing.3. Turn-in your sketch book at the end of class today for

evaluation.

Thumbnail Sketches :Thumbnail sketches are drawing quick, abbreviated drawings. Usually, they are done very rapidly and with no corrections - you can use any medium, though pen or pencil is the most common. Thumbnails sketches are usually very small, often only an inch or two high.

Today’s Drawing Assignment:

1. In your sketch book make three thumbnail sketches of the still life

2. Choose one of the sketches as your composition

3. You will use your view finder to help increase the scale of the composition to the size of the picture plane on your sketch book paper.

4. Use your pencil to develop your final image

Day 15 Bell stART ELEMENTS of DESIGN

Write in your sketch book:

Identify three reasons to draw/create a picture plane/border when you begin a new drawing.Discuss among your tablemates and write the three reasons in your Sketch Book.

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Write in your sketch book: Proportion is a Principal of Design; it is the feeling of

unity created when all parts (sizes, amounts, or number) relate well with each other.

1. Do consider proportion of the objects in the three thumbnail sketches you draw from the “still life” on the wall.

2. Draw the thumbnail sketches in your sketch book with a pencil.

Day 16 Bell stART ELEMENTS of DESIGN

Write in your sketch book: Positive space refers to objects themselves. On the other hand, Negative space, refers to the

shapes of spaces between and around objects. This is also referred to as “figure/ground”

“figure/ground”

A white cup or two black faces? (a Gestalt psychology principal)1915 by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin.

Dragon Metamorphosis print

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

Using Negative Space : Drawing becomes easy when you master it.

In this exercise you will be drawing the space around the object, negative space, rather than the object itself. Do not forget to focus on

looking at what you are drawing as much as the drawing itself.

An India ink painting using positive and negative space.

You Tube

Water ink - BDDP Unlimited and Solidarités International

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq9mw8wR-1Q

Day 17 Bell stART ELEMENTS of DESIGN

Write in your sketch book:

Sketch Book homework:• Due Tuesday, 9/3• In a picture plane that utilizes the entire sketch book

page• Three objects in your home that you will be drawing the

space around the object, negative space, rather than the objects.

• Use your pencil or a crayon • Remember to focus on looking at what you are drawing

as much as the drawing itself.

Write in your sketch book:Today’s objective1. Use your pencil to enlarge the thumbnail onto

the designated paper2. Use India ink and your brush to cover the

ground/negative areas of the “wall-life”3. Begin by applying the lightest value , let this dry

then apply the next darker value by increasing the India ink portion to water

4. Good craftsmanship is a criteria; apply clean, fluid lines with your brush