Studio Art Daily Plans Livoti 9-19 to 9/23

Monday 9-19 Aim: How can you create balance and movement while using sharpie to complete your design? Do now: Look at the images below, which one do you think shows movement? Homework: Poster Contest for “Pink October” Complete in your sketchbook! See handout for guidelines.

Balance Designs should always achieve a sense of visual balance- how the art elements are distributed in a design. You shouldn’t place all your same elements of art on the same side and place on the paper. This could make one part of your artwork seem “heavy”. Shepard Fairey

Movement When your artwork is balanced, it creates movement: How your eye is lead around a design. Your eye does not get “stuck” on one part of the design. This creates a visual flow and can help people understand your artwork better. Edgar Degas

Sharpie techniques

Gradation: a transition from light to dark values Stippling: Creating a gradation with dots Hatching: creating a gradation with parallel lines Cross Hatching: Creating a gradation with overlapping line

Do now: #transformationtuesday Tuesday 9/20 Aim: How can you continue to use sharpie to create pattern and movement? Do now: #transformationtuesday Describe how your project has “transformed” so far HW: Pink October Poster contest due Friday Quiz on Thursday/ Project due Thursday by end of period! NAHS applications due by TOMORROW!

Wed 9-21 Aim: How can you continue to build contrast in your abstract designs? Do now: Review for Quiz Homework: Projects due by Thurs! Pink October contest due Friday

Thursday 9-22 Aim: How can you add finishing touches to your project? Do now: Quiz Projects are due today! We will complete a brief critique and fill out a rubric together HW Pink October contest due Friday

Friday 9-23 Aim: How can you collaborate with other students to create art? Do now: period 5 will go to room 123 with your colored pencils Sketchbook check/super sketchbook of the week! HW Pink October contest due Today

Monday 9/26 Aim: How can the Mexican festival Dia De Los Muertos inspire your mixed media self-portrait? Do Now:

BALANCE: Dia De Los Muertos Mixed Media Self- Portrait Project

Dia de los Muertos—the Day of the Dead—is a holiday celebrated on November 1. Although marked throughout Latin America, Dia de los Muertos is most strongly associated with Mexico, where the tradition originated. Assured that the dead would be insulted by mourning or sadness, Dia de los Muertos celebrates the lives of the deceased with food, drink, parties, and activities the dead enjoyed in life. Dia de los Muertos recognizes death as a natural part of the human experience, a continuum with birth, childhood, and growing up to become a contributing member of the community. The most familiar symbol of Dia de los Muertos may be the calacas and calaveras (skeletons and skulls), which appear everywhere during the holiday: in candied sweets, as parade masks, as dolls. Calacas and calaveras are almost always portrayed as enjoying life, often in fancy clothes and entertaining situations. http://education.nationalgeographic.com/media/dia-de-los-muertos/

In some of these photos, masks and other decorations are only half-decorated with calacas and calaveras. Why?

Vocab to know: Form Actual Form: A three-dimensional object Implied form: The illusion of an object appearing 3D on paper

Balance: The visual weight within a composition. Symmetry: A mirror image, the design is equally balanced on each side. Asymmetry: Balanced on each side, but not equal and not a mirror image. How could this become asymmetrical?

Project Goal: Observationally draw a skull Observationally draw a portrait Combine the two drawings together Overlay designs that represent your personality! Get creative! Use mixed media Use shading techniques and collage

Artist Connection José Guadalupe Posada (February 2, 1852 – January 20, 1913) was a Mexican political printmaker and engraver whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and cartoonists because of its satirical acuteness and social engagement. He used skulls, calaveras, and skeletons to make political and cultural critiques. http://www.moma.org/artists/4707?=undefined&page=1&direction=

A Jig Beyond the Grave

Don’t Forget Me