1. Positive and Negative Space Project

2. Notice to All Artists!
YOUR ARTWORK WILL NOT FULLY LOOK LIKE ANY ONE ELSES.
The following steps: Create, Respond, Connect, and Connect are what you will use on your journey during this project.
These steps are designed to get you to THINK like an ARTIST!!!!

3. CREATE Anchor 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
You are to create an artwork using your choice of positive and negative space as the concept or idea.
Your choice board media are: pencil, colored pencil, oil pastel, chalk pastel, magazine, or construction paper.

4. CONNECT Collect visual resources related to your topic.
Anchor 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
Anchor 11: Relate artistic ideas and work with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.
Collect visual resources related to your topic.
Search for existing photos, websites, artworks etc.

5. Create/Present
From your collection of examples/images, begin to create thumbnail sketches. (3-5)
Use your Elements of Art and Principles of Design to formulate these sketches.
Anchor 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Anchor 4: Select, analylze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

6. Create/Present
Choose your best thumbnail sketch and create a more detail design, larger in size.
Refine your ideas by choosing color schemes and test out different mediums.
Think about how you want the final project to look.
Anchor 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
Anchor 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

7. Connect
Group Share: What parts of your artwork did you use your own experiences in? How did you bring in past or present ideas of other artists in your artwork?
Anchor 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
Anchor 11: Relate artistic ideas and work with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.

8. Respond Anchor 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
Use the criteria from this project to complete the self scoring rubric.