LINES

Visual Elements: LINE

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Lines in Art: IMPLIED LINES, simplicity to complexity.

TASKS

A.- Lines create forms:

Use an A4 sheet of paper and draw a shape with a pencil.You will have to work as the following example with a felt pen. When finished, erase the pencil. Do not use a ruler!.

Here you will find another example: La línea y la almeja.

B.- Lines create shapes:

 

Take a sheet of paper and create drawings using a continuous line (outline), similar to those you have seen in the video.

Have a look at last year's assignments.

• The ARTIST's Toolkit: LINE. Work in Line and Edge and Outline. 

• Line design. Learn about lines and afterwards, draw lines with feelings. Draw these kind of lines:

• Artist: Pablo Picasso. Have a look to this slideshow: Dibujos de un solo trazo: PICASSO.

• Create your own drawing only with ONE LINE with this online tool: trazotool.
• Another tool to use: Dibujator.
• ArtPad. You will use a special mouse depending on the line size. And replay!
• Brushster: Have a look to this presentation. Now, you can create your own non-representational (abstract) piece of art with Brushster.

• Artist: Keith Haring. Look at these videos: 

 

Now you can play with Haring.

• Artist: George Seurat (pointillism). Click here to go to a new game. You will learn about line types and composition.

• Artist: Robert Delaunay. Click here to play.

Viewfinder... and doodles, by the way

The viewfinder is an invaluable resource for artists in composing a picture for painting. Simply put, a viewfinder is a piece of card with a rectangular window cut in the middle. It works like a window and helps the artist to find compositions for painting. All the artist has to do is look through.

It can be held in various ways to edit the view in front. First of all, you can hold it to create a PORTRAIT VIEW (vertical) or a LANDSCAPE VIEW (horizontal):

Sometimes you can create more sophisticated viewfinders...

Adjustable frame to choose different formats

To place the main lines of the composition

With self-adhesive Velcro to choose the format and size

Another use of a viewfinder:
You can use a viewfinder as an isolation frame to choose a piece of a drawing which is going to be your next drawing to develop.
For example:

Susan Sorrell:  "...Doodling is my main inspiration for my artwork. I like the letting go and just playing with shapes and designs..never knowing what I will come up with. I try to fill up a page in my sketch book as a challenge to my creative side. As soon as the page is filled, I pull out my trusty isolation frame to find my ideas for my next painting."

Susan Sorrell's doodle with the isolation frame to choose the part she is interested in.



Final artwork by Susan Sorrell

• A doodle is an unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes. I'm sure all of as have done doodles.

Example of a doodle

• A doodle is also an icon by Google to commemorate a special event. More about doodles here.

TASK
Making a viewfinder is quite easy. We have built a simple one in class to practice with it. For homework you will have to build a better one using a cardboard.

Practicing Art Styles

INTERPRETATING ASSIGNMENTS

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Task 1: Some examples  of students

TASK 1: Task interpretating drawings

TASK 2: Task Interpretating a Picture

Besides, you have to explain your abstract pictures (of course in English): why you have used some colours, shapes, lines... what your intentions or your feelings are... You are the creator, so, explain your creation.

Image and Perception

Image and Perception

Do not forget!

• Task 1: Find in the magazines in the classroom images of the different finalities we have studied. Cut them out and glue in a piece of paper.
• Task 2: Manipulating an image. Find a large photograph you like: a favourite musician, car, landscape... Cut your picture into horizontal or vertical strips. Make the strips as wide as you like. Create a feeling of distortion by guing the strips onto the space provided, using a certain order you have previously decided. For example, light to dark, different heights, every third strip upside down, etc. Although it is a simple activity, it can have interesting results if you first think about what effect you wish to create.

Here you will find some examples of Image manipulation.

Portraits: Picasso

Picasso was a Spanish painter (Málaga 1881-1973). He is widely known for co-founding CUBISM (CUBIST Movement).

You are going to learn how to create a portrait in Picasso´s double face style. Follow the instructions and... I´m not going to stop the video, so...

LET'S DO IT!



Part 2

• Picassohead. Be an interactive Picasso.

Self-portraits: Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi) (1527 – 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books – that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.

QUIZ: (In Spanish, for 4th ESO)

El test de Arcimboldo on PhotoPeach

• Archimboldo Art Creator. Try to create a portrait using just fruit and vegetables, you only have to drag them.
• Archimboldo Art Producer. Try to create a portrait using just fruit and vegetables (and a few other odds and ends). Click help button to see how to use the program.
• Food-Archimboldo. A different tool to create portraits whith fruits.

• You will make a self-portrait collage inspired by Archimboldo.

Self-portraits: Typography

Bob Dylan, by CaliburlerSoul

Another way of making a portrait is using typography instead of making a collage or paint. Have a look to 45 amazing Type Faces- Typographic Portraits. Really amazing!

Le's make something similar with your pictures just writing your name (or your sign).
Here you will find some typographic portraits created by students like you.

• Wordificator. Upload your jpg picture, write words you like and... "wordificate" it! 
  
• Typisart. Create faces using letters.
• Typedrawing.
• Robotype.

  

Self-portraits: Explore your identity

There are many different ways to make a self-portrait. It doesn’t have to be a traditional drawing or a painting of your face. Enjoy this video:

Idea from: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/selfport.htm#Names

Making a self-portrait is a great way to express and explore your identity.

The idea is to do the silhouettes of your head and fill in your head with a magazine collage of what is going in your brain, what you prefer, what you are fond of...

Ideas to get you started: clothes, music, words, sports, food, people you admire, singers, actors...
Trace your head on two white papers (using the window). Then filled in the head shape with magazine images in one of the papers. The second one will be the template of the final frame of your self-portrait, so, you will have to cut out the inside part. Let's do it.

Here you will find some examples made by last year students.

Mythological monsters

Let's see how creative you are.
First of all you have to find out the meaning of these words and add them to your vocabulary list:

• abominable snowman
• android
• dragon
• Martian
• mermaid
• nessie
• ogre
• phoenix
• robot
• snowman
• sphinx
• ghost
• unicorn
• vampire
• werewolf

Afterwards, you will have to choose two of them and create a drawing to be painted in a sheet of paper (A4). You can choose the techniques you feel are most appropriate for the task (free style techniques).

Last but not least, you will have to explain your drawing on the back page (of course, in English).

You will see your drawings published in this blog very soon.

• Create your own beast with Beast Blender:

 

Halloween is coming... and we discover the symmetry

You have been given one Halloween character to complete the missing part. You can not trace it, nor measure more than 4 or 5 points in order to get the mirror image.

Symmetrical hanging

Halloween's Vocabulary

• Halloween's vocabulary 1.
• Halloween's vocabulary 2.
• Halloween's vocabulary 3 activity.
• Halloween's vocabulary 4 activity.
• Skeleton's vocabulary:
• Halloween vocabulary:

Enjoy:

Who are we?

I would like you to introduce yourselves.

Just pick on "comentarios", under this post, and write your name followed by the initial of your surname and your course. You can tell me which your hobbies are or whatever you want.

Example:

Nadia C. 1ºA. Hello teacher. My hobbies are basketball and dancing.

This is a task I like doing when we begin a new course. It let me meet you, know your names and, by the way, we work with a "popurrí" of items which we are going to work with along the next nine months.

I realize you don't understand very well what your are doing now. Don't worry. We will hang them in our cork and we will have good references for the different topics we are going to deal with such as technical drawing (parallelism, perpendicularity, Tales), image, colours, textures, visual elements, design process, sketches...

You will see your drawings published in this blog very soon....