Learning Intentions
Students will work with a partner to discuss the communication through symbols using descriptive adjectives.
Students will create their names using words
Standard: Relate and Connect to Transfer- Visual art has inherent characteristics and expressive Use interpersonal skills and the practice of artmaking to learn and work with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Studio Habit of Mind- Observe: Learn to look at things more closely, and thereby, see things that otherwise may not of been seen.
Students will work with a partner to discuss the communication through symbols using descriptive adjectives.
Students will create their names using words
Standard: Relate and Connect to Transfer- Visual art has inherent characteristics and expressive Use interpersonal skills and the practice of artmaking to learn and work with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Studio Habit of Mind- Observe: Learn to look at things more closely, and thereby, see things that otherwise may not of been seen.
|
|
Mark Making Activity One
Oodles of Noodles Imagine trying to draw a plate of spaghetti or noodles, or a tangled ball of wool or string. Daunting? Or liberating, perhaps? This is an approach that allows you to respond more expressively...
This exercise is a great way to get you thinking about ways of mark making, the purposes of drawing, and how best to employ the visual/formal elements of line, tone, texture, shape, color, pattern, form, space.
Here's a suggested sequence:
Oodles of Noodles Imagine trying to draw a plate of spaghetti or noodles, or a tangled ball of wool or string. Daunting? Or liberating, perhaps? This is an approach that allows you to respond more expressively...
This exercise is a great way to get you thinking about ways of mark making, the purposes of drawing, and how best to employ the visual/formal elements of line, tone, texture, shape, color, pattern, form, space.
Here's a suggested sequence:
- Prepare your tangled lines - cook some spaghetti; tangle a ball of string; confoodle your noodles...
- Produce a series of observational studies using a range of media (pencil, pens, brushes, dip pens, sticks, ink, chalk, charcoal etc.) working at a range of scales (highly intricate pencil studies; experiments larger-than-a-small-house, for example).
- Consider the skills required for accurate (photo-realistic) recording. How do these compare to those needed for looser, more expressive, less constrained responses?
- What gives a particular response more 'value' than another - not in financial terms, but in its visual, instinctive or intellectual appeal?
- How might your tangled reference be used to provoke further experimental, abstracted, or expressive responses?