Objects and Viewpoints

Objects and Viewpoints

What can you say about these images?

Lesson 1: Still Life

Q1. What is a still life?

Q2. What then, is NOT still life?

Q3. Why have artists used still life?

Q4. How might we create our own still life in our lesson?

NOW: ON THE PAPER IN FRONT OF YOU: Write down the following questions

GROUP QUIZ (6 groups)

Still LifeA1.Inanimate objects, not living, arranged in a particular way used by artists to improve drawing or painting skills. These objects could be natural or man made.

A2.Moving living things, the human body.

A3. As a way of practicing drawing and painting to improving skills and create artwork.

A4. By arranging objects and recording them from a specific viewpoint

Still LifePortrayal of something inanimate: a representation of inanimate objects such as fruit, flowers, or food, often in a domestic setting, in paintings, pictures, or photographs.

1. With your neighbours (2s or 3s)…

• Use the materials to make small abstract sculptures

• Bend, squeeze, tie, fold, roll

• Organise your sculptures in a still life arrangement which you’ll draw

YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES

STARTER ACTIVITY

2. Gestural drawings

Make a small drawing of the objects from the angle you are sitting at. You have 60 SECONDS to include ALL of it

3. Continuous line

Now repeat the drawing using one continuous line- you must NOT take your pencil off the page until the drawing is complete

4. Contour Drawing

Use the remaining time up until the last 10 minutes of the lesson to make a detailed outline drawing

Preparation: Now that you can see how much information you can record in a short amount of time, you are going to create a REALISTIC version of your piece.

Using all the techniques you have already tried, create an OBSEVATIONAL drawing of your chosen objects. ALWAYS LOOK AT YOUR OBJECTS.

MAIN ACTIVITY

Using a green pen… WWW, EBIWhich is your best technique? why? how could you improve your work?

Lesson 2: Tonal ink study

Tonal ink study

What is a tonal ink study?

What do we mean by study?

What kind of Ink?

What method do we use?

Recap from last week:

What is ‘still life’?

What is the purpose of ‘still life’?

What object is our ‘still life’ today?

Lesson objective:

Produce a tonal ink study from a single viewpoint.

Tonal ink study

Success criteria:

1. Use three tones

2. No outline

3. Add a shadow under the object

A tonal ink study is a type of artwork produced using multiple layers of ink. It does not contain outline, but it does contain light and dark areas.

* Year 8 examples

NOW: Analyse this Art work…• What is the

medium?

• What is it?

• Describe the tones.

• Describe the shapes?

• Who is the artist?

• Subject matter?

NOW: On the piece of paper you must all write at least ONE key word to describe the art work

GROUP ACTIVITY

Jim Dineborn 1935, America

• Jim Dine is an American pop artist.

• Jim Dine is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, illustrator, performance artist, stage designer and poet.

• He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, in conjunction with musician John Cage.

• In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground-breaking New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps at the Norton Simon Museum.

Lesson 3: Negative Space

Negative space

• Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space occasionally is used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image.

Negative space

Drawing negative space

Negative space, used in a FedEx logo

Lesson 4: The Hand of the Artist

Drawing Hands by M. C. Escher Drawing Hands is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in January 1948. It depicts a sheet of paper out of which, from wrists that remain flat on the page, two hands rise, facing each other and in the paradoxical act of drawing one another into existence. Although Escher used paradoxes in his works often, this is one of the most obvious examples.

NowProduce a drawing in the style of the artist M C Escher

Success Criteria:• The hand you draw must be life size (1:1 scale)• Add detail of your skin texture• Your drawing must include a background

NOW: Analyse this Art work…• What is the

medium?

• What is it?

• Describe the tones?

• Describe the shapes?

• Who is the artist?

• What is the subject matter?NOW: On the piece of paper you must all write at least ONE

key word to describe the art work

GROUP ACTIVITY

Lesson 5: Michael Craig-Martin

NOW: Analyse this Art work…• What is the

medium?

• What is it?

• Describe the tones.

• Describe the shapes?

• Who is the artist?

• Subject matter?

NOW: On the piece of paper you must all write at least ONE key word to describe the art work

GROUP ACTIVITY

Michael Craig-Martinborn 1941, Ireland

• Michael Craig-Martin, CBE RA, is a contemporary conceptual artist and painter.

• He is noted for fostering the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught, and for his conceptual artwork, An Oak Tree.

• He is Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths

Lesson 6: Charcoal and chalk tonal study

* Example

Lesson 7: Monoprinting

Image 1

Image 2

Image 3

Setup

Ink up

skim with newsprint

Place paper down

Place photo down. Start to draw!

You must use a range of mark making techniques to describe the shape and texture of the object.

Pencil marks, before Ink Monoprint, after

Light and dark tone? Mark making? 3D form? Contrast? Texture?

Background? Foreground? Negative space? Expressive?

* Example

Lesson 8: Giorgio Morandi

Artist: Giorgio Morandi b. 1890 , d. 1964

• He was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialised in still life.

• His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety.

• He often paints and draws simple subjects, such as vases, bottles and bowls.

Think pair share:

What do you notice about the viewpoints?

Medium: Ink / mexed mediaLesson objective:By the end of the lesson everyone will produce a tonal ink drawing. You will be using black ink or mixed media, working from the lightest tone to the darkest tone. Remember to use the whole page and consider composition.

Arrange items such as paint pots and bottles to produce an interesting still life in the style of Morandi.

Homework: 1

Produce a full colour copy of a work by the artist Michael Craig Martin. See examples below or pick your own.

Success criteria:

1. Use vibrant colour2. Use a fine pen to outline the shapes3. Fill the entire a4 page.

Homework: 1

Produce a full colour copy of a work by the artist Michael Craig Martin. See examples below or pick your own.

Success criteria:

1. Use vibrant colour2. Use a fine pen to outline the shapes3. Fill the entire a4 page.

Homework: 2

Draw the corner of your bedroom as illustrated in the example below. You should use tonal pencil or charcoal for this homework.

Success criteria:1. Draw at least 5 objects in situ 2. Use at least 3 tones.3. Make sure to add lots of detail 4. Fill the whole a4 page

Homework: 2

Draw the corner of your bedroom as illustrated in the example below. You should use tonal pencil or charcoal for this homework.

Success criteria:1. Draw at least 5 objects in situ 2. Use at least 3 tones.3. Make sure to add lots of detail 4. Fill the whole a4 page

Additional examples:

Homework: 3

Arrange a series of object to form a temporary still life. Draw this using tonal pencil or charcoal from an interesting viewpoint.

Success criteria:1. Draw at least 5 balancing objects2. Use at least 3 tones.3. Make sure to add lots of detail 4. Fill the whole a4 page

Homework: 3

Arrange a series of object to form a temporary still life. Draw this using tonal pencil or charcoal from an interesting viewpoint.

Success criteria:1. Draw at least 5 balancing objects2. Use at least 3 tones.3. Make sure to add lots of detail 4. Fill the whole a4 page

1. Use a range of tones2. Add lots of detail3. Fill the A4 page

4. Create an interesting composition

Success criteria…

Year 8 cover: Objects and viewpoints

• Produce an A4 tonal drawing of an arrangement of objects from your pockets. You should use objects such as your keys and things from you pencil case. NO PHONE OR LANYARD allowed.