FUNDAMENTALS October 27th, 30th (Day 17)

WARM UP

This session will mark our 15th Art Synectic Trigger investigation. When you enter class, as usual, you will acquire your accordian book and open to the next available page. The following image will be on the screen:

This drawing by Giorgio DiChirico is in line with our previous examples of LINE from the history of art. Today you will experiment with this image through the act of FANTASIZING.

You will, on today's page, alter the image through some form of FANTASY. You are being asked to spend 10 minutes copying and changing the image by developing FANTASY in the elements in order to generate an interesting image. Consider the following in preparation for this activity:

LESSON FOR THE DAY

Today we will continue our experiment in observational drawing. Yesterday you drew your hand from observation a great many times. Today, you only need to draw five hands.  While continuing to draw hands can seem frustrating lets look at an example of the eventual finished product.

teacher example

Lets examine this drawing in order to clarify what will take place in class today.

1. You can see the background is made up of a variety of drawings, much the same as you created during our last session.
2. The five hands in the foreground are an example of what you will produce today.
3. The five hands are organized to fill the picture plane.
4. The five hands are posed to show gradual transition from each to the next.
5. The hands in transitions are painted white in order to emphasize them from the background images.
6. The hands are further re-stated in colored pencil to enhance the contrast and emphasis of the subject matter.

We will draw to start class and paint to finish. The colored pencil will be added next session after the paint has dried.

Mr. Voelker