FUNDAMENTALS OF ART November 6th, 7th (Day 2.1)

WARMUP

This session will mark our 17th Art Synectic Trigger investigation. When you enter class, as usual, you will acquire your sketch book and open to the next available page. The following image will be on the screen:

This work by Norman Rockwell is the frame work for today's investigation. Today you will experiment with this image through the action ANALOGIZE.

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

LESSON FOR THE DAY:

For our next unit of study we will be combining Art Elements and Design Principles as the foundation for an abstract collage. There is a great deal of information in that statement that will need to be explained.

We start with Art Elements:

LINE
SHAPE
COLOR
TEXTURE
VALUE
FORM
SPACE

The Art Elements are the building blocks of art. They explained in more detail in the graphic below:

And now the Design Principles:

BALANCE

CONTRAST

RHYTHM

MOVEMENT

PATTERN

EMPHASIS

VARIETY

UNITY

TRANSITION

The Design Principles are used to organize the Elements of Art in a composition. They are explained in more detail in the graphic below:

We will be using the Art Elements and Design Principles in random combination with one another. A few examples of such are as follows:

MOVEMENT through the use of LINE

         (Where-in LINEs are used to demonstrate MOVEMENT)

BALANCE through the use of SHAPE

          (Where-in SHAPEs are used to demonstrate BALANCE)

VARIETY through the use of TEXTURE

         (Where-in TEXTUREs are produced to show VARIETY)

The combinations are many. You will be randomly assigned a combination to experiment with throughout the course of the unit.

Remember to come prepared for class with a sharpened pencil.

Mr. Voelker