Independent study assignment #1
With the second semester, you will be given some freedom time to time.This is your first assignment that you can draw what you want with some parameters.
You need to begin with research in your sketchbook. This is where you will get ideas from the internet, books and other sources. These are for reference purposes ONLY, you cannot draw something that another artist has created!
You need to begin with research in your sketchbook. This is where you will get ideas from the internet, books and other sources. These are for reference purposes ONLY, you cannot draw something that another artist has created!
Here is an example of what I expect your sketchbook to look like.
Creativity in Everyday Objects
Some of the most beautiful works of art focus on the everyday. A simple mug or a piece of fruit can be an inspiration for a simple and beautiful drawing. You can concentrate on accurate shapes and values, or explore expressive line and atmospheric tone. Try drawing and painting one object in various ways and with different mediums. Do a scrapbook or sketchbook page with a sketch of your favorite mug on your kitchen table, a photo and a note about why you love it. Inspiration from the Garden and Nature
Complex natural forms can offer pleasantly forgiving subjects for drawing and painting -nobody knows if it's a wobbly line or the shape of the leaf. And they can also be challenging and complex. It's up to you. You can explore nature up close, drawing leaves and pinecones, or on a grand scale, sketching scenes |
People Who Matter: Draw Yourself, Family and Friends
Forget trying to draw portraits from washed-out, glossy-magazine celebrity photos. Draw real people. People you care about. Self-portraits guarantee you a willing model and are a time-honored way for artists to express their deepest feelings. Friends and family can be sketched as they go about their day, or drawn in detail posing. These drawings can become treasured mementos, even family heirlooms. Amazing Animals and Furry Friends
Draw your pet sleeping by the hearth, or sketch them at play. Or draw from a photograph taken in natural light, at pet's eye-level. Have a day sketching at the zoo. Zoo animals offer a range of interesting challenges - how do you draw a crocodile's skin or a leopard's spots? Create a series of scrapbook or sketchbook pages with zoo sketches. Draw the entrance with a wall or fence along the bottom of a page, and sketch the visitors looking at the exhibits. |
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Fantasy Flights of Imagination
Look at paintings in books and online for inspiration. See how artists have interpreted these themes. Do you agree with them? Bring traditional ideas into the21st century. Get friends to model for reference photos - accurate anatomy and correct fall of light and shadow is important in creating a believable fantasy. Create scrapbook or sketchbook pages that suggest a story. Stain pages with tea or diluted ink, draw decorative borders and imagine a day in the life of your dragon or witch. |
Inspiration from Literature and Film
Have you ever read a description of a character or scene in a book that comes to life in your mind so clearly, that you can see it like a movie in your head? Try drawing it! If you love a book that's been made into a movie, try to get the movie version out of your head, and read it afresh. Or try re-casting the scene with different actors. |
AP Page
Essential question: What original drawing/painting ideas are you going to generate? Are you making this personal or just for the sake of art?
How will we know if they’ve learned it?
Students will have a finished piece of art that can be considered for various competitions
What will we do if they don’t learn it?
Students will be re-taught and can utilized videos to re-work missing elements of their assignment.
What will we do if they have / have already learned?
Students can always go above and beyond the instructions to create a more challenging experience.
My students understand and can… by the end of the lesson
Understand independent studies and original thinking/project
Teks: 117.C ((2) Creative expression. The student communicates ideas through original artwork using a variety of media with appropriate skills. The student expresses thoughts and ideas creatively while challenging the imagination, fostering reflective thinking, and developing disciplined effort and progressive problem-solving skills. The student is expected to: (A) use visual solutions to create original artwork by problem solving through direct observation, original sources, experiences, narrations, and imagination; (B) communicate a variety of applications for design solutions; (C) use an understanding of copyright and public domain to appropriate imagery constituting the main focal point of original artwork when working from images rather than direct observation or imagination; (D) create original artwork to communicate thoughts, feelings, ideas, or impressions;
use an understanding of copyright and public domain to appropriate imagery constituting the main focal point of original artwork when working from images rather than direct observation or imagination;
Essential question: What original drawing/painting ideas are you going to generate? Are you making this personal or just for the sake of art?
How will we know if they’ve learned it?
Students will have a finished piece of art that can be considered for various competitions
What will we do if they don’t learn it?
Students will be re-taught and can utilized videos to re-work missing elements of their assignment.
What will we do if they have / have already learned?
Students can always go above and beyond the instructions to create a more challenging experience.
My students understand and can… by the end of the lesson
Understand independent studies and original thinking/project
Teks: 117.C ((2) Creative expression. The student communicates ideas through original artwork using a variety of media with appropriate skills. The student expresses thoughts and ideas creatively while challenging the imagination, fostering reflective thinking, and developing disciplined effort and progressive problem-solving skills. The student is expected to: (A) use visual solutions to create original artwork by problem solving through direct observation, original sources, experiences, narrations, and imagination; (B) communicate a variety of applications for design solutions; (C) use an understanding of copyright and public domain to appropriate imagery constituting the main focal point of original artwork when working from images rather than direct observation or imagination; (D) create original artwork to communicate thoughts, feelings, ideas, or impressions;
use an understanding of copyright and public domain to appropriate imagery constituting the main focal point of original artwork when working from images rather than direct observation or imagination;
