MS Art

MS Art - Unit 3

Creative Process

Lessons 1 and 2

Mrs. Johnson​

​The Getting Started for Students?

Unit 1 - the Critical Thinking Question -

posted to Dropbox

• the Activity

• Discussion 2

Unit 2 - the Activity

Discussion 1, 2

Quiz - grading on the curve

​Have you done these?

If you have all the assignments from Units 1 and 2 done, that is awesome!!

Students are still struggling with the dropbox - are you?

Have you reached out for help? I am here to help in whatever way I can!

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​So...where are you?

Just because we aren’t physically in an art studio at this very moment doesn’t mean we can’t learn all about art as if we were! In this unit, we will gather all of the information we can about creating art as if we were in an actual studio. We will explore different types of genres and styles that many artists use and learn about the differences between representational and abstract art. We may not be stepping into an art studio to do this work, but we sure will step into a digital one! Let’s get started!

​Lesson 1 - Finding inspiration

All artists have different things that inspire them. This could be anything under the sun. It could be a mood they are in or a feeling they are having. It could be something they saw with their own eyes or something they’ve heard about. It could be an animal that they love or a special person who is a part of their life. It could be a book they read or a lesson they recently learned. It could be a song that was just played or an adventure that took them to new places. There are so many things that inspire artists to create artwork.

Still life is a drawing and/or painting of different objects which are arranged together and viewed from one specific viewpoint. Most of the time, these items are inanimate objects, like fruit, flowers, dishes, glasses, vases, furniture, etc.

​Still life

Representational Art is art that represents objects or events as they are seen in the real world. Still life, portrait, landscape/seascape, and history painting are all types of representational art. They all show things exactly how we would see them, or how they really are.

​Representational

Two types of art

Multiple Select

Representational art is: (more than one choice)

• still life

• portrait

• history painting

• landscape/seascape

They all show things exactly how we would see them, or how they really are.

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Representational art

Multiple Choice

Still life paintings are:

• groups of objects grouped together to be drawn or painted.

• Vibrant, colorful, active

• Not a representational part of art

When creating an arrangement of objects for a still life drawing, it’s great to use objects with different sizes, textures, shapes, and things of that nature. It’s like you’re creating a scene with these objects, and that scene is being frozen in time. Those objects don’t move and neither do you.

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Still life images:

When drawing or painting a still life, artists use many different techniques to draw things just as they are seeing them. They use shading to capture exactly how the light is hitting the objects. They use different line strokes to create the different textures on each one of the objects. They create an identical image of what they see in regards to the arrangement. Of course, not all works of art are completed in one day. Sometimes, an artist needs to take a break from their drawing and come back to it. This is completely fine, but it’s important to remember that with still life your location is important. Make sure that when you return, you sit in the exact same spot you were before, so the lighting and viewpoint are the exact same and do not change in your drawing.

3-5 objects - usually use odd number of objects

• various sizes

• shapes

Pencil - #2 or mechanical

• for shading - various numbers of graphite pencils work well

Drawing paper of some type - copy paper or actual drawing paper

​Tools needed:

To draw still life images:

Make sure you have:

• read Lessons 1-5 in Unit 3

• Do the Lab

which we just talked about and write the reflection in a word document or on your drawing. Take a picture and save to your computer. Submit through dropbox.

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​Next week:

If you have all the assignments from Units 1 and 2 done, that is awesome!!

Students are still struggling with the dropbox - are you?

Have you reached out for help? I am here to help in whatever way I can!

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​So...where are you?