Welcome to the "10 Day (or lesson) Art Challenge!"
Where you will participate in 10 seperate assignments, based on who you are as an individual and the different things that represent you in your life, using a variety of art medium and projects!
This assignment is an excellent way for myself to get to know you as a student.
Lesson Objective: Can I re-create myself in a non-traditional self-portrait?
Challenge One: Creating a non-traditional self-portrait of yourself, including a list of "10 facts about you".
Refer to the Collage "Self-Portrait Link on this website"
(1) On a blank sheet in your sketchbooks, create a list of 10 facts about yourself. Think of the different things you like or don't like and what represents you as a unique individual.
(2) It is nice to see yourself in a different light sometimes; to have someone show you your unique characteristics. Howard Gardner is a well-known psychologist who proposed the idea that every human being is capable of eight different types of intelligence; going against the ideas of Piaget (another psychologist) and I.Q. Testing. This idea states that each human being has been created uniquely, possessing different skills and talents, abilities and intelligences, not measured by simply an I.Q Level. The eight different types of intelligence are: Linguistic Intelligence, (written and spoken language), Logical-Mathematical Intelligence, (analyze and problem-solve), Musical Intelligence, (performance, composition, musical talents), Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence, (Potentional of using one's body, learning by doing), Spatial Intelligence, (Potential to recognize patterns in space), Interpersonal Intelligence, (Understanding motivations, desires and intentions of other people), Intrapersonal Intelligence, (Understanding one's self, motivations and desires).
(3) Let's see what unique intelligence make you who you are! Complete the Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Quiz (below) and paste your results into your sketchbook.
(4) Choose your favourite colour, and paint that colour onto a background of your sketchbook.
(5) Create an outline or shadow of your head, neck and shoulders and fill in the blank area with different pictures, words and images that describe you into a collage.
(6) When your collage is complete, outline your work to stand out against the colour on the page for completion.
Use your "10 facts about me" and Gardner's Intelligence Quiz as a guide for ideas!
(1) On a blank sheet in your sketchbooks, create a list of 10 facts about yourself. Think of the different things you like or don't like and what represents you as a unique individual.
(2) It is nice to see yourself in a different light sometimes; to have someone show you your unique characteristics. Howard Gardner is a well-known psychologist who proposed the idea that every human being is capable of eight different types of intelligence; going against the ideas of Piaget (another psychologist) and I.Q. Testing. This idea states that each human being has been created uniquely, possessing different skills and talents, abilities and intelligences, not measured by simply an I.Q Level. The eight different types of intelligence are: Linguistic Intelligence, (written and spoken language), Logical-Mathematical Intelligence, (analyze and problem-solve), Musical Intelligence, (performance, composition, musical talents), Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence, (Potentional of using one's body, learning by doing), Spatial Intelligence, (Potential to recognize patterns in space), Interpersonal Intelligence, (Understanding motivations, desires and intentions of other people), Intrapersonal Intelligence, (Understanding one's self, motivations and desires).
(3) Let's see what unique intelligence make you who you are! Complete the Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Quiz (below) and paste your results into your sketchbook.
(4) Choose your favourite colour, and paint that colour onto a background of your sketchbook.
(5) Create an outline or shadow of your head, neck and shoulders and fill in the blank area with different pictures, words and images that describe you into a collage.
(6) When your collage is complete, outline your work to stand out against the colour on the page for completion.
Use your "10 facts about me" and Gardner's Intelligence Quiz as a guide for ideas!
Howard Gardner
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Lesson Objective: Can I create a pen and ink sketch, using various shading techniques to represent something that means alot to me?
Challenge Two: "Create a pen and ink patterned sketch of something that means alot to you, in your life".
On a blank sheet in your sketchbook, draw a large 5cm border around your page.
In the border, draw a sketch of something that means a lot to you in your life. For this sketch, draw a simple outline without adding detail to your object.
Once your object has been drawn, divide your object into separate sections for you to add different pen and ink value techniques and patterning.
Think outside the box! You don't just have to sketch the patterns we practiced on the worksheet below. Observe the pictures created by Brad Albright and use his work to inspire your own designs.
Be sure to present your work neatly and colour in all of your space using black, felt-tip pens.
Be very aware of the positive and negative space within your composition.
Positive Space is the area in your composition where you draw or paint your object or landscape.
Negative Space is all of the surrounding area from the focal objects or landscape in your work.
Take a look at the image above. The negative space is the area behind the object (or the Zebras), the Zebras themselves (or the object), is the positive space of the composition.
In the border, draw a sketch of something that means a lot to you in your life. For this sketch, draw a simple outline without adding detail to your object.
Once your object has been drawn, divide your object into separate sections for you to add different pen and ink value techniques and patterning.
Think outside the box! You don't just have to sketch the patterns we practiced on the worksheet below. Observe the pictures created by Brad Albright and use his work to inspire your own designs.
Be sure to present your work neatly and colour in all of your space using black, felt-tip pens.
Be very aware of the positive and negative space within your composition.
Positive Space is the area in your composition where you draw or paint your object or landscape.
Negative Space is all of the surrounding area from the focal objects or landscape in your work.
Take a look at the image above. The negative space is the area behind the object (or the Zebras), the Zebras themselves (or the object), is the positive space of the composition.
Pen and Ink Techniques, Worksheet:
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Brad Albright's Pen and Ink Example Sketches:
Examples of Different Shading Techniques.
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Pen and Ink Work by Brad Albright:
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Lesson Objective: Can I create an eight framed work of art of one object, using printmaking techniques?
Challenge Three: Print a work of art of something that will always make you smile or happy.
On a blank piece of Styrofoam card, draw the outline of what will always make you smile or happy in pencil, pressing into the card. Remember when you create your drawing to draw your work backwards, so that when you print your work will be right side up!
Using different sheets of coloured paper, cut out a square of the same size to paste on your large sheet of A2 paper. Be sure that the squares touching one another are in a different colour pattern.
Using your printmaking roller, roll the black ink from your palette on either side until the ink has a nice consistency. Once your roller is covered evenly with ink, roll the ink onto the drawing of your Styrofoam card. Cover the card completely in ink.
Carefully place your inked card onto the centre of one of your coloured squares and roll or press your fingers over the card evenly to allow the ink to stick onto the coloured sheet.
Carefully lift your Styrofoam card from one corner up, gently removing the card from the paper, as to not tear the paper.
Using your roller re-apply ink to your card and complete the process again, beginning at the top left corner and work your way to the opposite side of your sheet. Each time creating a new ink print.
Leave to dry for several hours when complete.
Using different sheets of coloured paper, cut out a square of the same size to paste on your large sheet of A2 paper. Be sure that the squares touching one another are in a different colour pattern.
Using your printmaking roller, roll the black ink from your palette on either side until the ink has a nice consistency. Once your roller is covered evenly with ink, roll the ink onto the drawing of your Styrofoam card. Cover the card completely in ink.
Carefully place your inked card onto the centre of one of your coloured squares and roll or press your fingers over the card evenly to allow the ink to stick onto the coloured sheet.
Carefully lift your Styrofoam card from one corner up, gently removing the card from the paper, as to not tear the paper.
Using your roller re-apply ink to your card and complete the process again, beginning at the top left corner and work your way to the opposite side of your sheet. Each time creating a new ink print.
Leave to dry for several hours when complete.
Lesson Objective: Can I re-create a Pop-Art Work of someone important to me, inspired by Andy Warhol's art?
Challenge Four: Draw one person who has gotten you through the most, (someone you can always count on).
Pop Art: An art movement in Britain and the United States of American during the 1950s, where artists such as Andy Warhol, would focus on material matter or images in popular culture, (this could be anything from mass culture, advertising, comic books and normal popular objects of the time.
These images are abstracted expressionism, which focused more on what the objects actually represent than the objects themselves. The focus was shifted to mundane reality and irony of the objects in our everyday lives.
Bring in an image or photograph of someone who has gotten you through the most.
Using tracing paper, trace the image of that person gently onto the paper.
Divide a large sheet of A3 Paper into four equal squares.
In each square, use your tracing paper image to trace the person who has gotten you through the most into each of the four squares.
Remember your colour-wheel... Using only either primary or secondary colours, fill in the background of each of your shapes. Each background should be a different colour, and the colour of the person you've chosen should be a colour which compliments your background colour using coloured pencils.
Colour in your work, pressing hard into the paper to create a neat and shiny look. When your colouring is complete, outline your image using a black felt-tip to allow your work to pop out from the page.
These images are abstracted expressionism, which focused more on what the objects actually represent than the objects themselves. The focus was shifted to mundane reality and irony of the objects in our everyday lives.
Bring in an image or photograph of someone who has gotten you through the most.
Using tracing paper, trace the image of that person gently onto the paper.
Divide a large sheet of A3 Paper into four equal squares.
In each square, use your tracing paper image to trace the person who has gotten you through the most into each of the four squares.
Remember your colour-wheel... Using only either primary or secondary colours, fill in the background of each of your shapes. Each background should be a different colour, and the colour of the person you've chosen should be a colour which compliments your background colour using coloured pencils.
Colour in your work, pressing hard into the paper to create a neat and shiny look. When your colouring is complete, outline your image using a black felt-tip to allow your work to pop out from the page.
Lesson Objective: Can I create a still-life work of art using pastels?
Challenge Five: Create a pastel drawing of a still-life using your most treasured item as the focal point of your work.
On a blank sheet in your sketchbook, draw your most treasured item in the middle of the page as your focal point.
Surrounding your object, create an observational drawing by sketching the different fruits, vegetables, table and cloth onto your page.
Observational Drawing is when an artist re-creates a "scene" of objects placed in front of them as a drawing. Referring to the realistic object you see before you.
The minimal background and different food choices will allow your object to stand out from the other still-life objects.
When your drawing is complete, begin using pastels to colour in your work. Allow the white and black pastels to create tints and shades in your colours, remembering always where your light source is.
Be sure to blend the pastels in neatly and begin from the top of your page to the bottom to prevent smudging.
Complete your work neatly and add extra detail as you go.
Surrounding your object, create an observational drawing by sketching the different fruits, vegetables, table and cloth onto your page.
Observational Drawing is when an artist re-creates a "scene" of objects placed in front of them as a drawing. Referring to the realistic object you see before you.
The minimal background and different food choices will allow your object to stand out from the other still-life objects.
When your drawing is complete, begin using pastels to colour in your work. Allow the white and black pastels to create tints and shades in your colours, remembering always where your light source is.
Be sure to blend the pastels in neatly and begin from the top of your page to the bottom to prevent smudging.
Complete your work neatly and add extra detail as you go.
Lesson Objective: Can I create an impressionist painting, such as Claude Monet's work, using a theme from my own life as inspiration?
Challenge Six: Create an impressionist painting of something that has or will make a huge impact on your life.
Impressionism is an art movement in France during the 19th century, where artists would create a landscape of what they saw. The focus of impressionist paintings in on a moment in time, capturing the essence of light as it hits an object, (similar to how a photograph captures a moment in time today). Compositions are kept open, using painting techniques of small, thin and expressive painted lines, and detailing the qualities of light as it changes in real time. Subject matter is of the ordinary and everyday, drawing attention to the idea of movement. A perception of the human experience.
Think of something that has taken place in your life or that will take place in your life that will make a huge impact on you, (some examples could be changing schools, a parent's divorce, moving to another country, graduation, getting a job, trying something new or starting a new class or extra-curricular activity, getting married, making new friends, buying a car or a house, etc...)
Draw a simple, landscape theme of something that has or will make an impact in your life. Be sure to take up the entirety of you page.
Observe this painting above by Claude Monet, take special attention to how Monet portrays the movement of light as if he has captured a moment in time, as a photograph would. See his simple, small, thin, expressive lines of brush strokes and how he interprets a landscape. Take this style and painting technique into consideration as you paint your own landscape.
How can you capture a moment in time in an impressionist style?
Think of something that has taken place in your life or that will take place in your life that will make a huge impact on you, (some examples could be changing schools, a parent's divorce, moving to another country, graduation, getting a job, trying something new or starting a new class or extra-curricular activity, getting married, making new friends, buying a car or a house, etc...)
Draw a simple, landscape theme of something that has or will make an impact in your life. Be sure to take up the entirety of you page.
Observe this painting above by Claude Monet, take special attention to how Monet portrays the movement of light as if he has captured a moment in time, as a photograph would. See his simple, small, thin, expressive lines of brush strokes and how he interprets a landscape. Take this style and painting technique into consideration as you paint your own landscape.
How can you capture a moment in time in an impressionist style?
Lesson Objective: How can I draw a realistic portrait of someone who inspires me?
Challenge Seven: Draw a picture of someone who inspires you.
Drawing a realistic image is about breaking up the face and facial features into separate, equal parts.
First, bring in a photograph or image of someone who inspires you and lightly draw an equal square around the contour of their face; beginning from the crown of the head to the tip of the chin. Then draw a line straight down your page from the top of the head through the middle of the nose to the chin. Draw a line parallel to the nose to each side of the contoured box you've created.
Now you have created a basis for your frontal, facial drawing, draw a line through the eyes, under the nose and through the top and bottom lip of your image. On the blank page of your sketchbook, create a 5' by 7' box on your page. Create the same lines as you've created on your photograph on the box of your sketchbook, judging the position of the facial features and transferring them to your drawing paper.
Begin drawing the eyes first. This will allow you to judge exactly where the other facial features should be placed on your page. Continue shading your features as you draw them, and add the hair and clothing last. Complete your drawing by shading in the entirety of your drawing, being aware of the light source as you go.
First, bring in a photograph or image of someone who inspires you and lightly draw an equal square around the contour of their face; beginning from the crown of the head to the tip of the chin. Then draw a line straight down your page from the top of the head through the middle of the nose to the chin. Draw a line parallel to the nose to each side of the contoured box you've created.
Now you have created a basis for your frontal, facial drawing, draw a line through the eyes, under the nose and through the top and bottom lip of your image. On the blank page of your sketchbook, create a 5' by 7' box on your page. Create the same lines as you've created on your photograph on the box of your sketchbook, judging the position of the facial features and transferring them to your drawing paper.
Begin drawing the eyes first. This will allow you to judge exactly where the other facial features should be placed on your page. Continue shading your features as you draw them, and add the hair and clothing last. Complete your drawing by shading in the entirety of your drawing, being aware of the light source as you go.
Let's Get Sketching!
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Before you begin re-creating the person who inspires you, begin practicing a variety of facial features from the following worksheets. Be sure to choose 5 examples of each feature to practice and label your work as you continue through.
Lesson Objective: Can I re-create an image of something I wish I could change in a cartoon art form?
Challenge Eight: Draw a cartoon of something you wish you could change.
Think about something you wish you could change. On a blank sheet in your sketchbook, draw a cartoon to display this idea.
Begin in pencil first, creating different characters or objects in your work. Be sure to include at least one word bubble and quote to describe what your are drawing.
Using coloured pencils, colour in your cartoon characters and background, heavily pressing the pencil onto the paper to create a neat and shiny technique. Outline your work in a dark, black, coloured pencil, similar to how the simple and crisp lines are created in cartoon images to complete your work.
Begin in pencil first, creating different characters or objects in your work. Be sure to include at least one word bubble and quote to describe what your are drawing.
Using coloured pencils, colour in your cartoon characters and background, heavily pressing the pencil onto the paper to create a neat and shiny technique. Outline your work in a dark, black, coloured pencil, similar to how the simple and crisp lines are created in cartoon images to complete your work.
Let's Sketch It Out!
Cartoon Bodies
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Cartoon Faces
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Cartoon Hands, Ears & Feet
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Cartoon Hair
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Before you begin your cartoon, begin practicing a variety of facial features, bodies and faces from the following worksheets. Be sure to choose 5 examples of each feature to practice and label your work as you continue through.
Lesson Objective: Can I create a piece of art of someone I love, in a Cubism art style?
Challenge Nine: Create a cubist drawing of someone you love?
Begin with a blank sheet of sketchbook paper.
Sketch a contour of a frontal view of a face of object without including the facial features onto the face.
Secondly, overtop of your frontal face, draw a profile contour of a face without including the facial features.
Begin adding exaggerated facial features to both your frontal and profile faces.
Once your drawing is complete, begin to paint your subject matter and complete your work by outlining the face and features to allow them to stand out.
Cubism is an art movement of the early 20th century in Paris. Pablo Picasso is one of the most well-known Cubist painters of that time. Cubism is an art form which focuses breaking apart different components of the body or face and reassembling them in an abstracted form or fragmenting realistic images to create elongated or exaggerated forms to create an expression of the body or object. Cubism focuses on the feeling or expression, rather than the realistic object or person.
Sketch a contour of a frontal view of a face of object without including the facial features onto the face.
Secondly, overtop of your frontal face, draw a profile contour of a face without including the facial features.
Begin adding exaggerated facial features to both your frontal and profile faces.
Once your drawing is complete, begin to paint your subject matter and complete your work by outlining the face and features to allow them to stand out.
Cubism is an art movement of the early 20th century in Paris. Pablo Picasso is one of the most well-known Cubist painters of that time. Cubism is an art form which focuses breaking apart different components of the body or face and reassembling them in an abstracted form or fragmenting realistic images to create elongated or exaggerated forms to create an expression of the body or object. Cubism focuses on the feeling or expression, rather than the realistic object or person.
Lesson Objective: Can I create my most cherished memory in a black and white pastel drawing?
Challenge Ten: Draw your most cherished memory
Begin with a blank sheet in your sketchbook.
Draw in pencil first, a small sketch of your most cherished memory. Keep your design simple, only reflecting a little bit of information in your work. Leave the background or negative space of your composition blank.
When you have sketched out your most cherished memory, begin using black and white pastel chalk to outline your image in the positive space of your composition.
Begin from the top of your page and work your way towards the bottom of your page to ensure you don't smudge pastel throughout your work.
Fill your drawing keeping in mind where your light source is. Fill in your details in black pastel first, then follow through with additional detail in white pastel.
When you have completed your work, use a rubber/eraser to clean up the negative space of your pastel drawing.
Draw in pencil first, a small sketch of your most cherished memory. Keep your design simple, only reflecting a little bit of information in your work. Leave the background or negative space of your composition blank.
When you have sketched out your most cherished memory, begin using black and white pastel chalk to outline your image in the positive space of your composition.
Begin from the top of your page and work your way towards the bottom of your page to ensure you don't smudge pastel throughout your work.
Fill your drawing keeping in mind where your light source is. Fill in your details in black pastel first, then follow through with additional detail in white pastel.
When you have completed your work, use a rubber/eraser to clean up the negative space of your pastel drawing.
