Merry Christmas

Dec.2014 Semester I

ADVANCE ART- Your Semester I Final will be an Autobiography, be prepared to write from when you were born to your present life. This paper should be written in essay format, paragraphs, indentions, correct sentence format and correct punctation marks. You need to bring your own writing paper and writing utensils. You will also do a mini DRAWING! Be ready! Key terms that you might have had trouble finding in your textbooks. Rectilinear shape-A shape whose boundaries usually consist entirely of straight lines. Local value- The natural value of a surface. Artificial texture- Any texture created by humans. Infinite Space- A pictorial concept in which the illusion of space has the quality of endlessness.

Check this OUT!!!!!! http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/art-sketchbook-ideas

Extra CREDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DUE November 25 Draw a Thanksgiving Dinner, add color, add shading, add details!(Do Not copy the above image) http://www.google.com/search?q=thanksgiving+dinner&safe=active&biw=1093&bih=522&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=irJrVIWtKpCQyATBnYFY&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

Nature Studies student examples

30 day drawing example

Extra Credit available til 11/8

Advance Art 30day drawing challenge

Day @ the Museum

Welcome to the 2014-15 school year!

1st post of August 2014: Advance Art students create your own optical illusion to get your 1st A-use an ink pen or fine tip marker. Due----> September 5.

http://picturesnosleep.com/14-optical-illusions

Seniors Art Final Review 2014

You will need a few sheets of lined paper, pen, and a pencil. Any questions just ask- Good Luck! Writing your Autobiography: At some point in your education or your career you will be required to make a presentation about yourself or to write an autobiography as an assignment. Some people will welcome the opportunity to share their own personal experiences, while others will dread it. Whether you love this assignment or you hate it, you should start with the knowledge that your story is much more interesting than you probably realize. You may as well make the story enjoyable to your audience! An interesting story will get a better response from your audience and a better grade from a professor. These tips are intended to help you determine (perhaps to your surprise) how interesting your story really is! Adding Some Spice Your autobiography should contain the basic framework that any essay should have, like an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement, a body containing several paragraphs, and a conclusion. But the trick is to make your life story an interesting narrative with a theme. So how do you determine your theme? You've probably heard the saying that diversity is the spice of life. While the saying is a little old and tired, the meaning holds true. Your job is to find out what makes your family or your experience spicy and build a narrative around that. In other words, you will research on your own life. Start your research by taking a close examination of your life and taking notes on the things that make you interesting. Your Family Background Just like the biography of a famous person, your biography will include things like the time and place of your birth, an overview of your personality, your likes and dislikes, and the special events that shaped your life. While you might think you're ordinary and boring, you'll soon realize that your story is quite unique. It might be tempting to start your story with "I was born in Dayton, Ohio…" but that is not really where your story begins. It's better to ask why you were born where you were, and how your family’s experience led to your birth. Every region of the world has a special story, and every family comes from a region or culture that will seem very different and interesting to others. What do you know about your grandparents? Your great-grandparents? Have you ever asked what your grandparents did for a living, or how they came to settle in a certain part of the world? Your first step in researching your own autobiography is to gather some background story. Some things to consider: • What is interesting about the region where you were born? • How does your family history relate to the history of that region? • Did your family come to that region for a reason? Your Childhood You may not have had the most interesting childhood in the world; but then again, you may have had an experience that was more interesting the most. The idea is to highlight the best parts when you can. And always remember that the things that don't seem very interesting to you may be interesting to others. If you live in an inner city, for instance, you should realize that many people who grew up in the country have never ridden a subway, never walked to school, never ridden in a taxi, and never walked to a store. On the other hand, if you grew up in the country you should consider that many people who grew up in the suburbs or inner city have never eaten food straight from a garden, never camped in their backyards, never fed chickens on a working farm, never watched their parents canning food, and never been to a county fair or a small town festival. There will always be something about your childhood that will seem unique to others. You just have to step outside your life for a moment and address the readers as if they knew nothing about your region and culture. Your Culture Your culture is the overall way of life, including the customs that come from your family's values and beliefs. Culture includes the holidays you observe, the customs you practice, the foods you eat, the clothes you wear, the games you play, the special phrases you use, the language you speak, and the rituals you practice. As you write your autobiography, think about the ways that your family celebrated or observed certain days (birthdays), events (harvests), and months (December), and tell your audience about special moments. Consider these questions: • What was the most special gift you ever received? What was the event or occasion surrounding that gift? • Is there a certain food that you identify with a certain day of the year? • Is there an outfit that you wear only during a special event? • Have you ever ridden on a horse carriage? What about a hay wagon? A donkey? What about a limousine, train, mountain bike, eighteen-wheel truck, tractor, police car, power boat, sailboat, or ski lift? • Have you ever walked the beach or a mountain trail? How was your experience on one of these topics related to your family culture? Learn to tie together all the interesting elements of your life story and craft them into an engaging essay. Crafting Your Essay Once you have taken a look at your own life from an outsider’s point of view, you will be able to select the most interesting elements from your research notes to establish a theme. What was the most interesting thing you came up with in your research? Was it the history of your family and your region? Here is an example of how you can turn that into a theme Your Essay Whether you determine that your life story is best summed up by a single event, a single characteristic, or a single day, you can use that one element as a theme. You will define this theme in your introductory paragraph. Create an outline with several events or activities that relate back to your central theme and turn those into sub-topics (body paragraphs) of your story. Next, tie up all your experiences in a summary that restates and explains the overriding theme of your life. Art Final Second Part: You will be given an object to draw- being as creative as you want with the art techniques and background. You need to fill the entire page, use any media that is at your table; your name only should be in the bottom right corner of your drawing.

Advance Art QUIZ 2D & 3D Media

1.Media/Medium-pencils, color pencils, crayons, charcoal, markers, paint 2.4 types of Painting Media:watercolor, tempera,gouache, oil, acrylic,fresco 3.4 types of prints: relief, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen 4.film:the recording of moving images that can be viewed again and again. video art:artwork made with the use of electronic media that converts scanned images to electronic signals viewed on a screen. 5.Computer art is electronic art made up of pixels which are tiny dots on the computer screen. 6.2 types of mixed media art:collage, documented art 7.papyrus:sheets used for Egyptian scribes made from a plant that grows along the Nile. 8.Monochromatic art:artwork that has different shades of one color. 9.Pastels:high quality form of chalk with a wide range of hues. 10.Fixative is a mixture of shellac and alcohol, is used to seal certain media to avoid from being smeared or dusted away. 11.Mary Cassatt:painter, main subjects were mothers and children. 12.pigments:colored powders that make up painting media. 13.emulsion:watery liquid with droplets of oil suspended in it. 14.gouache:water-based, consists of pigments mixed with gum arabic(a water-soluble binder) 15.Oil paint consist of pigments with linseed oil,can be opaque or translucent, can be thick or thin, allow artists to blend colors. Acrylic paint:is a synthetic medium, made from plastic, dry fast, can be cleaned up with water, can be applied directly to the canvas without rotting it. 16.Mosaic:is a design or picture composed of numerous pieces of stone,glass, or other materials. 17.Collage materials: paper, photos,etc. 18.Photography terms:lens, shutter, negative, focal length,film, print 19.trompe l'oeil: trick the eye or deceive the eye through optical illusion 20.2 types of sculpture:sculpture in the round, relief sculpture 21.4 main ways to make sculpture: carved,cast,modeled,constructed 22.Assemblages:sculptures constructed from a variety of readymade materials that were not meant for use in artworks. Kinetic sculpture: sculpture that moves 23.3 types of conceptual art: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-conceptual-art.htm 24.papier-mache: french term that means-masticated paper or paper that is reduced to a pulp. 25.Dale Chihuly:glass artist, he directs a team of glass blowers in creating sculptural displays consisting of multicolored blown and molded glass forms.

Drawing Portraits

http://www.artyfactory.com/portraits/pencil-portraits/pencil_portrait_slideshow.html http://www.artyfactory.com/portraits/pencil-portraits/proportions-of-a-head.html

Directions for Drawing your SELF-PORTRAIT: First off, start by drawing an oval or egg-shape. Draw a straight line across, at about half way down the face, to indicate where the eyes will be. Use this line to make sure you don't get the eyes crooked when you draw them in later. Draw a line about half way between the eye line and the bottom of the chin - this will be the bottom of the nose. Draw a line about half way between the nose line and the chin - this indicates the placement of the mouth. Draw a line right down the center of the head, top to bottom. This is used to make sure the face is drawn symmetrically, and not lopsided. Draw two lines to indicate the neck. Now, start to "block in" basic shapes and shadows. Indicate (somewhat lightly) some of the shadow areas in the hair. Start to put some shadows and a little detail in the face. Erase when necessary, but for the most part, keep your drawing "loose" - with light, broad strokes, not tight, careful strokes. Just lay in the basic shapes. Take your drawing to the mirror now and then, and see what areas are crooked or "off kilter." (There are always "off" parts. For example, in the illustration above, the chin is crooked. I correct this later.) Looking at the drawing in the mirror helps "shock" your eye into seeing the asymmetrical areas. (Drawing crooked eyes, crooked nose, or a lopsided jaw are quite common.) Correct these problem areas, and keep working. Keep in mind, every person has some slight asymmetric parts to their face. No individual has perfectly even features. In fact, most people look "funny" if a photo of them is accidentally reversed. However, there is a distinction between a slight "funny" look, and having features that are dramatically crooked or asymmetric. Check to make sure the basic proportions of the drawing are correct before moving on and putting down darker tones. Use the "eye-widths" measuring method to double-check and make sure everything lines up, and isn't too large, too small, or not in proportion. It is much easier to correct and erase any major errors now, rather than later, when you have put in more detail and darker tones. When you decide that the proportions of the face are accurate, start to refine your rendering of the portrait. Erase the extra "alignment lines" you drew in the beginning of this portrait, and also erase any extra "loose" sketching lines you made when you were getting the feel and structure of the face. Start to add more detail to the eyes, nose and mouth. Start to draw details like the pupil of the eye, detail around the lips and nostrils, and so forth. Refine the shadows and rendering in the face. Don't be shy about erasing problem areas and reworking them. When you want to just lighten or subdue an area, learn to "pat pat pat" with your eraser. This is better than vigorously rubbing as you erase delicate areas. Learn to have a light touch when erasing! Still consult the mirror, to see if you have inadvertently made something lopsided or "off." Constant vigilance is needed in this regard, especially with front-view portraits (like this one). It is quite easy to get the features lopsided. But you won't do that, as long as you keep checking the mirror and correcting errors! If you are having some trouble with a certain area, or are getting frustrated because you are not getting the result you want, take a break. Frequent breaks can be very helpful, and will save you time in the long run. Don't keep on reworking and fussing and reworking and getting increasingly frustrated, (and maybe messing up your drawing in the process). Get away from the drawing for an hour (or day) and work on another drawing, or just do something different for a while. More than likely, when you return to the drawing later, you'll find that you can now solve the problem area right away. Trust me on this one—there are times when it's wise to tell yourself, "That's enough for now." It'll save you a lot of mistakes and headaches.