Midterm Slide Study Guide

Francisco Goya "The Third of May, 1808", 1814
Patricia Piccinini "Litter", 2011 
Pablo Picasso "Guernica" 1937
Charles Willson Peale "The Artist in His Museum" 1822
Vincent van Gogh "The Red Vineyard" 1888
Horace Pippin "John Brown Going to His Hanging" 1942
Horace Pippin "Mr. Prejudice" 1943
Charles Willson Peale "Portrait of Yarrow Mamout" 1819

 

Social Comment Homework Due Feb 4th / 5th

Students should review their list of 5 current societal issues, and identify the three of their top five that they would most like to focus on for art making.   Begin to brainstorm artwork that could demonstrate these three concept, and draft ideas for these three issues.  Drafts can be submitted as a written description, a diagram, or a sketched drawing.

These are due Feb 4th / 5th. 

Successful Homework

Color Schemes Power Point

Color schemes from Amanda Caucci

Class Mural

Ideas for the class mural are due by Friday Jan 18th, most popular ideas will be presented in a poll on class blog starting Jan 25th.  Please know that families are encouraged to vote as well, and classes will begin designing a mural of the winning idea in early February.

Thank you!
Ms. Johnson
215-276-5253 ext 2342

Sketchbook Homework due Jan 23rd and 24th

Students will complete a vocabulary sheet and the choice of three of the following five sketch options.  Drawings must be in a sketch book.
1. An aerial perspective in color utilizing the three techniques to show depth.
2. Three value studies of your hand in various positions.
3. One point perspective of either a hallway or street view, must have details and must have a vanishing point. 
4. One sketch representing one of your social issues identified earlier.
5. Two sketches of objects from home, must look at objects, do not make these drawings up out of your head.

Students, credit will not be given if no effort is present, if your drawings are on lined paper, if your value studies are in pen, or if you try to do these during class time.  You've been warned.  :)

Successful Value Study Homework

In Progress Aerial Perspectives

After brainstorming what makes certain objects look further away in nature, and gathering much of their own source imagery, students created aerial perspective landscapes in colored pencil. They were required to represent depth through reduced size and color saturation of objects, as well as the placement of those objects in relation to the horizon line. Students had the option to make these landscapes surreal, adding symbolic or conceptual imagery within their work.

Reviewing Value Studies Homework

Students will draw three objects, from observation, and fully develop their shading.  Values from highlights to shadows (the different shades of gray) should be present in each drawing.

Example of previously completed student work:

Due Jan 8th / 9th.