Foothills Christian High School Art Class: 2019-20
Still Life, Part 2: Illusion of Space through Form, Value, and Texture in Real Life
Students chose a composition from their sketches and drew a more refined composition using form, value and texture to emphasize the illusion of space. Students chose their own subject matter based on a specific theme. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Students chose a composition from their sketches and drew a more refined composition using form, value and texture to emphasize the illusion of space. Students chose their own subject matter based on a specific theme. (Distance Learning Lesson)
We're in this Together, Still Life Drawing by Brook Mesenbrink, May 2020.
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Still Life, Part 1: Illusion of Space through Form and Composition in Real Life
Students practiced arranging and sketching compositions with real life objects using the techniques to create the illusion of space. Student chose groups of object based on a specific theme. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Students practiced arranging and sketching compositions with real life objects using the techniques to create the illusion of space. Student chose groups of object based on a specific theme. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Still Life Vanitas Genre Painting by Maria Van Oosterwijck, 1668.
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Plein Air Painting: Illusion of Space through Observation Drawing of Student's Landscape
Inspired by Impressionist Gustav Caillbotte, students chose and drew their own landscape composition from observation and applying the techniques to create the illusion of space. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Inspired by Impressionist Gustav Caillbotte, students chose and drew their own landscape composition from observation and applying the techniques to create the illusion of space. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Plein Air Painting
The Kitchen Garden, Yerres, by Gustav Caillbotte, 1877. |
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Illusion of Space through Form, Value and Color Contrast
Students learned how to create the illusion of space by drawing three dimensional forms and applying shadows, highlights and contrasting colors. Inspired by Edward Hopper's Lighthouse at Two Lights. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Students learned how to create the illusion of space by drawing three dimensional forms and applying shadows, highlights and contrasting colors. Inspired by Edward Hopper's Lighthouse at Two Lights. (Distance Learning Lesson)
American Realism Painter, Edward Hopper
Lighthouse at Two Lights, 1929. |
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Illusion of Space through Observation Drawing of Student's Bedroom
Students applied their observation skills to drawing their own bedrooms with one-point perspective. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Students applied their observation skills to drawing their own bedrooms with one-point perspective. (Distance Learning Lesson)
My Bedroom, by Brook Mesenbrink, April 2020
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Van Gogh's Bedroom: Illusion of Space through One Point Perspective and Color Contrast
Students copied Van Gogh's famous painting, The Bedroom, to study drawing forms in one-point perspective. They also learned how to enhance the illusion of space with color contrast. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Students copied Van Gogh's famous painting, The Bedroom, to study drawing forms in one-point perspective. They also learned how to enhance the illusion of space with color contrast. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Van Gogh's The Bedroom, 1889.
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Illusion of Space through Two Point Perspective Rubik's Cube
Students practiced the technical aspect of two-point perspective using tools and architectural rules to create the illusion of space for the Rubik's cube. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Students practiced the technical aspect of two-point perspective using tools and architectural rules to create the illusion of space for the Rubik's cube. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Rubik's Cube in One-Point Perspective, by Brook Mesenbrink
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Illusion of Space through One Point Perspective Cityscapes
Students practiced the technical aspect of one-point perspective using tools and architectural rules to create the illusion of space. They had the choice of copying my example or creating their own composition. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Students practiced the technical aspect of one-point perspective using tools and architectural rules to create the illusion of space. They had the choice of copying my example or creating their own composition. (Distance Learning Lesson)
Cityscape in One-Point Perspective by Brook Mesenbrink
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Illusion of Space through Landscape Painting
Students learned how to create the illusion of space by placing objects in the foreground, middle ground and background on a picture plane.
Students learned how to create the illusion of space by placing objects in the foreground, middle ground and background on a picture plane.
Thomas Gainsborough's Mr. & Mrs. Andrews, 1750.
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Rembrandt Selfies: Proportion and Illusion of Depth
Learning to draw the human face and figure with accurate proportions is one of the most challenging subjects. Students took on this challenge by copying one of Rembrandt's famous portraits with oil pastel and emphasizing value in the shadows and highlights.
Learning to draw the human face and figure with accurate proportions is one of the most challenging subjects. Students took on this challenge by copying one of Rembrandt's famous portraits with oil pastel and emphasizing value in the shadows and highlights.
Rembrandt Van Rijn Self Portrait, 1629
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Wayne Thiebaud Dessert with Form with Color
Students practiced using color and texture to create form by copying famous cake and pie paintings by Wayne Thiebaud.
Students practiced using color and texture to create form by copying famous cake and pie paintings by Wayne Thiebaud.
Wayne Thiebaud's Paintings, Lemon Cake, 1964 and Neapolitan Meringue, 1999 .
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Form & Value: Grayscale Apple Still Life
Students carefully observed and copied the three dimensional form and value of this apple from a photograph with various graphite pencils.
Students carefully observed and copied the three dimensional form and value of this apple from a photograph with various graphite pencils.
Form & Value: Grayscale Spheres and Cubes
Students practiced drawing three dimensional spheres and cubes with various graphite pencils as they studied the affects of light on an object in real life.
Students practiced drawing three dimensional spheres and cubes with various graphite pencils as they studied the affects of light on an object in real life.
Student Choice Projects
At the end of Semester 1, students created illustrations of their own subject matter that incorporated the elements of art that we had learned so far: line, shape, pattern, texture.
At the end of Semester 1, students created illustrations of their own subject matter that incorporated the elements of art that we had learned so far: line, shape, pattern, texture.
Color, Pattern, Texture: Still Life Apples
Students drew and colored the apple with patterned background and textured placemat by careful observation of a photograph, with oil pastels and watercolor.
Students drew and colored the apple with patterned background and textured placemat by careful observation of a photograph, with oil pastels and watercolor.
Color, Texture, Balance: Analogous Tigers
Students copied the symmetry, analogous colors and realistic texture of a tiger portrait with oil pastels on black paper.
Students copied the symmetry, analogous colors and realistic texture of a tiger portrait with oil pastels on black paper.
Color: Warm & Cool Haystacks
Students practiced applying oil pastel in the Impressionistic style by observing Claude Monet's famous Haystacks series.
Students practiced applying oil pastel in the Impressionistic style by observing Claude Monet's famous Haystacks series.
Texture: Wild Things
Textured Lions
Students practiced making and applying texture with various graphic lines in these representational lions.
Students practiced making and applying texture with various graphic lines in these representational lions.
Non-Representational Musical Composition
Students drew lines, shapes, colors and textures freely as they listened to and responded 3 different genres of music.
Students drew lines, shapes, colors and textures freely as they listened to and responded 3 different genres of music.
Balance: Radial Symmetry Mandalas
Balance: Symmetrical Butterflies
Abstract Shapes: Picasso Portraits
Pattern: Tessellation Prints
Pattern: Patterned Monogram
Pattern: Simple Pattern Prints
Geometric Shapes: Geo Pets
Geometric Shapes: Frank Stella Protractor Series
Representational Shapes: Pumpkins
Representational Shapes: Leaves
Line: Automatic Drawing
Inspired by Joan Miro, our first project involved learning about line types and qualities, then applying them to an automatic style drawing and painting where students "found" objects and emphasized them with more lines and color.
Inspired by Joan Miro, our first project involved learning about line types and qualities, then applying them to an automatic style drawing and painting where students "found" objects and emphasized them with more lines and color.
