Blind Contour Still Life

INTRODUCTION to lesson (Anticipatory set): 

"I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."- Georgia O'Keeffe. 

Students will: Think-Pair-Share

Independently read the Quote

Discuss the quote with group members

Independently write down their own response

Share written responses with group members

Participate in this class discussion 

OBJECTIVE: Draw and shade a large still life using Blind Contour Drawing as the tool.  Students will finish the blind contour drawing using shading techniques they have studied previously.

Draw their hands for pre-assessment

Discuss art history, Blind Contour, shading techniques

Practice drawing still life several times

Students will be able comprehend and use these terms in relation to drawing 

Hatching Blind Contour Stippling Tint

Crosshatching Contour line Scumbling Contour hatching

Shade Light Source Still Life Modified BCD

CA STANDARDS: 

1.2 Discuss a series of their original works of art, using the appropriate vocabulary of art.

2.1 Create original works of art of increasing complexity and skill in a variety of media that reflect their feelings and points of view

4.1 Describe the relationship involving the art maker (artist), the making (process), the artwork (product), and the viewer.

5.3 Prepare portfolios of their original works of art for a variety of purposes (e.g., review for post secondary application, exhibition, job application, and personal collection)

PURPOSE: Drawing in the Blind Contour drawing technique become more valuable when students understand the rules and see a finished product

INSTRUCTION: 

Students will be introduced to the artists Andy Warhol and Barry Flanagan and their line drawing studies. These works will allow students to comprehend using blind contour and a simplifying a still life from objects to shapes. 

MATERIALS: Sketch Books Drawing Pencils

Copy Paper 12x18 white paper or card stock

DIRECT INSTRUCTION:

Day 1: Power Point Presentation

Opening: In sketch Books, Art Quote O’Keeffe activity

Review Girl upside down and directions

Draw hand in two minute timed blind contour drawing 

Model or show video of Blind Contour 

Art History: Andy Warhol and Barry Flanagan

HOLDING YOUR PENCIL

Try each hold in sketch book

Shading Techniques

Draw still life in two minute timed drawing for the remainder of class

CLOSURE: How do you feel about the Still life Drawing? Write brief 

Notes on thoughts in sketch book. 

Teacher Models: 

Blind Contour Drawing of hand

Each Shading Technique 

Check for Understanding: 

Check Blind Contour hands by walking around the room

Check Blind Contour Still life by walking around the room

Day 2: Studio class

Opening: "The best artists know what to leave out."- Charles de 

Lint,

Review Power point on Blind Contour rules

Review holding your pencil

ASSIGN FINAL ART PROJECT: 

Draw still life on large paper

Fill the page with balanced composition

Find details of each object using line

Find Light source of each object and identify the lightest

And darkest point of each

Shade each object in still life 

Students receive large Paper and begin their BCD of Still life

Students complete drawings by finding all the details in the still

Life using line. 

CLOSURE: write brief summary of studio class in journal

Like/dislike/rules/etc.

Day 3: Studio Class

Opening: Art Link: Draw five circles and try each shading technique 

From one light source

Review Shading Techniques

Students begin to finish each still life object using each shading

Technique at least once in the composition

CLOSURE: How do you feel about your work to date? 

Day 4: Studio Class: Work on Final assignment

Opening: ART LINK: Don’t think about making art just get it done. 

Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they 

Love it or hate it. While they are deciding , make more art. 

Students continue work on final art project

Day 5: Studio Class: work on Final Assignment and CRITIQUE

Opening: In sketch books, Draw Your Hand using BCD

and shade one finger 5 Minute activity

Students complete final project first 30 minutes

Students participate in Critique last 25 minutes of class. 

Discussion: line 

shape, circles

still life

horizontal 

vertical

Artist: Cezanne

Paul Cézanne  (1839 – 1906) 

French artist and Post-Impressionist painter

His work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. 

Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. 

The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "is the father of us all" 

Cézanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, color, tone, composition and draughtsmanship. 

His often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. 

He used planes of color and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields, at once both a direct expression of the sensations of the observing eye and an abstraction from observed nature. 

The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a dogged struggle to deal with the complexity of human visual perception.

for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cézanne

PREPARATION: precut apple circles in shades of green and yellow and strips of red lines in advance. 

Project: collage apple shape still life on line picnic blanket

Step1: one a sheet of white card stock, students will place three line of red horizontal

step2: one a sheet of white card stock, students will place three line of red vertical

Step3: glue in three circles in different apple shades pink, yellow, lime green on top of your picnic paper

Step4: using a brown crayon, add the stem of each apple on top.

Materials: 

half sheet white card stock

1” cut red lines

Glue sticks

circles in shades of green and yellow

brown crayon

Warm and Cool still lives with Cezanne

DISCUSSION: 

How do the color schemes affect our moods?

Warm colors: red orange yellow

       to move toward the viewer

      excite us and raise our blood pressure.

Cool colors: blue green purple

        appear to move back and away (recede) from the viewer

        soothe us and lower our blood pressure

Talk about each of the paintings

     How do they make you feel?

     Make up a story behind the art

Now look at Fruit Bowl, pitcher and fruit by Cezanne

  What do you see in the picture

  Do you notice any flaws in the perception?

  what colors are the fruit?

  can we make up a story about what is happening in the painting

ARTIST: Paul Cézanne  (1839 – 1906) 

French artist and Post-Impressionist painter

His work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. 

Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. 

The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "is the father of us all" 

Cézanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, color, tone, composition and draughtsmanship. 

His often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. 

He used planes of color and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields, at once both a direct expression of the sensations of the observing eye and an abstraction from observed nature. 

The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a dogged struggle to deal with the complexity of human visual perception.

for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cézanne

PROJECT:  WARM and COOL FRUIT

Step 1: on your graph paper draw a large piece of fruit (try to fill half of the page)

Step 2: decide is my background warm or cool? Is my Fruit warm or cool?

Step3: use warm colors to fill in that section you choose

Step 4: use cool colors to fill in the remaining section

Step 5: write name

Step 6: clean up

Step 7: place work in your portfolio

MATERIALS:

Markers

pencils

1” to 1.5” Graph Paper