Facial Proprotion and Self Expression with Frederic Bonin-Pissarro

Facial Proprotion and Self Expression with Frederic Bonin-Pissarro 

INTRODUCTION to lesson (Anticipatory set): 

Blind Contour Drawing: 

Draw the face across from you 

Grab all details Eyes, Nose, Mouth, ears, Hair, etc.

Two Minutes

Students will: Independently complete the activity

Discuss the completed activity with group members Share final drawing with group

Participate in class discussion on the activity

OBJECTIVE: Draw and shade each part of the face: Eye, Nose, Mouth, Ear. Students will gain knowledge in proportion of the face and complete a portrait using accurate proportion and self expression

Draw a face in Blind Contour for pre-assessment

Discuss and practice drawing each item of the face over five days

Practice drawing a complete portrait in pencil

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

Pupil Cornea Highlights Shade Tint

Iris Sclera Tragus Tip Lateral side

Tear Duct Root Dorsum Columella Philtrum

Vermilion zone

CA STANDARDS: 

1.1 Analyze and discuss complex ideas, such as distortion, color theory, arbitrary         color, scale, expressive

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.
2.2 Plan and create works of art that reflect complex ideas, such as distortion, color theory, arbitrary color, scale, expressive content, and real versus virtual. 

3.1 Identify contemporary styles and discuss the diverse social, economic, and political developments reflected in the works of art examined.

4.4 Apply various art-related theoretical perspectives to their own works of art and the work of others in classroom critiques.

5.2 Compare and contrast works of art, probing beyond the obvious and identifying psychological content found in the symbols and images.

PURPOSE: Complete an accurate self-portrait while engaged in self-expression

INSTRUCTION: 

Students will be instructed on how to draw a segment of the face each day, beginning with the eyes. They will spend half the class in instruction and half the class practicing their new skills. Over the course of six days, they will learn the eye, nose, mouth, ear, and proportions of the face. They will complete a whole portrait in pencil before beginning their self expression, self portrait inspired by the artist Frederic Pissarro. 

MATERIALS: Sketch Books Drawing Pencils

Copy Paper Tag Board 12x18

Oil Pastels

DIRECT INSTRUCTION:

Day 1: Power Point Presentation EYE: 

Opening: In sketch Books, Blind Contour Face activity

Review: Happy Mistakes make better artists

HOLDING YOUR PENCIL

Discussion: Parts of the eye

Step by step of the eye 

Try each step in sketch book

Shading Techniques

ACTIVITY: Draw second eye next to first eye use mirror

Looking at subject as you draw it

MIRROR

Draw a partners eye from your table

CLOSURE: How are you feeling about drawing eyes? 

Teacher Models: 

Step by step of the eye 

Students simultaneously draw an eye in their sketchbooks

Shading the eye using mirror and finding highlights and shades

Check for Understanding: 

Monitor room During Step by Step Modeling in sketchbook

Monitor throughout second eye and partner eye

Day 2: Power Point Presentation NOSE 

Opening: In sketch Books, 

Think Pair Share: Eye activity Power Point

DISCUSSION: The parts of the nose

Step by step of the front nose using a mirror

Try each step in sketch book

Shading Techniques

Draw second nose next to first nose

Looking at subject as you draw it

MIRROR

DISCUSSION: Step by step of side nose 

ACTIVITY: Draw four rectangles and fill them with different noses

CLOSURE: How are you feeling about drawing the nose? 

                                           Like/dislike/rules/etc.

Teacher Models: 

Step by step of the front and side nose

Students simultaneously draw a nose in their sketchbooks

Shading the nose using mirror and finding highlights and shades

Check for Understanding: 

Monitor room During Step by Step Modeling in sketchbook

Monitor throughout four nose drawing activity

Day 3: Power Point Presentation Ear

Opening: In sketch Books, Draw a nose from the visual directions

DISCUSSION: The parts of the EAR

Step by step of the ear from the front

Using a mirror

Draw your ear

As you see it from the front

Step by step of ear from the side

ACTIVITY: Draw second ear next to first ear

Draw a partners ear from your table

Try each step from the sketch book

CLOSURE: How are you feeling about drawing the mouth? 

                                           Like/dislike/rules/etc.

Teacher Models: 

Step by step of the ear from the front

Students simultaneously draw an ear in their sketchbooks

Students have a moment to try ear from the front

Step by step of the ear from the side

Students simultaneously draw a ear in their sketchbooks

Students have a moment to try ear from the side by drawing 

A partner’s ear

Shade the new ear finding highlights and shades

Check for Understanding: 

Monitor room During Step by Step Modeling in sketchbook

Monitor throughout second mouth and partner mouth

Day 4: Power Point Presentation MOUTH

Opening: In sketch Books, Draw a nose from the visual directions

DISCUSSION: The parts of the Mouth

Step by step of the mouth using a mirror

Try each step in sketch book

Shading Techniques

ACTIVITY: Draw second mouth next to first mouth

Draw two eyes, a nose and a mouth on the same plain

Time permitting: add Two ears

CLOSURE: How are you feeling about drawing the mouth? 

                                           Like/dislike/rules/etc.

Teacher Models: 

Step by step of the mouth

Students simultaneously draw a mouth in their sketchbooks

Shading The mouth using mirror and finding highlights and shades

Check for Understanding: 

Monitor room During Step by Step Modeling in sketchbook

Monitor throughout second mouth and partner mouth

Day 5: Power Point Presentation: Facial Proportion

Opening: Think-Pair-Share: facial proportion and features

DISCUSSION: Step by step of how features are placed on the 

Face based on proportion

Step-by step: Adding Hair

Visual Spacial learners: 4 quick visuals on face proportion

ACTIVITY: Students draw and shade a face (Two days)

Teacher Models: 

Step by step facial proportion

Students simultaneously draw proportion rules 

In sketchbooks

Check for Understanding: 

Monitor room During Step by Step Modeling in sketchbook

Monitor throughout second mouth and partner mouth

Day 7: Power Point Presentation: Artist: Frederic Bonin-Pissarro and 

Self-expression

Opening: Before and After: complete a blind contour sketch of the face across from you. Two minutes. 

Compare and contrast to previous Blind Contour face 

Let’s Talk about Art

Discussion on art and critique

Describe

Analyze

interpret

Art History: show work of Camille Pissarro

Impressionism movement

Father of impressionism: Monet? 

Pissarro

Frederic Bonin-Pissarro Portrait

Describe, Analyze, Interpret
Video

Artist Information

Self Expression

Self Portrait

Final Artwork assigned

PROCEDURES: Students complete a self portrait using mirrors, proportion and self expression

Step1: using a mirror and pencil, Draw a self portrait in proportion based on knowledge gained throughout previous discussions and practice. 

Step2: Complete Self Portrait using Oil Pastels and self expression

Symmetry and Asymmetry with Tino Rodriguez

Look at: Xochipilli's Estatic Universe

Oil on panel, 2004 by Tino Rodriguez;  Crocker Art Museum

Discussion: 

What do you see first in this piece of art?

Is this a photograph? 

Could this really happen OR is it more like a dream?

What parts are the MOST dreamlike?

What about this piece is the same on two sides? Symmetrical

If we cut it in half, both sides would be the same: the bird, the butterfly, the face

Let’s name more things that are the same on two sides

What about this piece is Asymmetrical?

ARTIST: Tino Rodriguez

Tino Rodríguez is a Mexican-American painter. 

Born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, Rodriguez was influenced by the symbolism and themes evident in the Catholic churches of his youth. His work was also influenced by his absorption of fairy tales.

His work incorporates fantastical imagery combining animal and human forms, as well as dream-like backgrounds and settings.

His work has been exhibited at numerous venues in San Francisco.

Rodriguez studied at the Sorbonne in 1990. 

He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico.

Project: Balance (symmetrical) Butterflies vs Asymmetrical background

Step1: Fold a piece of large paper once about the 1/3 mark

Step2: On one half of the folded page draw half a butterfly in oil pastel

Step3: Fold the paper and rub until the butterfly transfers to the other half

Step4: draw in the lines so the two sides match 

Step5: using oil pastel draw in details on the wings, line on the body any ideas to make your Butterfly unique. Remember every detail you add to one wing must be added to the 

  opposite wing

Step6: using a pencil draw the background around your butterfly. Add some dreamlike ideas into your environment, remember this is your asymmetrical opportunity.

Step7: Using paint, paint additional symmetrical details on your butterfly

Step8: paint your background asymmetrical

MATERIALS: 

Paper

Oil pastels

paint

water cups

brushes

Positive and Negative space collage with Matisse

DISCUSSION: Complementary Colors:

Let’s revisit color for a moment so that we might learn how to use it to our artist advantage

Emphasis: what does this word mean?

How do we emphasis parts of our art we want the viewer to notice?

Look at Matisse’s first painting: what do you notice first? ALL THE RED

and second? the green window

Red and green are OPPOSITE on the color wheel. 

Placing these two colors next to each other draws your attention.

Name another two colors that would use this idea? and the last?

Positive and negative space?

What is positive space?

If I am a sculpture what is positive space?

What is negative space?

How important and what role does each serve?

could the space not filled (negative) ever speak louder then the positive space?

Look again at his first piece: you noticed the red first...That is Negative space.

What story could we tell about the piece.

Look at the second work: what is positive space?

What do you notice first 

What does this work remind you of

is it the same on both sides?

Artist: Henri Matisse 1869-1954

French Painter, 

Studied law until he was 21

Mother gave him a paint box after surgery and he discovered painting

In 1891 set off for Paris. 

Matisse began his journey of studies which ultimately lead him to his love of line, shape and color. 

Matisse felt that his greatest influence had been the work of the artist Cezanne (1839 – 1906, French). 

In the 1950‘s, Matisse began creating paintings using paint and paper cut outs. 

In his last years, as he aged and fell ill, Matisse continued to paint, this time on the walls of his room, using a piece of charcoal attached to the end of a bamboo pole. 

He painted until his death in 1954. 

Matisse had strong feelings about only one thing, the act of painting. 

The purpose of these pictures, he always asserted, was to give pleasure. 

For additional information please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse 

PROJECT: create complementary, positive and neg space symmetrical  collage

Step1: choose what two colors you are going to use (must be complementary)

Step2: get one half sheet and one whole sheet of construction paper

Step3: Use your half sheet to cut out positive shapes Organic or geometric

Step4: continue until you have 5-7 pieces cut out 

Step5: Glue down your Negative space sheet on one half of your large construction paper

Step6: using your positive cut-out begin to match up on the opposite side 

Step7: continue until all items are glued on your paper

MATERIALS: Construction paper, Scissors, Glue

Symmetrical butterflies with Andy Warhol

DIscussion: Symmetry: what does this word mean?

Balance

We know something is balanced if it is the SAME on two sides. 

As artist how do we create symmetry?

What parts of Warhol’s butterfly is exactly symmetrical?

What parts are different?

How does he use color? and shape?

Asymmetrical: Different of two sides but balanced

Look at Van Gogh’s bedroom to discuss this concept

Andy Warhol

(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)

An American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker 

leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. 

After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, 

Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter

In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud in the historically important New Painting of Common Objects.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films.

He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." 

The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork.

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. 

Died during routine gallbladder surgery in 1987

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

PROJECT: Create a symmetrical Butterfly inspired by Andy Warhol

Step1: Fold a piece of Card Stock in half

Step2: On one half of the page draw half a butterfly in oil pastel

Step3: Fold the paper and rub until the butterfly transfers to the other half

Step4: draw in the lines so the two sides match 

Step5: using oil pastel draw in details on the wings, line on the body any ideas to make your

Butterfly unique. All details on one wing need to also on be on the other wing. 

Step6: using watercolor paint in the butterfly so it is symmetrical 

Step7: use oil pastel and paint the background another color and design. It does not have to be symmetrical. 

MATERIALS: 

Card Stock

Oil pastels

watercolor

cups

brushes

I was inspired to expand upon a lesson plan from one of my favorite sites: http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2009/02/symmetrical-butterflies/