CONTOUR DRAWINGF-BLOCK, 9/7/12

MS. SCUDDER

DO NOW

1. Gather materials

• Clipboard• 10 sheets of newsprint• Pencils (from front table)• Erasers (from front table)

2. Clip sheets of newsprint into your clipboard.

3. Take off one shoe and put in on the table in front of you.

4. Sit quietly until more directions are given

REVIEW: CONTOUR DRAWING• Drawing using line to

follow visible edges of a shape

• Emphasize mass and volume over detail

• Important! Not all contours exist along the outlines of a subject.

• Observational skills! Draw truly what the eye is seeing.

DOUBLE-BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING

Grab a pencil. Without looking at your paper, create a contour drawing of your shoe.

NEW TWIST: Eyes must be closed!! You must scan your non-drawing hand along the contours of your shoe and draw what you feel.

BLIND CONTOUR

Without looking at your paper, draw your shoe.

How did drawing what you see compare to drawing what you feel?

What three types of contour drawing have we done so far?

1. “Free” contour

2. Blind contour

3. Double-blind contour

What skills did you rely on in doing these drawings?

CONTOUR SHOE

Draw your shoe 4 times.

1. In profile (toe to the right, heel to the left)

2. Bird’s eye view (from above)

3. On a diagonal

4. Straight on (from the front: toe is closest to you, heel

is farthest away)

HOMEWORK

Research and write a short summary (minimum one page, typed, double spaced) about your artist, his/her work, the time period in which he/she lived, and your reactions.

DUE MONDAY (9/10/12)

ARTISTS1. Donatello (1386-1466)

2. Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)

3. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

4. Titian (1488-1576)

5. Caravaggio (1571-1610)

6. Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)

7. Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

8. Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

9. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

10. Oscar Claude Monet (1840-1926)

11. Edvard Munch (1853-1944)

12. Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

13. Paul Klee (1879-1940)

14. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

15. Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

16. Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

17. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)

18. Georges Seurat (1888-1959)

19. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

20. Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)

21. René Magritte (1898-1957)

22. Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

23. Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

24. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

25. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)

26. Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

CLEAN UP