Description:
Students will examine artworks showing figures in a setting. After discussing how the placement and scale of a figure in a setting affects the mood, students will use a digital camera to take two photos of a student model. One photo will be chosen to be reproduced as a pencil sketch on 12x16 paper. Student will examine how artists have used value to create form, depth, and mood before adding value to their sketches. Students will continually assess their work before participating in a critique based on set criteria.
Grade 8 Benchmark:
Through close observation and sustained investigation, students develop individual and global perspectives on art; utilize the principles of art, solve design problems, and explore perspective, scale, and point of view.
Vocabulary:
scale, perspective, composition, background, foreground, shapes, forms, value, gradation, mood, contrast, harmony, space, critique, constructive, criteria
Originally contributed by:
Robin Holder; Laurel Danowitz-Gerges