D

Pencil Portrait

http://www.artyfactory.com/portraits/

How can you create a pencil portrait employing some of the techniques you glean from your research on this page that strongly resembles your model? yourself?

a.  How is a reflection different from a mirror image?

b.  What color is a happy portrait?  Why?

c. What is mysterious about a silhouette?

d.  What emotion does baldness prompt in you?

e.  Where in nature can you find a portrait? 

http://www.artlex.com/

ArtLex/d/drawing.html

b.   the history of portraiture including the history of the silhouette: http://www.rleggat.com/photo

history/history/portrait.htm

c.  another chronological look at portraiture:

http://www.geocities.com/

history_of_portraiture/

a.  forensic art:

http://www.forartist.

com/forensicpage.htm

b.  a true story:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_

mind/forensics/art/1.html

c.  the complete forensic art link:

http://www.forensicart.org/

abstraction/resources.html

a.  Follow at least 5 links on the page above to discover an array of portraiture.  Print out one example of each different style and briefly describe it in your journal.

b.  Lie down on a piece of paper and trace your own profile.  Then, fill in the details.  

c.  Observe your eyes in a mirror for 5 minutes.  Write down all the differences you detect between your two eyes.

d.  Draw one eye of 5 friends.  Notice the minute differences in the shape of each eye.

e.  List 5 reasons for drawing a portrait.

f.  Describe three prominent nose types.

2D

Abstract Landscape

How can you paint an abstract landscape that reflects the styles and concerns of Dove and Avery?

a.  What characteristics would you consider if you were making a symbol for a leaf?

b.  Name 5 shapes in nature that are reminiscent of rain.

c.  How is a mountain like a river?

d.  Describe the difference in deep and wide.

e.  What color does a snowstorm feel like?  an ocean breeze?  a screeching hawk?  a winding road?  a cold cave?

a.  Milton Avery

http://www.artchive.com/

artchive/A/avery.html

b.  Arthur Dove

http://www.artchive.com/

artchive/D/dove.html

c.  other landscape artists:

http://www.artpromote.

com/landscape.shtml

a.  principles of landscape design:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG086

b. have an online discussion with someone about landscaping your yard:

  http://forums2.gardenweb.

com/forums/design/

b.  What shapes are the best shapes?  Draw them and name them?

c.  Draw every leaf shape that you can think of.

d.  Lay your arm across a piece of paper and trace the bend of your arm.  Do this low on the paper, near the middle of the paper, and near the top of the paper.  Imagine this as a mountain range or rolling hills.  Add a sun and clouds.

e.  Use your hand to create an abstract sun by tracing around it in any way your can figure out.

Pastel Still Life

How can you create a pastel still life that you fabricate yourself?

a.  How is something still like something moving?

b.  Can something be both animate and inanimate? Explain.

c.  What letter in the alphabet looks most like a pear?  a banana?  a strawberry?

d.  Name as many reflective surfaces as you can in one minute.  Then, name as many dull surfaces as you can in one minute.

e.  Rename the sun.  Choose 5 names and define or explain them.

http://www.artlex.com/

ArtLex/s/still-life.html

b.  Paul Cezanne:

http://www.artchive.com/

artchive/C/cezanne.html

http://www.aboutflowers.com/floral_b2.html

b.  the history of floral design:

http://aesop.rutgers.edu/~

greenmachine/COMM_FL_

DESIGN/HISTORYOFFLORAL

DESIGN/HISTORY.HTML

b.  Describe the texture of 3 fruits in detail.

c.  What color does a grape taste like?  What color does a watermelon taste like?  Do you picture the same color as the actual fruit or different?  Why?

d.  How is a melon like a bowl?  How is a pear like a candle?  How is an apple like a vase?  How is a rose like a tablecloth?

e.  Arrange a fruit bowl in three ways.  Photograph each with a digital camera and include the photos in your journal.  Check the one that has the best composition.

Computer Generated Design

How can you create a computer generated geometric design based on a geometric grid that is regular and repetitive and that also includes an animal motif?

a.  How is a computer like a design?

b.  Close your eyes.  What color schemes do you visualize in your mind?

c.  Think of contrasting color schemes that occur in nature.  List at least 5.  Example:  Black-eyed Suzy, Yellow-Gold & Black

d.  Imagine a flower melting.  Imagine a cloud exploding.  Imagine a puddle boiling.  Imagine a square tornado.  Find or draw a picture to illustrate each.

e.  How many words can you make out of symmetry? asymmetry?

http://home.earthlink.net/~

jdc24/symmetry.htm

b.  design notes:

http://daphne.palomar.edu/

design/bsymm.html

c.  the history of symmetry:

http://www.arthistoryclub.

com/art_history/Symmetry

d.  totally tessellated:

http://library.thinkquest.org/16661/index2.html

e.  m.c.escher

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/E/escher.html

http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/

b.  List ten words that rhyme with symmetry.

c.  Draw a butterfly using shapes that look like computer parts.

d.  Using only triangles, create an interesting floor tile design.

e.  Using a piece of graph paper, create an interesting checkerboard design using 3 colors.

Computer Generated Collage or Photomontage

How can you create a computer generated collage or photomontage that reflects your position on a pertinent social issue?

b.  Would you say you think like a collage or not?  Explain.

c.  Name 5 things that "collage" could be a metaphor of.

d.  Define collage in your own words.

e.  Create an acronym for "collage."

http://www.artchive.com/artchive

/ftptoc/picasso_ext.html

b.  Braque:

http://www.artchive.com/

artchive/B/braque.html

c.  Rauschenberg:

http://www.artchive.com/

artchive/R/rauschenbergbio.html

http://www.pvteye.com/

http://detectivetraining.com/

b.  Make a deliberate collage in your journal using 12 shapes that you choose from a magazine and place in an arrangement in your journal.  Compare it to the random collage.

c.  Name 5 items that would have to be in a collage of your life.

d.  What different effect would old newspaper and new newspaper have on the appearance and meaning of a collage?

e.  Defend the importance of cropping, use of partial images, overlapping, and letting things run off the edge in a collage.

2D

Graphic Design

How can you create a graphic design that advertises a product that you invent?

b.  How could ambiguity create interest?

c.  Do you feel most comfortable with horizontal or vertical objects?  Name them.

d.  If vertical, horizontal, and diagonal were colors, what colors would they be?

e.  Draw a simple design black on white.  Then, draw the same design white on black.  Which is better?  Why?

a.  gestalt design:

http://daphne.palomar.edu/design/gestalt.html

http://www.usask.ca/education/coursework/

skaalid/theory/cgdt/designtheory.htm

b.  http://www.mundidesign.com/

presentation/index2.html

http://www.cardesignnews.com/

b.  hubcap design:

http://www.hubcaphaven.com/

b.  Think of some place in nature where things group together according to their size.  Name it.

c.  Think of some place in nature where things group together according to their shape.  Name it.

d.  Think of some place in nature where things group together according to the direction they are going.  Name it.

e.  List 5 powerful black and white designs.  Example:  yin-yang.

Plaster Work

How can you create a plaster sculpture using whole or fragmented human forms?

b.  How can two people be both together and alone?

c.  What does isolation feel like?  What color is it?  What taste do you have in your mouth?  What sound is it?  What texture?

d.  Explain how being tied down and being free are both alike and different?

e.  Name five words that are related to isolation and tell how they are related.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

artists/segal_george.html

http://wwar.com/masters/s/

segal-george.html

http://www.fi.muni.cz/~toms/PopArt/

Biographies/segal.html

a.  plaster casts:

http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/

skills/tracking/21_plaster.htm

http://www.childrenfirst.nhs.uk/kids/hospital/

treatment/plaster_casts.html

b.  What is the most deserted place in the world?  How would you feel if you were left there?

c.  Describe a time when you were in a crowd but you felt all alone.

d.  Compare the words loneliness and isolation.  How are they alike and different?

e.  What effect does lighting have on how alone you feel?  Explain.

Clay Work

How can you create a clay work using various methods of handbuilding that reflect an organic point of departure?

b.  Name five activities other than pottery that connect you with earthen materials.

c.  How would making something with clay that you harvested from the earth be different from making something with clay that you bought in a store?

d.  Name every earth tone you can think of.  Beside each write what visual temperature they emanate.  Circle your favorite.  "X" out your least favorite.

e.  What animal is like a clay coil?  What animal is like a clay slab?  What animal is like a clay pot?

f.  Are human hands and clay a natural match?  Why or why not?

http://www.artistictile.net/pages/Info/Info_pottery.html

b.  links to historical pottery:

http://clayzee.com/History_and_Tradition/

c.  Ancient Greek pottery:

http://www.hellenic-art.com/pottery/

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/

forestoakms/site%20pages/

Academics/Social%20Studies/

Colonisl%20Times/pottery.html

b.  a Hopi potter:

http://www.canyonart.com/lucas.htm

2.  Think of three forms.  Decide which technique would be best for each of the three forms.  Draw, write, and explain.

3. Which era of Ancient Greek pottery do you find most fascinating?  Which glaze method do you prefer?  Copy and paste and example.  Explain.

4.  Give 5 examples of things that could be made with the coil method.  Why would the coil method work well for these things.  What designs can you make with coils?

5.  Look at #4.  Answer the question for slab construction. 

Expressionistic Print

How can you create an expressionistic print that addresses your concerns of war and peace in the world today using only black, white, and gray?

b.  What is the difference in elongation and widening?  Think of how it effects the face, a piece of food, a natural object.

c.  Name twenty ways you can distort the human body.

d.  Name the basic colors.  Then, name an exaggerated version of each.

e.  List the emotions.  Beside each, write a color that matches.

http://www.artgallery.sbc.edu/ukiyoe/historyofwoodblockprints.html

Summarize the history of woodblock prints.

http://www.creativepapercrafts.net/papertrends/200410.php

Summarize the history of bookmaking.

http://the-artists.org/search/prints-h.cfm

Summarize the history of printmaking.  Draw a timeline and label the sequence that led to advanced printmaking.

http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction

/ela/6-12/Writing/creativeexpressive

writingoutcomes.htm

b.  free verse poetry

http://www.poetry-portal.com/styles2.html

b.  Draw an apple.  In five steps, distort it until it is only barely recognizable as an apple by the time you finish.

c.  Draw 5 pairs of eyes. One the expresses joy, sorrow, anxiety, anger, and passion.

d.  What color is fear?  Why?  What do you associate fear with?

e.  What is the sound of anger?  What sounds in the real world do you associate anger with?  What colors?  List all the variations of anger.  Example:  frustration.

Charcoal Study from Life

How can you create a charcoal study from life by observing a  natural form of your choice?  How can you incoporate one or more hidden elements in your work?

vine charcoal, compressed charcoal, stomp, shammy, toothed paper, acute observation, study vs. finished drawing, visualization, ramification, manifestation

b.  Name all the places that an artist can obtain information about his or her subject from.

c.  If roots were snakes, what kind would they be?  Why?

d.  Name 5 places in nature where you can imagine other images like looking at a cloud.

e.  If a tree was a machine, what kind of work would it do?  If a daisy was a person, what kind of personality would she have?  If a rock was a husband, what kind of husband would he be?

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9022506

b.  how to:

http://drawsketch.about.com/od/charcoal/

http://vanderbiltowc.wellsource.

com/dh/Content.asp?ID=572

b.  other uses for charcoal:

http://forestry.about.com/cs/@@@S

UBJECTHERE/a/charcoal_alt.htm

2.  Draw a gray scale using charcoal.  1 is white and 10 is black.  2-9 are evenly stepped tones of gray.

3.  Compare natural charcoal from a fire to refined charcoal.  What are the differences and similarities?  Give examples.

4.  Name five ways to situate an object on a page.  Which composition do you find most intriguing?  Why?

5.  Make a subtractive drawing by coloring an entire page black and then bringing the image to life by erasing.

Photograph

How can you create a black and white photo of a feeling?

2.  If black and white are not colors, then what are they.  Explain in your own way.

3.  Quickly cut and paste 20 black and white cutouts from a magazine on one piece of paper in any manner you choose.  Then analyze how your new arrangement of these photos changed the original meaning of each one.

4.  Name 10 things that can be black or white.

5.  Name 5 feelings, 5 types of weather, 5 pieces of clothing, and 5 architectural structures that could be associated with "gray."

http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/

A history of photography.

http://www.photo.net/history/timeline

A timeline of photography.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blphotography.htm

From pinhole cameras until now.

Careers in Photo Journalism

http://www.nppa.org/professional_

development/students/entering_the_job_market/

What opportunities do they lend you?

2.  What is special about the way a photographer sees the world?

3.  Describe a photograph that touched you.

4.  If you could capture a feeling in a photo, what would it be?  What would it look like?

5.  Is black and white or color photography more compelling?  Why?

Pen & Ink Pointillism

How can you create a pointillistic drawing of a natural form from an ink spill?

b.  Explain the difference between divisionism and pointillism.

c.  What connections can be made between shadows and highlights?

d.  Name five places that are trully black and five that are completely white.  What do these places have in common?

e.  Where is deep?  Where is shallow?  Are you more scared of deep or shallow?  Why?  

http://www.artcyclopedia.

com/history/pointillism.html

http://www.arthistoryclub.

com/art_history/Pointillism

b.  Georges Seurat

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/seurat.html

c.  Paul Signac

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/signac.html

co.nz/artman/pointm.htm

How can photorealism be achieved through pointillism?

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/

Europe/Germany/West/Bayern/Bad_

Tolz/photo107669.htm

How can natural pointillism be achieved in photography?

2.  Use a colored marker to shade each of the ink spills to look like the forms you suggested.

3.  Make up 5 words that rhyme with pointillism.  What do they all have in common?

4. Define dot.  Make up an acronym for "dot". 

Post-Modern Work

How can you create a post modernist work of art that addresses the issue of globalization?

b.  Define post-modernism in your own terms.

c.  What is alike about things that are controversial and things that are noncontroversial?

d.  What is eclectic about your personality?

e.  What paradigms do you live by.  Name and describe them.

http://www.eyeconart.net/history/

postmodern.htm

b. postmodernism on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Postmodernism

c.  list of postmodern artists:

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/

contemporary.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/postmodern-music

Post-Modernism in music.  How is it alike and how is it different from post-modernist art?

2.  List as many post-modern characteristics or styles as you can find.

3.  Which post-modern genre most appeals to you?  Why?

4.  Do you think the word post-modern is lame or strong?  Why?

5.  Write a critique on one of Barabara Kruger's works.

Historical/Cultural Reflection

How can you create a work of art that reflects the concerns and stylistic traits of one or more cultures that you have studied?  How can you blend your own style and concerns with theirs?

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001196.html

b.  info on various world cultures:

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/

http://eawc.evansville.edu/

c.  National Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

d. Select a culture by country:

http://www.cantonpl.org/kids/country.html

http://www.aboriginalart

online.com/index.php

b.  contemporary native American art:

http://www.nativespirits.com/

2.  What culture(s) do you have a deep sense of respect for?  Explain.

3.  Make up an acronym for American.

4.  Are you a local, national, or global person?  Explain.

5.  What cultures do you not understand?  What is it that you do not understand about them?  

Polymer Transfer

How can you create a polymer transfer that makes a statement about materialism in the world today?

2.  How is being American like being African?

3.  How is being tribal like being modern?

4.  Is modernity better than antiquity?  Why or why not?

5.  Define savage.  Define noble savage.

6.  What is prejudice?  

7.  Design a world flag.

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/c/collage.html

Contemporary aboriginal artists.

http://www.nativefields.com/

Contemporary Native American artists.

http://www.multiculturalchildrenslit.com/

Multicultural children's literature.

2.  Draw a multicultural man or woman.

3.  List all the qualities of a truly multicultural person.

4.  What rhymes with culture?

5.  Define transposition.

6.  Is there a woman or a man in the moon?  What do other cultures believe.  Find at least 2 stories that differ and tell your own.

Mask or Mache Form

How can you create a mask or mache form of a face that celebrates a frequently uncelebrated aspect of life?

2.  How is a mask different than a face?

3.  How is a mask like a story?

http://www.anymask.com/historyofmask.html

b.  mask making in different cultures:

http://www.chenowith.k12.or.us/tech/

subject/art/masks.html

2.  List reasons why masks are used in Africa and other countries.

3.  What stories have you heard that deal with masks?

Earth Art / Impermanent Art

earthworks, natural phenomena, impermanence, documentation, environmental, spatial

b.  What is the most beautiful shape in nature?  Why?

c.  If oaks were people, what kind of people would they be?  pines?  maples?  sassafras'?  dogwoods?

d.  If each flower had a fairy, which fairy would contain the most magic?  Explain.

e.  What is alluring about a mushroom?  

f.  Explain the captivation of the ocean tide?  How is it like the wind?

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/e/earthart.html

b. examples:

 http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/

asc/projects/comm544/library/styles/EarthArt.html

http://www.miketaylor.org.uk

/dino/faq/s-intro/why/

b.  paleonotology art:

http://www.paleopages.com/

Commercial/Art/

b.  List all the natural phenomena that you can think of.  Beside each, imagine an earth work that could be made about the phenomena and briefly describe it.

c.  List all the advantages and disadvantages of impermanent works of art.

d.  Think of naturally occuring configurations in nature that are visually interesting.  Imagine an earthwork that you could make based on this configuration.  Draw it.

e.  What is the Earth called our Mother? Explain. 

Surrealism / Fantasy

2.  Write down your dreams for one week.  Write them in your journal as soon as you awake.

3.  What color is your psychological self?  What color is your intellectual self?  your spiritual self?  your emotional self?

4.  Have your ever seen things that you are familiar with along with things that you are unfamiliar with in the same dream?  Explain or imagine.

5.  What shapes would you consider "dreamy?"

6.  What sounds are "dreamy?"

7.  How do dreams relate to your life?

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/

paint/glo/surrealism/

http://www.bway.net/~

monique/history.htm

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

history/surrealism.html

d.  virtual Dali:

http://www.virtualdali.com/

http://www.dreammoods.com/

b.  interpret your dreams:

http://www.petrix.com/dreams/

http://www.sleeps.com/

dictionary/dictionary.html

2.  Draw a cloud in your journal.  Tell everything you can imagine it to be.

3.  List at least 3 dreams you can remember.  Tell which was the most fantastic, the scariest, etc.

4.  What do imagine that Utopia looks like?  Shambala?  Heaven?  Nirvana?

5.  What do you think God looks like?

6.  Describe the strangest real place you have ever visited?