Create > Object Painting

Create > Object Painting

Goal: Use historically significant art to create an aesthetic object from an abandoned object.

Studio Activity:

Find an interesting object from the garage, attic, flea market, auction, or second-hand store.  

Pick a famous painting to use as the primary camouflage element.

Transform the object by decorating its entire surface with paint using the defining characteristics of a famous art style movement or a specific painting.

Mimic the the color scheme, brush stroke method or application and the use of subject matter.   

Art History:

Study the art style movements: Abstract Expressionism, Baroque, Postmodern, Surrealism, Futurism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Bauhaus, Cubism, Expressionism

Trigger Mechanisms:

Reinterpret, Translate, Disguise, Substitution, Transform

Visual Examples:

Create > Grisaille Underpainting Landscape

Create > Grisaille Underpainting Landscape

Goal: Create a Landscape painting using a Grisaille Underpainting Technique

Concept:

Edgar Payne said, "A really good painting requires 'color vibration,' where each color feeds off one another.  An undertone assures that one color is sensed all over the piece pulling the work together.

Studio Activity:

Use an underpainting tone then paint a complementary based color scheme on top.

A red underpainting will enhance the greens of nature to vibrate and energize yet pull the work together harmoniously.

Visual Examples:

Pinterest > Grisaille & Underpainting > http://goo.gl/qgD26k

Create > Color Temp Image Matrix

Create > Color Temp Image Matrix

David Salle

Nouns

Goal: Arrange drawings and collage elements into a matrix pattern with either a warm or cool color temperature.   

Concept: Images grouped together appear conceptually linked

Studio Activity:

• Make at least 3 observational drawings and render with warm or cool colors.
• Print images and work into them with warm or cool color pencils.
• Find collage elements in books or magazines.
• Arrange collage elements and drawings into a matrix pattern.
• Overlay outlines of objects, persons or forms if you wish.

Visual Examples:

David Salle

Memory

David Salle

Distance from Nowhere 

David Salle

Rips in the Mirror 

Create > Color Scheme Portraits

Create > Color Scheme Portraits

Concept:

Using a specific color scheme emphasizes drama and mood to a portrait adding to its meaning.

Studio:

• Crop a portrait photo (7"x10")
• Image>Adjust>Levels to increase the contrast
• Filter>Artistic>Cutout
• Print, Grid and Transfer to a board
• Choose a color scheme to evoke a specific mood
• Render in acrylic paint

Color Schemes: > http://www.color-wheel-artist.com/color-schemes.html

1 or 2 Colors

• Monochromatic
• Complementary
• Near Complementary

3 Colors:

• Split Complementary
• Triad
• Complementary Triad
• Modified Triad

4 or More Colors:

• Rectangular Tetrad
• Square Tetrad
• Adjacent Tetrad
• Analogous
• Analogous Complementary
• Multi-Color

Create > Color Scheme Still Life

Create > Color Scheme Still Life


(Triad Harmonies: 3 equidistant hues)

Goal: Create an accurate still life rendering in a chosen color scheme.

Studio Activity:
Take a photograph or sit and draw from observation a still life arrangement.  
Choose a color scheme using the list and image below.

• Triad Harmonies: three equidistant hues
• Complementary Colors: opposite hues
• Split Complementary: One hue with hues on either side of its complement
• Analogous: adjacent  hues

Accurately render the composition using your color scheme and a full range of values.

Visual Examples:

(Complementary Colors: opposite hues)


(Split complementary: one hue with hues on either side of its complement)


(Analogous: adjacent hues)

Generalize, Reflect & Publish:

Instructional Strategy

• Evaluate the results

Learning Activity

Reflect > Should I go back and rework anything? Have you done anything special with the art elements (line, color, shape, texture, value)  and principles? (Unity/variety, balance, emphasis contrast, rhythm, proportion/scale, figure/ground relationship) What are the dominant shapes, expressive forms, color schemes, and textures that carry significance? Is there symbolism used in the work to convey meaning other than what one sees? Is the work ordered and balanced? Or chaotic and disturbing? What gives the work its uniqueness? Does the work evoke any feelings?

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Recognition

Learning Activity

Publish > Share your album to our G+Community > Concepts & Creations category

Instructional Strategy

• Providing Feedback

Learning Activity

Critique > Give positive feedback > +1 every image that deserves it Give peer feedback > VTS Visual Thinking Strategies > http://goo.gl/1WWmBY

Self-assess > Evaluate > AP Thinglink Rubric Scoring Guidelines >  http://goo.gl/ejQq7B Life Skills Survey > http://goo.gl/iEUqr View responses > http://goo.gl/8YDnYF

Create > Chair Spaces Painting

Create > Chair Spaces Painting
A Study in Figure / Ground Relationships

Create > Surreal Interior in perspective

Create > Surreal Interior in perspective

Goal: Create a fantasy interior space using linear perspective and surrealist influences.

Studio Activity:

• Emphasize the imaginative powers of the subconscious.
• Show a strange and unreal-like imagery in the collage.
• Create a perspective drawing in pen & ink based on your collage.
• Use a variety of ink shading techniques.
• Use compositional principles like balance, center of interest, and harmony.

1. Take a photo of the space you’ve chosen to depict and print it in black and white.
2. Find the vanishing point(s) by lining up rulers with the lines in the room. Draw a few of these lines directly on your print in red pen.
3. Fantasize your space to trigger surreal, preposterous, outrageous, bizarre thoughts.  
• Topple mental and sensory expectations.  
• How far out can you extend your imagination?
4. Think:  “What-if” thoughts: What if automobiles were made of brick?  What if alligators played pool?  What if insects grew larger than humans?  What if night and day occurred simultaneously?
5. Quickly create a collage by gluing images found in magazines, online etc. to create a fantasy environment inside your room. *You will use this collage to make a drawing, the collage will NOT go in your portfolio, it’s just a guide for your drawing.
6. Use the collage to create a drawing. Sketch in pencil first, starting with the vanishing points and major parts of the room. Then add shading using various pen & ink techniques.  *Remember, you CANNOT just print out one picture from the internet and copy it. YOU should take the photo yourself, or use a collage that combines several different photos.

Trigger Mechanisms:  Fantasy, Space, Surrealism, Dreams

Visual Examples:

> http://goo.gl/2ZawUc

The old masters:

Salvador Dali > http://thedali.org/collection/collection_highlights.html

Remedios Varo > http://serandipity.50megs.com/inform.html

Rene Magritte > http://www.magritte.be/

Georgio de Chirico > http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=1106

Max Ernst > http://www.theartstory.org/artist-ernst-max.htm

New masters:

Josh Keyes > http://www.joshkeyes.net/paintings.htm

Greg Simkins > http://www.imscared.com/gallery/

Bob Dob >  http://skywalker-terraincognita.blogspot.com/2010/05/bob-dob-visual-storyteller.html

Watch > Destino (Dali & Disney) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dIznsAdTOE

Examples of interior spaces and rooms by master surrealist artists.

Examples of surrealist collages of interior spaces:

Examples that use hatching, cross-hatching, etc to create shading and a sense of depth.

Student examples

These AP student examples are in color and are completely random. Many of these are the surreal bedroom homework assignment.

HOW TO DRAW A ROOM IN PERSPECTIVE:

This isn’t easy and it takes a real understanding of how perspective works. First, you’ll need to figure out if your photo is in ONE OR TWO POINT perspective. I can help you with this, but the easiest way is to line up several rulers (or pencils or anything straight) along the horizontal receding lines in the photo, like the edge of the wall & ceiling. If they all line up with one point (which may be waaaaay off the edge of the paper), then it’s one point perspective. Or if they seem to be going in different directions, then it’s probably 2 point. BE SURE YOU KNOW WHICH YOU’RE DEALING WITH before you start your drawing!

Below are some 2-point interior perspective samples- also simple, no surreal stuff… Just basic images that will help show you how to tackle 2-point perspective!

Some of the earliest and finest examples interior spaces using linear perspective. These examples also show you HOW to find the vanishing points in a photograph.

Here you can see how the vanishing points were found on a photo by lining up two or three lines going the same direction. I often do this using two rulers.

If you’re doing 2-point it’s often best if your vanishing points are FAR away from each other, even beyond the edge of the paper. Feel free to put them on the drawing board. Just be sure they’re level by using a yardstick to make a horizon line.