tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452863989766768332.post4944187237688604726..comments2023-03-23T03:53:15.363-07:00Comments on ART GIRL: Thinking about Art-Making: People and FacesLeahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12572183461508385106noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5452863989766768332.post-53248749602139961462014-04-20T05:41:33.019-07:002014-04-20T05:41:33.019-07:00I taught art for about a zillion years.
One l...I taught art for about a zillion years. <br /><br />One lesson I taught to 7th or 8th graders was a lesson on drawing a face using a grid to enlarge it and draw the face and features in proportion. <br /><br />I use this method myself when I want to enlarge a photo I've taken to use for a drawing or painting.<br /><br />For my class, I looked through magazines for face photos that I could cut to 4" X 5". (Photos in which the head filled almost the entire space worked best.) I purposely did not choose faces of famous people, because students would become frustrated if their drawings didn't look like those people. My goal was to have the faces look like real faces, but not necessarily a specific person. I had hundreds of face photos, so student could choose the ones they wanted. I also told them ahead of time that they could look for their own photos in magazines at home. Many students brought in a dozen or so photos and we added any they didn't want to the mix. <br /><br />On the 4" X 5" photo, they had to draw a 1" grid (although I reused photos from previous years, so many already had the grids drawn) in fine-line marker. Each student was given paper that was 8”X10". On that paper, they drew very light pencil lines in a 2" grid. (This was also good practice in measuring in two places to make sure lines were vertical and horizontal and evenly spaced.) They added a dot in the center of each square on both the photo and paper. I demonstrated how they had to try to draw the outlines of the face and features by seeing where the outlines of the face appeared in the squares on the photo and reproduce them on the drawing paper in pencil, using the lines and dots to reproduce the proportions and shapes. Once they were finished, they used a fine-line pen to outline their drawings and then erased pencil lines and the grid.<br /><br />That was just an exercise for the REAL project on "objective abstraction" in which each one used the same photo but distorted the face and colored it in impossible colors and shaded the faces the way the photos were shaded. Even the students who had trouble with the first part of the project did well on the second part. It was one of their favorite projects all year. The way we did that is an entire other story.CJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11105598015852813723noreply@blogger.com