Upload Your Mask and Self Assessment

1. Take a picture of your mask and upload it.

2. Write a brief description of the your mask masking process. Use at least 5 vocabulary words from the clay vocabulary blog post.

3. Grade yourself according to the Work Ethic and Image Criteria rubric above

Scholastic Magazine Assignment - How To Read Art

Read the Scholastic Magazine - How to Read Art
Answer BOTH worksheets.
Write down the questions and answer them in a new blog post.
Title it "Scholastic Magazine  - How to Read Art"

Upload You Drawing Progress and Write Your Self Assessment - DUE TODAY

Upload the following drawings:

1 Grid drawing - Flower, Hand, etc
Eye Video Drawing
Eye Freehand Drawing
Eye grid Drawing
Nose Video Drawing
Mouth Video Drawing

Answer the following:

Answer the following questions:
Grade your WORK ETHIC based on the Rubric.
Grade your CRAFTSMANSHIP/QUALITY based on the IMAGE CRITERIA Rubric

How did you feel you have progressed in your drawing skills ?
At first I didn't understand to.....
Now I understand to...
I still don't understand how to....
What did you find the easiest in your drawings?

What did you find the most difficult?

What grade do you deserve?

Design Your Mask

Before we start to actually use clay, we need to draw sketches of our mask ideas. 

• Copy and Paste the photos of the masks you liked that you want to use in your own design

• Next, draw 5 small sketches of different ideas based on the masks above

• Then pick your favorite from above and draw a full size skecth with all of the details you will add to your mask.

Look at and Explore Masks of the World

For this unit we are going to create a mask based on a tribal culture.
Print out this graphic organizer and use the links below for your answers:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson395/organizer5.pdf

After you complete the questions you will create 5 thumbnail sketches of mask ideas. Discuss your ideas with me then draw a full size sketch of the mask design.

AfricanMasks
African Mask History, Rebirth African Art:http://www.rebirth.co.za/African_mask_history_and_meaning.htm

 Art of the African Mask, University of Virginia: http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/African_Mask.html

Faces of the Dead: Egyptian Mummy Masks: 
http://www.akhet.co.uk/faces.htm

Masks of Africa, Museum of Ancient and Modern Art: http://www.mama.org/collection/afc/afc001.html

Asian Masks
Ceremonial Masks from Java and Bali Indonesia:
http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/indonesi/masksjbc.htm

Ceremonial Masks of Mongolia:
http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/mongolia/tsam.html
http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=1617

Masks of India:
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/masks/

Masks: Reflection of Culture and Religion (India): http://www.dollsofindia.com/mask.htm
New Guinea Masks:
http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/nuguinea/maskspko.htm
http://www.jungleoutpost.com/cart/masks-papua-guinea-c-23.html

Japanese Noh and Oni Masks:
http://www.nohmask21.com/
http://www.thefind.com/movies/browse-japanese-noh-mask
Noh Mask History, Media Information Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan: 
http://www.nohmask21.com/

Central and South America
Dominican Republic:
http://dominicanmasks.com/
Guatemalan Masks:
http://www.coloresdelpueblo.org/Masks.htm
Maya Masks;
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/mayan-masks.htm

European Masks
Masks in the Ancient Greek Theatre:
http://www.greektheatre.gr/masks.html 

Venetian Masks: http://www.bergencounty.com/costumes/maskitalia/history.html

North American Masks
Alaska: The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks: http://www.tribalarts.com/feature/riordan/
Mexican Masks:
http://www.mexicanmasks.us/
Aztec Masks:
http://aztec-empire.com/masks.htm
West Coast Indian Art Tribal Masks: http://www.freespiritgallery.ca/nwartmasks.htm


More Masks Examples
Masks from Around the World

Clay Vocabulary - Blog post

Write the clay vocabulary terms down in your blog.

After we're done we'll watch some videos about ceramics.

Self assessment - Drawing Unit

Upload the following work in separate blog posts:

9-1 - Tubes, boxes, spheres - Line Drawing
9-6 -  Big Still Life/Shading/Value Practice Worksheets
9-8 - Tubes, boxes, spheres - Shaded/Value Drawing
9-12 - Tubes - Shaded/Value Drawing
9-14 Drawing Self Assessment

Answer the following questions about the ELEMENTS of ART.
What are the characteristics of Line? How did you use it in your drawings?
What are the characteristics of Shape? How did you use it in your drawings?
What are the characteristics of Form? How did you use it in your drawings?

Answer the following questions:
Grade your WORK ETHIC based on the Rubric.
Grade your CRAFTSMANSHIP/QUALITY based on the IMAGE CRITERIA Rubric

How did you feel you improved from your very first drawings to the final drawings?
At first I didn't understand to.....
Now I understand to...
I still don't understand how to....
What did you find the easiest in your drawings?
What did you find the most difficult?

My Final grade should be....

Inroduction to Value and Shading

Shading in a drawing is used to create Value.

Value is the darkness or lightness of a color. Light values are called tints and dark values are called shades.

Contrast deals with difference. Contrast is produced when any difference between elements such as texture, color, size, or value occurs. It can be subtle or extreme. When it comes to shading, we are mostly concerned with the contrast that is produced from changes in value.

When light hits the subject, it produces a range of contrasting values. The intensity of the light determines the contrast of values. Generally, the stronger the light - the higher the contrast

Upload Your Proportions and Angles Practice - 50 Points

Upload every drawing that you did of the Tubes (finding Proportions) and the box (finding angles).

How to Find Angles

When you are drawing object you also need to find correct angles.

Use the following technique to sight the angles with pencils.

Tilt your pencil to align with a feature in your image.

Then compare it to the horizontal border of your paper. 

The angle should be as close to the actual angle as possible.

It might help to imagine the angles as hands on a clock. What time would the angle above be?

Continue the process until you find all the angles...

THINK ABOUT THIS!

Do You see what you believe?

or, 

Do You believe what you see?

Drawing in Proportion Using Units of Measure

Today we will begin to learn the skills we need make a realistic drawing.

First we need to make a drawing that is in Proportion, meaning that all elements of the object are in the correct ratio to each other.



How do I find proportion in what I draw?

Use your pencil and thumb to measure a distance on the object. This is called the Unit of Measure.

Then use the unit of Measure to find out how tall the tube is. Drop your pencil and thumb down the length of the tube and count how many widths you find.

1 width

2 widths

..and the tube is almost 3 widths tall.

Here is a link that goes into much more detail about this process.

Ellipse Practice - Upload to Blog

we will began today by learning how to draw Ellipses.

An Ellipse is really just a Circle that you view from an angle.

We'll use the worksheet to draw a couple of pages of these shapes.

Ellipse Practice

This morning we will begin by learning how to draw Ellipses.

An Ellipse is really just a Circle that ypu view from an angle.

We'll use the worksheet to draw a couple of pages of these shapes.

Finish and Upload Your First Drawings

Today we will complete and upload our first drawings.

Create a blog post and title it "First Drawings"

Write at least two things that you feel were successful about your drawings, and two things that you would like to improve.

You will need to turn in your:

• Chair
• Hand
• Corner of room
• Lamp
• Self Portrait
• Tubes
• A drawing of your choice

Here is a great example of this assignment from a past class

First Drawings

You will continue drawing today...

Keep the following rules in mind

NO TALKING!!!
Stay focused on YOUR drawing, no one else
Make sure all pencils and erasers are back in the tray
Keep your area neat

You will draw theses objects - Don't take more than 15 minutes per drawing

• Corner of Room
• Hand
• Face
• Tubes
• Lamp
• Stool

First post

This is my first post in the blog!


Here is a link to the Google Art Project

Creating Your Blog

Today we will create our own blog. This blog will be used to upload projects, research, comments and also to measure our progress in class.

We will learn how to:

• Log in to blogger
• Make a new blog with a title and address
• Create a post
• Add a link to the post.

You will then send the address of your blog to my google email at:

johncazort@ga.ozark.k12.mo.us

Welcome to Art Foundations

Welcome to Art Foundations! I hope you are ready for a creative year ahead.

My name is Mr. Cazort but you can call me Mr. C

Today we'll go over the syllabus and other important information.

Please read this at home with your parents and ask them fill out complete this confirming they have read it:

Syllabus Review Confimation Form