Two-Dimensional Art Foundations, Division 1
This term in 2D Foundations, students worked on several projects that allowed them to practice essential skills, as well as learn some important emerging concepts and styles. By beginning with value and pencil shading, students began to see that variations in gray can make a big difference in representing form in drawing. Their Takeout Box drawings challenged them to look at the 3D trapezoid shape and evaluate how to draw it differently than a cube. After capturing the form of the box, they used their newly-developed pencil shading skills to compare lights and darks and create the strongest representation of natural light.
Moving into color allowed students to learn and review colors and color mixing. Using acrylic paint, students used trial and error to combine different amounts of individual colors in order to find the right balance from one color to the next. Understanding the relationships between the primary colors helped students to successfully mix consistent twelve-part color wheels with a creative shape element.
Throughout the term, students regularly completed homework drawing assignments designed to either prepare them for or enhance classwork, and to begin to develop a consistent sketchbook practice. Most weeks, students worked independently to draw a single object or image from observation. First, they would create a two-minute drawing intended to quickly and loosely capture the essence of what they saw. Next, they would spend at least 20 minutes working on a second drawing from the same perspective in order to develop more detail and dimension. We called these our “two-and-twenty drawings” and shared them at the beginning of each class.
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