Questions:
1. Describe what we did in this unit.
2. Analyze your artistic choices. Why did you choose the media (art supply - in this case, graphite or charcoal) you did for this artwork? How did you make your composition interesting?
3. What problems did you solve as you work on planning and making your final work? What is most successful about your work?
Vocabulary to use:
Use 5 of the following terms in your writing.
Composition: the placements of elements (parts) on the picture plane. Cropping, the rule of three, strong diagonals and the rule of three are all compositional strategies.
Value: relative darkness or lightness of a color.
Value scale: scale of values from light to dark.
Gradient: even blending from one shade or color into the next.
Charcoal: Black, crumbly and easily blendable drawing pigment made from . Can be in sticks (compressed or vine) or weighted pencils.
Graphite pencil: Weighted drawing pencils made from graphite that leave a grey, shiney, smooth surface.
Weighted Pencils: pencils with varying degrees of softness. Softer pencils have a higher number and produce darker value.
1. Describe what we did in this unit.
2. Analyze your artistic choices. Why did you choose the media (art supply - in this case, graphite or charcoal) you did for this artwork? How did you make your composition interesting?
3. What problems did you solve as you work on planning and making your final work? What is most successful about your work?
Vocabulary to use:
Use 5 of the following terms in your writing.
Composition: the placements of elements (parts) on the picture plane. Cropping, the rule of three, strong diagonals and the rule of three are all compositional strategies.
Value: relative darkness or lightness of a color.
Value scale: scale of values from light to dark.
Gradient: even blending from one shade or color into the next.
Charcoal: Black, crumbly and easily blendable drawing pigment made from . Can be in sticks (compressed or vine) or weighted pencils.
Graphite pencil: Weighted drawing pencils made from graphite that leave a grey, shiney, smooth surface.
Weighted Pencils: pencils with varying degrees of softness. Softer pencils have a higher number and produce darker value.
See below for digital portfolio requirements.
Requirements and Grading:
Digital portfolios are 25% of your grade. Each is worth 50 points.
- 3 photos of planning/ learning; sketches (thumbnail and/ or final), experimentation, reference images and technique exercises are all options..........7 points
- 2 to 3 photos of final artwork in progress (as you work on it)........7 points
- 1 photo of the finished final artwork........4 points
- Writing should clearly answer each question with evidence, supported by images and use art vocabulary..........25 pts.
- Quality presentation........7 points
- All photos should be cropped to just show the image.
- Individual images should take up no more than half the width of the site.
- Your text should be written in the order the questions are listed in.
- Your site should be appealing to look at and easy to navigate.