MS DR /Multi Media Lesson BARK of a Tree PowPT

BARK OF THE TREE

BACKGROUND AND A FAVORITE OBJECT…

Drawing/Mixed Media Project for Middle Grades

BOOK ILLUSTRATOR: WENDELL MINOR

http://www.minorart.com/bookcovers.html

IN THE PAST WE HAVE WORKED ON:

How to make a Thumbnail Sketch

How to paint on papers to store for future collages.

How to glue paper to paper Spots and Dots, but not a lot…

Line quality in pencil and pen and ink Using the tool to get an active and varied line

In the next project, we will be combining these skills to create a drawing over a combination of papers…

DAY 1. STEPS IN THE PROCESS:

OVERVIEW: Today we will choose an item to (gently) attach to a branch and work

out the composition using cut paper.

1. After you select an item, hang it from one of the large branches in the

perimeter of the classroom. (btw: if it is sunny and nice we’ll go outside and

draw the object hanging from a tree)

2. Create at least four thumbnail sketches to devise a composition and use

color pencil to indicate a three simple components.

a. the object hanging from the branch

b. the branch

c. the background…

REMINDER: THUMBNAIL SKETCHES:

The Thumbnail should just be a quick indicator of how to separate the

page into segments…. You can try just 5-10 segments…

Try some vertical, some horizontal, and some square…

Later, fill in with some simple color, you can use color pencil…

You can try with just 3 colors

http://channeling-winslow-homer.com/2013/02/20/sketching-the-route-to-success/thumbnail-sketch-jpeg/ http://www.borgesonstudio.com/techniqueqa.htm

PEER EVALUATE YOUR THUMBNAILS…

4. PEER Evaluation time slot !

When I call “TIME !”

we will pair and share and

you will help each other to

decide on the best composition

from the thumbnails

to work from

as we go onto the large

drawing paper….

SKETCHBOOK PRACTICE FOR TONIGHT:

YOUTUBE WATCH AT HOME

Tree Bark impression of the shape http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDFPOx4w6G0

Tree Bark with Soft Pencil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1uigSu6qxI

Tree Bark in Water Color and Pen and Ink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOFj-1ElwMU&list=PLC78470F7C1A159C8

STEPS IN THE PROCESS:

Day 2:

1. Get a large piece of drawing paper. (Remember to hold it Vertical or Horizontal to match the thumbnail…)

2. Write your name on the paper in back, small, in pencil.

3. Divide the paper in to the three main components, lightly in pencil.

a. the object hanging from the branch

b. the branch

c. the background…

STEPS IN THE PROCESS:

4. Find paper from the scrap box to glue into the

three shapes divided by the three components.

(When gluing, remember spots and dots and not a lot).

HERE ARE SOME OF THE PAPERS WE MADE FOR

THE SCRAP-BOX…

http://janedavies-collagejourneys.blogspot.com/2011/02/staining-papers.html

FROM THE SKETCH, FILL IN WITH PAPERS

BEGIN TO DRAW FROM OBSERVATION

5. After papers are secure, and glue is dry,

begin to work on filling in the details and textures.

You may use soft pencils, and combinations of ink.

REMEMBER: draw only from observation, but use

the handwriting of the artist ( that’s You !)

http://www.squidoo.com/draw-deciduous-trees

http://www.how-to-draw-and-paint.com/how-to-draw-trees.html

CLOSE-UP LOOK AT THE BARKS OF TREE

http://delobbo.deviantart.com/art/Closeup-of-Tree-Bark-66053540

CLOSE-UP LOOK AT THE BARKS OF TREE

LINE QUALITY ADDS THE ARTIST “HANDWRITING TO THE DRAWING AND IS EVIDENCE OF AN EXPERIENTIAL DRAWING…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrer's_Rhinoceros

Take a moment to see and

hear a story about Durer

and his claim that he did

indeed draw the

Rhinoceros from LIFE? http://www.harvardartmuseu

ms.org/video/object-

discussion-d%C3%BCrers-

rhinoceros

Or: the story in French:

http://www.tierslivre.net/spip/

spip.php?article2338

http://www.albrecht-durer.org/

Let’s look closely at all the textures Albrecht Durer invents to represent the surface…

SCHOLASTIC ART AND WRITING AWARD WINNER: JAMIE WNEK

Title: Long Horn

By: Jamie Wnek Age: 14, Grade: 8th School:

Schain Studios

Cincinnati, OH 45246

Out of school program:

Schain Studios

Cincinnati, OH 45246

Teacher(s):

Merlene Schain

Awards:

Drawing

Silver Medal, 2013

http://www.artandwriting.org/exhibitions/online-

galleries/#art=Drawing&art_portfolio=false&writing_portfolio=false&year=2013&

state=All&awards=All&grade=8

VINCENT VAN GOGH: THE MULBERRY TREE

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/the-mulberry-tree.html

EXTENDED LEARNING

More about the importance of Thumbnail

sketches: http://awmcguire.blogspot.com/2011_08_01_archive.html