Drill The _______ side of the brain is mainly responsible for analyzing visual elements.

1. Monday, 9/9 Objectives: How does drawing the negative space help define the positive image in a composition? Goal: Observe and draw the negative edges/shapes within a composition • Drill • The _______ side of the brain is mainly responsible for analyzing visual elements. • In doing observational drawing, the side of the brain that is most engaged and active is the _____ side. • In doing symbolic drawing the side of the brain that is most active is the _____ side. • When did you experience a shift from right brain to left brain mode while doing the upside down drawings and why?

2. Notes • Shape: an area enclosed within a boundary • Positive space: The space in a composition that is taken up by something, such as lines, designs, colors or shapes. • Negative space- Empty space in an artwork. Negative space often has its own shape.

6. To Do: Exercise 1

7. To Do: Exercise 2 • On a new page in your sketchbook draw ONLY the negative shapes created by the leaves in the composition. Do not draw the edges where the leaves overlap with each other or the branch. Shade in the negative shapes. • Example:

8. Exit Ticket How does drawing the negative space help define the positive image in a composition?

9. Wednesday, 9/11 Objectives: How does drawing the negative space help define the positive image in a composition? Goal: Observe and draw the negative edges/shapes within a composition. Drill • An area enclosed within a boundary is called a ____. • The space taken up by the drawing in a composition is called ______. • The empty space in a composition is called _______. • What you did yesterday required you to draw the _______ shapes of the horse picture. Draw ONLY the negative shapes in the picture below.

10. Notes • Edge: Where two things meet. • Composition: The plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work. • Figure: the object in a drawing that is taking up positive space. Another word for positive space. • Ground: the empty space around the figure. Another word for negative space.

11. To Do • Exercise 3: Set 8-10 blocks and game parts in front of you so that they have interesting negative spaces in-between them. Draw only the shapes of negative spaces. • Exercise 4: Choose a tool from the box. Position it on a white piece of paper in a way that creates negative shapes and draw the negative shapes only. Move the tool to another position and draw it again.

12. Exit Ticket • Which of the exercises so far did you find the most difficult. WHY?

13. Thursday, 9/12Objective: Observe and draw the negative edges/shapes within a composition. • Drill • The empty space in a composition is called ____ space. • What color is the positive space in the composition on the right? • Explain how drawing the negative shapes first helps you eventually draw the image. • What is the role of the frame when drawing negative shapes? • What are we trying to do by doing all the exercises with seeing negative space?

14. Notes • Edge: Where two things meet. • Composition: The plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work. • Figure: the object in a drawing that is taking up positive space. Another word for positive space. • Ground: the empty space around the figure. Another word for negative space.

15. To Do Group A: • Exercise 4: Using the same tool you had yesterday position it on a white piece of paper in a third arrangement and then draw the negative shapes. • Exercise 5: Choose a second tool from the tool box. Create three negative space drawings with the tool positioned in a different arrangement on a white paper for each. • Group B: Exercise 2: Cut one negative shape at a time from the leaf composition. Position it on a piece of black paper at the same place where it would belong in the composition. Carefully observe the edges and draw that shape on the corresponding space within a frame in your sketchbook. Continue cutting, positioning and drawing all negative shapes one at a time until you have drawn every single one of them.

16. Exit Ticket • How did the exercises you did today help you sharpen your observational skills?

17. Monday, 9/16Goal: Observe and draw the negative edges/shapes within a composition. • Drill • How many negative shapes are there in the image on the right? • How many positive shapes? • Another word for positive space is ______. • Another word for negative space is __ • The line created by the points where two things meet is called an ____. • Draw the negative shapes of the image.

18. To Do • Exercise 4: Choose a tool from the box. Position it on a white piece of paper in a way that creates negative shapes and draw the negative shapes only. Move the tool to another position and draw it again. Repeat the process until you have the tool drawn in three different positions. • Exercise 5: Choose a second tool from the tool box. Create three negative space drawings with the tool positioned in a different arrangement on a white paper for each.

19. Exit Ticket • Number your tool drawings 1-6. Which one do you think is the most successful and why?

20. Tuesday, 9/17Objectives: What line qualities do different media produce?Goal: Explore and rate the different line qualities produced by different drawing media. Drill: • Which is the ground in a composition? • Which is the negative space in a composition? • What is interesting about the positive and negative space in the composition on the right? • When doing negative space drawing you are only looking at the _________ shapes of your subject. • How do you end up drawing the figure when doing negative space drawing?

21. Notes • Medium: a material used to create a piece of art. The plural is media. • Tool: an object that is used to apply to medium to the surface or to otherwise help execute the work. Example: brush • Common Drawing media: graphite. Charcoal (vine, compressed, white), pastel, conte crayon, oil pastel, ink, pen.

22. Vine Charcoal Compressed Charcoal Charcoal Pencil Graphite Stick Erasers Pastels (chalk) Color Pencils Oil pastel (cray-pas) Ink Pens Markers Write the name of each medium below on a separate post it note.Then identify and label the following media in the bin:

23. To Do: Exercise 6 • Divide an 18” x 24” piece of paper into eight sections. • Label each section as follows: A: charcoal B: graphite C: pastel D: conte crayon E. oil pastel F: india ink G: mixed media 3. Holding each medium in different ways create as many different marks in as many different ways as you can think of in each medium’s corresponding section. Manipulate your lines by smudging, blowing, erasing, smoothing etc. Fill the space. • Evaluate each medium using the graphic organizer . • On the section labeled Mixed Media explore how each medium interacts with others when next or over them.

24. Exit Ticket • Name five drawing media. • Describe the lines qualities that can be produced with two of the media you have listed above.

25. Wednesday, 9/18Objectives: How do visual beats and pathways create visual rhythm and movement in a composition? How does rhythm affect the mood of the work?Goal: Experiment with ways to create visual rhythm and movement in a composition using mixed media. • Drill: • A material used to create a work of art is called a ______. • Name two drawing media that smudge easily. • Name two drawing media that will create bold lines. • Name two media that are unstable and would need fixing. • How can an eraser be used as a drawing medium?

26. Notes: Visual Rhythm: created by repeating art elements (beats) such as shapes, colors, lines, textures etc. The pace of the rhythm is determined by the negative space between repetitions and the frequency of the beats. Fast Rhythm: small negative spaces, many repetitions. Slow Rhythm: large negative spaces, few repetitions Movement: the suggestion of motion or action in an image created by using lines, shapes, colors or textures repetitively to form pathways that cause the eye to move around the work. Pathways can also be created though the use of lines. Non-Objective Art: has no recognizable subject. Only shapes, colors, lines, textures etc.

27. If you were a car in this image how would you be moving? Why? What creates the suggestion of motion? Frank Romero. Downtown Streetscape. 2000. Oil on canvas. 52” x 40”. Collection of Cheech and Patti Marin, Los Angeles, California.

28. Wassily Kandinsky. Composition V. 1911. Oil on canvas. 190x275 cm. Private Collection.

29. Jackson Pollock. Blue Poles #11. 1952. Enamel on canvas. 212”x488” (7’x16’).

31. To Do: Exercise 6 1. Tape a large sheet of paper on your table. 2. Using media of your choice move you hand to the rhythm of the music to create marks on your paper. 3. When the song changes use a different medium and continue working. 4. Keep in mind the idea of creating pathways and rhythm through repetition. 5. Pay attention to the overall mood of the song. 5. Fill the entire page. 6. Overlap marks and media. 7. Be prepared to share with the class.

32. Exit Ticket • How do visual beats and pathways create visual rhythm and movement in a composition? • How does rhythm affect the mood of the work?

33. Wednesday, 9/18Objectives: How do visual beats and pathways create visual rhythm and movement in a composition? How does rhythm affect the mood of the work?Goal: Experiment with ways to create visual rhythm and movement in a composition using mixed media. • Drill: • How can you create a visual rhythm? • How can you create a fast visual rhythm? • A work of art that has no recognizable subject is called ______. • How is a mood or feeling communicated in a non-objective artwork? • What are the main rhythmic elements in the work on the right?

34. Answer the questions in your group. (10 minutes) • What two words would you use to describe the way you would feel if you were in the room depicted in the painting? WHAT made you say that? • What appears to be moving in the painting? • At what pace are things moving? • How is rhythm created in the painting? • How is movement created in the painting? • What is the general direction of most objects in the painting? Patsi Valdez. The Magic Room. Acrylic on Canvas 7. What is the role of rhythm, movement and direction in creating the painting’s mood? 8. Create a quick drawing of the most important things in the painting.

35. Patsi Valdez. Room on the Verge. 1993. Acrylic on Canvas. 72”x 48”. Collection of Cheech and Patti Marin, Los Angeles, California.

36. To Do: • Create a background that creates the feeling of panic or disorientation using at least four different drawing media, expressive mark making, rhythm and movement: • Study the drawings you made yesterday to the rhythm of the music. • Identify beats, or marks that look interesting. • Working over other marks emphasize the beats that you find interesting. • Create layers of beats and sub-beats using different media.

37. After looking at the work you created, identify two main beats and describe them. • What is the overall mood of your work?

38. Monday, 9/23Objective: Explain the relationship of Jim Dine’s Tool Drawings and the requirements of your assignment.Goal: Plan and execute a composition that communicates the phrase “Tools in Panic” using the concepts of negative space drawing, rhythm, movement and expressive mark making. Drill • Describe the main method by which Jackson Pollock created his large Abstract Expressionist paintings. • What is the difference between illustrating a feeling and expressing a feeling abstractly through visual art? • What is the role of movement and gesture in abstract expressionism? • What is the role of line quality in expressing a mood?

39. Jim Dine. Tools and Dreams. 1985. Etching and Drypoint on Paper. 23”x39” Discussion and reading

40. Other Works by Jim Dine

41. Other Works by Jim Dine

42. Jim Dine. Tool Drawing II. 1983. Mixed media, 70”x70”

43. Other Works by Jim Dine

44. To Do • Plan and execute an abstract composition using mixed media that creates feelings of movement and panic. This will serve as the background for the tools you drew in your sketchbook. Consider: - line quality and direction. - the line qualities that different media are able to produce. - your arm movement and gesture as you are drawing. - the rhythm and pace of marks • Overlap different media. No white should be showing through your work.

45. Exit Ticket • Explain the relationship of Jim Dine’s Tool Drawings and the requirements of your assignment.

46. Tuesday, 9/24Objective: Plan and execute a composition that communicates the phrase “Tools in Panic” using the concepts of negative space drawing, rhythm, movement and expressive mark making. Drill • Which part of Jim Dine’s work on the right is based on observation? • Which part of his work shares similar elements to the abstract expressionist work of Jackson Pollock? • What rhythmic elements can you find in the work? • What suggest gesture and movement?

47. Critique of what we have so far • Place your board with your work on it on an upside down chair. • Walk around the room and look at each other’s work. • Identify elements that could suggest a gesture or movement. • Identify elements that suggest rhythm. • Consider the mood that you get from the work so far. • What would you suggest to your classmate to do with their work?

48. To Do • Plan and execute an abstract composition using mixed media that creates feelings of movement and panic. This will serve as the background for the tools you drew in your sketchbook. Consider: - line quality and direction. - the line qualities that different media are able to produce. - your arm movement and gesture as you are drawing. - the rhythm and pace of marks • Overlap different media. No white should be showing through your work.

49. Exit Ticket • Write a short reflection of your work so far. Do you feel you are getting the panicked mood in your drawing? How do mark making and gesture suggest movement and panic in your work? What would you want to improve?

50. Wednesday, 9/25Objective: Plan and execute a composition that communicates the phrase “Tools in Panic” using the concepts of negative space drawing, rhythm, movement and expressive mark making. Drill • Which part of Jim Dine’s work on the right is based on observation? 2. Which part of his work shares similar elements to the abstract expressionist work of Jackson Pollock? 3. In what ways is Jim Dine’s work similar to what you need to do for your assignment?