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Title - VALUE with Gridding
By - Kim Blakesley
Primary Subject - Art
Secondary Subjects - Math
Grade Level - 5-10
PREVIOUS LESSONS: Work with line, use of space, shape, contour
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES:
Art production skills and concepts objectives: The students will learn how to create form/3-D space on a 2-D surface using pencil and the value scales. The use of grid lines will be used on the picture chosen and on the paper used to complete the project. Overlapping will be discussed along with the value scale and how it is used to show an object to have dimension.
Art understandings (Criticism, history, or aesthetics) objectives: The students will learn how to use value to shape a form on a 2-D surface by using the technique of gridding or reference lines as used during the Renaissance period. Their graphing will be done directly on the subjects/objects rather than a window grid which was used originally.
RESOURCES:
Drawings and paintings from the Renaissance period, especially those of Durer. "Drawing from the Right side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards. Other drawing textbooks to help solidify the concept in a way that you understand it as a teacher.
SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS:
Graphite and/or charcoal pencils (I used HB, 3B, and 6B)
Yard sticks or 18 inch rulers
Black and White photographs from magazines (must be a photo and not a line drawing or print)
Scissors
Stumps for blending (rolled paper towel will work-so will the fingers)
Hair spray (to seal the project upon completion)
Paper cut to size to enlarge photograph to either 1" or 2" squares
VOCABULARY:
Value
Gridding
Grid lines
Form
Contour
MOTIVATION:
Anticipatory set: Explain to the students that even the greatest artists devised ways to help them get a drawing in proportion. They used drawings first to experiment with their subject before they went into a more detailed artwork. Drawing is an essential part of every artist's creative abilities. The drawing puts down in visual form a blueprint for a project to be done.it also helps to put down guidelines for the artist to follow. The great artists of the Renaissance period developed a way to use grid lines to make their objects more proportioned.
Input of Information: Describe and model gridding and how to create form by using correct value scales utilizing drawing pencils for the medium.
Check for understanding: Ask the students for any questions and then have them complete a 1: by 10: value scale using 1: squares to put their values in . This will show if they truly understand the value concept. The should have 10, 1"squares to be doing their values in.
INSTRUCTIONAL PLAN:
Modeling: Before the students begin their value scale... show them how to grid out an item by placing a grid on the blackboard. Explain to them the importance of lining up the dots that they have put on the edge of their drawing and on the edge of their papers so the squares will be square. Then show them how to make their 1" x 10" value scale template. Have them keep this in a safe place so they can refer back to the values in their drawings. On the grid that you drew on the board, take a picture that you have pre-gridded and show the students how to put a faint outline of the object to be drawn within the grid lines. Explain that it is very important to break down each box as an individual rather than looking at the photograph as a whole. By taking it bit by bit, the drawing is not as difficult to do. By breaking the placement of each line within an individual box, the lines will have better placement. Remember to explain that they have rows and columns to use as reference points. The rows should start with one as the columns should also. Make sure that they do not have their first row or first column over the numbers of each other.
Guided practice: Have the students grid their photographs and paper. Make sure you keep an eye on their gridding their paper so the lines are very light. The students have a tendency to make all lines dark. Then watch and help as they put only the contour lines down on the paper. DO NOT LET THEM DRAW THE ENTIRE OBJECT AND ALL ITS LINES ON THE PAPER. They are to use the contour lines as a guide and then use value to create the form.
Check for understanding: Accept all questions and show the students how to create and form using value.
HINT: To place a medium gray color down on the paper to begin creating a background, use an X-acto knife and scrape graphite off a 6B pencil over the entire surface. Using your finger or a piece of paper towel, rub across the surface of the paper and you will get a very nice gray tone for the background. Have your students do the blackest blacks first then to the lighter areas.
*****Make sure the students erase their grid lines under the areas that they gray will be lighter than and the color they will be putting on top of it. YOU DO NOT WANT THE GRID LINES TO SHOW!
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