Chalk Drawing
Project Description: Students will use color blending to create a drawing that shows line movement. Subject can be whatever you choose, but should lead your eye through the page using lines. Watch what colors you are blending! Some colors do not mix well!
Movement in Art
Creating Movement with Lines
We can think of lines as being either static or dynamic. Straight lines that are vertical and horizontal feel solid and stable. Most buildings utilize vertical and horizontal edges because of the real-world stability these lines provide when they meet at right angles.
Dynamic lines, on the contrary, do a much better job at implying movement. Dynamic lines are often diagonal to the edges of the picture plane and may zig-zag or become sweeping curves.
Lines can also communicate movement in another way. A drawn line is really the path. The locations where a line begins and ends reveal the movement of the artist’s hand. In art, a line is sometimes defined as a moving dot. Artists apply this unique concept of a line to “trace” the path something is taking through a picture.
We can think of lines as being either static or dynamic. Straight lines that are vertical and horizontal feel solid and stable. Most buildings utilize vertical and horizontal edges because of the real-world stability these lines provide when they meet at right angles.
Dynamic lines, on the contrary, do a much better job at implying movement. Dynamic lines are often diagonal to the edges of the picture plane and may zig-zag or become sweeping curves.
Lines can also communicate movement in another way. A drawn line is really the path. The locations where a line begins and ends reveal the movement of the artist’s hand. In art, a line is sometimes defined as a moving dot. Artists apply this unique concept of a line to “trace” the path something is taking through a picture.
Color Wheel
Before you begin mixing colored chalk you need to know the color wheel and what colors are okay and not okay to mix. We will do a color mixing practice during class.
GOALS (Learning Targets):
-Interesting Subject
-Drawing shows good color blending.
-Drawing shows understanding of artistic movement.
-Interesting Subject
-Drawing shows good color blending.
-Drawing shows understanding of artistic movement.