Football Helmet Homework Assignment

Create a Football Helmet Design

You are the owner of an new Arena Football Team. Design a Team Helmet/Logo.

• Use colored Pencils.
• More helmet worksheets are in the front of Room 42
• Include a Gylph ( a simplified image)
• Include a Logo (the phonic name)

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Negative Positive Space Project

Utilizing the principles and elements of design that you have explored in the composition project, create a pleasing composition that incorporates negative and positive space. Have  fun with this assignment, but don't forget a good artist is also a good craftsman.

• Select an image that can be easily recognized as a silhouette.
• Direct reversals are ok, but try not to create a checkerboard.
• You may mix more than one image in your project. (ie. a quarterback and a receiver).
• Use color effectively. Your project must have contrast! Use complimentary colors or analogous colors. Think,? Why are you selecting these colors? "It's a pretty color" is not a reason.
• The design can be symmetrically or asymmetrically balanced.

Remember the elements and principals of design!

Elements: 

Line, color, value, shape, form, space, texture.

Principles:

Balance, unity, contrast, emphasis, pattern, movement, rhythm

Process:

1. Select your image
2. Measure the image. How many can you get out of a 12x18 inch piece of paper.
3. Cut the paper.
4. Use the tracing paper transfer technique to place your image on the construction paper.
5. Cut out with an x-acto knife. (Use and cutting board and always cut away from your hand.)
6. Assemble the design with a glue stick. (Use scrap paper to ensure that the glue stick covers your paper to the edge.)

Line Conversion

In this project we will explore the use of line by filling in an object with those lines. No outline will be used. The interior lines will create the illusion of and edge, an implied line.

Process:

1. Find an image that has many basic shapes in it. You can use a magazine image or look on the web. The image should be about 5x6 inches in size. Cars, cameras and other mechanical objects usually work well for this project. Avoid people and animals!
2. Trace our the image and include all the major shapes.
3. Transfer the image to a 9x12 inch piece of white oak tag.
4. Use a pencil to fill the shapes with some of the lines your created in the last project. Have your lines reflect the shape of the object itself. Do NOT OUTLINE any shapes!!
5. Ink over your pencil lines with India ink. Take your time. Make sure to hold the pen upright. Test it on a piece of scrap before moving to your work. Work away from the last area you inked.
6. Erase any pencil lines that are still showing. The lines inside the shapes will create an implied edge around the object.
7. Use a water color wash to add color.
8. Cut out the image with an x-acto knife and glue it down onto a contrasting piece of construction paper.
9. Sign and date your work.

25 Types of Line

Material:

• T-square
• Triangle
• Masking tape
• 9x9 inch white drawing paper.
• #2 and colored pencils

Procedure:

1.  Using a T-square and triangle, square and tape your paper to your table. Use the corner of the table.
2. Divide the drawing paper into 25 equal boxes. Use your ruler as a "dividing stick".
3. Fill each box with 3 to 4 examples of different kinds of lines. Remember that lines can be created through repetition of objects that do not connect. These are implied lines.
4. Make sure your examples are not two close together so that they may appear as a visual texture. Leave plenty of space between them. (The lines are too close in the above example.)
5. Be creative, don't just repeat the same idea by changing the lines weight or color.

You will be using these lines in the next project!

First Sketchbook Assignment

Make sure your name is clearly marked on your sketchbook! Your first sketchbook assignments has two parts. Do Both!

1. Design a cover sheet for your sketchbook. Your cover sheet should tell me something about you. What do you do? What are your likes and dislikes? Make the image visually interesting by creating an area of strong emphasis where your eye is forced to go. You may us any medium you choose. Pencil, crayon, marker, collage and cut-outs etc. This assignment should take you at least an hour, it should be a worked up image not a sketch.
2. Select music that helps to create a dramatic mood. (something you like) Use markers, colored pencils, watercolors, etc. to create a design that reflects the energy of the song. It does not need to be realistic. Let the lines, colors and shapes express the feelings in the song. Think about how the views eye will move across the page.

Art Cticism

The Starry Night, 1889

Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890

These are the questions you must answer in your essay. If you know which questions to ask yourself, you can easily write the essay. Just state the facts!

Description

1. The name of the artwork is ________.
2. The artist who created this work is _________.
3. Give a literal description of the painting. (In this painting I see a farmhouse with a mountain in the background.)
4. What kind of lines do you see. Describe them. (Short, choppy, flowing, fine, thick etc.)
5. What kind of texture do you see. Don't confuse the smooth texture of the paper with the visual texture of the painting. (Rough, smooth, pebbly, fuzzy etc.)
6. What kind of shapes do you see. (organic, geometric?)
7. What kind of colors does the artist use? Be specific. Is there a color scheme apparent in the artwork?
8. What kinds of forms do you see? Form talks about an object having height, width and depth. On a painting the artist creates the illusion of form by shading objects so they have solidity and mass. 

Analysis

1. How is the painting balanced?
2. Where are the light areas?
3. Where are the dark areas? (Contrast)
4. What is the first thing I see when I look at the painting. (Emphasis)
5. What king of space is used? (Deep or shallow? Is perspective used? Is the painting flat or two dimentional?
6. What do you see repeated in the art work. Which element of design is used over and over again? Texture? A particular color? (Rhythm and Repetition)
7. What particular element of design helps keep the art work unified?  (ie. The texture in a pointillism painting.)

Interpretation

1. Does the artist seem primarily concerned with imitating nature? This means he/she is trying to paint realistically.
2. Does the artist seem mostly interested in expressing a feeling or emotion? (The Scream)
3. Does the prime concern of the artist seem to be the elements of design. (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
4. Does the name of the artwork tell you about it's meaning or purpose?
5. Create a sentence that describes what you think is the meaning of the painting.

Judgement

The artwork is an excellent/good/ bad example of :

• Imitationalism (Highly realistic)
• Emotionalism (Makes the viewer feel a certain way.)
• Formalism (The subject is the elements and principles of design, usually a non-objective work of art.)

Does the artist exaggerate, distort or abstract the image?

I like or dislike the painting with a rational. ( A rationale is a reason. Stating your like or dislike is not enough, you must tell me why you like or dislike it. This can be hard to articulate. We often know if we like a painting, but it can be hard to explain it.)