make sure you have your finished small test print on your working blog.

please check out the block print scale before you continue on to your final block.

Does it demonstrate these five main skills?
-shows big shapes that reflect the image accurately
- image mostly motif - background with texture
- all three kinds of marks - stippling, contour lines, cross-hatching
-value to show surface
-value to show edge
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​http://letsmakeart.weebly.com/2d-assignments-for-all/making-a-lino-block-print-using-texture-to-make-value-to-define-surface

This is our last meeting this week - we meet again on Monday and Wednesday - there is no work log next week.
I will be posting grades for landscapes and ink drawings as well as the work blogs associated with them asap.

QUESTION for today - what will the motif of your finished block print be - a portrait or a the subject of your ink drawing - flower?

make sure you turn in your work log today.

What is the difference between drawing and cutting a block for a print?

we will start with a mini print to practice making different textures.

link here
and here

follow this link - http://letsmakeart.weebly.com/using-scales-and-rurics/using-scales-to-make-better-ink-drawings

at your table pick three drawings and look at them using the scale. Pick three drawings to discuss - one each that you think represents a 2, 3 and 4 in most areas.

Using what you've learned - finish your drawing and make sure you have improved in at least three areas.
When you do your grading blog you need to mention which three areas you improved. Extra points for before and after photos - so take a picture at the beginning of class today and at the end.

Wednesday - we start block prints

Accoring to the ink drawing scale - what are three different things I can use texture for?

What are the main three  techniques for making texture in pen and ink drawing?

1. --accurately describing the big shapes to create an accurate image
2. --creating a motif which takes up most of the picture plane on a background - layers of space
3.-- using textures to show value (stippling, parallel lines, cross-hatching.
4. --using texture/value to describe a particular surface
5. --using value to describe form and edge without just outlining the shape.

On your work log do a little drawing to illustrate each
parallel contour lines (hatching)
cross hatching
stippling
Are there other textures we could use?

I need my drawing of boxes done in different textures
I need the photo for my finished ink drawing - it needs to be a macro still life or a close-up portrait of someone I know.

I will be using the same image for my block print.

what do you like best about your painting?
What would you change next time?

Moving on - after you have finsihed posting your landscape on your grading blog - go on to your next assignment.

it will be to use pen and ink. First we will do a tutorial see video here please click this link. 
and then we will do a sketch like the one in the tutorial showing hatching or paralel lines, cross hatching, and stippling.
Also not there is countour line drawing - see the portriat on any paper money.

For your finished drawing you will need a photo - a close up of a natural object or a face - and you will be doing a finshed ink drawing of that. See the scale as well as the rubric.
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