This drawing shows how using dark to light and light to dark lines can create a sense of space, movement, and pattern. Which points seem to go out and which seem to sink in? review the art elements and design principles here

To start - divide you large piece of paper into different sections - it's useful to use a colored pencil for this. Make sure you draw one straight line across the horizontal and vertical  axis so they will line up.

Put a dot in each section. 

make your lines radiate from the dot to the edge of each polygon.

Make sure the lines at the edges of each polygon line up with the adjacent polygons. 

First let me say how sorry I am that I will be unable to join you for sometime. Have health issues and can no longer work quite full time. I think of all of you.

We do, however, have a good curriculum laid out and many lessons on line, thus, I think your basic creative natures will persevere and you will have a great semester.

For now, finish the assignment we've started on making a visual glossary of design elements click here for assignment link

Make sure to make your favorite one permanent. You will be writing a summation paragraph on this one and grading it with the rubric. It should go on your grading blog.

The others should form a gallery on your vocab page. Use the gallery tool on weebly. Under each picture you can put the caption of what it represents. Remember you can use the computer in the office if things glitch up. iPads are picky, however, given some patience you can get good results.

see this link for the plans for the rest of the semester

(This was orgianally posted on Tuesday, when I was absent, however not shown to you. we will use it now.)

Today & Friday , using paper and pencil create an image that conveys an idea - you can think of it as a kind of pictograph if you like...

Using figurative images, symbols words, shapes, lines and pattern along with any other design an art elements (this is a link so look at it please) create a whole page composition on 12x 18" white paper (on table) that describes your experience on Sunday.

it should express any ideas thoughts and/or mood that you had on that day, whether it had to do with the Superbowl or not.

The question is can you create an image that uses art elements like pattern movement, emphasis, see list - make sure you click here!, that can specifically describe your feelings and/or thoughts about a specific thing.

This artwork should be narrative - it should use specific symbols, it should use figurative elements (don't worry about how well you draw - do you best), but it cannot use words.

You should, however, write on the back, in a sentence, exactly what you were trying to express. The test will be to see if other people can, in fact, interpret your picture and understand what you're trying to say. Can you communicate clearly with an image?

You can communicate with people at your table, but not other tables - that way we can actually see if people can guess what you're trying to express but you can also try out your ideas with people on your table.

You have only one period to work on this, and you should use the entire period. You may start on a piece of newsprint for a rough draft, however you must finish in the period.

Artwork will be judged on

- completeness and careful execution, i.e. it is not just scribbled out - student actually took the entire class time period to do focused work on it.

-contains a variety of images and art elements and principles clearly

-clearly communicates a specific message

Take ten minutes to make sure your best Notan cut-out is complete.
Next we will be writing a paragraph on it. You can find the directions under the file cabinet, but I'll put it here.

Please finish the paragraph about your design and keep it so you can enter it on your weebly blog.
How to write an art paragraph -
1 
Name the object by title of the assignment – i.e. drawing with squares or line design 
& Describe 
 what does the image look like? (what is subject matter or motif)
 What is the media? (pencil, watercolor...)
 
2 
name at least one new skill that was 
used in order to make the project (do not narrative everything you did to make it – just the new skill you learned for 
this assignment.)

 3 
name the main art elements  - talk about the composition as well as art elements in individual parts of the composition


4 
for your CM show how the skills and art element express an idea, feeling or mood. 
 
*WARNING* DO NOT USE SIMILIES – i.e. – it’s blue so it reminds me of the ocean.  Or it looks like a stary night.  Describe the details of the image and let the viewer draw their own conclusions.  

your paragraph shuold be

CD’s 
     – what – describe the 
     project

      – how – 
     skills and art elements

Cm 
     why is it important? – What possible meaning does it express? What does it say about you?