Pre-assessment Task
We have looked at the overview of this unit and you know that you will be investigating how renaissance artists used perspective and that you will also be aiming to master this way of showing space and ‘depth’ in your own art work.
Before we begin I need to know what you already know about perspective, some of you may have come across this before and already know how to use perspective in drawing.
The following task will enable you to show what you already know. Once completed you will photograph it and post it on your website (make a page called ‘Unit 2 - Trick and Treat’ , label the drawing ‘Pre-assessment task – Perspective’.
TASK:
Using pencil and paper and a drawing board produce a drawing of part of our campus. You should look carefully at the way things appear smaller as they get further away from you. You will need to pick a spot that is good for this, like a corridor or walkway between buildings. You have 30 minutes to complete the drawing.
Useful tip:
Hold up your pencil to see the angles of edges before you draw them.
We have looked at the overview of this unit and you know that you will be investigating how renaissance artists used perspective and that you will also be aiming to master this way of showing space and ‘depth’ in your own art work.
Before we begin I need to know what you already know about perspective, some of you may have come across this before and already know how to use perspective in drawing.
The following task will enable you to show what you already know. Once completed you will photograph it and post it on your website (make a page called ‘Unit 2 - Trick and Treat’ , label the drawing ‘Pre-assessment task – Perspective’.
TASK:
Using pencil and paper and a drawing board produce a drawing of part of our campus. You should look carefully at the way things appear smaller as they get further away from you. You will need to pick a spot that is good for this, like a corridor or walkway between buildings. You have 30 minutes to complete the drawing.
Useful tip:
Hold up your pencil to see the angles of edges before you draw them.
Taking a Closer Look at Crivelli's painting
This investigation is about a painting called 'Annuciation with Saint Emidius' by Carlo Crivelli 1486
He uses perspective, to create the 'setting' for telling the story.
You are going to do some investigation into this painting. You will work with a partner, however, both students must post the work on their own websites.
Tasks:
He uses perspective, to create the 'setting' for telling the story.
You are going to do some investigation into this painting. You will work with a partner, however, both students must post the work on their own websites.
Tasks:
- make a sub -page called " Crivelli Investigation'
- Post an image of the painting and fully cite your source and label the image - cite the artists name, title of the painting , date.
- Explain what the 'Annunciation' is. and how ( to understand the painting we need to know a little about Christian symbolism and ideas)
- Explain how the painting tells the story of the Annunciation and also another, more worldly, story........
- There are lots of objects and people in the painting, find out what they symbolise, list these
- Find the 'vanishing point' that Crivelli used to construct the perspective in the painting ( if you don't know what a vanishing point is then the first button below will take you to a resource that explains this). Make a sketch describing this and photograph it and add it to the webpage.
- Find three other Renaissance paintings that use perspective - cite the artists name, title of the painting , date and the full source where you found it. ( the khan academy has lots of great resources, make sure you both watch the video I have linked in the button below)
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Tasks
Task brief:
Plan and create an image that utilises perspective and uses some of the ideas that Crivelli used in his ‘Annunciation with Saint Emidius’.
- Art work must have an obvious use of perspective.
- Art work must tell two stories – one ‘obvious’ and one ‘hidden’ – a story within a story.
- The finished art work will be made with coloured pencil and must show control of colour, tone, form ( Form = 3D shape) and surface qualities ( showing the material that everything in your artwork is made of, so cloth looks like cloth, concrete like concrete etc).
- You can ‘set’ your story anywhere and at any time.
- You can tell any story, but it must be understandable to the viewer.
- You will accompany your art work with a written explanation.
Order of tasks:
- Decide on the 2 stories – think carefully about this. You will be asking your classmates to be the ‘actors’ in your scene. Crivelli told a dramatic moment from a biblical story, you could use a news story, a personal experience, or a story you invent. It has to be something you can show in a single image. ( don’t use stories from a film, book or game - be more original than that).
- You will need to choose a location around the school that has strong perspective to use as a structure to place your stories in. You will NOT be using the school as the setting for the final art work but will think of a setting for your art work that is more creative ( Crivelli set his painting in an idealised Italian city, you could set your story anywhere and at any time). You need to take a photograph of the people who are your models posing in that place (you will have to be like a movie director to make sure you get the right shot to work from.) These need to be posted on your website.
- You will need to collect images that help you turn the image into the setting you have chosen (think of my examples of a spaceship and a pirate ship). These need to be posted on your website.
- Once you have done the tasks above you are ready to begin drawing. We will use tracing paper to get the structure of your image. You will then produce some rough drafts to make decisions about the composition and how you will make it into the ‘setting’ you have chosen.
Example
One student thought of setting their stories in the first class cabin of an airplane - they also had 'zombie apocalypse' as an idea - so lets see if we can combine these ideas......
We set up our 'actors' and the scene.
By tracing from the photograph we can start to create our first class cabin attacked by zombies!
Mid-semester reflection - use the document below
Once completed post it on your own website on the page for our current unit.
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