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Moving from General to Specific Value Range, Shapes, Chromatic Range     Franz Hals,  The Laughing Cavalier , 1624 oil on canvas PROCESS PART I i.  Make use of Renaissance or Baroque painting as the beginning of this next exercise ii.  Color copy your selection to a minimum dimension of 5" x 7"    It is  always helpful to have a few black and white copies as well. iii.  You may use a plastic sleeve, tracing paper, a transparent sheet to draw on with a permanent black marker creating a break down of the painting to its formal abstract shapes of the original work.  I also suggest bringing in a number of black and white copies of your choice. iv.   Break down the Master's work by making use of the formal concepts we have worked with and discussed. Your break down of parts will be formed by using geometric shapes.   When breaking up the Master Painting, you need to follow a  planar analysis  of how the form is moving in space, thus breaki

Objectives + Goals Students will create a non-objective, abstract design using India ink on paper.   Through the image distribution across the pictorial plane, students will recognize the value of placement perspective, while making use of Gestalt theory.   Students will create a dynamic abstract work that is driven by wet material and their experiemental mark making to imply a highly textural driven design.    Students will activate negative space by making use of a variety of scale, value, pattern and rhythm in the creation of a non-objective composition.  The completed designs will emphasize: Placement Perspective  Variation of value  Spatial relations Full value range and Mark Making variety Paper Orientation = Vertical with interior image area floated Process: Part 1   Methods for creating and making non-objective mark i. Using your compass, string and yarn, draw a number of circles in varying sizes no smaller than 2" to f

Abstract Variations: Figure and Ground Reversal Positive + Negative Shape Activating Negative Space Objectives + Goals: In this assignment, you will be creating a relationship between the figure (the object) and the ground (the air), and how they may morph into one and other in 4 steps. Note, the first image above in black and white example shows 12. Steps: Choose a letter or number of your choice. Enlarge it to fit into a 5" square.                              In your sketchbook create 8 - 10 small thumbnails 2" square (with a ruler, please). Within each square, you will sketch up some ideas to get your creative minds designing. In each square allow yourself to develop the design into a dynamic figure-ground reversal.  Try adding thin and thick lines, designed with smaller and larger negative shapes.  Allow your design to crop on a number of edges of the square.  Arrange the best designs created from #2 above into four squares of 4" x 4&quo

Value Scales in 11 steps Materials: Titanium White and Mars Black, brushes, rulers on Bristol paper Create a value scale in 11 steps Overall the scale will be 2" x 11"  It should look smooth overall - the steps evenly distributed. The #6 block = your middle grey, therefore, separates half of the value scale towards the TINTS. On the other side of #6 will separate your value scale into TONES.        Student Work - value scales Simple Color Wheels in six steps R Y B = Primaries G V O = Secondaries Compliment Pairing  = 2 colors and ALWAYS is one primary + one secondary. Complimentary colors ALWAYS sit across from each other. R = G B = O V = Y In the scale below note how each of the scales range in their complementary pairs in seven steps. Each mixing towards the darker color adds overall darkness to the value.  Take special note that on the 4th step, the "middle grey" seems to appear equal in saturation and value throughout each

Part A Pencil Value Scales Value Ranges of graphite pencils Value scale in 8 steps Develop Light and Dark tonality This also speaks to the hardness and softness of pencils Hard pencils create very light valued marks Soft pencils create very dark valued marks Your own body's pressure on the lead of the pencil will also produce a variety of marks. Try it! Part B Found Paper Value Scales With found papers develop a value scale in 8 steps Monochromatic value ranges 1 x 8" long each interval should be 1" x 1" Student Work