Cardboard texture paintings

Let's use up some of the cardboard we have accumulated!

2D Cardboard Texture Art/Painting
Take a piece of cardboard and peel away parts of the top layer to reveal the corrugated texture. Leave some areas smooth for painting. First, lightly sketch your drawing then paint.

For this assignment you may choose any bird- Examples: owl, peacock, flamingo, parrot, duck, swan, blue jay, cardinal, dodo, puffin, any you can think of. The more colorful the better!

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Matisse inspired journaling bible

James 1:17
Matisse is known for painting with paper. Use tissue paper or different colored papers or magazine clippings  to create your Matisse inspired design. Fill both margins but don't cover scripture!

Environmental Art, Mondrian Journaling Bible

What is Environmental Art?

Environmental Art is an art movement that emerged in the late 60's. You may have heard it called by a few other names- Earth Art, Eco Art, Earthworks or Land Art. Essentially the artist uses the landscape as part of their art. Some are small enough to fit in an art museum, but most are larger scale and become part of the environment. Environmental Art is made from natural materials found outdoors: dirt, leaves, stones/rocks/pebbles, sticks and seeds. Most of the art is ephemeral- it's made to disappear or transform.

Fall is a great season to use nature as your canvas. The leaves are beginning to change colors and it's starting to cool off.  Why not get outside? God has provided unlimited possibilities right outside your door.  

 Check out these environmental artists:

Land art

2014-2015 Student art 

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)

Journaling Bible- Create a Mondrian inspired artwork in your journaling bible margins. Proverbs 16:3

Cardboard 3d Sculpture Wrap up and new Journaling Bible assignment

We are wrapping up our sculptures this week.
Make sure your sculpture includes:

• Texture
• 99% natural cardboard 
• Touches all sides of measuring box or is larger than box
• Good Craftmanship- More cardboard then hot glue
• Animal or Food

Comic Book (Pop Art) Journaling Bible Homework:

The Ben-Day Dots printing process, named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Day. Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely-spaced, widely-spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots, for example, are widely-spaced to create pink. 1950s and 1960s pulp comic books used Ben-Day dots in the four process colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) to inexpensively create shading and secondary colors such as green, purple, orange and flesh tones.

Ben-Day dots were considered the hallmark of American artist Roy Lichtenstein, who enlarged and exaggerated them in many of his paintings and sculptures, especially his interpretations of contemporary comic book and magazine images. Other illustrators and graphic designers have used enlarged Ben-Day dots in print media for a similar effect. (sited)

Sunrise, Lichtenstein, 1965

Sample of verse in bible

Fonts:

Comic Book Fonts

Week Six: Cardboad Sculpture

In Class Art Assignment: Cardboard Texture Art
Whenever you describe the surface quality of an object you are describing it's texture. Texture is the element of art that refers to the way something feels or looks like it feels.

Requirements:
Must be 3d .
Must be at least the size of my box.
Must use texture.
Must be all cardboard.
No Color.
Food or Animal.

Week Six: Continue painting, Tabs or Design Edges of bible

How to create tabs:
You can print from sites and cut tabs or use the tabs printed as templates and trace onto paper and create your own using cardstock or scrapbook paper.

TABS ONE
TABS TWO
TABS THREE
TABS FOUR
TABS FIVE
TABS SIX

How to design Journaling Bible edges
Tightly hold pages together or wrap tightly with tape on sides. I am not going to lie, creating images on sides of Bible isn't easy. It takes patience as the pages move while you draw. Sharpies will work fine for this technique, so will colored pencils and stamps.

Week Five: Value painting

PAINTING RULES:

• Paint will be squirted into small containers with lids. This way we don't waste a lot of paint and can use the following days. You may take these home.
• Paint brushes should be taken well care of...
• DO NOT "scrub" paint, paint in a back and forth motion to prolong use of paint brushes.
• When done painting you are responsible for cleaning your brushes.
• TO CLEAN YOUR BRUSH: Squirt a bit of soap in hand and gently swirl brush under water until brush is completely clean. Repeat if needed.
• We will be using clear plastic cups for cleaning brushes in class. Please save these cups. Rinse and return to cart.
• Paper plates will be used as our palettes. We will not save these. Throw away in garbage can by entrance, face down at end of class.
• Keep a paper towel close by for drying brush after rinsing paint.The less water added to paint the crisper your paint will look.

In class project:
Black and white value scale land/city scapes.
Must paint 6 or more distinct layers of value.
(In order) of Lightest to darkest or darkest to lightest.
Starting with lightest is the best technique for this project.

First masking tape your paper to a board. This will help with paper wrinkling.
Then draw your layers lightly with pencil.
You may paint with black and white only. NO COLOR. The less water you use on paper the better your paper will hold up.
Must wash brushes thoroughly!!!


Surreal drawing due tomorrow: Sept 10th.