Week 9: Balance

Home-work for the weeks of  October 8 - 15, 2015
Assignments Due: October 15, 2015

Remember, if you have any questions about these assignments,

please contact Mrs. Z at mrsz@gmx.com. Don't wait until it's too late!

INSPIRATION
Please catch up on your reading in Art and the Bible by Francis Schaeffer. You should be up to page 71 by class time on October 22nd. Since this is almost the end of the second essay, we will wait until the reading assignments are completed and discuss it as a whole on October 29th. Remember to highlight and/or underline your favorite parts or passages that speak to you.

VOCABULARY
The terms for balance, contrast, and unity will be combined with next week's vocabulary words.

TIPS & TECHNIQUES
It takes practice to select the right value when looking at something in color. Sometimes it helps to convert the image to "grayscale" in order to show the values more clearly.

** Remember: Drawing is 50% observation *** 

PRINCIPLE OF ART - BALANCE:

PRACTICE DRAWING:

Pay close attention to the use of BALANCE in each of your drawings this week, but do not neglect the other elements you've learned so far: space, line quality, texture, shape, form, value, space, contrast and unity. You should spend around 30-45 minutes on each drawing. 

DAY ONE: Using pencil and paper redraw and rearrange the objects in this week's painting in a new way. What other ways could the figures, doorway, windows, and elements within the painting balance?

DAY TWO: Arrange a group of three or more objects near an open window using daylight as a light source. Balance light and dark areas. Draw the arrangement.

DAY THREE: Make a light box as instructed. Arrange objects within it. Arrange the light. Draw the objects. Works from a light box will show sharp contrasts in values. 

DAY FOUR: Choose a group of objects to arrange within the light box. Try different arrangements and different angles of lighting until you have a view that balances. Consider shading and shadows as part of the drawing. Draw a picture showing balance.