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Unit: 20th Century Sculptors

Project: 3-D Drawing of a Tableau (A life like representation of a scene or event)

Featured Artist: Red Grooms

Objectives:
1. Recognize shading effects in different works.
2. Use a small or large amount of pressure to create light or dark areas.
3. Evaluate the use of shading in artist and student work.

Materials Provided:
• Blue Paper, 11”x14”
• Scissors
• 3-D O’s
• Glue
• Colored pencils

Materials Needed: N/A

Vocabulary:
1. Shading: a process used in drawing for depicting levels of darkness on paper by applying media more densely or with a darker shade for darker areas, and less densely or with a lighter shade for lighter areas.
2. Composition: the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work.

Motivation:
1. Show and discuss examples of works from Red Grooms that incorporate shading and positioning of objects.
2. Demonstrate the use of pressure on a crayon or colored pencil to create light or dark colors. 3. Show students that the 3-D O’s will create the illusion that an object is in front of the drawing.

Instruction:
1. Take one sheet of fish shapes and begin to color each object using shading techniques. Apply hard pressure the colored pencil to create a shadow on a certain area of the creature. Apply light pressure to the pencil leaving some white space to indicate light hitting an object. Try outlining each shape with a darker shade and using a lighter color inside the object. These techniques should create the illusion of the object becoming 3D (three dimensional). Finish coloring all of the objects on the page.


2. Cut out each object on the paper making sure to get as close to the object as possible.







3. Take one blue piece of paper that will symbolize the ocean. Draw an ocean scene along of the bottom of the page that will represent the ocean floor (try using seaweed, underwater plants, buried treasure or a sunken ship to make the scene interesting).





4. Once the each object has been cut out and the ocean floor is created, place each object on the paper to decide where the best place will be for each object. Do not glue down any pieces until you have arranged a place for each object in the picture.




5. Decide what pieces should have the 3D effect. Turn over those pieces leaving the rest in place and apply one to two 3D O’s onto the back of the creature depending on the size of the object. Turn over the other objects and apply glue to attach them directly onto the ocean background. Arranging an object overtop of part of the ocean floor drawing will also create an effect of the object appearing closer to the viewer. Once the drawing is complete and the objects are attached to the paper notice the natural shadows created by the objects connected to the 3D O’s. The natural shadows appear similar the shadows created from the shading with the colored pencil.

Evaluation:
1. Use shading to create light and dark shadows in the project?
2. Use correct techniques to produce clean cut lines and 3-D effect?
3. Evaluate completed work?
 
 




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