Art 3, week 16
Art in Focus, chapter 16: Italian Renaissance
Essential Standards
P.V.1.4 Evaluate the use of the Elements of Art and Principles of Design in art.
P.CX.1.2 Understand how personal perspective is influenced by temporal context.
P.CX.1.4 Understand how personal aesthetic responses to art are influenced by culture.
Common Core
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate
to task, purpose, and audience.
Monday-Tuesday: Remember your art show display is due soon! Look up ‘display boards’ on Pinterest.com!
1. Peruse the artworks reproduced in Art in Focus, chapter 16: The Italian Renaissance, pages 352-376.
2. Discuss the important events that shaped the Italian Renaissance, as found on the timeline on pages 352-3.
3. Discuss the subjects and layouts of the Italian Renaissance paintings (religious versus secular).
4. Brainstorm ideas for your oil painting’s layout. You must have at least one figure but you may include more.
What will your figures be doing? Where are they? What is the story behind the painting?
5. At 9am Monday, some of you will model and the rest of you will draw the contours of the models. You will pose
them as you wish. You may choose a setting in the school or outside: draw the landscape too. The models will
draw tomorrow. By the end of class Wednesday, you should have your final sketch of what scene you want to
paint. If you wish to draw at home, you must bring back a statement signed by the model and yourself that
states:
“I, (your name), drew the model, (model’s name), from direct observation, and not a photograph.
Signed, (model’s signature and your signature).
Please repeat for each model used. All settings must be from direct observation. If you use a draw you made at
home, you must still draw in class at the proscribed times.
Wednesday: Art show display is due when?
1.
Speed video on painting in layers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQy3lLns7yc
2.
Please have your final layout done by the end of class today. If you finish early, you will start enlarging your
drawing to fit on the larger primed canvas paper or simply copying it. Use charcoal or conte’ crayon to transfer
your sketch to your final substrate.
Thursday: Where can I find the rubric for the final exam?
1.
Using colored pencils or chalks, sketch in the colors you wish onto your sketch. Keep in mind the contrasting
colors in Renaissance paintings (think COMPLEMENTARY HUES). Consider a strong focal point hue and a dull or
neutral scheme for the setting/background to push it back. Remember shading (avoid black, grey, and brown)
and highlights will affect the dimensionality of your scene.
2.
Tape your primed canvas paper to a drawing board and stand it on an easel.
3.
Set up your palette, paintbrushes, palette knife, and watercup. Each item will be numbered for you.
4.
Critique color study for coverage of substrate, shading, highlights, background.
Friday: Bring in your art show displays now: only a week and a half left!
1.
Watch and discuss a demo of layering your oil paint from the background to the large areas in the foreground
(skin before hair, clothes, and facial features), and then details (which don’t include outlines!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5cnC2BS__M
2.
Begin painting as outlined in the video. Please feel free to watch it again as you paint. You have next week at
3.
least to paint: take your time and do it right the first time, correct mistakes as you go.
After getting your contour lines on the final substrate, make a thin wash of acrylic to go over the whole board. It
works well to use a color that works with your skin tone: a brown wash (tan), yellow-orange, etc.
Week 17
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Work-in-progress critique: put all paintings against the walls so they are visible to all. Get the rubric up on your
laptop. Discuss the paintings for each rubric criterion.
2.
For support: watch the two videos above again, as often as needed. Watch and stop, repeat…
3.
Search for other helpful videos on oil painting portraits, especially in the style of: ‘the old masters’, ‘the
Renaissance’, ‘high contrast’. Share the most helpful videos by emailing them to your teacher and classmates.
4.
Continue using best practices for painting.
Name
Assessor
Requirements
met
Accurate body proportions, accurate
background contours
Composition: figure is large, focal
point well contrasted and lined
Shading & highlights in at least 5
values
Craftsmanship Skillful use of charcoal, oil paint,
working background first, large areas
second, details last, no outlines
Mistakes hidden, full paint coverage,
no sloppiness
Artistic Vision Excellence in use of color, texture,
details, contrast,
or other extraordinary measure
Name
Assessor
Requirements
met
Accurate body proportions, accurate
background contours
Composition: figure is large, focal
point well contrasted and lined
Shading & highlights in at least 5
values
Craftsmanship Skillful use of charcoal, oil paint,
working background first, large areas
second, details last, no outlines
Mistakes hidden, full paint coverage,
no sloppiness
Artistic Vision Excellence in use of color, texture,
details, contrast,
or other extraordinary measure
A
90-100
27-30
Project
B
80-89
24-26
Figure in Setting
C
70-79
21-23
D
60-69
18-20
Grade
F
0-59
0-17
19-20
17-18
16
14-15
0-13
19-20
17-18
16
14-15
0-13
19-20
17-18
16
21-
0-20
5
4
3
0-2
5
4
3
0-2
A
90-100
27-30
Project
B
80-89
24-26
Figure in Setting
C
70-79
21-23
D
60-69
18-20
Grade
F
0-59
0-17
19-20
17-18
16
14-15
0-13
19-20
17-18
16
14-15
0-13
19-20
17-18
16
21-
0-20
5
4
3
0-2
5
4
3
0-2