Zen art is due COMPLETED on Friday at
the beginning of class!
How does art reflect a mood?
What emotion is the artist
is trying to show?
How does the color effect
the mood?
How could the artist
change the mood of this
painting?
How could he change the
characters?
Facial features can give the viewer a lot of information about how a character is feeling.
The style of artwork that shows EMOTIONS AND EXPRESSIONS is called…..
Expressionism!
Before the late 1800’s paintings illustrated realistic situations and subject matter with out emotion
or expression…then artists started a painting style called Expressionism in which artists revealed
personal expression and human emotions…
emotions were ILLUSTRATED by the artists’ use of colors, line, textures, brushstrokes, etc…and
viewers “felt” them.
How would you illustrate these facial expressions in a
simple line drawing?????????
Let’s design an EMOJI!!!
Although your average emoji is adorable and yellow and smiley, there
are numerous variations to discover.
Your job is to create a range of expressions in your
OWN designs for emoji faces. MUST BE UNIQUE!
DO NOT COPY other people’s ideas! Ever.
Day 1: On your rough draft worksheet, design 6-9 emoji faces– each must be
unique and reveal a different expression – do not copy other students’ ides!
TIPS
- Keep it line-based focus on line quality and simple colors.
- Have your neighbor make the ‘face’ for you , notice how the facial features are
positioned and replicate it in a emoji style
- Choose emotions that you think very few will choose, but others should be able
to tell what it is
- Use a variety of DIFFERENT types of moods!
Having a hard time…on the back of your rough draft paper, draw ‘normal’ faces
with expressions and simplify them!
Day 2
1. On final draft paper, in pencil, draw your circles. You can chose to draw one size
or up to three different size circles. If you would all of your designs on your final
paper, that is fine, too!
2. Draw the faces, also in pencil
Day 3
1. Paint the BACKGROUND…. One color transparently or LIGHT in VALUE – painting
this before helps to make less mistakes. Work quickly – use larger paintbrush and
plenty of water!!!!
2. Paint the FOREGROUND. Carefully paint the emojis
3. Outline in black marker
Emoji Rubric
grading scale
4 (Awesome!)- Student shows an understanding of Expressionism through the
creation of an expressive face. The face and the colors clearly illustrate the
emotion. Paint is applied very neatly and clear.
3 (ok!) - Student shows an understanding of Expressionism through the creation of
an expressive face. The face and the colors somewhat illustrate the emotion. Paint
is applied somewhat neatly and is somewhat clear.
2 (uh, its looks like you don’t care and didn’t ask questions!!)- Student shows a
lack of understanding of Expressionism through the creation of an expressive face.
The face and the colors do not clearly illustrate the emotion. Paint is applied
messily and is poorly done.
1 (Incomplete or stinky effort) Student shows no understanding of Expressionism
and the artwork is incomplete or shows no effort.
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