- 01 Apr, 2021
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Unit #2: Active Learning Project
You will write a 300 (minimum) word response (in MLA format) that examines how your project brings specific artistic elements/principles to life.
Connect what you have learned from your project with the material we studied and that you have seen elsewhere.
You must put the physical artwork and the writing in the same document.
file:///Users/moeraiders24/Downloads/Sample%20Active%20Learning.pdf attached for your information. Example assignment.
Prompts
Below are several choices available to you, you must complete one.
Weaving is an ancient craft used to create cloth and other textiles. It is achieved by interlacing rows of material, usually fiber, until the desired size and shape are completed. To make a simple piece of weaving, use 18 strips of paper that are 11 in. long and 3⁄4 in. wide. Tape down 9 strips, laying them parallel and next to each other: this will be the warp. Now take one strip and, at a right angle to the warp, insert it so that it crosses under, then over, the warp strips. This is the first of our weft, or filling, for the weaving. For the second strip we want to use the same process, but alternate it so that the second strip goes over and under the opposite warp than the first. We will complete the weaving by repeating the weft process, always alternating from strip to strip until all 9 are in place. When using fibers, a loom aids the weaver by holding the warp in place.
Try incorporating color or varying the size of your strips into another weaving.
How could you achieve patterns?
Can you think of ways that this process could be applied to other materials, such as metal?
How do the principles and fundamentals we studied in this unit apply in your artwork?
Traditional quilt designs often use repetitive patterns to create a design. These patterns are set into squares that have been subdivided into a grid of nine smaller squares. The nine smaller squares in their turn are then divided in various ways to create a pattern. Using a 6 in × 6-in. white paper square and 9 black 2-in. squares, create a checkerboard pattern. Take the leftover black squares and divide them in two, cutting from corner to corner into triangles. Now remove the whole black squares and create a pattern with the triangles.
How many combinations can you create when you orient the triangles?
Be sure to take pictures of your various compositions.
What advantages would the designer of a simple quilt have if he or she limited the shape of the components?
How do the principles and fundamentals we studied in this unit apply in your artwork?
Proportion is especially noticeable when we view images of the human form. We are so familiar with human physical proportions that we notice even slightly pronounced facial features, such as a large nose or ears. Make three photocopies of a direct, face forward picture of yourself. Each copy should be enlarged or reduced from the original. Cut out facial features from all three, such as the nose, ears, eyes, mouth, and the head, and reconstruct your face using select features from each copy.
Be sure to include various combinations of feature sizes.
How do you react to the distorted proportion of your face?
Can you think of examples where an artist has changed the facial proportion?
Why do you think he or she did so?
How do the principles and fundamentals we studied in this unit apply in your artwork?
Architectural style influences, and is influenced by, the surrounding environment, so that environment is a major concern for designers. Understanding how a building will fit is a challenge for even the most visionary architect. Print or photocopy pictures of three buildings, one private residence and two large public buildings. Using scissors, cut out the buildings from the environment that surrounds them, then photocopy them at 50 percent of their original size. Now print several background environments, a city-scape, a countryside, and a beach area. Once again, cut out the individual buildings from the paper they are on and place them in each of these environments.
Be sure to cite each building properly in MLA format.
What environments work best for your buildings? Why?
How do the principles and fundamentals we studied in this unit apply in your artwork?
Using the video linked in the link: Drawing Forms, create a drawing of geometric and organic forms. Pay attention to the use of value and texture to try to bring the forms to life.
One you have created several practice forms, use a combination of shapes to make a creative image of your own.
How can the illusion of light created in a drawing lead to the illusion of form?
What did this project do to help you understand the elements and principles we studied in this unit?
How do the principles and fundamentals we studied in this unit apply in your artwork?
Be sure to submit your practice forms and a completed creative artwork using what you learned in the video.