ERIK MANDAVILLE, ECMS ART 6&7
ECMS Visual Arts
The Esperero Canyon Middle School Art Department is committed to providing all students with an engaging, well-rounded curriculum that explores both a variety of art media and processes, as well as opportunities to make historical and cultural connections with global art and craft traditions.
Art Media and Techniques
Learning to apply new skills and knowledge
From ceramics and sculpture, to representational drawing, painting, and linear perspective, students will gain familiarity with fine arts materials and methods. Exposure to a variety of media, as well as their appropriate use and application, enables our young art students to achieve proficiency and mastery. As they learn safe practices associated with all art tools and techniques, ECMS students also begin to form their very own unique visual vocabulary and personal style.
Mini Gallery!
A small sampling of some of the projects students will be working on during the school year
Abstract Contour-Line Self-Portrait With Juxtaposition of Organic and Geometric Shapes Media: Color pencil, ultra-fine permanent marker, fine-tooth drawing paper (9" X 12")
After students practice various contour line drawing techniques, each student will begin a lightly-drawn practice sketch of his or her face using drawing pencil and mirror. The practice sketch then becomes the basis of a final, possibly refined and edited drawing -- also initially done in pencil, and then completed with permanent marker over all lines. Drawing pencils are then used to fill, through the application of value (gradation from light to dark) all intersecting shapes individually and separately.
Non-Objective 2-D Design With Focal Point
Students compare and contrast two and three dimensional art forms, as well as differentiate between 'objective/representational' (realistic or familiar objects depicted as they appear in real life) and 'non-objective/non-representational' (images that focus on the use of the formal Elements and Principles of Art -- color, emphasis, shape, etc.) without focusing on the recreation familiar things, people, etc.
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The drawing shown here consists of four practice designs done by a student in order to work out visual design ideas and challenges. The best of the four will be scaled-up-to-and-completed using tempera paint. Each separate drawing here is 5.5" H X 4.25" W.
One Pt. Linear Perspective is concerned with creating the illusion of Space, one of the formal Elements of Art. The picture above depicts a small country village, where the tops of houses and road converge at a common vanishing point. ***The use of perspective in painting and drawing has been in use since antiquity, but was not more thoroughly understood and developed until the Renaissance.
One point Linear Perspective, TownAs in the drawing to the left, perspective lines in this drawing (tops and bottoms of building fronts (which face the road), windows, doors, chimney top, road, and sidewalks must converge at a common point (the vanishing point) on the horizon.
Learning to model form with light and shadow: Effective use of Value - the use of lights and darks (highlights and shadows) is essential to creating the illusion of 3-dimensional form on a 2-dimensional surface, as can be seen in the drawing of basic geometric shapes shown here. In the absence of Value (one of the formal Elements of Art,) the shapes in this drawing would be simply what they are -- shapes devoid of mass, volume, light, and shadow.
2Pt Linear Perspective is simply 1pt linear perspective with the addition of a second vanishing point on the horizon. While the drawing shown here is an example of the first introductory project (to create correctly segmented cubes or rectangular prisms both above and below the horizon line), Students then complete a more complex and detailed drawing through the application of correct 2pt perspective drawing principles.
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Esperero Canyon Middle School
5801 N. Sabino Canyon Road
Tucson, Arizona 85750
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