Drawing and Painting

• Livoti• Oct 6-10

Monday 10-6-2014• Aim: How can you use a grid to enlarge

your image?

• Do Now: watch Chuck Close video and list 3 facts about the artist.

Homework: Continue October sketchbooks due on Friday Oct. 31. 5 drawings must be completed

Todays goal: grid reference picture and final copy paper.

Tuesday 10-7-14• Aim: How can you use the grid to help

you measure facial proportions?

Homework: Continue October sketchbooks due on Friday Oct. 31. 5 drawings must be completed

• Do Now: mini grid worksheet assess your grid skills

Wed 10-8-14• Aim: How can you continue to draw within your

grid?

• Do Now: List two reasons why artists use grids in their drawings.

Homework: Begin your october sketchbooks due on Friday Oct. 31. 5 drawings must be completed

Thurs Oct 2, 2014• Aim: How can you continue to draw your portrait

using the grid?

Homework: Continue October sketchbooks due on Friday Oct. 31. 5 drawings must be completed

Do Now: Analyze “Throwback Thursday” image

#ThrowbackThursday

The Magdalen with the Smoking FlameGeorges de la Tour (1593-1652)France, circa 1638-1640Oil on canvas

“...the chief symbol and true subject of the work is the candle at which Mary gazes in her meditation. Rendered in extraordinary detail and modulation, it emits the light that followers of St. John of the Cross called ‘the living flame of love,’ toward which spiritual pilgrims are drawn out of the ‘dark night of the soul.’”

Friday 10-10-2014• Aim: How can you complete your grid drawing?

Homework: Continue October sketchbooks due on Friday Oct. 31. 5 drawings must be completed

• Do Now: “Focused Friday” Read the following Article and respond to the reading with an argument for or against making the grid a visible part of an artwork. Use evidence from the article to support your position.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/nyregion/a-review-of-chuck-close-recent-

works-at-guild-hall-museum.html?ref=design&_r=0