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Expressive Figures: 
"The Human Condition"

How do artists use design elements and principles to create a work of art that portrays life, emotion, and expression of an era?


Alice Neel (1900 - 1984)


Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000)


Formative Investigation & Planning

Lesson 1
  1. Summarize the videos above.  Who are the artists and where are they from?  What is each artist's work about?  Why do they create?
  2. Make a personal, cultural, or societal connection to their work.  What is happening in your life or the world you live in that compares or contrasts with the lives of these artists?  
  3. Write a paragraph describing your own life, interests, passions, concerns, ideas, etc.  

Lesson 2
  1. How would you depict "the human condition" in our world today?  In small groups of 3 or 4, create a visual mind map of your shared ideas.  In the center, begin with the phrase, "The Human Condition".  Branch off from there.  How do you interpret that phrase through your own current experiences?  
  2. This map should drive your creativity and ideas for imagery, content and subject matter for your own drawing composition.  
Picture

Lesson 3
  1. Draw a pattern on a 2"x2" piece of vellum tracing paper.  Then, transfer the pattern to a  2" x 2" piece of printing block.  Carve and shave the surface around your pencil lines to reveal the pattern.
Picture

Summative Drawing Composition

Your Art Problem:  
Create a figurative composition (drawing with color) that depicts your interpretation of "The Human Condition".  Finish your drawing as a resolved and unified composition with colored oil pastels, printed patterns, ink and paint.  

Steps
  1. ​Draw a figure from a model on vellum tracing paper.  Use a graphite stick or pencil.  (Day 1)
  2. Flip over your drawing and transfer rub the graphite to a final drawing composition paper or illustration board.  (Day 1)
  3. Trace over your pencil marks with ink.  (Day 1)
  4. Next, use a small 2" x 2" piece of printing block.  Draw and carve a pattern into the printing block.  (Day 2)
  5. Block out sections of your drawing with tracing vellum paper in order to protect your drawing from the printed pattern.  Use the printed pattern as decoration and embellishment for your drawing illustration.  (Day 3)
  6. Print your block into a pattern onto your drawing illustration composition.  (Day 3)
  7. Add to your composition.  Draw background information, designs, extra drawing elements, etc. (Day 4)
  8. Finish your composition by adding color:  oil pastel, ink, paint, etc. 

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    • Computer Art >
      • A >
        • Unit 1 - Photoshop Basics - Graphic Design
        • Unit 1 - Photoshop Basics
        • Unit 2 - Clone Multiplicity - Layer Masking
        • Unit 2 - 3D Tools: Photoshop CS5
        • Unit 3 - Surrealism & Digital Art
        • Unit 4 - Illustrator Basics & Vector Art
        • Unit 5 - Illustrator Logo Design
        • Extra Cred - 3D Imaging Oldschool!!!
        • Doodle 4 Google
      • B >
        • Unit 1 - Illustrator Basics & Vector Art
        • Unit 2 - Illustrator Logo Design
        • Unit 3 - After Effects CS5 Animation
        • Unit 3 - After Effects Lightsaber >
          • Student Examples - After Effects CS5
        • Unit 3 - Stop Motion Animation
        • Unit 4 - Illustrator to After Effects
        • Unit 5 - Cloning in After Effects
        • Unit 6 - Motion Tracking Fire Hands
        • Unit 5 - 3D Effects & Imaging
    • Painting >
      • A >
        • Unit 1 - Color Theory
        • Unit 2 - Tempera: Cultural Connection Parody
        • Unit 3 - Acrylic #1 - Classical Layering
        • Unit 4 - Acrylic #2 - Alternative Mediums
        • Unit 5 - Water Color
        • Unit 6 - Final Digital Portfolio
      • B >
        • Unit 1 - Watercolor Composition
        • Unit 2 - Oil Painting Sticks
        • Unit 3 - Identity Self Portrait
        • Unit 4 - Encaustic Painting
        • Unit 5 - Final History Composition
      • C >
        • Unit 1 -
        • Unit 2 -
        • Unit 3 -
    • Design: G,C,&SA >
      • Unit 1 - Understanding Art & Design
      • Unit 2 - Variety & Unity Poem Illustration
      • Unit 3 - Typography & Logo with Ligatures
      • Unit 4 - Logo Design
      • Unit 5 - Graffiti Lettering
      • Unit 6 - Comics & Character Design
      • Unit 7 - Character Development & Designer Toys
      • Unit 8 - Street Art
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