Drawing - Still Life Emily Vaught Stage 1 Understandings: Students apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient

t skill, confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artwork. Students conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrates an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes they use. Students initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems and independently using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Students evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions. Essential Questions: How is drawing on gray toned paper different than drawing on white appear or black paper? How are you supposed to show objects in transparency? Student Objectives: Students will be able to: Create an artwork that uses organizational principles and functions to solve a visual arts problem. Create a work of art that creates the illusion of transparency used to unify a work of art that demonstrates that light advances and darks recede. Deal with the duality of rendering transparent and opaque surfaces in charcoal. Deal with foreground, middleground, and background areas in addition to rendering overlapping forms. Stage 2 Assessment Evidence: Accurate proportions, lightly drawn lines, reflecting careful observation and practice sketches. Dramatic point of view, unusual. Objects drawn using space well, no excess negative areas. Dramatic and skillful use of value creating a dynamic image. Strong feeling of transparency in glass forms. Detailed self-analysis of work demonstrating insight and objective writing. Other Evidence: Strong and accurate drawing demonstrating proportion, dramatic composition showing a well defined focal point, value used to create the illusion of transparency and form, well written reflective statement.

Stage 3: Learning Activities: Procedure: Establish a strong composition through the use of prep sketches on newsprint. Create a specific focal point. Transfer and enlarge to fit paper. Practicing adding values to create a three dimensional appearance. Transparency can be done using light but well-defined areas with chalk. Render fabric using charcoal, then white chalk. Render solid forms, then glass areas last. Create a strong and dramatic appearance. Add highlights where appropriate. Spray fixative and mount for presentation. Add a cover sheet to protect work. Evaluate, write reflective statements and submit Reflective Statement: Describe the strongest part of your work: How did you achieve unity in the work? How did you achieve transparency? What problems did you encounter and how did you solve them? Compared to previous projects, what drawing medium have you feld the most comfortable with and why? Materials: Newsprint Pencils Drawing Paper Kneaded Rubber Erasers Charcoal White Chalk White Conte Fixative Cover Sheets Vocabulary: Value Tone Highlight Middle Value Shadows Transparency Composition Overlap Charcoal