Artist Shoes Sculpture NAME:____________ An art gallery has commissioned you to create an original shoe sculpture reflecting a specific artist. The work must show clear evidence of the artistic style and art period/movement of the specific artist chosen. You will first create 3 different conceptual sketches, which will be evaluated. You will also submit a statement outlining the chosen artist, art period/movement and artistic style in your shoes sculpture and the painting & sculpture techniques you used in creating it. Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa STEP ONE: RESEARCH THE WORK OF OTHERS: Select one of the artists below and research their artwork and style. What movement are they associated with? Print off samples of their work. Renaissance Artists Baroque & Rococo Artists Neoclassical Artists Realism Artists Botticelli Caravaggio Jacques Louis David Edouard Manet Michelangelo Bernini Jean Auguste Dominique Gustave Courbet Raphael Artemesia Gentileschi Ingres Winslow Homer Leonardo DaVinci Peter Paul Rubens Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Rembrandt Honore Daumier Jan Van Eyck Diego Velázquez Rosa Bonheur Albrecht Durer Vermeer Francisco Goya Romanticism Artists Canadian Japanese Artists Indian Artists Theodore Gericault Artists Katsusika Hokusai (See Art History Eugene Delacroix Tom Ando Hiroshige Booklet) Joseph Turner Thompson Bill Reid Torii Kiyonobu I Thomas Gainsborough J. Lemieux Lawren Harris William Blake Marguerite Ken Danby Alex Coville Chinese Artists Gerard Emil Carr Daphane Ojig Kuo His Norval Michael Snow Morrisseau Claude Breeze Chao Meng-Fu Joyce Wieland Joe Fafard STEP TWO: DRAW: In your sketchbook 3 different conceptual sketches of possible shoe designs that you are interested in creating. • Consider the elements and principles of design. (Shape, Form, Texture, Balance): How does your chosen artist apply the elements & principles of design to create their own unique style? • Consider the artist style & movement: How will your reflect their sculpture/painting technique(s)? • Your finished work must show clear evidence of influence from contemporary or past works of art. STEP THREE: CREATE: Follow your approved conceptual sketch and begin creating your work by using an old pair of shoes. WRITE your Artistic Statement Template to document your artistic process. REVIEW: the painting techniques in this handout. STEP FOUR: REFLECT: Answer the following questions using the elements and principles of design and complete your Artistic Statement Template for formal evaluation. 1. What part of your finished project did you find most successful and why? 2. What part of your finished project did you find least successful and why? 3. If you had to do this project, what part would you change or improve on and why? Artistic Statement Template Name:____________ Artwork Title:______________________________________________ A) Artist Chosen:______________ Art Period/Movement:______________ How does the artist create his unique artistic style and how does his work reflect the specific art period/movement: B) Painting & sculpture techniques used in my work and how they reflect chosen artist style and artistic period/movement: Painting Techniques There are so many ways of painting with acrylic that no book can possibly do justice to them all. However there are certain basic techniques: Opaque Technique: The simplest way to work with acrylic is to squeeze the color directly from the container onto the palette, brush in just enough water to produce a creamy consistency, and then apply masses of solid colour to the painting surface. And the second layer of colour will hide the first. For obvious reasons, this is called the opaque technique. It’s a rapid, direct way to paint. Transparent Technique: If you add much more water to the colour, you’ll produce a pool of tinted water called a wash. You can see right through it to the surface of the your palette, and you’ll also see through the transparent colour when you brush it onto the painting surface. The dried paint is like a sheet of coloured glass. A second coat will modify the first coat, the two will mix in the viewer’s eye but one coat won’t conceal another. That’s why this is called the transparent technique. Scumbling: To create tonal gradations from dark to light, or shade one colour into another - its important to learn how to handle the brush. Scumbling is a kind of scrubbing motion that spreads a veil of colour across the surface. When scumbling, you want other colors to show thru each layer. Dry Brush: is a painting technique in which a paint brush that is relatively dry but still holds a paint load is applied to a dry support such as paper or primed canvas. The resulting brush strokes have a characteristic scratchy look that lacks the smooth appearance that washes or blended paint commonly has. Masking: can describe materials used to control the development of a work of art by protecting a desired area from change. Masking or painters tape can be used to cover a particular area from another paint layer. Usually used in painting to create a percise, sharp, hard or straight lines. Combining Techniques: Naturally, there are many ways of combining these techniques. In painting a portrait head, it’s common to paint the lighted areas opaquely and then paint the shadows in transparent colour. Scumbling might produce the soft transitions from light to shadow, at places such as the cheeks or the brow. As you spend more time working with acrylic you will find your own combinations. 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