Artists plan their drawings and paintings. They can plan a tall, vertical picture. This is a PORTRAIT FORMAT.
They can plan a wide, horizontal picture. This is called landscape format.
You can learn to look for pictures to draw or paint.
You can plan the shapes of the pictures you create.
HORIZONTAL OR LANDSCAPE FORMAT
VERTICAL OR PORTRAIT FORMAT
A viewfinder is a sheet of paper with a hole or shape cut out of it.
you can use a camera or an ipad to do the same thing!
Charles Sheeler. Windows. 1952.
Some artists make many different pictures of the same subject.
Charles Sheeler liked to create art about the city.
He planned the shapes of his pictures to show the city in different ways.
Charles Sheeler. Golden Gate. 1955.
You can learn to plan the shape of your pictures.
TAKE MANY PHOTOgraphs of interesting spaces from unusual angles of your classroom, hallway or outside the window.
TAKE BOTH vertical and horizontal PICTURES.
CLICK HERE TO SEE SAMPLE ARTWORK FOR THIS PROJECT.
Project – DRAWING: Shapes of Pictures
1. open your camera app on your ipad.
2. take lots of pictures of interesting spaces.
3. crop YOUR PICTURE INTO EITHER A
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vertical picture (or portrait format).
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horizontal picture (or landscape format).
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SQUARE PICTURE (both sides are equal length)
4. OPEN YOUR PHOTO IN AUTODESK SKETCHBOOK AND ADD A NEW LAYER TO TRACE OR SKETCH YOUR PHOTO. ADD COLOR OR PATTERNS IN YOU HAVE EXTRA TIME.
5. upload YOUR BEST DRAWING to SEESAW.
Extensions
Perceptual Skills: Take iPads or viewfinders and sketching paper outside. Draw the school or your neighborhood using your viewfinder.