Welcome to AVI2O

Welcome to AVI2O
Unit 1: Introduction

Exercise 1: Pencil Shading

• Using a standard pencil and eraser, attempt to model a sphere without using a defined outline.  Try a few of the methods below.  Make your drawings about the size of a tennis ball.

Exercise 2: Skull Grid Drawing

• We will be using a grid to copy the skull using pencil and eraser.
1. Grid the Skull using a ruler.  Be careful to measure first
2. Grid your paper - use a similar sized grid (doesn't have to be exactly the same)
3. We'll be using black paper and chalk for another drawing - Lightly sketch the grid (in pencil) on the large black paper using the transfer method.  Complete the drawing using chalk.
• Skull Drawing Assignment Outline
• Skull are Due: Sept 18th

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Lesson: Portraiture

How Art Made the World: Episode 3 - The Art of Persuasion

Over the course of the semester, we'll be looking at portraits; Why are portraits so relevant? How have they changed history? Why are we still so fascinated with them? (Selfies!).  We'll look at what portraits can say about people, how they communicate and tell stories about people....how they change perceptions.  Worksheet

Note on How to Save your Work Digitally
Chalk skulls - along with 2 digital versions are to be handed in for Monday Sept 28th


Pastel Blending - Wave exercise.  Follow along with this technique and include a sample in your sketchbook.

Pastel Portraits

To have a little fun, and experiment with using pastels, we'll be blowing up some famous photos.  As a group, we'll be using the grid technique to create some huge portraits.  This exercise will push yo to observe areas that are obscured, use colour to create light and dark values and work within a group to complete a unified work.