Visual Art term 3
From 2D to 3D- Wood, Wire, Paper craft: Expressing ideas through experimentation and play
The aim is to provide a great starting point to play and experiment using paper and a variety of construction materials, and just to draw for the sake of drawing, and make for the sake of making, using ideas from life as you go along, without necessarily having some fixed notion of what you want to create before you start. Marion Deuchars
This term we will be exploring the world of 3dimension and examine the process of transferring a 2D drawing into a 3D object or sculpture. We will begin our explorations through the examination of how we can transfer a 2D drawing with the use of line, into a 3D drawing. This will provide us with a deeper insight into the way sculptors work and how they visualise their ideas in 3 dimension.
This week we played around with the idea of creating the illusion of 3D through the controlled and careful use of line. This use of line creates an optical illusion and we explored how to create different planes and surfaces within the one drawing.
We first explored still life drawing using this technique.
Students then began exploring parts of the body – starting with the hand:
Back to on-line learning!
Last week we thought about how sculptors create 3D artworks and played around with line to change a 2D sketch into a 3D drawing or sculpture. We used line to create an optical illusion. This was great fun! This week at home, we began an investigation into how to draw the human body. The human body is a hard thing to draw, especially in 3D! So our aim this week was to just begin to notice the body. We examined the shape of the body and its proportions and we noticed how long the arms and legs were, and we investigated some fun facts about the proportions of the body. This was good preparation for our 3D sculptural work which will commence when we return to school. Picasso created some very beautiful continuous line drawings of animals and people. This week we took particular notice of his continuous line dancing figures.
The technique of continuous line drawing is a continuous line drawing where the line is unbroken from the beginning to the end. The pen or pencil remains on the surface of the paper during the entire length of the drawing. This means, when you look at the person you are drawing, you will need to keep your pen on the paper at all times -a bit like when you are taking a line for a walk.
Students created some beautiful continuous line drawings and were inspired often to work with family members to create and explore together.
