Mar 8th Leonardo's last principle

Leonardo's Last Principle - Connessione

Observations of connections - ripple effects: of water literally and in the world...
Leonardo's dragon (creative recipe of combination and creation)
landscapes and the interconnections
We will use self assessment and exercise from the book and create unrelated links in art

Feb Break -homework based on "How to think like Leonardo da vinci" book

For the month of February students will complete Part three of "How to think like Leonardo da vinci" book.  The Beginner's DaVinci Drawing Course

Although most of these elements have been covered in previous classes this Completes the study and prepares them for the next three months of art class where art creation will be a major focus.  Students will need to assess their own needs and be prepared to paint images they have chosen for 2018.

Jan 25th - last lesson before break

Corporalita  Leonardo's 6th Principle

Corporalita  - the physique figure, anatomy  (we covered much of this)
aged, emotional, postural, active ...
You will be painting yourself in pose, paying close attention to your own anatomy!!
painting in various physical positions (using your other hand)

Jan 18th -Leonardo's Art Science Principle

- Arte/Scienza - Balance

Think Like Leonardo Lesson :
- Your brains capacity for colour, dimension, synthesis, rhythm and image
- right and left brain dominance
self assessment pg 175 and mind mapping exercise pgs. 176-189

Art Flo Painting substitution day

Jan 11th Leonardo's principle - Sfumato

A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox and uncertainty
We will experiment with different rules rule breaking and different approaches to see the changes and contemplating on paradoxes as outlined in the book as it relates to art creation

And we will be painting the same picture in a variety of different methods

the mona lisa

Jan 4th - Galaxy paintings And the 3rd principle Sensazione

opaque vs transparent. building light
painting on a black background
showing distance of further out stars
painting stars using alternate means


We will complete our galaxy paintings


Leonardo's 3rd Principle: Sensazione refinement, enliven the experience
the 5 senses: (sight, smell, hear, touch, taste )How does this relate you ask...
identifying with out sight

dec 28th optional class - finish

This class intended to finish incomplete paintings and previous lessons
Adding colour to the colt panting and creating Fireworks artworks.
The purpose of 2d/3d in art

Dec 21 - Watercolour birds

Talking about: negative Space the importance of thumnails, placement and action in a thumbnail

Creating watercolour birds in flying motion or still.
-creating movement, distance, as in size, tone, depth to infer space
Using splash method like Sarah Yeoman

Dec 14th - Underpaintings

Different processes to painting and underpainting

The first process:
Students will draw a colt with sepia colour. using a mix of ultra and burnt sienna to change the colour value they will create an underpainting. Then using acrylics; paying attention to detail and background colour/tone changes they will complete their artwork.

Dec 7th Thumbnails

Making thumbnails using: 1. shape only as rectangles/boxes/circles  2. using shade only; as silhouette 3. using tonal vales; as sketching

Identifying perspective, shadow and tones

Artists were given a number of scenarios in shadow boxes. Using items of various textures: these included fruit, a metal shiny piggy bank, a fuzzy stuffed rabbit, an aluminum green truck, a baseball with glove, a couple of wooden art figures.
homework:  applying the movement of the human being using figures you may have at hand (a barbie doll)

Foreshortening

Artists were encouraged to create artworks with foreshortening.