Finding Angles in a Drawing

When you are drawing object you also need to find correct angles.

Use the following technique to sight the angles with pencils.

Tilt your pencil to align with a feature in your image.

Then compare it to the horizontal border of your paper. 

The angle should be as close to the actual angle as possible.

It might help to imagine the angles as hands on a clock. What time would the angle above be?

Continue the process until you find all the angles...

Drawing in Proportion - Find the Unit of Measure

Today we will begin to learn the skills we need make a realistic drawing.

First we need to make a drawing that is in Proportion, meaning that the top and sides are in the correct ratio to each other.



Use your pencil and thumb to measure a distance on the object. This is called the Unit of Measure.

Then use the unit of Measure to find out how tall the tube is. Drop your pencil and thumb down the length of the tube and count how many widths you find.

1 width

2 widths

..and the tube is almost 3 widths tall.

Here is a link that goes into much more detail about this process.

Upload your 6 drawings and answer the questions

Today you will upload your 6 drawings to your blog and answer the following questions:
What drawing do I like best? Why?
What are 2 specific things that I did well in my drawings?
What are 2 things I would like improve in my drawings?

Upload a drawing

Creating your blog

Today we will create our own blog. This blog will be used to upload projects, research, comments and also to measure our progress in class.

We will learn how to:

• Log in to blogger
• Make a new blog with a title and address
• Create a post
• Add a link to the post.

You will then send the address of your blog to my google email at:

johncazort@ga.ozark.k12.mo.us

Welcome!

Welcome to Art Foundations! I hope you are ready for a creative year ahead.

Today we'll go over the syllabus and other important information.

Please read this at home with your parents and ask them fill out complete this confirming they have read it:

Syllabus Review Confimation Form