Observational Drawing Lesson Plan Year 5

Lesson Notwithstanding Life and Observation Drawing

Andy Warhol, Five Views of an Onion, 1950s
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.1750

Acquire the fundamentals of contour-line cartoon using withal life.

This drawing lesson outlines the basics of profile-line drawing using Andy Warhol's artworks as examples. Students create simple contour-line drawings of onions, followed by longer observational drawings from simple still-life arrangements.

Objectives

• Students identify formal elements of drawing.
• Students apply contour-line techniques.
• Students interpret visual data into line drawings.

Andy Warhol, Five Views of an Onion, 1950s
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1998.1.1750

Almost the Art

Although Warhol is best known for his silkscreen prints, he was likewise an first-class draughtsman. Drawing was a constant role of his creative practise. As a child he took art classes at the Carnegie Museum of Art and later won awards for drawings he had made in high school. At Carnegie Institute for Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University, which Warhol graduated from with a degree in pictorial pattern), Warhol's offbeat, nontraditional drawing style did not see all his professors' bookish standards, and he was forced to do extra work in this area over summer interruption. In the 1950s, Warhol's blotted line cartoon technique defined his signature style for his commercial work. He also filled sketchbooks with freehand drawings, mostly done in ballpoint pen, of friends and still lifes. Several of his whimsical sketches and drawings from this era were published in magazines and books, such equally The All-time in Children'due south Books series and a little-known vintage cookbook chosen Wild Raspberries. Other sketchbook drawings were exhibited as fine fine art, such as Studies for a Boy Book , displayed at the Bodley gallery in New York in 1956. In his pop artwork, Warhol used a combination of mechanical and hand-drawn techniques as well as an opaque projector to trace outlines of images in preparation for his paintings. He also incorporated drawn lines in his afterwards silkscreened images, such as Mao Wallpaper , Mick Jagger , Gems , and his 1980s commercial work.

I was doing my [drawing] technique and so they told me I had to go to summer school, and if I didn't get to summertime schoolhouse I couldn't come up dorsum, so then I went to summer school and learned how to describe similar they did.

Points of View

One Sunday…nosotros went down to the flower market and bought some irises and came dorsum and spent the afternoon cartoon…He would only draw one line and and so leave it, and when I would draw things, I was always erasing, changing, and improving. And he never improved on anything. Rather than practice that, he would describe a new one, which is something I never idea of doing in those days.

Charles Lisanby in Patrick Smith, Andy Warhol'due south Art and Films, 1988

Vocabulary

• Contour lines: Lines that surround and ascertain the edges of a subject, giving it shape and volume. These should not be confused with a class's outlines. Outline is drawing a line around the periphery of a two-dimensional object. Contour is creating the effect of a third dimension using highlight and shadow. (artlex.com)
• Profile cartoon: Cartoon in which contour lines are used to represent subject matter. A contour cartoon has a 3-dimensional quality, indicating the thickness as well as height and width of the forms it describes.

Discussion Questions

1. As a group, explore Warhol's cartoon style during the 1950s using Five Views of an Onion and Nonetheless-Life: Flowers, and then discuss the following:
   • Describe the lines Warhol used to depict these items.
   • How does he achieve volume without much utilise of shading?
2. Warhol's early drawings were sometimes referred to as whimsical and playful. Do you agree? Why or why non?
3. Warhol did not employ an eraser; he would just start a new drawing. Why do you lot think he did this? If you lot had to depict without an eraser, what might you do differently?

Materials

• Still life objects (onions, fruit, vegetables, bloom arrangements, etc.)
• Paper
• Ballpoint pen, lithographic crayon, conte crayon, or pencil

Procedure

1. Explain what a contour-line drawing is.
   
2. Explicate or demonstrate to students that a continuous line contour cartoon is a classic drawing exercise in which a continuous-line cartoon is produced without ever lifting the drawing instrument from the page. Sometimes this do is modified every bit a blind continuous line contour in which a continuous-line drawing is produced without ever looking at the paper. Both exercises are designed to meliorate students' visual concentration.
3. Give students materials to practise contour-line drawings of onions. Explicate that the pattern on the skin of the onion helps students see cross-contour lines, which aid give a shape volume. Try both drawing exercises with students in 5 to x minute increments then adding more time if desired. For a continuous line contour cartoon, directly students to fix their optics on the contours of the onion and draw the contour very slowly with a steady, continuous line without lifting the drawing tool. For a bullheaded continuous line profile, have students practise the aforementioned merely without looking at the newspaper.
4. Create longer observation drawings from elementary still-life arrangements. You may wish to include onions, fruit, vegetables, flower arrangements, etc.

Wrap-up

Students self assess their work and the work of their peers by using a rating scale from i to five. i=unacceptable; 2=needs piece of work; 3=mediocre; four=well done; 5=outstanding. Students grouping the drawings co-ordinate to each rating. As a class, discuss the criteria the students used to brand their choices.

Cess

The following assessments can be used for this lesson using the downloadable assessment rubric.

• Aesthetics 1
• Aesthetics iii
• Creative procedure 3
• Artistic process 5

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Source: https://www.warhol.org/lessons/still-life-and-observation-drawing/

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