Mr. Briscoe's Class: 12/18-1/11

Well, life is hectic and I haven't had a chance to post in a couple of weeks...I apologize. What we've been up to...

Foundations of Drawing:
Foundations of Drawing has been continuing to work with contour lines. Contour line drawings are drawings that defy the outer and inner line by prohibiting lifting of the pencil. In other words contour line drawings teach you to view all lines as significant, forcing the artist to focus on detail. This is important because many people tend to focus on just the outline or just the obvious lines...well, not in my class!

Creative Hands Project:
We began a project using sign language letters to guide our drawing. Each student chose a series of words or a phrase, perhaps even their name, to sign with one hand. With the other hand they were asked to draw a contour line drawing of their own hand. Again this was used to practice focusing on detail by forcing the artist to look back and forth between the object and the paper.

Rubric:
1. Student demonstrated basic knowledge of contour line, value & overlapping. - 15 pts
2. Student used 10 or more hand gestures - 10 pts
3. Student used high degree of detail - 10 pts
4. Effort - Student took time to develop idea and complete project - 20 pts
5. Craftsmanship - Neat, Clean, Complet - 20 pts.

Shoe Drawings
Foundations of Design also started another contour line drawing but this time of shoes placed in a still life.

Rubric:
1. Student demonstrated basic knowledge of contour line - 15 pts.
2. Student filled space and used overlapping. - 10 pts
3. Student used high degree of detail - 10 pts
4. Effort - took time to develop idea and complet project. - 20 pts
5. Crafsmanship - Neat, Clean, Complete. - 20 pts

Foundations of Design:
We have spent the last two weeks talking about positive and negative space. Positive space is the space that represents the "object" or the space occupied. Negative space is the area all around the the "object".

We did a packet that practiced this concept worth 50 pts.

We also started a new project dealing with pos/neg relationships using transfer paper. The class is overlapping lines and reversing out the pos/neg space.

Rubric:
1. Student demonstrated basic knowledge of pos/neg space. - 15pts
2. Student filled space and used overlapping. - 10 pts
3. Student used high degree of detail. - 10 pts
4. Effort - took time to develop idea and complete project. - 20 pts
5. Craftsmanship - Neat, clean, complet. - 20 pts

Again, feel free to e-mail me with questions: brandon.briscoe@leesummit.k12.mo.us