Design Your Mask

Before we start to actually use clay, we need to draw rough sketches of our mask ideas and then create a final idea for the mask.

• Spend some time looking for masks that you like. Use the links from our blog or search for your own.

• Copy and Paste the photos of the masks you liked that you want to use in your own design

• Next, draw 5 small sketches of different ideas based on the masks above

• Then pick your favorite from above and draw a full size skecth with all of the details you will add to your mask.

Explore Masks

For this unit we are going to create a mask based on a tribal culture.
Print out this graphic organizer and use the links below for your answers:
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson395/organizer5.pdf

After you complete the questions you will create 5 thumbnail sketches of mask ideas. Discuss your ideas with me then draw a full size sketch of the mask design.

AfricanMasks
African Mask History, Rebirth African Art:http://www.rebirth.co.za/African_mask_history_and_meaning.htm

 Art of the African Mask, University of Virginia: http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/African_Mask.html

Faces of the Dead: Egyptian Mummy Masks: 
http://www.akhet.co.uk/faces.htm

Masks of Africa, Museum of Ancient and Modern Art: http://www.mama.org/collection/afc/afc001.html

Asian Masks
Ceremonial Masks from Java and Bali Indonesia:
http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/indonesi/masksjbc.htm

Ceremonial Masks of Mongolia:
http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/mongolia/tsam.html
http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=1617

Masks of India:
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/masks/

Masks: Reflection of Culture and Religion (India): http://www.dollsofindia.com/mask.htm
New Guinea Masks:
http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/nuguinea/maskspko.htm
http://www.jungleoutpost.com/cart/masks-papua-guinea-c-23.html

Japanese Noh and Oni Masks:
http://www.nohmask21.com/
http://www.thefind.com/movies/browse-japanese-noh-mask
Noh Mask History, Media Information Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan: 
http://www.nohmask21.com/

Central and South America
Dominican Republic:
http://dominicanmasks.com/
Guatemalan Masks:
http://www.coloresdelpueblo.org/Masks.htm
Maya Masks;
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/mayan-masks.htm

European Masks
Masks in the Ancient Greek Theatre:
http://www.greektheatre.gr/masks.html 

Venetian Masks: http://www.bergencounty.com/costumes/maskitalia/history.html

North American Masks
Alaska: The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks: http://www.tribalarts.com/feature/riordan/
Mexican Masks:
http://www.mexicanmasks.us/
Aztec Masks:
http://aztec-empire.com/masks.htm
West Coast Indian Art Tribal Masks: http://www.freespiritgallery.ca/nwartmasks.htm


More Masks Examples
Masks from Around the World

Ceramic Unit Vocabulary

Write the clay vocabulary terms down in your blog.

After we're done we'll watch some videos about ceramics.

Upload Day - Drawing Unit - Self Assessment

Upload the following work in separate blog posts:

Line Drawing-Tubes, Boxes, Spheres - Big Still Life






Shading-Value Worksheets

Shaded/Value Drawing -Tubes, Boxes, Spheres



Shaded/Value Drawing - Tubes - Before and After





Drawing Self Assessment

Answer the following questions about the ELEMENTS of ART.
What are the characteristics of Line? How did you use it in your drawings?
What are the characteristics of Shape? How did you use it in your drawings?
What are the characteristics of Form? How did you use it in your drawings?

Answer the following questions:
Grade your WORK ETHIC based on the Rubric.
Grade your CRAFTSMANSHIP/QUALITY based on the IMAGE CRITERIA Rubric

How did you feel you improved from your very first drawings to the final drawings?
At first I didn't understand to.....
Now I understand to...
I still don't understand how to....
What did you find the easiest in your drawings?
What did you find the most difficult?

My Final grade should be....

Introduction to Value and Shading

Shading in a drawing is used to create Value.

Value is the darkness or lightness of a color. Light values are called tints and dark values are called shades.

Contrast deals with difference. Contrast is produced when any difference between elements such as texture, color, size, or value occurs. It can be subtle or extreme. When it comes to shading, we are mostly concerned with the contrast that is produced from changes in value.

When light hits the subject, it produces a range of contrasting values. The intensity of the light determines the contrast of values. Generally, the stronger the light - the higher the contrast

Upload Your Proportions and Angles Practice - 50 Points

Upload every drawing that you did of the Tubes (finding Proportions) and the box (finding angles).

Finding Angles - The Pencil and Clock Trick

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...