Elements of Design: Color Lesson # 6

Below are a number of links to various artists and designers who used color and geometry to make interesting images.

1. Click on link 1 and examine the design (artwork)
2. Click on the back button to get back to this Blog
3. Click on the next link.
4. PLease look at all of the images before you begin to design.
5. You may use any drawing instruments that are available. ( rulers, templates, compasses, french curves, etc. )
6. PLan out your drawing with regular pencil
7. Use color pencils to add color.

Links:

Piet Mandrian: http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=piet+mondrian&spell=1

Frank Lloyd Wright:

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/MAY04/ACweb/0313.jpg

http://www.heartlandhouse.com/docs/fllw_available_canvases.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Design-Coasters/dp/B0002FO464

Francine Bradette: (scroll down this page to the geometric modern art collection)

http://www.fradetfineart.com/page18.htm

Kandinsky:

http://www.washburn.k12.il.us/gifs%20and%20jpegs/kndnsk06.jpg

Sketching Form #5

Use the steps to create 4 or 5 different sized cubes and then practice shading them. Click on the image to enlarge. Try placing the light source from different directions in each of your cubes. Next , skecth the cylinder using the crating method and shade it. By shading an image you add depth which gives form.

Sketching #4 Shape and Form

Complete the exercises on the work sheets . You may use these sketches to help you with the activity

Sketching Lines and Shapes # 3

You will find these shapes on pages 29,30, and 31 of your Technical Drawing Textbook. Try to use the crating method. Make your lines very light and then darken object lines in your last step

Sketching lines and shapes number 2

In this exercise, you will practice "crating " parts of an object . You should also become familiar with four lines we will be using in both Architecture and Design and Drawing for Production:

• Construction lines


• Outlines (also called Object lines)


• Center lines


• Dimension lines

Sketching Lines and Shapes

You may use this image to assist you in sketching lines and shapes.
Line terminology: Line weight,straight lines, horizontal lines,vertical lines diagonal lines,hatching lines,continuous lines, broken lines, center lines, sectioning lines, Hidden lines, projection lines, construction lines.

Shape terminology:"Crating" Polygons, irregular polygons, regular polygons, parallelograms, squares, rectangles, circles, hemispheres, hexagons, pentagons, triangles, octagons, two dimensional.

Click on the image to enlarge it so that you can see it better.