Gesture Drawing Quick loose sketch Use loose arm

Gesture Drawing Quick, loose sketch Use loose arm movements (gestures) Great ‘warm up’ exercise for artists Can provide a start for a more finished drawing or painting ‘blocks in’ the large, basic shapes of a figure Trains the simultaneous working of the eyes, the brain, and the hand • Observation… Drawing what you see instead of from memory • • • -based on definition Retrieved January 2011 from http: //www. artlex. com/

Gesture Drawing Start with Basic Shapes… Head Neck Body Arms/Hand Legs/Feet

Gesture Drawing

Gesture Drawing I Can… ü Study a pose, and draw what I see ü Use basic shapes to draw a figure ü Create gesture drawings using quick, loose gestures ü Practice observing and drawing to improve my skills ü ARTIST TIP… On-going practice!

What Stuck Today? ? t u o b ra be m e e. em ng? r m u a rn l yo drawi l u i o w y t e Wha gestur hen sign te, t o n a e m e Writ

Stylized Olympic Sculpture Display: With care, stylized sculptures can be attached using a stapler to construction paper or Bristol Board ‘backers’, then displayed on a bulletin board.

Sculptures – Olympic Sports

Stylized Olympic Sculpture Materials: • • Pipe cleaners (chenille sticks) Newspaper Masking Tape Aluminum Foil Construction Paper (‘backer’) Pencil (name on back of construction paper) Stapler (to attach sculpture to paper ‘backer’ for display) WARM-UP EXERCISE… Gesture Drawings of the pose you wish to create.

Stylized Olympic Sculpture CREATE… A Symbolic Pose: Discuss, Practice/Pose, Refine Armature Build Up Wrap/Mold ü ARTIST TIP: This project will take time, experimentation and persistence. Work together to share strategies and techniques, to try again’ and to not give up.

Sculptures – Olympic Sports I Can… ü Use materials to create a human figure ü Manipulate materials to depict a pose ü Consider position and proportion ü Take risks, experiment & try again