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Title: Gesture Drawing


1
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/

2
Gesture Drawing
  • Start with Basic Shapes
  • Head
  • Neck
  • Body
  • Arms/Hand
  • Legs/Feet

3
Gesture Drawing
4
Gesture Drawing
  • I Can
  • Study a pose, and draw what I see
  • Use basic shapes to draw a figure
  • Create gesture drawings using quick, loose
    gestures
  • Practice observing and drawing to improve my
    skills
  • ARTIST TIP On-going practice!

5
  • What Stuck Today??

What will you remember about gesture
drawing? Write me a note, then sign your name.
6
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.

7
Sculptures Olympic Sports
8
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.

9
Stylized Olympic Sculpture
  • CREATE
  • A Symbolic Pose Discuss, Practice/Pose, Refine
  • Armature Build Up Wrap/Mold
  • 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.

10
Sculptures Olympic Sports
  • I Can
  • Use materials to create a human figure
  • Manipulate materials to depict a pose
  • Consider position and proportion
  • Take risks, experiment try again
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