Online Art Club

Welcome to The Online Art Club with Mrs. Hayes.

This "club" is without an official name, so until then, it will be known as The Online Art Club with Mrs. Hayes.

Being a member means you will participate in regular assignments of fun art activities.



You will also agree to have your work posted so that the members can see all the art work created.

There will be no personal information posted, other than your first name, age and title (or other thoughts about the project). You may also choose to have no information tagged to your project.

Assignments will be on this page and will have a due date.


No sign-up...


 "JUST DO IT"

Ready for your first assignment?

Here we go......

Art assignment #1
Due date: 9-13-2012

An Op art lesson

First, review this information...

From the site: http://www.arthistory.net/artstyles/opart/opart1.html

Optical art (Op art) is concerned with creating optical illusions. The style typically favors abstraction over representation because observers must really focus their eyes and comprehend what they see. An illusion might suggest one thing at first, but a closer look reveals something different in the picture. Many Op art pieces are completed in two colors—black and white. The optical illusion creates different responses in observers through patterns, flashes, contrasts, movement, and hidden imagery. The observer is pulled into the picture in the same way that he or she is attacked by the image.

Personally, I consider M.C. Escher to be a predecessor of the Op art movement. Although his collection consist of many tessellations, his "impossible art" creates the very things stated above.
Visit these links for more insight:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher
http://www.mcescher.com/


Did you inform yourself about Op art?
Well, whether you did or did not, you should be able to enjoy this assignment...


The first Online Art Club assignment with Mrs. Hayes!
Your Op art task is to create a three dimensional hand.

Follow these instructions and you should be able to create a hand that pops out from the paper.

Remember that you have until September 13th.

1. Using an 8.5 x 11 sheet of white paper, make an outline of your hand with your fingers and thumb spread apart. Draw your arm so that the outline flows off the page. Use a pencil at first, then outline with marker or pen and erase pencil marks.

2. Start drawing horizontal lines, from one side of the paper to the other. When you get to the hand, slightly curve your lines upward back down to the other side of the hand and then continue the horizontal line in the back ground where you left of (before drawing on the inside of the hand). Make the lines 1/4 inch apart or less. With narrow spaces between the lines, the picture turns out better.

 

 

note: I don't like the placement of my thumb, but I will continue with it this way. It would have been better to have tilted my hand up more so that my thumb isn't so horizontal, so that it points upward like my fingers.

 

3. Continue all the way up to the top of the paper. Try to keep the line flowing, straight on the background, curving upward on the fingers, straight between the fingers, ect...

4. Draw short dashes that go along with the curve or the straight lines. On the background, follow along the hand outline, stoking short lines with the straight horizontal lines. Make sure to keep these straight dashes on the outside of the hand. Make the dashes curve with the lines on the inside of the hand.

5.  Do this all along the entire hand; inside and outside.


I still don't like my thumb!

6. To finish, use one color to fill in every-other space. Be careful to keep that space filled from one side of the page to the other. Color lightly, then go back and darken at the outline line. I have exaggerated mine for your example.

 

Mine is finished! But you won't see it until 9-14-2012...

Try this more than once. I made two for the examples, and still see mistakes that I made, but if I hadn't told you, I don't think you would have known. So, don't stress out about this. Have fun!

Being that this is my first project, comments are welcome.
If my directions weren't clear, I need to know for the following projects.
Post here with any questions.

When you are happy with your work, take a picture of it. 
Scan or download it and send it to me at the email below.
Put whatever information you want to be tagged to your photo (name, age, title...)
Again, I will not put any personal information with your picture, just first names.

My information is throughout this site.

Including here :)
hayes_ew@yahoo.com