Designing Cubist style Final piece compositions Aim: To learn about key composition elements and use them to help you design 2 Cubist style composition ideas that combines your inside and outside imagery into one design to be painted, drawing and printed onto fabric What is Composition? By the end of the lesson I would like to see that you can apply your knowledge about these 4 elements in your design drawings and the annotations of your choices. Key Composition elements: Understanding what these terms mean and how to use them, will help make your images more interesting. Focal Points Rule of Thirds Balance Triangulation

Focal Point size Rule of Thirds to arrange focal point(s) Use of diagonals to lead the viewer in.

Task: 2 design drawings for a cubist composition based on your own work. Title: Cubist design drawings Draw 2 boxes on one page. Box one In your first box, add wet in wet washes in vivid watercolours to describe the general sense of your chosen landscape photo. Keep it ‘fuzzy’ and expressive, and let the paint move around freely. Lightly draw on the Rule of Thirds grid onto your box. Over this, add a line drawing of your landscape photo. Use the grid to help you place the focal point large over the crossing lines. Over this, add 2 more line drawings of your still life photos over the top of each other so they clash and overlap in a Cubist style. Use the grid lines to help you place the more interesting part of your images where the lines cross so you make focal points in 3 areas (triangulation). Vary the sizes of the focal points and overlap them with other parts of drawings and line to blend them into the rest of the composition. Use the blue pillar questions to annotate the design underneath. Box Two: Refinement Use your annotation from the first design to better decide how to refine and make a more interesting design. Do you need to make your drawings larger so they overlap more? What are the most interesting parts and do they need to go more on the crossing lines on the rule of thirds grid? Would you change some of the images you have used for more interesting and different ones? Create you second design and annotate it to show how you have refined and improved your ideas from the first one.

Final Design Ideas: 2 Drawings that use Cubist principles WILF: design drawing: 3 images of inside/outside that overlap on top a watercolour background. Large focal points, placed off centre so the drawing lines cross over each other and create new shapes and detail. Cross hatch lines and mark making that draws texture and shading into the ‘new’ Cubist shapes. Either realistic or directional shading from light to dark.

CUBIST FINAL PIECE DESIGN INSPIRATION

Homework: Due 11th Jan 2019 Make sure you have completed two Final design ideas for the piece you will start in January. Use ppt on homework system to remind you what I’m looking for. Collect books from Monday pm