1. Drawing & Painting Unit 3 Buford High School 2017
Pen
Drawing & Painting
Unit 3
Buford High School
2017

2. day one pre-assessment of skill pen demonstration/types of pens

3. Portrait Vocabulary:
Features – what makes the person unique; a distinctive attribute
Expressions – the look on someone’s face that conveys a particular emotion
Mood -- the feelings that a work of art generates
Tone – the artist’s attitude toward the content & viewers

4. Ana Mendiete http://www.theartstory.org/artist-mendieta-ana.htm
Glass portraits

5. Juan Francisco Casas
Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz is a poet and one of the leading young artist from Spain. He was born in 1976 in La Carolina, Andalusia. He is known for his large-scale photorealistic drawings and paintings. He takes a photograph, and paints it in oil on canvas, or makes a drawing using only a blue ballpoint pen. His works portray „the selfie generation“ and resemble the photos which can be often seen on social media. His subjects are young friends and lovers, obsessed with partying, technology, selfies and likes. Averagely, he needs 14 ballpoint pens and around two weeks to complete one work.
Education- The artist went to the University of Granada in Granada, Spain, where he obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1999, and Master of Fine Arts in He finished his PhD studies at the same university, and taught drawing and printmaking.

6. Ana Mendieta

7. Ana Mendieta
“My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything.” - Ana Mendieta

8. Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz

9. day two/three practice new learning:
3 exercises to improve pen control
copy the triangle
copy the hair
-- do these in your sketchbook –

10. Cross hatching/hatching

11. after practicing new learning:
Create a one-inch grid on your paper
Do this in pencil using very light pressure
Make sure to mark on the left and on the right before drawing each line to ensure that the lines are level

12. just to clarify, project requirements:
Must do a portrait in ballpoint pen – you are free to choose your color – consider the tone/mood that you want to express.
Must be cropped closely to create a strong composition
Must use hatching/cross hatching to create value
Must use the grid method to ensure a well drawn portrait
Due Thursday September 28th

13. student example: