1. Bellringer Thursday, August 7, 2008 1. Drawing are the basis for all other visual arts. 2. For example most paintings frescos and sculptures begin as drawing or sketches. Vocabulary term: fresco: a painting done on a wall of a building, inside or outside

2. Bellringer Friday, August 8, 2008 1. Drawing is an ancient art examples of ancient drawings include the cave drawing of Lascaux, france, and the huge pictures in the sand near Nazca, Peru. 2. Long before people began to make small drawing, one used sketchs as the basis for large murals. Vocabulary term: ancient: from or having to do with long ago

3. Bellringer Monday, August 11, 2008 1. According to greek legend, the first drawings was simply tracings of shadows on the sand. 2. In Greek and roman antiquity, artists often drew outline sketches of there subjects. Vocabulary term: legend: story told and passed along orally; usually told to explain some phenomenon of nature

4. Bellringer Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1. An immportant early immprovement on outline sketches were the addition of lines to the outline. 2. Lines and shading can make drawings, which aren’t never three-dimensional, look real solid. Vocabulary term: three-dimensional: having or seeming to have the dimension of depth as well as width and heighth

5. Bellringer Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1. Another important inovation in the history of drawing were the developmnet of perspective. 2. perspective is the technique of using converging lines to give the immpression of objects receding in the distance. Vocabulary term: recede: to move or go away; retreat; usually into the distance

6. Bellringer Thursday, August 14, 2008 1. One artests that paints with vivid and colorrful perspective is vincent van gogh. 2. Van Gogh’s most famous work is a self- portreet in which he makes himselves look smaller than he was in reel life Vocabulary term: perspective: the view, whether physical, emotional, or mental, that a person has

7. Bellringer Friday, August 15, 2008 1. Many famous artists has used unique perspective’s to make there artwork stand apart from the art work of other’s. 2. Salvador Dali paintted all his works so that objects would look like they were meltting away therefore his paintings always have a dark and fearful appeerance. Vocabulary term: unique: different in such a way that is unusual; individual

8. BRV Quiz Friday, August 15, 2008 BR Directions: Choose the best replacement for each underlined section of the following sentences. V Directions: Choose the term that matches the given definition.

9. 1. Long before people began to make small drawing, one used sketchs as the basis for large murals. A. sketch’s B. sketchs’s C. sketches

10. 2. Salvador Dali paintted all his works so that objects would look like they were meltting away therefore his paintings always have a dark and fearful appeerance A. appearance. B. appearance C. appeerence

11. 3. Lines and shading can make drawings, which aren’t never three- dimensional, look real solid. A. neither B. ever C. never ever

12. 4. One artests that paints with vivid and colorrful perspective is vincent van gogh. A. Vincent Van Gogh B. Vincent van gogh C. Vincent Vangogh

13. 5. Drawing are the basis for all other visual arts. A. aren’t B. isn’t C. is

14. 6. different in such a way that is unusual; individual A. appearance B. unique C. perspective

15. 7. a painting done on a wall of a building, inside or outside A. perspective B. fresco C. ancient

16. 8. from or having to do with long ago A. unique B. fresco C. ancient

17. 9. story told and passed along orally; usually told to explain some phenomenon of nature A. legend B. ancient C. three-dimensional

18. 10. Having the appearance of depth as well as width and heighth A. three-dimensional B. ancient C. perspective