| Vocabulary
Terms: positive space, negative space, positive/negative
reversal
Objective: To create a
design using a detailed drawing reversing positive and negative space.
Understand organic shape and geometric shape.
Motivation:
Look at pattern in nature - study patterns of bugs - Draw from bug
collections (or photographs).
Procedure:
1. Draw a bug that fills a 5
1/2 inch square paper (or six inched square). Use plenty of shape details,
no plain lines. Patterns can be real or invented. Organic shape.
2. Go over the drawing in
marker. Trace on 18 x 18 inch square of white paper in a popcorn pattern -
alternating random pattern.
3. Fill in practice small bug
drawing in a positive pattern to use as a guide. Color in some shapes
black and leave some white.
4. Cut out a geometric shape
from a 6 inch piece of tag board.
5. Trace shape on large square of "popcorned"
(alternating/random pattern) bugs, with at least one shape
overlapping each bug. Avoid tangents (an edge touching a rounded edge at
one point - as this creates tension - overlapping the shape is better).
6. Color in the bugs on
the large pattern with space reversal. Color all areas of the bug OUTSIDE
the shapes the same as your positive pattern (the color pattern on the
original 5 1/2 inch piece). All areas INSIDE the geometric shape should be
colored in the exact opposite.
Examples submitted by Tina Moulton,
St. Mary in Lake Forest, Illinois
Click images to see larger views
Rubric: (from rubric by Marianne
Galyk)
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Assessment Rubric
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Student Name:
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Class Period:
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Assignment:
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Date Completed:
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Circle the
number in pencil that
best shows how well you feel that you completed that criterion for
the assignment.
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Excellent
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Good
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Average
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Needs
Improvement
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Rate
Yourself
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Teacher’s
Rating
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Criteria 1 – Stylized drawing of
insect
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10
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9 – 8
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7
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6 or less
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Criteria 2 – Interesting arrangement
of organic and geometric shapes - showing overlapping
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10
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9 – 8
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7
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6 or less
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Criteria 3 – Understanding of
positive/negative shape in coloring of insects and geometric shapes
- contrast
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10
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9 – 8
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7
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6 or less
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Criteria 4 – Effort: took time to
develop idea & complete project? (Didn’t rush.) Good use of
class time?
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10
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9 – 8
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7
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6 or less
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Criteria 5 – Craftsmanship – Neat, clean & complete? Skillful use of the
art tools & media?
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10
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9 – 8
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7
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6 or less
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Total:
50
x
2
100 pts possible
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Grade:
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Your Total
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Teacher Total
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Student
Comments:
Teacher
Comments:
Nationals Standards:
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Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes |
2. Using
knowledge of structures and functions |
3.
Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and
ideas |
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select media, techniques, and processes; analyze what makes them
effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon
the effectiveness of their choices |
Students
generalize about the effects of visual structures and functions and
reflect upon these effects in their own work |
Students
integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to
communicate intended meaning in their artworks |
| Students
intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of
art media, techniques, and processes to enhance communication of
their experiences and ideas |
Students
employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them
effective or not effective in the communication of ideas |
Students use
subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of
contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning
in artworks |
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