Earth

Curriculum Integration: Earth/Env.Science, Geometry

 Concepts 

	NC Course of Study Objectives:	21st Century Skills:
Cartography	4.02	A.1, A.3
Drawing a sphere and other geometric shapes	3.04	A.1
Drawing to Scale and Using a Grid	2.03	B.2
Drawing 3 Dimensions - Light and Shadow	7.05	B.2
Drawing 3 Dimensions - Using a Vanishing Point	3.05	B.1
Foreshortening	3.05, 4.02	B.1
Conserving Materials	3.02	C.2, C.9

 Skills 

• Draw with shadows
  
  
• Draw using vanishing points
  
  
• Enlarge using a grid
  
  

 Artists 

• Alan Bean - b.1932 - The only artist to have walked on the moon"
  
  
  
  
  
  

 Words We'll Use 

• Background: The area that appears to be farthest away or behind the other objects.
  
  
• Cartography: The art of map-making.
  
  
• Foreground: The area that appears to be nearest and in front of the other objects.
  
  
• Foreshortening: Objects that are closer appear larger than objects that are farther away.
  
  
• Hatching: Using lots of little lines to shade in an area.
  
  
• Middle Ground: The area that appears between the foreground and background.
  
  
• Paper-mache: Paper pulp mixed with wheat paste and molded into three-dimensional forms.
  
  
• Perspective: Techniques for creating the illusion of 3-dimensions on a 2-dimensional surface.
  
  
• Proportion: The relationship between the sizes of elements in an artwork. Used to enlarge or reduce a drawing accurately.
  
  
• Scale drawing: A drawing or map that changes the size of something but keeps the proportions accurate. The scale may be 1 foot = 1 inch, 10 miles = 1 inch, etc.
  
  
• Sphere: A round 3-dimensional object.
  
  
• Stippling: Using lots of little dots to shade in an area.
  
  
• Symbol: An image, sign, or element, such as color, that is understood, by convention or context, to suggest some other meaning.
  
  
• Technology: Electronic media (such as video, computers, compact discs, lasers, audio tape, satellite equipment) used as tools to create, learn, explain, document, analyze, or present artistic work or information.
  
  
• Vanishing point: a point in a perspective drawing whare all the 'parallel' lines appear to converge.
  
  

 Projects 

• Painting a landscape
  
  
• Photography - Foreshortening
  
  

 Keeping Busy 

• Watercolor pencils - Vanishing point: Your name in the big lights!
  
  
• Nature Experience Study
  
  
• Use 2 vanishing points to draw a complex cityscape
  
  
• Practice enlarging or reducing a drawing accurately using a grid
  
  

 Enrichment 

• A-Net Station
  
  
• Island of Life by BCurrin
  
  

 Homework/Makeup Work 

• Use a map as an integral part of a drawing or cut paper artwork.
  
  
  
  
• Use 2-point perspective on a larger sheet of paper to draw a cityscape - like the examples we looked at in class.
  
  
• Create an artwork of your choice that has the theme "Earth".
  
  
• Draw in some detail the landscape you see from you house.
  
  
• See also - General Homework options on the Homework page.