Current Event Illustration

We have studied color schemes, fractal forms, 2/5s - 3/5s composition and texture. We have also studied abstracted forms using some of the basic elements of shape.

This assignment is very much like what many artists and illustrators do for their living.

They are given a subject to illustrate, which they do by using their own knowledge of the subject plus an intuitive sense of their own experience or emotion about the subject.

The artist's language is image, color, form, line, texture, and composition.

Artists use this language and these elements together to make a cohesive art piece.

In order to get you to THINK like an artist, you should fill out this worksheet

with your ideas for your art piece. This worksheet is due at the end of TUES/WED.

I NEED TO APPROVE YOUR WORKSHEET before you proceed with your illustration.

INCLUDED on this worksheet you should list a variety of materials.

You are NOT limited to the materials in the classroom, you can make this a three-dimensional art piece, or a two-dimensional art piece. You can use collage, xeroxes, pencil, any variety of color paint/pencils. gold or silver paint, whatever you want to use to convey your sense of the current event.

Please ask for help if you do not understand how to use the materials.

YOU ARE invited to MAKE PAPER to use for your art piece. It can be small or it can be large.

WHAT IS REQUIRED:

a. please use at least three sub themes to illustrate your topic

b. isolate appropriate forms, colors, or concepts about your subject

c. your subject may be formal, silly, serious or inconsequential.

2. Use of FORM, REPEATED historical or cultural or Modern or Fractal FORM.

3. A DEMONSTRATION of your knowledge of various papers. For instance you could use embossing, tracing, handmade paper, recycled papers, textured paper or some paper collage.

4. YOUR BEST DEMONSTRATION of your knowledge of how an artist (YOU!) would make an art piece concerning a current event.