Lesson 18 Arch

Sketch: Draw the Marble Arch. It is in London.

Marble Arch was designed in 1827 by John Nash as the triumphal gateway toBuckingham Palace. In 1851 the arch was moved to its current site at the northeast corner of Hyde Park. 

John Nash based his design on one of these ancient Roman Designs.

Which one do you think it was?

Coliseum 

Arch of Titus 

Arch of Constantine 

Roman Aqueduct 

When the Marble Arch was built, special permission was needed to be able to walk through it to the palace.  Now that it has been moved to Hyde Park, anyone can walk through it.  It is a gateway from one neighborhood to another.

Create a drawing of an arched gateway.

What is the place that is through the gateway?

What are the details that will give clues about why the place on the other side of the gateway is special?

Lesson 17 Respond and Refine

Sketch Stonehenge. What do you remember about it? Information Time: Who chose to draw from the photo? who chose to draw what they imagine it looked like when it was new? Who chose to draw what they imagine it will look like in the future? Who chose to draw Stonehenge in plan view? Last time we built creations using geometric forms. We drew them, We included a diagram to show the parts that make the whole. The next step in the creative process is called "Respond and Refine" What can I do to make my drawing better? What can you do to make your drawing better?

Lesson 16 Geometric Forms: stacking

Sketch time:

   Step 1: diagonal up, diagonal down

   Step 2: diagonal down, diagonal up

   Step 3: vertical, vertical, vertical.

   Step 4: diagonal down, diagonal up

   Step 5: draw more cubes. 

Information time: Stonehenge

 

Practice time:

   Stack at least 3 geometric forms.  Draw them.  Stack the same forms a different way.  Draw them.

Create time:

   Choose 3-6 geometric forms.  

   Draw those shapes across the top of your paper.

   Stack the geometric forms many different ways.

   Use colored pencils to draw the stack of forms.

   Add people and a site to your drawing.

Clean up time:

   Return the geometric forms.

   Turn in the drawing with your first name, last initial, and homeroom symbol on the back.

   Return the colored pencils.

   Take your sketch and practice drawings home with you.

Lesson 15 Geometric Forms

Sketch time:

   Step 1:  oval

   Step 2: straight lines

   Step 3: curved line.  Now you have drawn a cylinder.

   Step 4: choose another form to draw

   Step 5: choose another form to draw

Create time:

   Cut and fold the photocopy to create at least two forms

   Connect them to create a complex form.

   Use colored pencils to draw the complex form(s)

Lesson 14 Castle Model: smaller=stronger

Work with the material, not against it.  

Refine and improve your design from last time.

You have the option of having today's work photographed for the website.