Proportion+and+Relationships

= Proportion and Relationships  =


 * ART LESSON: PROPORTION AND RELATIONSHIPS **

GRADE LEVEL: Early and Middle Years

LESSON TOPIC: Proportion and Relationships Assignment – Faces in Proportion

CONNECTION TO LAST LESSON: Proportion and relationships of forms in a design are also important in any perspective drawing, so that the balance will make the drawing believable.

LEARNING OUTCOMES / OBJECTIVES: – Students will develop an appreciation, sensitivity, and awareness of the human face and the balance of proportion and relationships in our natural environment. – They will learn that realistic proportion and relationships are important for the viewer to believe the artist’s statement. – They will use proportion and relationships to produce face drawings. In symmetrical balance, both sides of the face are the same.

VISUAL RESOURCES: – Magazine photo examples of human faces – life size is best. – Previous students’ examples of self-portrait faces – Other examples of self-portraits from art books – Search Internet sites for artist examples of face drawings, and videos and handouts on human face proportion. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Figure #31 is an example of a collage face in proportion.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">OTHER LEARNING MATERIALS: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– 9” x 12” white paper <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Variety of pencils (HD for hard lines and soft leads for softer lines) – for softer lines, use the side of the pencil lead, too

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ACTIVATING STRATEGIES: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Measuring an actual human face, to find the common proportions in all human beings. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– The eyes are in the center of the face, separated by the width of one eye. The face is 5 eyes wide. The eye is the same width as the nose, and the mouth is the width of two eyes. The top of each ear starts at the height of the eyebrow, and extends down to the bottom of the nose. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– The width of one eye gives the student a proportion to use in drawing the other facial features. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– These rules for balance in the human face are common to almost everyone.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ACQUIRING STRATEGIES: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Show examples of magazine photographs of faces. These are often actual face size, so they provide real-life examples to work with when estimating proportions. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Demonstrate how face proportions are based on common relationships among the facial features in an individual. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Show how the face collage in Figure #31 is based on a face drawing. It exhibits these proportions within the context of careful colour selection to produce a pleasing design.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">APPLYING STRATEGIES: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Have the students partner up, then take turns drawing each other’s facial features (eyes, nose, mouth, and ears) on scrap paper. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Then have the students divide sheets of paper into four quadrants. They will start by drawing the eyes in the middle of the face. Remind them of the eye proportion: the human face is five eyes wide, with an eye width in the center of the head, approximately 31/2 cm wide. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– The nose is also the same width as an eye, the mouth is 2 eyes wide.) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Then use the drawing as the layout for your collage, try to match colour and moods to match the person depicted.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">REFLECTING / RE-FOCUSING: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Faces may be enlarged and then painted with a variety of colour methods, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> (primary, secondary, analogous, values, and black and white colour combinations). <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Faces may be collage using skin tones selected from magazines or newspapers <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Life size faces may be taken from magazine or posters copied or cut in half and redraw the other half or think of some character with a split personality. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Life size faces may be drawn and feature could be cut from magazines and glue in again the concept of people with split personalities could be focused on.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ASSESSMENT / ANALYSE LEARNING OUTCOMES: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Students will show evidence that they have followed the instructions for their face drawing: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> – the face drawing should be clean and sharp and in proportion <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> – the entire page should be filled with the face <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> – the face features should be accurate in size <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> – the graduation of values and textures should be (dark to light) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Students’ art-work will demonstrate faces in proportion understanding the common relationships of the facial features and combinations of shapes and values used to create an interesting and pleasing drawing of a human face. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Collage is a great medium to gain success in this assignment and a good method of finishing this project. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">– Students should gain an awareness of their face proportion in their own work one-of-a-kind art-work and appreciation of the human face and other students’ ideas in their art-work.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Figure 31 Collage Face