Dear Humanities Kids,
If you missed class, we completed the following:
1. You received a new assignment. I have included the explanation for you below. YOU MUST HAVE YOUR CHOSEN TOPIC with you on WEDNESDAY. Please stop by my room, so that I can give you a scratch board and tool. The actual assignment is due on TUESDAY, the 17th!
Humanities
Scratchboard
Art Assignment
The Greeks became famous for their paintings;
however, most of the paintings were not on walls or canvas. They were captured
in the bases and other ceramics that they created. They would record stories of
their myths, their history, and their people on their vases. In ancient Greece,
they would cover their ceramics with a thin black or red glaze called slip, and
then they would scratch in to it, revealing the red or black color of the clay
beneath.
This
assignment will give you an experience creating your own piece of work; you are
to create a scratchboard piece. To accomplish this task, please do the
following:
1. Locate
an image that you like that comes from the Greeks, either their mythology,
history, or artwork.
2. Print
out the picture so that it will fill the 8.5 x 11 scratchboard.
3.
Place your picture on top of the
scratchboard, and using a BALLPOINT pen,
trace over the lines, pressing the image into the scratchboard. When you submit
your board, you will also submit the image, so that I can see your reference.
Please write the URL for your image on the back of the scratchboard. YOU MUST CITE YOUR SOURCE!
4. Using
the scratchboard tool, scrape out the white (highlights) leaving the shadows.
5. You
must have a pattern; preferably the Greek meander pattern around the outside
border.
6. You
may copy the image; however, you will receive extra-credit if you develop an ORIGINAL IMAGE. Extra points will be
given if you submit a carefully executed, high quality work of art.
NOTE:
Don’t wait until the night before the assignment is due to begin working on it!
Work on it a little each day, so that you will have it finished by the due
date. Let me know if I can assist you in any way.
DUE
DATE:_____________________________________________________________
2. We finished the video discussing Pompeii and its importance.
3. We then continued discussing Roman sculpture and mosaics.
4. You were also introduced to CONSTANTINE!
HOMEWORK:
1. Subject for scratchboard must be with you on WEDNESDAY! READ INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE!
2. Test covering Rome will take plaec on TUESDAY, the 17th!
3. CER #2 id due on THURSDAY, the 19th!
