Creating Art: The Creative Process, Design and Studio Techniques: Unit Review

Challenging and inspiring; imagining and generating; planning and focusing; exploring and experimenting; producing preliminary work; revising and refining; presenting and sharing (performing); reflecting and evaluating.

Artists often go back to earlier stages after experiments, feedback or reflection, and reflection on one work can inspire the next.

A process portfolio shows planning, tests, drafts and reflections; a presentation portfolio shows selected best finished works.

Any three: mind map, list of 20, SCAMPER, observation drawing, personal inventory, collaborative brainstorming, research.

Example: a snowman building a person out of snow; or a snowman melting in reverse, growing from a puddle. Any reversal of roles, order or viewpoint.

Intention; subject and composition; elements and principles; format and size; materials, tools and techniques; timeline; criteria.

Diagonal suggests action; horizontal suggests calm.

Geometric shapes are regular and measurable (circle, square); organic shapes are irregular and natural (leaf, puddle).

It makes you see the actual shapes between and around objects instead of drawing a remembered symbol.

Highlight, light side, core shadow, reflected light, cast shadow (darkest at the occlusion shadow).

One that uses mostly light values.

Any four: hatching, cross-hatching, stippling, contour hatching, scumbling, blending.

Hue, value, intensity.

Yellow-green.

Monochromatic.

Actual texture can be felt; implied texture only looks textured.

The vertical edges of objects.

Any three: overlapping, size, vertical placement, detail, atmospheric perspective, warm/cool colour.

Symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial.

Any three: contrast, isolation, convergence, placement, the unusual, detail.

Making important figures larger to show importance rather than real size.

Regular, alternating, progressive, flowing, random.

Unity makes everything belong together; variety adds differences for interest. Strong works balance both.

Actual movement means the art physically moves; implied movement is the illusion of motion or the eye path in a still work.

2B.

Hold a pencil at arm's length with elbow locked and one eye closed, use thumb and tip to measure a unit, and compare other parts to it.

3.5 × 4 = 14 cm.

Watercolour.

Wet-on-wet (painting on wet paper) gives soft, blurred edges; wet-on-dry gives crisp edges.

A thin, transparent layer of paint over a dry layer.

The raised, uncarved surface.

Because the print is a mirror image of the plate.

Print number 4 of an edition of 15.

Subtractive; additive; assemblage (construction).

Score both surfaces, add slip, press together and smooth the seam.

To support a sculpture from inside, especially thin parts.

Raster images are made of pixels and blur or block when enlarged; vector images are mathematical and stay sharp.

72 frames.

Any two: ask permission before posting people; remove location tags; avoid personal information; credit others' images or music; disclose AI use.

Abstract art starts from a real subject and changes it; non-objective art has no recognizable subject.

Examples: crowded, overlapping shapes; a tiny figure in a huge space; jagged diagonals; intense clashing colours.

An image or object that stands for something meaningful in your own life.

Purpose, audience, context.

An image that joins two things so one stands for the other.

Any two: strong value contrast between text and background; few fonts; large headlines; plain backgrounds behind text.

Artist, title, year, medium, dimensions.

29 cm × 19 cm.

What, how, why.