Pencil-Mania!
Talk about an exercise in creativity! Students are challenged to think outside of the box for this project and needed to construct an image filled with objects drawn entirely with pencils. No, not just using pencils to draw their idea, but actually make the image using the image of a pencil to fill in the form.
Their color palette was limited as well. Yellow, pink, silver, and black were the only colors they were allowed to use. They could bend, lengthen, fatten, thin or blob out the shape of the pencil anyway they needed to but the overall form still needed to be recognized easily as a simple #2 pencil.
Minnesota State Visual Arts Standards:
Their color palette was limited as well. Yellow, pink, silver, and black were the only colors they were allowed to use. They could bend, lengthen, fatten, thin or blob out the shape of the pencil anyway they needed to but the overall form still needed to be recognized easily as a simple #2 pencil.
Minnesota State Visual Arts Standards:
- 1. Analyze how the elements of visual art including color, line, shape, value, form, texture and space are used in the creation of, presentation of, or response to visual artworks. (6.1.1.5.1)
- 2. Analyze how the principles of visual art, such as repetition, pattern, emphasis, contrast and balance are used in the creation, presentation of, or response to visual artworks. (6.1.1.5.2)
- 1. Demonstrate the characteristics of the tools, materials and techniques of various two-and-three-dimensional media for intentional effects in original artworks. (6.1.2.5.1)
- 1. Assemble and prepare personal artworks for public exhibition. (6.3.1.5.1)