Atmospheric Perspective and Collage

Patchwork Landscapes

The Control of FranciscoNicholas Bohac

RECAP:

*Last project we examined the different properties of watercolor painting: Wet on Dry, Wet on Wet, Blowing, Plastic Wrap, and Salt.

*Then we re-examined Line Variation through illustrating extinct animals.

VOCABULARY

*Atmospheric Perspective or Aerial Perspective:

• The effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is viewed from a distance.

•As the distance between an object and a viewer increases, the contrast between the object and its background decreases, and the contrast of any markings or details within the object also decreases.

• The colors of the object also become less saturated and shift towards the background color, which is usually blue.

Other Examples:

Darker: closer*More detail

Lighter: further away!*less details

Leonardo Da Vinci: Mona LisaA very famous example of Atmospheric Perspective in painting.

Mona Lisa is darker in contrast to the background receding through color behind her.

*VOCABULARY:

*Foreground: The part of a view that is nearest to the observer, esp. in a picture or photograph.

* What’s in the Foreground?Darker or lighter? More or Less Details?

VOCABULARY

*Middleground: is the visual plane located between both the foreground and background.

*Background: is the plane in a composition perceived furthest from the viewer.

*2 Sketched examples!

*Eric Carle

*Eric Carle is an illustrator most famous for his children’s book : The Very Hungry Caterpillar

*Eric Carle’s art is distinctive and instantly recognizable. His art work is created in collage technique, using hand-painted papers which he cuts and layers to form bright and colorful images.

*NICHOLAS BOHAC

*Nicholas Bohac is a contemporary San Francisco artist who uses collage to assemble real and imagined landscapes.

*YOUR TASK

*You will create a landscape collage painting based off an original photograph.

*You will be using Eric Carle and Nik Bohac’s method of painting paper and cutting it up to assemble your landscape.

*Your landscape must illustrate the concept of: Foreground, Middleground, and Background.

*STEP 1:

*First you will either use the sketch we create in class today or find/take apersonal photographs that demonstrates Foreground, Middleground, and Background.

*Practice sketching this in your sketchbook.

*STEP 2

*Using your photo as a reference and cut out pieces from magazines, collage them to your pencil drawing contour lines of your final piece landscape.

*Do not make your cut out pieces too large. Each piece of collage paper should try and not be any longer than 6 inches.

*REMEMBER detail is interesting more provocative to look at.

*REMINDERS!

*Find pieces with color or patterns that match your photo.

*The colors of this must directly relate to the colors in your reference photograph.

*NO SYMBOLS!

*SMALL PIECES NOT BIG!

*NOW IN CLASS, Using a page in your sketchbook:

*1. Copy this basic contour line drawing of background, middleground and foreground & label!

How will you draw this outside on the bleachers?

-What’s in foreground? –Middleground? –Background?

-OUTLINE or CONTOUR LINE OF MAJOR SHAPES! (Trees, Hills, Sky!)

* Let’s go practice drawing: Foreground,middleground & background -in VISITING bleachers.-Look at football field and start drawing shapes!

*NOW! Grab a piece of paper, eraser & pencil.

*4 pieces of tape on each corner.

*HOMEWORK: Bring or find a photo & Sketch Contour lines in your sketchbook by Wednesday!

• Are you happy with your sketch? IF NOT, what photo will you take for this project?

• Do you have a photo already that you can use?• NO PHOTOS FROM GOOGLE IMAGES!!• REMEMBER YOU WILL BE COLLAGING THIS IMAGE!!