VALUE POSE MANNEQUINS

Value Pose Mannequins

Learning Targets

I can...

• Create an original Value Pose Mannequin using drawing techniques learned in class
• Use analogous/complimentary colors (yellow, green, blue; blue, orange), value variation (halftone, cast shadow, highlight, core shadow), and form (human, geometric, organic) inspired by Keys to Drawing with Imagination: Strategies and Exercises for Gaining Confidence and Enhancing your Creativity by Bert Dodson
• Understand four shading techniques (hatching, cross-hatching, blending, stippling) and design principles (composition, balance, proportion) based on 20th Century Art 
• Define Mannequin (a life size or partial representation of the human body used for fitting or displaying of clothing)

Lesson One
Day One, Art Start

1. The Observers (2018) Alex Mikev
2. Read Keys to Drawing with Imagination: Strategies and Exercises for Gaining Confidence and Enhancing your Creativity by Bert Dodson
3. Reflective Questions "Why do you think it is important to understand and apply correct proportion? Do you think you accurately drew the mannequin? Did the artist create the illusion of form through the use of full shading? How did the artist use the space on the paper? What do you see in this work? How is the work organized? What is the artist trying to communicate? Is this a successful work of art? where is the wrist in relation to the hip? Do you know the history of mannequins? Why use mannequins to teach drawing of the human figure?"

Lesson Activities

1. Choose 12" X 15" Drawing Paper
2. Assemble a paper mannequin with brass fasteners to practice making different positions and filling in value of their Value Pose Mannequins
3. Choose three different poses (ballerina stretching, flying, running, swimming, yogi, foreshortened) to draw for Value Pose Mannequins

Day Two, Art Start

1. Retrieve Value Pose Mannequins for Assigned Table
2. Calm in the Chaos (2018) Alex Smith
3. Reflective Discussion "Mannequins are made out of twenty-eight different parts including head, chest, hips, thighs, legs, knees, feet, upper arm, lower arm, and connecting limbs for movement. Mannequins are used by artists, tailors, designers, dressmakers, and display clothing. Mannequins comes from the middle dutch word for manikin or "little man" to describe lay figures. Mannequins started as early as 1350 B.C when it was the world's first dress form. In King Tut's tomb is an armless, legless, wooden torso found in the pharaoh's measurements with a chest of the pharaoh's clothing." 

Lesson Activities

1. Draw a contour line of three different poses (ballerina stretching, flying, running, swimming, yogi, foreshortened) for Value Pose Mannequin
2. Add analogous/complimentary colors (yellow, green, blue; blue, orange) for the positive space (mannequin) of their value pose mannequin
2. Add analogous/complimentary colors (yellow, green, blue; blue, orange) for the negative space (background) of their value pose mannequin

Day Three, Art Start

1. Retrieve Value Pose Mannequin for Assigned Table
2. Set Up Studio Area (kneaded eraser, colored pencils, pencils)

Lesson Activities 

1. Use four shading techniques (hatching, cross-hatching, blending, stippling) to add contrast to positive space (mannequin) of their value pose mannequin
2. Use four shading techniques (hatching, cross-hatching, blending, stippling) to add contrast to negative space (background) of their value pose mannequin
3. Use drawing tools (pencils, oil pastels, chalk) to add details to the Value Pose Mannequins

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