Monday, April 28, 2008

Orthographic Drawing--The Mural

The Mural

How do artists take photos and small pictures and make them so large?

In the next couple of weeks we are going to explore this.

The student will:
Learn to read an create orthographic drawing techniques
Learn to transfer small images into large images
Understand Important vocabulary
One-Point Perspective
Two-Point Perspective
Concurrence
Incenter and Circumcenter
The Centroid
The Euler Line
Special Properties of Triangles
The Golden Ratio

These ideas will be learned in the context of drafting and drawing.

The difference between drafting and drawing is that drafting allows for a systematic reproduction of a picture or item from the world that is replicable by through the use of geomtric shapes and division of space and scale.

What does that mean?

It means that many of us can do murals and learn some of the methods that artists lie Leonardo Da Vinci used to create great works of art as well as how engineers create measurement and the ability to reproduce pictures.

We are going to make a small picture large, and make a large picture small

Size

Scale

Proportion

Grids

Scaling by percentages

Experimenting with Grids




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