Drawing with the compass

A compass is a technical drawing instrument that can be used for inscribing circles or arcs. They can also be used as tools to measure distances, in particular on maps. 

Compasses are usually made of metal or plastic, and consist of two parts connected by a hinge which can be adjusted to allow the changing of the radius of the circle drawn. Typically one part has a spike at its end, and the other part a pencil, or sometimes a pen.

PARTS OF A COMPASS

Handle

Users can grip it between their pointer finger and thumb.

Legs

There are two types of legs in a compass: the straight or the steady leg and the adjustable one. Each has a separate purpose; the steady leg serves as the basis or support for the needle point, while the adjustable leg can be altered in order to draw different sizes of circles.

Hinge

The screw on your hinge holds the two legs in its position; the hinge can be adjusted depending on desired stiffness. The tighter the screw the better the compass’ performance.

Needle point

The needle point is located on the steady leg, and serves as the center point of circles that are drawn.

Pencil lead

The pencil lead draws the circle on a particular paper or material.

Adjusting nut

This holds the pencil lead or pen in place.

It is not easy to work with a compass accurately but I´m sure that you´ll try your best.

Remember that practice makes perfect

This  handout is going  to help you with the dimensions.´

You´ll have to work with colour but selecting a pattern such as working with cool and warm colours or trying to find another type of harmony (monochrome, analogous colours...)

Newfound species

Sofía Casero

We are going to work on shape, form and texture.

Your goal is to create a new animal out of a part.

You´ll be given two legs of the original animal and you´ll have to integrate them so that you can´t find any difference between the piece of paper you´ve been given and your own drawing.

You will use an HB pencil, fine liners and a black pen to get if you wish the same shades of grey that you can find on the original drawing.
(This brilliant idea belongs to Dácil Velázquez.)

Jorge Ruiz

SKETCHING

I´ll give you four small squares from the original print of Durer and you´ll try to imagine and draw four different animals with these features. You´ll glue these squares on a DIN A4 sheet of paper.

We´ll invest a whole hour to get the shape of the four animals and I´ll collect them all by the end of the class.

Iciar Pozo

Vocabulary describing animals: 

Here you can find more information about Durer´s Rhinoceros.

Christmas crafts (III)

If you want to download the template click here.
I made it using GeoGebra and it is ready to print it and cut the shape out to get a 3D reversible angel.
Remember that the wings of one side belong to the angel on the reverse.

SHADING (VALUE)

Value is one of the seven elements of art. It refers to the relative level of darkness or lightness of a colour in terms of contrast.

The other six elements are:
-Line
-Shape
-Form
-Space
-Colour
-Texture

We will learn how to use all of them on our next works of art.

Art Elements and Principles from meier106

Click on the picture bellow to get an idea of how to draw basic shapes and make them look realistic by shading them.
We are only going to use graphite pencils for now. You´ll need two of the  pencils that I told you to buy, the HB and 2B.

This is going to be our next work of art. 

If you want to download the file and print it out, You can do so here .

Here you have the handout that I told you to do for homework  just in case you lose it and you need to print it out.
The drawing below belongs to Elisa R. Great!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Halloween presentation from christind

We are going to use an amazing augmented reality  app called Quiver. If you want to see the magic inside your colouring page, download the app and once you have done it, scan the picture with your device...

That´s what you´ll get! 

Just in case you need more ideas...

Follow Ester Alonso's board HALLOWEEN on Pinterest.

YOUR "MASTERPIECES" OF ART

Op Art Hands

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DRAWING PERPENDICULAR AND PARALLEL LINES

For our next activity you will need to know how to draw parallel and perpendicular lines using set squares.

The only thing that you have to do is to follow the given steps.

How to draw parallel and perpendicular lines from lauhatkazira

In order to make it easier to understand here you have a video in spanish.

If you are left-handed you will find it quite useful.

And these are the steps that you have to follow to draw the three grids.