Concepts in Design: Week Two
Written: Aug 12 2005, revised 4/27/2009, by Donna YoungThis week was on the light side.
Monday:
She did page 14 and the
two shading exercises on that page. For exercise 1.4a I had a lot of 1 inch
square pieces of paper ready for her to select from. To get the pieces I cut
through layers of newspaper at once in several places with an x-acto
knife.
Tuesday:
She read pages 15-18. For activity 1.5 she decided to
use art sheet 113 from http://art.donnayoung.org/draw1.htm instead of hunting
images from a magazine to glue into squares, then draw
them. For act. 1.6, Holly made one tangram as instructed with one sheet of construction paper, then we used a printable to print 12 small tangrams for the rest of the activity. 
#113, Six Tangrams
Wednesday:
Self test 1
--=--=--=--=-- Begins Part II Principles of Design and Composition --=--=--=--=--
Thursday:
She read
pages 20-24. In the 3 sets of 5 squares, she drew at least two examples of each
of the three principles of balance discussed in the lesson (symmetrical,
asymmetrical, radial).
Friday:
She read pages 25-26 and did activity
2.1. She learned how to safely use an x-acto knife on the first piece of construction
paper. One the second sheet of construction paper she cut out a nice positive/negative design and glued
it to a piece of white construction paper.
That is it for this week.
