task 2 tonal ink study

Lesson 2: Tonal ink study

Tonal ink study

What is a tonal ink study?

What do we mean by study?

What kind of Ink?

What method do we use?

Recap from last week:

What is ‘still life’?

What is the purpose of ‘still life’?

What object is our ‘still life’ today?

Lesson objective:

Produce a tonal ink study from a single viewpoint.

Tonal ink study

Success criteria:

1. Use three tones

2. No outline

3. Add a shadow under the object

A tonal ink study is a type of artwork produced using multiple layers of ink. It does not contain outline, but it does contain light and dark areas.

* Year 8 examples

NOW: Analyse this Art work…• What is the

medium?

• What is it?

• Describe the tones.

• Describe the shapes?

• Who is the artist?

• Subject matter?

NOW: On the piece of paper you must all write at least ONE key word to describe the art work

GROUP ACTIVITY

Jim Dineborn 1935, America

• Jim Dine is an American pop artist.

• Jim Dine is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, illustrator, performance artist, stage designer and poet.

• He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, in conjunction with musician John Cage.

• In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground-breaking New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps at the Norton Simon Museum.