Capturing a Crowd

Creating Space and Depth

Capturing a crowdO Have you ever taken a family photograph?O Check out this family “photo”…

O This is the Family of Charles IV, but it’s not a photo, raise your hand if you can tell me what medium (type of artwork) it is…

Capturing a crowdO Yes! You guessed correctly – it’s actually a

painting!O This painting was done by the Spanish artist

Francisco de Goya and completed in 1801 (That’s 212 years ago!)

O Why do you they did NOT use a camera to take this family portrait? Because they did not have cameras 212 years ago!

Capturing a crowdO Check out this crowd captured in the form of

a mural (artwork on a wall, ceiling or other permanent surface)

O Raise your hand if you have seen this before -

O It’s located right here in Naperville!O It’s called “Naperville Loves a Parade” and

the artists working on this mural are; Dodie Mondero, Marianne Lisson Kuhn, Adela Vystejnova and Ashley Samack

Capturing a crowdO Take a look at Goya’s family and the mural

in downtown Naperville –

We notice that in both of these works, there is a foreground (front), background and space betweenO People are in the front (foreground) look

bigger and we see their whole body

Capturing a crowdO Take a look at Goya’s family and the mural

in downtown Naperville –

We notice that in both of these works, there is a foreground (front), background and space betweenO As people move into middle or back of

crowd, we can only see part of their bodies and that is called overlapping. The person in front is overlapping the person in back.

Capturing a crowdO Take a look at Goya’s family and the mural

in downtown Naperville –

We notice that in both of these works, there is a foreground (front), background and space betweenO This is how we show depth in our picture!

Capturing a crowdNow we are going to create our very own “crowd” of people!O First…we will make sure our paper has all

the lines looking like a crowd of Letter U’sO We start sketching the first U closest to the

bottom of paper because we will see the whole upper part of their body.

O The U is the head of the person, add a rectangle for upper body, tubes for arms and legs, and mitten kind of shapes for hands.

O Remember to make your people in your crowd look like a family, a group of holiday carolers or random people waiting for the elevator. It’s your crowd!

Capturing a crowdLet’s review what we learned today:O A portrait is a picture of a personO Overlapping is when we can only see a part

of a figure to represent that it is behind something

O Foreground space is the space in the front of the picture

O Background space is the space in the back of the picture

O We create depth by overlapping our figures and having a foreground and background

Capturing a crowdDiscussion questions:O Who can use your hands to show

overlapping?O What is a portrait?O What is the foreground?O What is the background?O Name an artist we talked about today – O Where is the painting of the mural we

looked at?O Where is your crowd of people?O Who is in your crowd?O Who wants to show us their crowd picture?O What’s the name of your picture?