Drawing Facts…
- Only in recent times have drawings been thought of as a major art form.
Using a Sketchbook
- Artists recognize the value of maintaining sketchbooks and portfolios (EX: Jack in “Titanic”).
- These include practice sketches and observations of daily experiences.
Sketchbook Trivia
- Leonardo da Vinci had everything down to water movement and mechanics of light.
- He had 5,000 pages total of sketches in his notebooks.
- Da Vinci had a fascination for inventions, human figures, and the inner functioning of the human body.
Designs for a Flying Machine…
Painting
- One of the oldest and most important of the visual arts.
- An artist creates a painting by arranging the art elements on a flat surface in ways that are sometimes visually appealing, sometimes shocking or thought-provoking.
- Subjects depend on the time and place in which they live.
- Did you know that the oldest known paintings in the world are not of people, but of animals?
- Paintings were found thousands of years ago in caves throughout the world.
