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Artistic Expression Exploration

A community art studio is planning a small exhibition called Changing Weather. Work through the visual puzzles and plan an artwork that communicates a mood. Use complete sentences where asked. You can choose any subject for your own artwork.

Read the sketch

Mere is drawing a ceramic mug beside a window. Light comes from the upper left, leaving the mug’s lower-right side in shadow. She uses a light outline first, then strengthens selected edges and adds hatching that follows the mug’s curved form.

1.Which two choices in Mere’s method are most likely to make the mug look three-dimensional? Select two.

She varies line weight and uses hatching to show form.
She presses equally hard for every line.
She draws the outline without observing the mug.
She places shadow on the side away from the light.

2.The mug is cylindrical. Explain why curved hatching that follows its surface can describe its form better than straight, evenly spaced marks.

Colour relationships

Use the colour wheel to solve the questions. The wheel has 12 equal steps, arranged clockwise in this order: yellow, yellow-orange, orange, red-orange, red, red-violet, violet, blue-violet, blue, blue-green, green, yellow-green, then back to yellow. In the traditional artist’s colour wheel, the primary colours are red, yellow and blue. The secondary colours are made by mixing two primary colours: red + yellow makes orange, yellow + blue makes green, and blue + red makes violet.

3.Name the three primary colours and the three secondary colours in the traditional artist’s colour wheel.

4.On the wheel, what colour is opposite blue? What colour relationship do the two colours form?

5.A designer wants a calm, harmonious palette using colours beside blue on the wheel. Give two suitable colours and name this colour relationship.

6.A scene uses mostly blue, blue-green and violet, with a small bright orange detail. Explain how the orange detail may affect the composition.

Plan an expressive artwork

The exhibition prompt is Changing Weather. Choose a weather moment and plan a drawing that communicates a feeling without relying on words.

7.Choose one mood for your artwork—such as peaceful, tense, joyful or lonely. State the weather moment and give two visual choices (for example, line direction, mark-making, contrast or colour) that could communicate that mood.

8.Write a three-step drawing plan that uses observation, line quality and shading to make one object or weather feature look convincing.

Sketch a small composition for your Changing Weather artwork. Include a clear focal point, a direction for the light or weather, and an area of shadow or strong contrast.

9.After sketching, name one part you would strengthen and explain a specific change you would make to improve its visual impact.