Python Notes for mca i year students osmania university.docx
Totempoleppt
1. Totem Poles
Art of the Pacific
Northwest Natives
Stuff You Should Know
TAKE NOTES IN SKETCHBOOK
VISUALLY AND VERBALLY
2. What is a totem pole?
• A totem pole is a
piece of artwork that
was originally created
by the Native
Americans of the
Pacific Northwest.
3. What is a totem pole?
• Totem poles were carved out of
giant cedar trees by the Northwest
Coastal Indians.
• Totem poles were used as a way of
passing down stories.
4. What is a totem pole?
• Totem poles were used
to represent a tribe,
clan, family, or person.
• Having a totem pole
was a great honor.
5.
6. How were they carved?
• After a tree was cut down, carvers would
begin at the top and work their way down.
• A totem pole could be big
or small. A large totem pole
might be more than 60 feet
high and could take two to
three years to carve!
• Once carved, poles were
painted with natural paints
and were most often black,
red, blue, green, and white.
7.
8. Your totem pole piece
• Together we will create a set of
class totem poles!
• Each student will select an
animal that they think best
represents themselves.
• Students will create a stylized
drawing of the animal, and
then create their own piece of
the pole!
9. Art Definitions
Define in your sketchbook…
1. Stylized
2. Abstract
3. Color Scheme
4. Contrast
5. Line Quality
NEXT UP-INSPRIATION DRAWINGS
• Recognizable
• Not Recognizable
• Certain Group of Colors
• Bold outlines & Color
Changes
• Thickness or thinness of a
line
24. Now it is your turn! PLAN PLAN PLAN!
• Go to the computer lab. Take your sketchbook &
pencil.
• Print out 3 images of animals that are most
personal to you.
• Sketch out 3 different stylized animal designs.
Each design should fill up an entire sketchbook
page. Each design should be outlined in sharpie
with varied line quality! Each design should be
colored in colored pencil This will help us plan
the color scheme!!
Editor's Notes
Real Totem Poles have to be carved by a member of the Pacific Northwest Tribe and then blessed by one of the showmen’s of that tribe.
Here is the location of the Pacific Northwest Region.
A totem pole is kind of like a book you could read, but instead of using words it uses symbols of animals/birds.
Often families would trade all their possessions to have one made.
Here is a blank example outline that has not been finished. What types of details would you add??
Let’s put together a simple stylized totem of an owl. Look its easy. Everybody in here knows how to draw triangles, circles, and crescent moons.
