This document provides instructions for students to create a mixed media artwork inspired by American pop artist Jim Dine. It will guide them through the techniques of negative space, reductive drawing with chalk, and using mixed materials like paint and printmaking. Students will observe still life objects, exploring scale and composition by gradually removing chalk shapes. Frotage and splattering paint will add texture and emphasize highlights/shadows in the style of Dine's tool-focused works. Key words are used to describe techniques like negative space, texture, reduction, graduation, tone, splattering and emphasis.

1. JIM DINE
A1 Negative Space mixed media

2. Learning Objective:
• To explore the work of Artist Jim Dine and specifically his
work with tools.
• To begin creating a Jim Dine inspired chalk drawing using
techniques of NEGATIVE SPACE and REDUCTIVE method
of removing chalk.
• To practice OBSERVATIONAL SKILLS drawing from the still
life and exploring changing SCALE and working with
COMPOSTION.
• To explore the technique of FROTTAGE to add texture and
soften chalk effect.

3. Jim Dine (born June 16, 1935) is
an American pop artist.

4. • Dine believes that tools provide a
'link with our past, the human
past, the hand'.
• They feature in many of his works,
and can be seen as a symbol of
artistic creation.
• There is also an autobiographical
resonance, as Dine's family owned
a hardware store.
• The tools are presented as a series
of discrete items, as if laid out for
analysis and classification.

5. How would you describe the
TECHNIQUE?

6. What do you notice about the
COMPOSITIONS?

7. KEY WORDS:
Negative Space Texture
Reduction
Graduation Tone
Splattering Emphasis

8. Jim Dine inspired Examples
Mixed Media – Chalk, pen, print, paint, textured paper

9. My Example
KEY WORDS:
Negative Space
Texture
Reduction
Graduation
Tone
Splattering
Emphasis
Where are the key
words being used?
Can you tell me?

10. Step 1 - BACKGROUND
• Begin by layering some masking tape over the
page in a range of orientations. Ensure you TAKE
THE STICKINESS OFF.
• Then, start covering the central section (or
slightly off centre) of the paper with thick
application of BLACK CHALK. Use the width.
• GRADUATE out as you get closer to the edges of
the paper. Apply less pressure.
• Add small sections of FROTTAGE where the chalk
begins to graduate out.

11. Step 2 - COMPOSITION
• Begin OBSERVING some objects from
the still life. Focus on ONE OBJECT at
once. Choose objects relevant to your
THEME.
• Consider placement of the object
within the dark chalk area.
• Change the SCALE of each object you
draw. Consider the COMPOSITION.
Will some objects layer over one
another?
• Start removing the object shape from
the chalk using a putty rubber.
REDUCTIVE.

12. Learning Objective:
•To practice OBSERVATIONAL SKILLS drawing from the
still life and exploring changing SCALE and working
with COMPOSTION.
•To work with MIXED MEDIA to add splattering effect
of paint in the style of Jim Dine and to emphasise
highlights and shadows.
•To explore the technique of FROTTAGE to add
texture and soften chalk effect.

13. Homework
•Orbital Trip review. Double page spread or more of
a typed review using points from PPT on ZDrive and
photography from the trip. At least 10.
•Take a minimum of six close-up photographs of the
still life. Save to a memory stick/user area.
Both Due: 19/10

14. My Example
KEY WORDS:
Negative Space
Texture
Reduction
Graduation
Tone
Splattering
Emphasis

15. Step 3 – DEFINE SHAPES
• Once the shape has been created
using the putty rubber begin subtly
mapping out the edges of the object
using charcoal stick.
• Keep rubbing away to reveal more
highlights.
• Add white chalk to the brightest
highlighted areas.
• Start drawing back around the edges
of the shape with a sharp black chalk
piece.

16. Step 4 – PAINT
• First, HAIRSPRAY the work to
seal chalk.
• Overlay acrylic paint to define
brightest highlights on the
objects.
• Overlay black acrylic paint to
emphasise the edges of the
objects. Use long stokes of
the brush to graduate the
paint into the background
chalk.
• Thick, scratchy strokes.

17. Step 4 – SPLATTER
• Add frottage to edges to GRADUATE the work
out to the edges of the page if necessary and
seal with hairspray.
• Cover the shapes with some paper to avoid
splattering too much paint into the shapes you
have completed.
• Water down some white and black acrylic in
separate tubs.
• Use a variety of paint brush sizes to SPLATTER
the paint into the background.
• Built up the splatters near the edges of objects
and edges of the paper.

18. Optional Steps
•Try PRINTING nuts, bolts,
scissors etc. (thematic
objects with a flat surface)
onto the paper using
white acrylic paint.
•Spreading paint streaks
onto the surface using a
roller or palette knife.

19. My Example
KEY WORDS:
Negative Space
Texture
Reduction
Graduation
Tone
Splattering
Emphasis