This document provides an overview of lessons on still life drawing and techniques. It includes questions, examples, and instructions for various assignments focused on still life arrangement, tonal studies using ink and charcoal, negative space, monoprinting, and the works of artists such as Morandi. Students are given homework assignments practicing different mediums and subject matter, such as copying a Craig-Martin painting, drawing a bedroom corner, and creating a tonal still life drawing. The document provides guidance, examples, and criteria for completing the lessons and assignments.

1. Objects and Viewpoints

2. Objects and Viewpoints
What can you say about these images?

3. Lesson 1: Still Life

4. Q1. What is a still life?
Q2. What then, is NOT still life?
Q3. Why have artists used still life?
Q4. How might we create our own still
life in our lesson?
NOW:
ON THE PAPER IN FRONT OF YOU:
Write down the following
questions
GROUP QUIZ (6 groups)

5. Still Life
A1.
Inanimate objects, not living, arranged
in a particular way used by artists to
improve drawing or painting skills.
These objects could be natural or man
made.
A2.
Moving living things, the human body.
A3.
As a way of practicing drawing and
painting to improving skills and create
artwork.
A4.
By arranging objects and recording
them from a specific viewpoint

6. Still Life
Portrayal of something inanimate: a representation of
inanimate objects such as fruit, flowers, or food, often in a
domestic setting, in paintings, pictures, or photographs.

7. 1. With your neighbours (2s or 3s)…
• Use the materials to
make small abstract
sculptures
• Bend, squeeze, tie, fold,
roll
• Organise your sculptures
in a still life arrangement
which you’ll draw
YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES
STARTER ACTIVITY

8. 2. Gestural drawings
Make a small drawing
of the objects from the
angle you are sitting at.
You have 60 SECONDS
to include ALL of it

9. 3. Continuous line
Now repeat the
drawing using one
continuous line-
you must NOT take
your pencil off the
page until the
drawing is complete

10. 4. Contour Drawing
Use the remaining time
up until the last 10
minutes of the lesson
to make a detailed
outline drawing

11. Preparation: Now that you can
see how much information you
can record in a short amount of
time, you are going to create a
REALISTIC version of your piece.
Using all the techniques you have
already tried, create an
OBSEVATIONAL drawing of your
chosen objects.
ALWAYS LOOK AT YOUR OBJECTS.
MAIN ACTIVITY

12. Using a green pen… WWW, EBI
Which is your best technique? why? how could you improve your work?

13. Lesson 2: Tonal ink study

14. Tonal ink study
What is a tonal ink study?
What do we mean by study?
What kind of Ink?
What method do we use?
Recap from last week:
What is ‘still life’?
What is the purpose of ‘still life’?
What object is our ‘still life’ today?

15. Lesson objective:
Produce a tonal ink study from a single viewpoint.
Tonal ink study
Success criteria:
1. Use three tones
2. No outline
3. Add a shadow
under the object
A tonal ink study is a type of artwork produced using multiple layers of ink. It
does not contain outline, but it does contain light and dark areas.

16. * Year 8 examples

17. NOW: Analyse this Art work…
• What is the
medium?
• What is it?
• Describe
the tones.
• Describe
the
shapes?
• Who is the
artist?
• Subject
matter?
NOW: On the piece of paper you must all write at least ONE
key word to describe the art work
GROUP ACTIVITY

18. Jim Dine
born 1935, America
• Jim Dine is an American pop artist.
• Jim Dine is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, illustrator, performance
artist, stage designer and poet.
• He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. Pioneered
with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, in conjunction with
musician John Cage.
• In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy
Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha,
and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground-
breaking New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps
at the Norton Simon Museum.

19. Lesson 3: Negative Space

20. Negative space

21. • Negative space, in art, is the space around and
between the subject(s) of an image. Negative
space may be most evident when the space
around a subject, not the subject itself, forms
an interesting or artistically relevant shape,
and such space occasionally is used to artistic
effect as the "real" subject of an image.
Negative space

22. Drawing negative space

23. Negative space, used in a FedEx logo

24. Lesson 4: The Hand of the Artist

25. Drawing Hands by M. C. Escher
Drawing Hands is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in
January 1948. It depicts a sheet of paper out of which, from wrists that
remain flat on the page, two hands rise, facing each other and in the
paradoxical act of drawing one another into existence. Although Escher used
paradoxes in his works often, this is one of the most obvious examples.
Now
Produce a drawing in the style of the artist M C Escher
Success Criteria:
• The hand you draw must be life size (1:1 scale)
• Add detail of your skin texture
• Your drawing must include a background

26. NOW: Analyse this Art work…
• What is the
medium?
• What is it?
• Describe
the tones?
• Describe
the
shapes?
• Who is the
artist?
• What is the
subject
matter?NOW: On the piece of paper you must all write at least ONE
key word to describe the art work
GROUP ACTIVITY

31. Lesson 5: Michael Craig-Martin

35. NOW: Analyse this Art work…
• What is the
medium?
• What is it?
• Describe
the tones.
• Describe
the
shapes?
• Who is the
artist?
• Subject
matter?
NOW: On the piece of paper you must all write at least
ONE key word to describe the art work
GROUP ACTIVITY

36. Michael Craig-Martin
born 1941, Ireland
• Michael Craig-Martin, CBE RA, is a contemporary conceptual artist and
painter.
• He is noted for fostering the Young British Artists, many of whom he
taught, and for his conceptual artwork, An Oak Tree.
• He is Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths

39. Lesson 6: Charcoal and chalk tonal study

43. * Example

44. Lesson 7: Monoprinting

45. Image 1

46. Image 2

47. Image 3

48. Setup

49. Ink up

50. skim with newsprint

51. Place paper down

52. Place photo down. Start to draw!

53. You must use a range of mark making techniques to
describe the shape and texture of the object.
Pencil marks, before Ink Monoprint, after

54. Light and dark tone? Mark making? 3D form? Contrast? Texture?

55. Background? Foreground? Negative space? Expressive?

56. * Example

57. Lesson 8: Giorgio Morandi

58. Artist: Giorgio Morandi b. 1890 , d. 1964
• He was an Italian
painter and
printmaker who
specialised in still life.
• His paintings are noted for
their tonal subtlety.
• He often paints and draws
simple subjects, such as
vases, bottles and bowls.
Think pair share:
What do you notice about the
viewpoints?

60. Medium: Ink / mexed media
Lesson objective:
By the end of the lesson everyone will
produce a tonal ink drawing.
You will be using black ink or mixed
media, working from the lightest tone
to the darkest tone.
Remember to use the whole page and
consider composition.
Arrange items such as
paint pots and bottles
to produce an
interesting still life in
the style of Morandi.

61. Homework: 1
Produce a full colour copy of a work by the artist
Michael Craig Martin. See examples below or pick
your own.
Success criteria:
1. Use vibrant colour
2. Use a fine pen to outline the shapes
3. Fill the entire a4 page.
Homework: 1
Produce a full colour copy of a work by the artist
Michael Craig Martin. See examples below or pick
your own.
Success criteria:
1. Use vibrant colour
2. Use a fine pen to outline the shapes
3. Fill the entire a4 page.

62. Homework: 2
Draw the corner of your bedroom as illustrated in
the example below. You should use tonal pencil or
charcoal for this homework.
Success criteria:
1. Draw at least 5 objects in situ
2. Use at least 3 tones.
3. Make sure to add lots of detail
4. Fill the whole a4 page
Homework: 2
Draw the corner of your bedroom as illustrated in
the example below. You should use tonal pencil or
charcoal for this homework.
Success criteria:
1. Draw at least 5 objects in situ
2. Use at least 3 tones.
3. Make sure to add lots of detail
4. Fill the whole a4 page

63. Additional examples:

64. Homework: 3
Arrange a series of object to form a temporary
still life. Draw this using tonal pencil or charcoal
from an interesting viewpoint.
Success criteria:
1. Draw at least 5 balancing objects
2. Use at least 3 tones.
3. Make sure to add lots of detail
4. Fill the whole a4 page
Homework: 3
Arrange a series of object to form a temporary
still life. Draw this using tonal pencil or charcoal
from an interesting viewpoint.
Success criteria:
1. Draw at least 5 balancing objects
2. Use at least 3 tones.
3. Make sure to add lots of detail
4. Fill the whole a4 page

65. 1. Use a range of tones
2. Add lots of detail
3. Fill the A4 page
4. Create an interesting
composition
Success criteria…
Year 8 cover: Objects and viewpoints
• Produce an A4 tonal drawing of an arrangement of objects from
your pockets. You should use objects such as your keys and
things from you pencil case. NO PHONE OR LANYARD allowed.