Procedure Non-Objective Project

Using Line and Rhythm to Create a Nonobjective Design

Day 1 and 2 --  Students should have covered line and rhythm pretty thoroughly by now.  It is also important that they define, understand look at examples of non-objective art. 

There is a chapter in the book on painting that goes over Non-objective art. I go over this chapter as a class with a worksheet. The art project is presented in a sort of art problem.  

I also think that it is important that students understand that visual problems can often be solved in innumerable ways and that they should solve them in their own style.  The problem is then presented and explained.

The Problem

With no less than 10 line types, create a non-objective design which shows rhythm and movement.  Cover your whole sheet of paper and demonstrate at least 3 different types of rhythm in your design.

Thumbnail sketches should be covered and students should be able to make 4 correct thumbnail sketches. The procedure of using a pencil to sketch in their first lines and markers to draw and color them in afterward should be covered.  Final products can be mounted and hung.