Art

River Hill High School

Name: Unit Title: Candy as a Metaphor- Sweet Life

Objectives Design Studio Skills Presentation

Your completed drawing
clearly depicts a selected
portion of the candy still life
you created.
Your drawing alludes to the
metaphor you used for your
candy still life.
You accurately represented
the candy forms through
the use of shape, value,
light, and space.
You considered the size,
view, and placement of how
you drew the candy on your
page.
You created a sense of
visual movement to
effectively move the eye
throughout the page.
You paid just as much
attention to the background
and negative space as you
did the foreground and
candy to create a sense of
unity.
You appropriately adjusted The drawing is free of
the pressure on your unnecessary smudges,
drawing pencil to create a smears, rips, and tears.
wide range of values (from The drawing is evident of
the darkest darks to the quality time, thought, and
lightest lights. care.
You used modeled line to
create the illusion of form of
the candies.
You used sighting to help
you in achieving accurate
proportions and angles of
the forms you drew.

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Reflection Questions:

1) What was the metaphor you and your group decided to use as inspiration for your candy set-up?

2) Briefly describe how your candy set-up is “acting out” the metaphor your group chose. Did light
and/or shadow help to further “push” your idea? How?

3) Describe the process of making this piece from start to finish. (In other words, what was the very
first step you took to make this artwork possible, before you even started drawing?)

4) If you could re-work the drawing, is there anything you would change or do differently?