1. Techniques & Training!
Practice Assignments – Complete in your sketchbook
1.Choose 3 of the 6 techniques to practice in 3” x 5” boxes.
(You create these boxes with ruler!)
1. Blobs
4. Star
2. Checkerboard
3. Tunnel
5. Cuboid
6. Hellocopter
4. Op Art Shading Blobs
• Use black colored
pencil.
• Draw upward curves
above the middle
wave.
• Draw downward
curves below the
middle wave.
• Complete the entire
section.
5. Op Art Shading Blobs
5. Complete the entire design.
Erase the "across" wave.
6. Op Art Shading Blobs
• Pick a group of colors
you feel work well
together.
• Press harder in the
corners... and as you
get near the top of
each bump get lighter
and lighter.
9. Technique 2:
Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a colored pencil.
4. Color in the whole
picture with alternating
colors.
10. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.
11. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.
12. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.
13. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.
14. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.
15. Op Art Checkerboard
1. Use a compass to
draw 3 or 4 circles.
2. Use a ruler to draw
vertical lines and
horizontal lines.
3. Trace everything with
a marker.
4. Colour in the whole
picture with alternating
colours.
23. Technique 4: Star ( Steps 1- 5)
• In the center of the page,
draw a 4 inch vertical (up
and down) line.
•
Now draw a 4 inch
horizontal line (side to
side).
• VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=tESDVnNUAng&feature=related
24. Step 2
• Make a small
mark at each 1/4
inch measurement
across the length
of each line
starting where the
lines cross.
25. Step 3
• From the top of the
vertical line and
going to the left,
draw a straight line
down to the mark
closest to the center
on the horizontal
line
26. Step 4
• Move down the
vertical (up and
down) line to the
next mark.
• Draw a line to the
second mark
moving away
from the vertical
line