This document provides instructions for a lesson on producing a tonal ink study from observation of a still life object. It defines a tonal ink study as an artwork created using multiple layers of ink without outlines but containing light and dark areas. The lesson objective is to produce a tonal ink study from a single viewpoint using three tones and adding a shadow under the object. Examples from past students and an analysis of the artist Jim Dine's work are also referenced.

1. Lesson 2: Tonal ink study

2. 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?

3. 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.

4. * Year 8 examples

5. 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

6. 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.