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Transforming An Object

Look at your drawings from lessons 3, 5 and 7. Choose the drawings in which your object is not recognizable.

What other things does this drawing remind you of?

What else could it become a drawing of?

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Transforming An Object: Writing

Write down all the things that your unrecognizable drawing reminds you of.

Is it an animal? A creature? A spaceship? A machine? A mask? Or something completely new?

If you were going to make a new drawing of a fantastical object, what are some ideas that come to mind?

For example, what if you lived under water in Atlantis? What would the objects in your home look like? What if you lived in outer space? Stretch your imagination.

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Transforming An Object: Sketchbook: Trace or Draw Your Object

Trace one of your observational drawings and make it into something different.

To trace your drawing, tape �or place it on a window when �it is bright enough outside to illuminate the lines from behind. Tape or hold a new sheet of paper on top and trace the lines that you see.

You can also make an �outline of your object instead of tracing.

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Transforming An Object: Sketchbook

Now that you have an outline of your drawing, turn it into something new.

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Transforming An Object: Close Looking: Claes Oldenburg

What do you notice in �this drawing?

Are any of these objects �familiar or recognizable? Why or why not?

How did the artist transform them?

Claes Oldenburg, Drawings/Proposals for Sculptures, 1967

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Remote Arts Learning Partnership

Module Two �

Studio in a School NYC Team

Julie Applebaum, Senior Director

Remote Arts Learning Partnership Project DIrector

Writing Team Project Team

Nick DeMarco Jamie Powell Belinda Blum Nicola Giardina Paul Urevitch

Robin Holder Tim Thyzel Andrea Burgay Katherine Huala

Graphic Design

Don Giordano

NYC Department of Education OASP Team

Karen Rosner, Director of Visual Arts

Amber Lodman, Arts Program Manager Kaitlin Trammell, Remote Arts Learning Partnership Project Coordinator

NYC Department of Education Visual Arts Teacher Team

Maria Bonilla Susan Bricker Amie Robinson Lara Tyson