{"id":1803,"date":"2023-03-14T21:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T02:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2023-03-14T21:04:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T02:04:29","slug":"figure-silhouettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/figure-silhouettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Figure Silhouettes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students did contour drawings of each other in a variety of &#8220;action&#8221; poses. Students modeled for approximately 1-2 minutes as their classmates drew them, and everyone wanted a turn to model! Each figure drawing was at least 3&#8243; tall, and most were considerably taller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They chose their best drawings, cut them out, and traced around them onto black silhouette paper. Some students opted to cut out several silhouettes of their favorite pose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They arranged their figure silhouettes onto white drawing paper, and then glued them into place to create interesting and dramatic black and white action designs. (They could also make a &#8220;negative&#8221; of their design by gluing white silhouettes onto black paper.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/KK-FigSil1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/KK-FigSil1.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/KK-FigSil1-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/KK-FigSil2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/KK-FigSil2.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/KK-FigSil2-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NW-FigSil.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NW-FigSil.jpg 432w, https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NW-FigSil-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BJ-FigSil.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BJ-FigSil.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BJ-FigSil-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students did contour drawings of each other in a variety of &#8220;action&#8221; poses. Students modeled for approximately 1-2 minutes as their classmates drew them, and everyone wanted a turn to model! Each figure drawing was at least 3&#8243; tall, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/figure-silhouettes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6,25,368,91,371,74,369],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lesson-plans","tag-art-education","tag-art-lesson-plan","tag-colonial-arts","tag-contour-drawing","tag-figure-drawing","tag-middle-school-art","tag-silhouettes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}