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Year 6 Art Assignment: Line and Tone

=** The Artist Mentor **=

We have looked at some of the artwork of Durer, Caravaggio and Escher in class, and you have completed worksheets in class relating to this. These worksheets will be a valuable resource for you when completing the assignment outlined below.



Your task:

Imagine that you are a young artist who would like to create a portrait. You have been looking at many artists in order to find a ‘mentor’, i.e. an artist whose approach you both like and feel you can emulate. You have narrowed down your search for such a mentor to three artists: Caravaggio, Dürer and Escher. In particular, you like the way that these artists have used **line and tone** in their work.

** Your task ** is to write a letter/email to your art teacher who has been helping you with your work and explain to him (or her) what it is that you like about each of these works, and what you think they teach you, as an artist. Your comments should focus on the ways in which these artists have used line and tone to create **structure, narrative** and/or **emotion.**

Your email must be **organised**: that is, you must use paragraphs, and these paragraphs must be properly structured. You have been provided with a scaffold to assist you with this.

Click on the link below and read through the marking rubric for this task with your teacher:



Below is a link to a scaffold which you may use to assist you in organising your ideas for this assignment. Copy and save it into your Art folder.


=But first ...= = = ==**Before we begin on the above task, you will have to investigate the work of the three artists in question. We will do this in class together. You will need to click on the link below to get to the worksheets. Save a copy of these worksheets into your Art folder to work on as we view the Powerpoint. (The link to the Powerpoint is for later - just in case you need to refresh your memory about the works discussed in class).**==

Here is the link for the worksheets on Caravaggio, Escher and Durer:
[|Year 6 Art assignment for adding wiki.docx]

**Click on the link below if you need to refresh your memory by reviewing the Powerpoint:**
Slideshow link