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Art Merit Badge

Overview Requirements Hints Terminology Resources

Art Merit Badge Info

What is Art? That is the question, at least for requirement #1 of this merit bluecoat, it is. This entire merit badge can be done in a morning or an afternoon, except for visiting an art facility - if a virtual tour is allowed past the counselor, that could be fulfulled, too.

This is 1 of the easiest merit badges available with just a little terminology, drawing a handful of pictures, and that visit existence all there is to information technology. That might exist why about 21,000 scouts earn information technology every year, placing it at the 25th most popular spot.

Revised January, 2014

Requirements for the Art merit badge:

Discuss the following with your counselor:
1. What fine art is and what some of the different forms of art are
2. The importance of art to humankind
3. What art means to you and how fine art can brand you experience
Discuss with your counselor the following terms and elements of fine art: line, value, shape, class, space, color, and texture. Show examples of each element.
Talk over with your advisor the 6 principles of design: rhythm, balance, proportion, variety, emphasis, and unity.
Render a subject of your choice in Four of these ways:
1. Pen and ink,
2. Watercolors,
3. Pencil,
4. Pastels,
5. Oil paints,
6. Tempera,
7. Acrylics,
8. Charcoal
9. Computer drawing or painting
Do I of the post-obit:
1. Blueprint something useful. Make a sketch or model of your design. With your counselor'due south blessing, create a promotional slice for the item using a picture or pictures.
2. Tell a story with a picture or pictures or using a three-D rendering.
3. Blueprint a logo. Share your design with your advisor and explain the significance of your logo. Then, with your parent's permission and your counselor's approval, put your logo on Scout equipment, furniture, ceramics, or fabric.
With your parent'due south permission and your counselor'south approval, visit a museum, art showroom, fine art gallery, artists' co-op, or artist's workshop. Find out almost the art displayed or created there. Discuss what yous learn with your counselor.
Find out about three career opportunities in art. Pick ane and find out the instruction, preparation, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your advisor, and explicate why this profession might involvement you.

Art Worksheet

Hints for Art Merit Bluecoat

Use the worksheet to write down the terminology and definitions so they can exist hands remembered when discussing them.
For requirement #4, render the same bailiwick four different means, non four different subjects. The goal is to notice how unlike and similar the discipline looks.
Designing a logo for requirement #5 is probably the easiest, but go approval before putting it on equipment.
Simplest manner to prepare for the outset three requirements is to read the merit badge pamphlet, but the links below are another option.

Terminology for Art Merit Bluecoat

Forms of art include compages, cartoon, style design, industrial design, painting, pottery, printmaking, sculpting, and weaving.
Elements of Art:
- Line - a continuous mark creating a pattern.
- Value - lightness and darkness with color and saturation
- Shape - outline or surface of a grade, either geometric or freeform.
- Form - solid 3-d shape which could be cone, cube, cylinder, prism, pyramid, or sphere.
- Infinite - positive space is the forms in the art while negative space is the empty area betwixt them. These two types of infinite work together to create an image.
- Colour - function of the visible spectrum reflected from an object.
- Texture - what a surface feels like, or the surface of an object in fine art appears to feel like.
Principles of Design:
- Residuum is the feeling of visual symmetry of a piece of fine art.
- Accent puts more focus on one part of an art piece to influence the viewer's experience.
- Proportion is the relative sizing of the various forms comprising a piece to appear realistic or exaggerated.
- Rhythm is the repeating of a blueprint element to atomic number 82 the observer's focus.
- Unity is the successful use of pattern principles to arrange all the elements into a complete piece of work of art.
- Variety uses different elements in a slice to provide contrast and arrive more interesting.

Resources for Art Merit Badge
Yep, Fine art is Of import.
Artists communicate using the elements of fine art.
When creating fine art, incorporating the principles of design help make an impressive piece.
Take a look at some of the many mediums and techniques for creating great art.
Research what Fine art Careers are available in the real earth.
National Portfolio Day
NASAD

Some related merit badges include: Animation, Graphic Arts, Moviemaking, Painting, Photography, Pottery, and Sculpture. If yous constitute the Fine art merit badge interesting, you might endeavour them.

Comments:

February 21, 2013 - stanley knox

the scouts accept ever promoted the creative spark in information technology`s members it was true for me in the fifty`s

Jun 23, 2013 - David

Art MB #iii, is it the same field of study four dissimilar ways or up to four subjects four different ways?

Jun 23, 2013 - Scouter Paul

@David - Same subject, 4 different ways.

December 07, 2013 - Amanda

art MB #2 when information technology says testify an example of each element does that hateful that the scout must create a piece of art work for each art element or exercise they need to run across this in another artist's art?

Mar 25, 2015 - Ian Stuart

For requirement six could a army camp have fine art that past scouts have made hung up in the dining hall or art social club and let that be an art gallery the scouts could visit to complete the badge at camp?

Apr 27, 2016 - Aman1

For number 4, can we apply pencil like sketch or does it have to be colored pencil?

Apr 27, 2016 - Scouter Paul

@Aman1 - Req #4c just says "pencil", non colored pencil.