Breaking the Frame
1. Get inspired! "Breaking the Frame" or "Bleeding off the Page" are compositional techniques to build more complex arrangements of subject matter in your piece. Look below to see how artists bled off of an interior frame AND their outer edge.
2. Practice. This project will be done in colored pencil. Complete the colored pencil technique page below to brush up on your skills.
Click here for the colored pencil technique page.
3. Compose. Our subject matter for this project will be your choice. Look at student examples below to see how students have chosen food, cartoons, animals, landscape and more as their subject matter. Start by drawing an interior frame WITH A RULER on your paper. Your main subject should BLEED OFF the interior frame in at least 3 areas. Other objects/surroundings can be placed around the border (these will be done in sharpie or graphite).
4. Color and Contrast. Complete the drawing in colored pencil in the interior frame and main subject and black and white media in the outside border. This gives your artwork interesting contrast (differences).
5. Completed? Click here for the Self Evaluation Sheet and Artist Statement.
Click here for the colored pencil technique page.
3. Compose. Our subject matter for this project will be your choice. Look at student examples below to see how students have chosen food, cartoons, animals, landscape and more as their subject matter. Start by drawing an interior frame WITH A RULER on your paper. Your main subject should BLEED OFF the interior frame in at least 3 areas. Other objects/surroundings can be placed around the border (these will be done in sharpie or graphite).
4. Color and Contrast. Complete the drawing in colored pencil in the interior frame and main subject and black and white media in the outside border. This gives your artwork interesting contrast (differences).
5. Completed? Click here for the Self Evaluation Sheet and Artist Statement.