How to Teach Boy Scouts of America Art Merit Badge

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Art Merit Badge

Fine art Merit Badge

Overview Requirements Hints Terminology Resources

Art Merit Badge Info

What is Fine art? That is the question, at least for requirement #1 of this merit badge, it is. This entire merit badge can exist done in a morn or an afternoon, except for visiting an art facility - if a virtual tour is allowed by the advisor, that could exist fulfulled, as well.

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

Revised Jan, 2014

Requirements for the Art merit badge:

Discuss the following with your counselor:
1. What art is and what some of the different forms of fine art are
2. The importance of art to humankind
3. What art means to you and how art tin make you feel
Discuss with your counselor the following terms and elements of art: line, value, shape, course, infinite, colour, and texture. Prove examples of each element.
Discuss with your counselor the vi principles of pattern: rhythm, balance, proportion, variety, emphasis, and unity.
Render a subject area 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 ONE of the following:
1. Design something useful. Make a sketch or model of your design. With your counselor'southward blessing, create a promotional piece for the item using a movie or pictures.
2. Tell a story with a picture or pictures or using a 3-D rendering.
3. Blueprint a logo. Share your design with your counselor and explain the significance of your logo. Then, with your parent's permission and your counselor's blessing, put your logo on Scout equipment, furniture, ceramics, or material.
With your parent'southward permission and your advisor'south approving, visit a museum, art showroom, art gallery, artists' co-op, or creative person's workshop. Notice out virtually the art displayed or created there. Talk over what you learn with your advisor.
Find out most three career opportunities in fine art. Pick 1 and discover out the education, training, and feel required for this profession. Discuss this with your advisor, and explicate why this profession might interest you.

Art Worksheet

Hints for Art Merit Badge

Use the worksheet to write down the terminology and definitions so they can be hands remembered when discussing them.
For requirement #four, render the same subject four different means, non four different subjects. The goal is to notice how different and similar the subject looks.
Designing a logo for requirement #5 is probably the easiest, merely get blessing before putting it on equipment.
Simplest way to fix for the offset 3 requirements is to read the merit bluecoat pamphlet, but the links below are another option.

Terminology for Art Merit Bluecoat

Forms of art include compages, drawing, manner design, industrial blueprint, 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 form, either geometric or freeform.
- Form - solid three-d shape which could be cone, cube, cylinder, prism, pyramid, or sphere.
- Space - positive space is the forms in the fine art while negative infinite is the empty surface area betwixt them. These two types of space piece of work together to create an image.
- Color - role 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:
- Balance is the feeling of visual symmetry of a slice of art.
- Emphasis puts more focus on one part of an fine 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 design element to lead the observer's focus.
- Unity is the successful apply of design principles to arrange all the elements into a complete work of fine art.
- Multifariousness uses different elements in a piece to provide contrast and make it more interesting.

Resources for Art Merit Bluecoat
Aye, Art is Important.
Artists communicate using the elements of art.
When creating art, incorporating the principles of design help make an impressive piece.
Take a look at some of the many mediums and techniques for creating dandy art.
Inquiry what Art Careers are bachelor in the real world.
National Portfolio Day
NASAD

Some related merit badges include: Animation, Graphic Arts, Moviemaking, Painting, Photography, Pottery, and Sculpture. If you found the Art merit bluecoat interesting, you might try them.

Comments:

Feb 21, 2013 - stanley knox

the scouts have always promoted the creative spark in it`s members it was true for me in the 50`s

Jun 23, 2013 - David

Art MB #3, is it the aforementioned subject field four different ways or upwards to four subjects iv dissimilar ways?

Jun 23, 2013 - Scouter Paul

@David - Same subject, 4 unlike means.

Dec 07, 2013 - Amanda

art MB #2 when it says show an instance of each element does that hateful that the scout must create a piece of art work for each art element or do they demand to see this in another artist's fine art?

Mar 25, 2015 - Ian Stuart

For requirement 6 could a camp accept art that past scouts accept made hung upwardly in the dining hall or art lodge and let that be an art gallery the scouts could visit to complete the badge at army camp?

Apr 27, 2016 - Aman1

For number 4, tin 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.