1. Dale Chihuly
Artist & Teacher

2. Macchia
REGAL PURPLE MACCHIA WITH COBALT BLUE AND
BRIGHT ORANGE LIP WRAP CHARTRUESE MACCHIA
1995 1981
What do you think the artist trying to represent?

3. Definition
• Noun
• macchia f. (plural
macchie)
• stain or smear
• spot, fleck
• blot, speck, disgrace

4. NOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ETJhw9_B_X4
It’s been 30 years since
Chihuly blew glass. He lost
the vision in his left eye
during a car wreck in London
in 1976. Then a few years
later, permanently lost range
of motion in his right
shoulder during a body
surfing accident. It forced him
to give up the gaffer’s (chief
glassblower) seat, a move
he’s always been comfortable
with because he cares more
about the product than the
process.

5. Installations
by
Collaboration
INFO NEEDED
Fiori di Como at Bellagio

6. Spontaneous Drawing/
Vocabulary
Painting
from natural feeling or from a
Series momentary impulse, without
having been planned.
multiples of, a collection
of, a group or a number of
related or similar things, a
set.

7. Vocabulary
Mixed Media
A technique involving the
use of two or more artistic We Will Be Using
media.
Elements of Art
Line
Color
Shape
Principles of Art
Pattern

8. Drawing & Painting

9. Drawing & Painting

10. Drawing & Painting

11. Drawing & Painting
"Untitled Basket Drawing” "Orange Hornet Chandelier”
2006
2002

12. Our Goals
What we will do together What you will do
• Create your own mixed
• Study a contemporary
media sketches in the
artist.
style and technique of
• Identify Macchia as glass
Dale Chihuly.
artwork.
• Evaluate your own work
• Apply vocabulary.
• Make decisions based on
individual aesthetics
(taste).

13. What I Expect From You
• Participate in class
discussion.
• Use both paint and
markers
• Create 1 mixed media
sketch
• Transfer your sketch to
create your macchia

14. Create your
own Macchia