FINAL WORDS

Dear Students,
For your Final Exam, please remember:
Each student will present his or her Final Drawing, along with relevant sketches. Be prepared to speak about your work for several minutes, sharing with the class some background about the thought process that went into the drawing, including the initial idea and how it changed during the drawing process. What did you have to give up, what did you discover? Ultimately, what are you satisfied with, and what still troubles you? What did you learn? What do you want to draw next?
These are some ideas about what to talk about. Please do not stand silently next to your drawing. This work took you many hours to make, and I'd like you to attempt to put into words some of that effort. We will SEE the effort before us, as well, but we'd like to hear the background and understand what you experienced.
Additionally, please pin up your model drawing done in the last two days of class, as well as your favorite piece from the semester.
I SO enjoyed this semester with you. Thank you, thank you.
Haley

FINAL PROJECT

Final Drawing Project : Narrative Drawing


due: at final exam time/date

size: minimum 18 x 24

media: your choice, among those we utilized in class

time requirement: eight hours, minimum, not including sketches.

Include at least two of the following: still life, interior, landscape, figure or portrait

Due on Thursday Nov 29: FIVE 18 x 24 sketches for final project. Explore ideas, work out compositions, play with the light and value structure, possibly explore color

Wayne Thiebaud, as requested by Lily

Wayne Thiebaud, oil on canvas.

Thank you to Lily for the suggestion.

VAN GOGH

Our trip to Van Gogh is scheduled for Tuesday December 4. Thank you very much to all of you who put up your ticket money already. Good news: those of you who have NOT yet paid, can still come, and pay at the door. Our entry to the show is at 2 pm. Let's meet at 1:45 in the lobby. At that time, we will pay and go in together.
This trip to see Van Gogh is not required, just highly recommended. I am looking forward to sharing this with you.

We can visit other parts of the museum as well.

Manet, Monet, Matisse, and 17th century dutch still life

Homework due Nov 27, Tuesday after Thanksgiving

FOOD STILL LIFE
A pastel drawing of a food item (s) in a setting. 18 x 24 pastel on canson mi-teintes paper. As we have practiced doing in class, choose your paper to suit your subject. The beauty of pastel can come from letting the toned paper show through your mark-making. Permit this tone to permeate and unify the entire composition. Select a palette for your subject, and make some color notes on a separate piece of (toned) paper to guide your choice. Take care when setting up your subject. Consider lighting and background, as well as placement of objects. A tablecloth, a bowl, a knife? A sliced lemon, a bunch of grapes, a bowl of cranberry jelly? Take it a step further and consider what you mean to say with your drawing: Is this a reflection on abundance, decay, gourmandise, plenty, or lack? (For example.) Let your mark-making elucidate the meaning. Let the drawing guide you. Give your drawing a title, after you have completed it.
6-9 hour drawing. Work on it over multiple sessions.