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
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
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.
This trip to see Van Gogh is not required, just highly recommended. I am looking forward to sharing this with you.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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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.
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.
Friday, November 2, 2012
Homework: Self Portrait
Due Thursday November 8.
Self Portrait. Vine Charcoal. Can use compressed charcoal and charcoal pencil as well, but begin composition with vine, for ease of manipulation.
18 x 24 paper. Use entire page. Compose a Head-and-Shoulders (known as a bust portrait) self-portrait, by looking in a mirror. Consider your set-up: Lighting and Background.
Tone entire page with mid-value vine charcoal to begin. Draw with eraser and vine in an additive-and-subtractive manner. Consider and compose entire drawing space: the Rectangle. Try a 3/4 view, or full frontal view. Draw the space behind and around the head. No photographs may be used - draw from life. IMPORTANT: This is a 6-9 hour drawing.
Excellent work on your profile portraits, my students! I am so pleased with your work and progress.
Self Portrait. Vine Charcoal. Can use compressed charcoal and charcoal pencil as well, but begin composition with vine, for ease of manipulation.
18 x 24 paper. Use entire page. Compose a Head-and-Shoulders (known as a bust portrait) self-portrait, by looking in a mirror. Consider your set-up: Lighting and Background.
Tone entire page with mid-value vine charcoal to begin. Draw with eraser and vine in an additive-and-subtractive manner. Consider and compose entire drawing space: the Rectangle. Try a 3/4 view, or full frontal view. Draw the space behind and around the head. No photographs may be used - draw from life. IMPORTANT: This is a 6-9 hour drawing.
Excellent work on your profile portraits, my students! I am so pleased with your work and progress.
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