Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Portfolio - Drawing Projects for Final







Please include the following projects in your portfolio to be turned in the last day of class (Monday). For your final, you will be asked to select two drawings that you are the most pleased with and explain to the class why you think they are good drawings. Furthermore, tell the class tell what you learned the most in making one of the drawings you are presenting.


All of the projects below must be in your portfolio, however, if you have done an extra project, but is not in the list, but you are very happy with do include it as well/


Portfolio Projects for Drawing Final

· At least five drawings of hands

· Skeleton Drawing of hands

· Ink Drawing of Morandi Page 89

· Copy of either Picasso or Matisse Drawing Page 29

· Copy of Hand Drawing from book Page 28

· Ink and Wash Drawing of Boy Lying Down Page 31

· Self Portrait using Grid

· Value Scale of Planes and Sphere Page 95

· Copy using Colored Pencils of Still Life Page 99

· New Yorker Cover

· Still Life (drawing from objects in class) & Light on objects:

o One using pastel

o One charcoal or pastel

o Still Life with Ellipses (Page 153)

Monday, November 28, 2011

Final Exam

Our "Final" for this class is on December 15th which is a Thursday between 4 PM and 6 PM.

Still Life Drawing (In-class Assignment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Ruysch


Look up Rachel Ruysch on the Internet and find out a little about her Stiff Life Paintings.

Then, in the matter of Rachel Ruysch continue to draw the still life of flowers we started in class.

We will put the completed drawings on the wall Wednesday and discuss them.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Assignments Week of Nov. 7

Assignments – Today

Draw 6.6 Polyhedron with Value Planes Page 95
Draw Sphere Page 95
Draw 6-13 Still Life Page 99
Using colored Pencils to convey and Expressive range of value

Homework:

Read “Colored Pencils’ Page 173
Outline Chapter 6 (Value & Color)
Pages 91-101

Monday, October 24, 2011

Working With Ink

Working with Ink
Today --Continue to work on Morandi Drawing -- Due Wednesday Oct 26
Homework: Pick either drawing 2-20 or 2-21 to copy from book - Due Monday October 31
Homework – Outline Chapter Two - due Monday October 31
Assignment II using Ink – Copy Number 2-23 using ink washes
(the above new assignment we will start next week -- if you have finished Morandi Drawing, you may start on this next assignment.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

SJART MUSEUM FIELD TRIP NOV 2

we will meet at the San Jose Art Museum on
November 2. I will be there at 3:00 PM and you may
get there as soon as you can thereafter.

This is a great exhibition and I know you will enjoy
it!

http://www.sjmusart.org/


The cost is $5.oo with your student body card