​Complete your watercolor illustration by using gouache to add texture, detail, and additional design elements to the broad colors of your watercolor. Consider the work of Georges Seurat, Gustav Klimt, and Vincent Van Gogh as possible approaches.

We will evaluate this on: personal investment and studio habits of mind (thinking like an artist, experimenting, taking thoughtful creative risks), aesthetics/design (particularly strength of color relationships), and technical quality (craftsmanship with the painting medium, level of detail and refinement).

Referencing your value drawing illustration of a fable, myth, or fairy tale, and using what you learned about color theory, paint a full-color illustration in watercolor.

This must be a specific scene from the story that includes:

• interacting figures (i.e. people and/or animal characters)
• environment
• depth
• the indication of a light source

Parameters:

• Size: 9 x 12" or 11 x 14"
• Medium: watercolor on watercolor paper

 Grading Criteria: 

• Improvement of composition from original draft
• Expressiveness
• Narrative Qualities / Clarity of Illustration (tells what's happening)
• Sense of Light
  • Chiaroscuro - light's effect on form
  • Light's effect on color (for example, warm light, cool shadows)
  • Visual drama created by light and shadow
• Sense of Depth
  • Atmospheric perspective through color shifts (intensity/saturation, temperature changes)
• Composition / Design/ Visual Impact
  • Unity/harmony through color
  • Variety
• Craftsmanship/Technical Quality - Detail and Refinement; Range of Values

    Studio Habits of Mind Rubric


To Start:

1. View/study the work of picture book illustrators such as those below. Pay attention to their differences in style, and to how they have used color to direct your attention to certain areas, to create a sense of atmosphere and space, and to create mood. Notice how they've used the watercolor medium to give a sense of light, and to create different effects.
2. Create 2 - 3 color studies based on your rough draft, and considering the color theory concepts you've learned about.
3. Trace your draft onto watercolor paper using a light table, adjusting your drawing as necessary to improve the composition and add details. Use a very light pencil line.

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First as thumbnail sketches (at least 3 thumbnail compositions), then as a full-size drawing with a full range of values, develop a composition that illustrates a specific scene from a fairy tale, folk tale, or myth. This is to be completely original, in your own style (not Disney, etc.).

This must be a specific scene from the story that includes:

• interacting figures (i.e. people and/or animal characters)
• environment
• depth
• the indication of a light source

This drawing will be used as the basis for a watercolor painting in class.

Turn in the thumbnail sketches (at least 3) and the full-sized drawing.

Parameters:

• Size: 9 x 12" or 11 x 14" (sketchbook-sized)
• Medium: Collage: graphite (pencil) on paper

 Grading Criteria: 

• Expressiveness
• Narrative Qualities / Clarity of Illustration (tells what's happening)
• Sense of Light
• Sense of Depth
• Composition / Design/ Visual Impact
• Craftsmanship/Technical Quality - Detail and Refinement; Range of Values

First as a drawing, then completed as a cut-magazine-color collage, illustrate a nursery rhyme or fairy tale, but make it EXTREME/exaggerated: exaggerated action, exaggerated emotions. 

The scene must have:

• action/movement (using angles)
• depth
• emotion
• exaggeration
• energetic design of the entire page

Parameters:

• Size: 9 x 12" or 11 x 14" (sketchbook-sized)
• Medium: Collage: Color pieces clipped from magazines, on heavy paper

 Grading Criteria: 

• Sense of Movement
• Emotion / Expressiveness
• Exaggeration
• Sense of Depth
• Design/ Visual Impact
• Craftsmanship/Technical Quality