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Homework: Color Still Life: Squash or Gourd(s) on Table

10/27/2022

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Juan Aguilar, Oranges, oil pastel on paper, 18 x 24"
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These are gourds.
Project:
Using oil pastels, "paint" a still life comprised of squash or gourd(s) on a table.

Due:
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Objectives:
  • Improve observational accuracy
  • Build a strong composition
  • Notice (and recreate) subtle color changes
  • Establish form via chiaroscuro and color changes
  • Improve your ability to create a rich range of tonal value
  • Become skillful with oil pastels

Materials:
  • pencil and eraser
  • oil pastels
  • sketchbook or larger drawing paper
  • squash or gourd(s)

Grading Criteria:
  • Composition
  • Accuracy
  • Recreation of nuances of color and value
  • "Completeness" - Craftsmanship

To Start:
Draw thumbnails and/or rough drafts of the composition, in pencil or charcoal on paper, blocking out the basic arrangement of lights and darks
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Homework: Value Drawing: Peppers

10/12/2022

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Project Description:
A value drawing of a bell pepper (green, red, orange, or yellow), sliced in half, from observation. 

Directions:
Cut a bell pepper in half. Show both halves of a pepper as they sit on the surface of the table. The first half should be positioned to show mainly the interior, with part of the exterior in view. The second half should be positioned so that you will be drawing the exterior. The two halves should be positioned so that they will just slightly overlap each other in your drawing, but so that they will both be clearly in your view. Place a single light source on the set-up. Include an environment, real or imagined or both.

Objectives:
  • Improve accuracy in capturing contour and proportion of an observed object.
  • Render form through chiaroscuro (“lights and darks”).
  • Emphasize the structure of a simple organic form.
    • (In this case, the structure of the pepper will be most obvious from the “skeleton” of the interior, but also from the bends and creases on the exterior.)

Materials:
  • Graphite (Use 2B, 4B and 6B)
  • Pink eraser
  • Kneaded eraser
  • Pencil sharpener
  • Drawing paper - sketchbook size (11 x 14", 60 lb. paper) or larger

Parameters
  • Use the entire picture plane.
  • Make this a "portfolio-worthy" drawing.

Grading Criteria:
  • Realism of contour and proportion
  • Realism of form and structure
  • (Design of the page)

To Start:
  • Start with a light line, using the 2B pencil, to capture accurate contour (line) and proportion exactly as you observe them.

Tips
  • Use a full range of value, working up the darker tones by gradually building up from the 2B to the 4B, and using the 6B pencils just for the darkest values.
  • Reserve whites for the highlights. Use deep blacks and a full range of gray tones.

Self Critique Questions
  • As you draw, ask yourself if you are doing the following (You should be!):
  • Fill the page.
  • Consider the entire page as a composition. Add value to the negative space as necessary.
  • Consider the observed relationship between the positive shapes and the negative shapes, especially the spaces between the halves.
  • Start with a light line, using the 2B pencil, to capture accurate contour (line) and proportion exactly as you observe them.
  • Use a full range of value, working up the darker tones by gradually building up from the 2B to the 4B, and using the 6B pencils just for the darkest values.
  • Reserve whites for the highlights. Use deep blacks and a full range of gray tones.

AND When you believe you are close to completing this, ask yourself:

  • In its present state, is this something you can put in your portfolio for college applications?
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Animal Mask

10/7/2022

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Bear by H. Skourtis

Design and construct a wearable (full head) mask representing an animal. 

Media:
  • Cardboard
  • Oaktag
  • Masking Tape
  • White Glue 

Steps:
  1. Before beginning, research ritual masks from various cultures, masks and mask-like artwork from modern and contemporary art, and masks from movies and popular culture.
  2. Google search "cardboard sculpture mask"
  3. Collect cardboard.
  4. Collect visual references of the animal.
  5. Do reference sketches of the animal from various angles, using collected photographs and a visit to the Burlington Science Center.
  6. Draft your design from various angles using pencil on paper
  7. Plan your mask's construction. Think of this as a sculpture made of planes (flat surfaces).
  8. Research "paper engineering" and paper/cardboard attachment techniques, such as tabs and slots.
  9. Build.

NOTE: You will eventually designing an illustrated "how to" booklet explaining the steps in the construction process.

Grading Criteria:
Studio Habits of Mind

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Graphite Drawing: Hair

10/6/2022

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Watch the video below (just one of many good demonstrations), then make a refined graphite drawing of your own hair. Draw large, to fill a page of your sketchbook. Draw from life, and use a single light source. Use a full set of pencils and replicate the tonal values exactly as you see them in the real three-dimensional world. 

Make this a finished, refined artwork.

(There are countless other videos about the process on Youtube and time-lapse demonstrations. Look for one or two that show how to address your specific type of hair.)
Remember to use a FULL RANGE OF TONAL VALUE. You may want to practice creating different tonal values first, ​using the scale below. Use H and low B pencils for your lightest tones, 2B and 4B for your middle tones, and 6B for your darkest values.
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