Gallery Report ALL Draw Paint Classes

Requirements for Gallery Reports ( 1 each semester) :

Each report must be 1-2 page typed pages, handwritten reports will not be accepted.
Describe the work in the gallery and write your own reaction to it.
Include any promotional material from the show you are reviewing – postcards, etc.

Due: December 3rd , D block; December 4th A and C block

Beginning Drawing Homework DUE SEPT. 24th

Resubmits of both hand drawings; Bring in your images no smaller than 6 X 8 inches.
Preferably both images should be 8.5 X 11 inches or in that range.

Advanced Drawing: Homeproject 1 Due Sept. 25th

Option 1: Create a finalized sketch of your 1st homeproject. This sketch should fill the page and show a full range of tonal values; plan on spending 1 to 1.5 hours to create the 1st sketch

Option 2: If you have completed Option 1; then start your 1st drawing of your homeproject. Plan on spending an hour of drawing time on this project

Due: Sept 25th

Intermediate Drawing Homework: Due Sept. 25th

Unit 3: Drawing the face: Do a mirror copy of the magazine hand out in class. Glue 1/2 the face to your sketchbook and copy the mirror image to create a full face. Due Tuesday Sept. 25th.

Beginning drawing Homework DUE SEPT. 18th

Do Exercise 11: A Drawing of your hand holding an object.

Read the packet. You will need your plastic viewfinder and a marker. * the marker washes off by using rubbing alchohol or other cleaning solvent. This should be an ELEGANT LINE drawing of your hand. Observe the contours and interior qualities of the hand carefully. Remember to vary the thickness of your line, let it disappear in some areas. Add toning using your 4B pencil. Make sure you light your hand so you have shadows. The object you should should be something interesting to draw, nothing too simple with a good amount of detail or a beautiful shape.

Homework Intermediate Drawing Due Sept. 17th

Sighting homework: Exercise 20. Drawing of a room with an open door.

Your goals are to develop your sighting technique, use your picture plane viewfinder
create an elegant line drawing of a room with the door open. Check angles and proportions. The most important thing in doing this drawing is to stay in the same position throughout the drawing. Reading the packet, doing the drawing will take about two hours.

Homework for Advanced Art Due Monday Sept. 17th

Ideas for your homeproject. Drawings based on a theme.

I want to see pages of ideas for your homeproject at least ten different possibilities. These can be small thumbnails: three to a page.
Think: composition (arrangement) size of paper ? Will it be abstract or realistic?
What materials: drawing, are you interested in using.

NO MORE TEAR OUTS!!

Okay, no more tear outs from the sketchbook. I will no longer accept a drawing on single piece of paper acceptable for homework for the following reasons: 1. You need to bring your sketchbook to class every class day ( part of your class participation grade) 2. Tear outs are too easy to misplace, be destroyed, get tossed by accident.
3. You are in an upper level art class, so get serious and get a sketchbook.. Nuf said.

Where is the homework listing?

Go to the right hand side of the blog under blog archive and click on the assignment for your class.

Beginning drawing Homework DUE SEPT. 11th

Unit 2: Mark making and shape observation
Exercise 4: warm up and Free Drawing
Read: Seeing Vs. Knowing-a conflict/Squinting/What is it?
Project 1B-Your hand contour drawing; foreshortened view in pen
Due: SEPT. 11TH

Intermediate Drawing Homework: Due Sept. 10th

READ: Free Handwriting/The Gesture/the five-minute burn:
Project 2 C Free Hand Drawings

Advanced Homework 400 level Due Sept. 10th

Still lIfe drawing of bottles
Project 5F in packet: Drawing of bottles: Due: Sept. 10th
any drawing medium

Project 5 F: Before starting your drawing, practice drawing free hand ellipses.

Ellipses: Make a drawing of a group of bottles glasses, or cans arranged on a table. Choose at least five different heights and widths much like the still ife in your packet. Draw from an eye level that is slightly above the top of the tallest bottle. Take special care to draw the ellispes symmetrically and rounded at the endes. Each ellipse will vary in openness accourding to its distance from your eye level. Draw through all ellipses even those you don't see on the bottoms of the cans and bottles. Use any medium. Allow for an hour to two hours to complete the drawing.



How to make a successful drawing.

Rule #1: Establish your eye level. We must know wheter to make our ellipse open ( more nearly round) or closed ( more nearly flat).
Rule #2: The ellipse closes or flattens out as it nears eye level.

Rule # 3 Drawing a good ellipse takes practice. You'll have more success if you keep in mind that the ends of the ellipse are always rounded, never pointed. Basically, there are no shortcuts, to make a good ellipse you have to draw alot of them.

Advanced Drawing: Contour line drawing Due Sept. 4th

Contour line drawing of a fairly complex object in any color pen. Due Sept. 4th

Intermediate Drawing Homework: Due Sept. 4th

Knee Foot Drawing. Line drawing of your knee and foot; purpose is to create the illusion of foreshortening using overlapping shapes of the knee/foot. You can use your plastic picture viewfinder to help see the image better as a starting point.
Goals are: careful observation of the spatial relationships, and line variety.

Beginning drawing Homework DUE SEPT. 5TH

Three Pre Instruction drawings, full page in your sketchbook
Self Portrait, your hand and a corner of your room. 20-30 minutes per each drawing
Due Wednesday Sept. 5th.