Art Gallery Links for Gallery write up.

Please remember to call the gallery first to check when they are open!

Marin County:

http://www.marinmagazine.com/Marin-Magazine/About-Marin-County/Art-Galleries/

San Francisco:

http://art-collecting.com/galleries_ca_sanfrancisco.htm

Richmond: The Richmond Art Center

http://www.therac.org/

Oakland: Pros Arts Gallery

http://www.proartsgallery.org/

Beginning drawing B block: Back pack drawing

Do a drawing of your backpack in pen or pencil. Emphasize overlapping shapes, detail and some shading. In your drawing emphasize line quality, focus on an object either spilling out of your back pack or placed infront ( as seen in this example). Be creative with angle, and your choice of still life selection ( you could place your waterbottle, ipod, favorite shoe, sports item, your hand holding your backpack.

Your drawing should fill the page and use the space in an interesting way... you can also draw the drawing across two pages.

You should plan on spending 1 hour on this drawing

Your drawing can be precise and clean or gestural and expressive... it should look observed and not "symbolic"

Due: Tuesday beginning of class.

Two Point perspective tutorial B block

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMNG2xBq8dA

Your drawing: on 12 X 18 inch white drawing paper

8-10 buildings ( overlapping)

two -three intersecting streets

Graded on accuracy, erasing orthogonals ( lines to vanishing points 1 and 2), and completion

Due Wednesday... beginning of class.

D block: Sketches for 1st painting still life Due Tuesday Jan 13th

at least 10 sketches for a paintings of objects. Due Tuesday 1/13

The images I am showing are Unfinished Oil paintings by professional artists.

Consider composition, and lighting as important elements of your sketches. ( nothing backlit!)

Keep it simple!!!! Even these two paintings are fairly complex. We are going to be doing underpaintings for this small painting, not a final painting.

onions by: Joann Brandy

Still life: Susan Spar

B Block: Getting back into drawing!

10 gesture drawings of different objects ( hands, shoes, etc.)

in pen or pencil. Graded on gestural quality and observational drawing development

Spend three to five minutes on each one. Each drawing should be on a different page in your sketchbook full size ( filling the page.)

Due Monday B block

Due Tuesday, D and G blocks.