Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Clothes Line Still Life

Students practiced drawing from life by observing a still life assembled with clothes hanging on a line. With the goal of accurately rendering the objects in front of them, the students applied color, value and form using colored pencils.








Saturday, February 2, 2008

Group Grid drawing

For this collaborative project, students studied value observation and proportion. Each student received an ambiguous square of an unknown photograph and was ask use graphite to enlarge and reproduce it. When all students were finished, the pieces were fit together to reveal the image.




Period 8: Bob Marley




Period 6: Spiderman

Original Cartoon Characters

As a class, we discussed and studied what makes cartoon characters unique and lovable. Students applied these findings to their own interpretation of themselves- As a cartoon character!!! Some students were inspired by famous characters while others invented an entire individual style!






















Thursday, January 17, 2008

Portraits

Students explore portraiture...






































































































Intro to Perspective























Students applied the basic concepts of one and two point perspective to create a piece of work that pushes spaces and implies the illusion of three dimension. Students were instructed to use the techniques of perspective and apply them in their own perspective.