painting sketchbook #3

Painting

Sketchbook Assignment #3

Due: Dec. 4, 2006

Please put the week, the assignment, and the date of when you completed each individual drawing in the lower right hand corner of each of your pages. It should look something like this Week 3 #1 12-4-06.

1. "Full of Contours Page"

Do a page full (20 to 25) of "mini" blind and modified blind contour drawings. (May take 2 facing pages.)

These are quick studies of people/children in different positions doing things.

Perhaps go to a park or a sporting event of some kind. Observe and quickly draw people being active

Do this in pen/marker please!! Add some color to complete the composition

2. "Fallen Leaves"

Find several different types (shapes) of leaves and trace them into your sketchbook. These may have to be repeated several times to make a good composition.

Now divide the page into four separate areas. Please do this creatively also! Then using colored pencils, color each area in one of these four color schemes:

1. Complimentary colors: colors opposite each other on the color wheel

2. Analogous colors: three or more colors touching each other on the color wheel

3. Monochromatic - Tints and shades: one of the above two color schemes with white and black added to lighten or darken.

4. Neutrals – Color with its complement added to create a “duller” version of the original color.

3. "Size Distortions"

Choose two ordinary objects at home which have a relationship to one another but are not the same size at all. (Like: the front door and a key -- or -- the refrigerator and an apple.

Draw the two different sized objects as if they are the same size, and draw them so they have a new relationship at the new size.
(So: the key is as big as the door in the new relationship, and can only lean upon it!)
(So: the apple could be so big that it occupied the entire inside of the refrigerator!)

Be inventive! Think up your own two related objects, and observe and draw their details carefully. Plan an interesting composition on the page.

4. "Magazine Reflection"

Step 1. Use facing pages in your sketchbook.
Side by side if your book opens that way, or up-down if your book opens that way.
Step 2. Find a full page magazine photo (not a magazine illustration) that you like. B/W or color, but B/W is easier on this.
Step 3. Cut the photo into 10 pieces that are about the same area. They don't have to be the same shape. Shapes can be regular or not. Try to cut through interesting areas of the photo (like the face!)

Step 4 Select alternating pieces, and paste them in their correct positions on the right side of the paper. Paste the remainders on the left, also in their correct positions.

Step 5: Choose one side and shade in the missing areas in pencil, using the opposite page of pieces as reference for what to draw. Try to recreate the values (lights and darks) of the original photo.

5. Free – something that inspires you.