painting sketchbooks #5-8

Painting

Sketchbook Assignments

Please put the week, the assignment, and the date in the lower right hand corner of each of your pages. It should look something like this Week 5 #1 12-18-06.

SB #5

Due Dec. 18

1. A blind contour drawing of an architectural element, fill your entire page.

2. 2 hands, in 2 different positions, on the same page. Super detailed rendering, add value and texture.

3. Look into a mirror and make an exaggerated facial expression. Draw it, fill up your entire page, and pay attention to all the details/volumes of your face.

4. free – must be from direct observation

5. free – can be from your imagination

SB #6

Due: Jan. 2

1. Illustrate your favorite quote, lyrics, or poem.

2. Use light pencil lines to divide your page into at least 6 different sections (any size or shape). Set up a still life, and use light pencil lines to block it in. In some of the sections, use color to complete your still life, and in the alternating sections, use only pencil to add value to your drawing.

3. A plant or foliage. Zoom in so that the plant fills up the entire page, don’t leave any negative space around your plant. Pay attention to all of the directions that the leaves and stems go, render it as accurately as possible. Use your pencil to portray accurate volumes and values.

4. A crumpled paper bad/wrapping paper/etc. Pay attention to volumes. Use accurate rendering of value to create the shapes of the wrinkled paper.

5. A family member

SB #7

Due: Jan 8

1. A shoe. Must be super detailed, add value and texture.

2. Assemble an assortment of bottles. Take one bottle at a time to your table/desk, and do a blind contour line drawing of it, starting anywhere on your page. Then do the same thing with another bottle. Fill your page with overlapping bottle shapes. Bottles that are meant to be in front must have a base that is lower on the page than the object that is behind it. You are creating a “landscape” of bottles.

3. A page full of several different blind contour drawings of hands. They should all be in different poses, can overlap, and should add color where appropriate.

4. free – must be from direct observations

5. free – can be from your imagination

SB #8

Due: Jan 17

1. Add value and color to the bottle landscape you drew last week. Think about “atmospheric perspective” – things that are farther away have bluer, lighter, and duller hues. (try adding the complement to create a duller color for the background objects) Also, warm colors tend to come forward in a composition, while cool colors appear to recede.

2. A blind contour of a junk drawer, closet or other sort of cluttered storage space.

3. Free – must be from direct observation

4. Free – must be from direct observation

5. Free – can be from your imagination