Drawing I – 1033
Final Critique: Friday, December 11th, 8-10am
Final Folio (Due at beginning of Final Critique)
3.1 Final 4-Day In-Class Drawing (Nov. 30 – Dec. 7)
3.2 Final Homework Assignment
Homework Assignment:
For your final homework assignment, you will be constructing a complex value still life consisting of 10-15 objects. This still life should be a culmination of everything you have learned throughout the class. Use the skills you have developed in terms of form, value, composition, perspective, space, etc. to really show off what you can do. Choose a wide variety of objects, and try to choose some unfamiliar, challenging objects that might fall outside of your comfort zone. Think about using a variety of textures, shapes, local values, etc. Also, think about how you can approach the set-up in a way that will create an interesting space and composition: perhaps use multiple levels of objects, maybe pin objects up on the wall rather than using a table, etc. Materials: Strathmore and charcoal.
GOOD LUCK!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
1043 - Drawing 2 - Final
Drawing II – 1043
Final Critique: Wednesday, December 9th, 12:30-2:30pm
Final Folio (Due at beginning of Final Critique)
3.1 Final 4-Day In-Class Drawing (Nov. 30 – Dec. 7)
3.2 Final Homework Assignment
Homework Assignment:
You will be doing a self-portrait from direct observation using a mirror. This should be a head and shoulders, portrait composition. If you like, you can explore the space around you with a setting, or you can simply work with negative space surrounding the figure. Think about light, the position of the head, what you are wearing. Little elements like these, when carefully considered, can really help a work become interesting and expressive. Use charcoal and Strathmore. If you’d like to work on a larger scale, you can pick up a piece of Arches Cover or BFK Rives at the bookstore.
GOOD LUCK!
Final Critique: Wednesday, December 9th, 12:30-2:30pm
Final Folio (Due at beginning of Final Critique)
3.1 Final 4-Day In-Class Drawing (Nov. 30 – Dec. 7)
3.2 Final Homework Assignment
Homework Assignment:
You will be doing a self-portrait from direct observation using a mirror. This should be a head and shoulders, portrait composition. If you like, you can explore the space around you with a setting, or you can simply work with negative space surrounding the figure. Think about light, the position of the head, what you are wearing. Little elements like these, when carefully considered, can really help a work become interesting and expressive. Use charcoal and Strathmore. If you’d like to work on a larger scale, you can pick up a piece of Arches Cover or BFK Rives at the bookstore.
GOOD LUCK!
Monday, November 16, 2009
1043 - Drawing 2 - Kathe Kollwitz
Inspiration for your upcoming self portrait assigments: Kathe Kollwitz
Friday, November 13, 2009
3033 - Drawing 3 Final
Drawing III – 3033 – Figure Drawing
Final Critique: Friday, December 11, 2:45-4:45pm
Final Folio (Due at beginning of Final Critique)
3.1 Final 4-Day In-Class Drawing (Nov. 30 – Dec. 7)
3.2 Final Homework Assignment
3 Options for Final Homework Assignment
1. Do a large scale master study of a master painting or drawing on Arches or BFK Rives in charcoal. I will provide a handful of potential works to choose from on the blog: norrisartclass.blogspot.com. You may also seek out a different masterwork to recreate. If you do so, you MUST GET IT APPROVED before classes end on December 7th.
2. Create your own work using some of the language and/or methods of a living, contemporary artist as a starting point. Example 1: Choose as a starting point Kara Walker’s use of silhouettes to create a multi-figure narrative. Example 2: Choose as a starting point Paula Rego’s method of adorning models with props and costumes to suggest a character/narrative from a particular work of literature or drama. If you choose this option you will be creating your own composition, but using your chosen artist as a jumping off point. You MUST GET YOUR CHOSEN ARTIST APPROVED before classes end on December 7th. Large Scale: Arches, BFK Rives, or Craft. Talk to me if you have other ideas about materials.
3. Do a two figure composition in a setting. Include the majority (if not all) of both figures and draw them in an actual environment that you set up with models. Think of what kind of narrative or tension you might create when using two models rather than one. Large Scale: Arches, BFK Rives, or Craft. Talk to me if you have other ideas about materials.
Whichever option you choose, narrow down your ideas early on and get started as soon as possible. This and your final class drawing will be the most important drawings of the semester in terms of your grade. With the homework, really try to take what you’ve learned about the figure and apply it to something creative that genuinely interests you as a young artist.
GOOD LUCK!
Final Critique: Friday, December 11, 2:45-4:45pm
Final Folio (Due at beginning of Final Critique)
3.1 Final 4-Day In-Class Drawing (Nov. 30 – Dec. 7)
3.2 Final Homework Assignment
3 Options for Final Homework Assignment
1. Do a large scale master study of a master painting or drawing on Arches or BFK Rives in charcoal. I will provide a handful of potential works to choose from on the blog: norrisartclass.blogspot.com. You may also seek out a different masterwork to recreate. If you do so, you MUST GET IT APPROVED before classes end on December 7th.
2. Create your own work using some of the language and/or methods of a living, contemporary artist as a starting point. Example 1: Choose as a starting point Kara Walker’s use of silhouettes to create a multi-figure narrative. Example 2: Choose as a starting point Paula Rego’s method of adorning models with props and costumes to suggest a character/narrative from a particular work of literature or drama. If you choose this option you will be creating your own composition, but using your chosen artist as a jumping off point. You MUST GET YOUR CHOSEN ARTIST APPROVED before classes end on December 7th. Large Scale: Arches, BFK Rives, or Craft. Talk to me if you have other ideas about materials.
3. Do a two figure composition in a setting. Include the majority (if not all) of both figures and draw them in an actual environment that you set up with models. Think of what kind of narrative or tension you might create when using two models rather than one. Large Scale: Arches, BFK Rives, or Craft. Talk to me if you have other ideas about materials.
Whichever option you choose, narrow down your ideas early on and get started as soon as possible. This and your final class drawing will be the most important drawings of the semester in terms of your grade. With the homework, really try to take what you’ve learned about the figure and apply it to something creative that genuinely interests you as a young artist.
GOOD LUCK!
3033 - Drawing 3 - Master Study HW Options
In Order:
1. Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Susan MacDowell Eakins, 1899
2. Lucian Freud, Reflection Self-portrait, 1985
3. Frans Hals, Jester with a Lute, c. 1623-1624
4. Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Juan de Pareja, c. 1650
1. Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Susan MacDowell Eakins, 1899
2. Lucian Freud, Reflection Self-portrait, 1985
3. Frans Hals, Jester with a Lute, c. 1623-1624
4. Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Juan de Pareja, c. 1650
Folio #2: Final Folio Lists
ALL FOLIOS ARE DUE ON FRIDAY, NOV. 20 AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS:
1033 - DRAWING 1 - FOLIO 2
2.1 HW: 6 Object Value Still Life
2.2 Value Scale Studies (5 objects)
2.3 Value Scale Still Life
2.4 Complex Value Still Life
2.5 Drapery Study
2.6 Ribbon Study
2.7 Open Drawing
1043 - Drawing 2 - FOLIO 2
2.1 Plant Study
2.2 HW: Repitition
2.3 Texture Still Life
2.4 HW: Open
2.5 First Long Head Study
2.6 Open Drawing 1
2.7 Open Drawing 2
2.8 Open Drawing 3
2.9 Open Drawing 4
2.10 5 Best Gestures
2.11 2 Day Portrait (Mandy)
3033 - Drawing 3 - FOLIO 2
2.1 Large Value Drawing (3 Day)
2.2 HW: Figure in Setting
2.3 Large/Full Figure Drawing (3 Day)
2.4 Open Drawing 1
2.5 Open Drawing 2
2.6 Open Drawing 3
2.7 Open Drawing 4
2.8 Open Drawing 5
1033 - DRAWING 1 - FOLIO 2
2.1 HW: 6 Object Value Still Life
2.2 Value Scale Studies (5 objects)
2.3 Value Scale Still Life
2.4 Complex Value Still Life
2.5 Drapery Study
2.6 Ribbon Study
2.7 Open Drawing
1043 - Drawing 2 - FOLIO 2
2.1 Plant Study
2.2 HW: Repitition
2.3 Texture Still Life
2.4 HW: Open
2.5 First Long Head Study
2.6 Open Drawing 1
2.7 Open Drawing 2
2.8 Open Drawing 3
2.9 Open Drawing 4
2.10 5 Best Gestures
2.11 2 Day Portrait (Mandy)
3033 - Drawing 3 - FOLIO 2
2.1 Large Value Drawing (3 Day)
2.2 HW: Figure in Setting
2.3 Large/Full Figure Drawing (3 Day)
2.4 Open Drawing 1
2.5 Open Drawing 2
2.6 Open Drawing 3
2.7 Open Drawing 4
2.8 Open Drawing 5
Friday, November 6, 2009
A Journey Round my Skull
A nice blog collecting all sorts of things, but mainly obscure twentieth century book illustrations:
visit ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com
visit ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Quotable: John Cage
"When you are working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, the art world, and above all your own ideas.... But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you're lucky, even you leave."
-John Cage
-John Cage
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