November 29-December 3

Studio Projects: Charcoal Self-Portraits

• Monday: Extra Credit Journal Assignment Due Today! New Journal Assignment-3 pages on Perspective. Work on Self-portraits. Use careful measurement to get accurate proportions and perspective. Drawing hair.
• Tuesday: Work on self-portraits. Adding clothing, background, and "icing on the cake" details. New HW Assignment.
• Wednesday: Work on self-portraits-Due Thursday December 2.
  
• Thursday: Self-portrait Drawings Due today! Work on Perspective Journal assignment-due Monday or Tuesday 12/6-12/7 (EOCT Schedule)
  
• Friday: Finish Perspective Journal assignment. Introduce Gesture TBD
  

Homework – Beginning on Tuesday November 30 your homework will be to draw 5 boxes from different perspectives, or eye levels. You will need only 1 box (shoe box, cereal box, tissue box, jewelry box, etc) to draw from observation! Place the box on a table, sit in 5 different places for 5 minutes each to draw the box from different perspectives. (Hint: Sit directly in front of the box, Stand over the box looking down at it, Sit on the floor and look up at the box, Turn the corner of the box toward you, etc) Use pen, record the beginning and ending time. Draw for 5 minutes uninterrupted. Remember this is modified contour drawing – all will be in line. Drawings due on Tuesday December 7th .

VVJournal Assignment: Exploring and Practicing Perspective (Aerial and Linear). This journal is broken down into 3 parts, so you will essentially have 3 complete pages on perspective. The first page explores different terms and vocabulary related to perspective, the second page explores famous artists and artworks that use perspective, and the third page will be your own perspective still-life drawing. Due Monday 12/6 or Tuesday 12/7 (depending on which day you come to Drawing and Painting on EOCT Schedule) See assignment sheet below.

Extra Credit Journal Assignments

These assignments are due on Monday, November 29th! No late exceptions will be made.

Fa2010 dp ap_extra credit journal

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November 22-23

Studio Projects: Charcoal Self-Portraits

• Monday: Work on Self-portraits. Use careful measurement to get accurate proportions and perspective. Drawing ears.
• Tuesday: HW: 5 self-portrait contours due today. Work on self-portraits. Anatomy of neck and shoulders, adding clothing. Journal extra credit assignments.
• Wednesday-Friday: Thanksgiving Break!

Homework – Beginning on Tuesday November 16 your homework will be to draw 5 Modified Contour Self-portraits. You will need to look at yourself in the mirror because you should be drawing from observation! Use pen, record the beginning and ending time. Draw for 5 minutes uninterrupted. Remember this is modified contour drawing – all will be in line. Drawings due on Tuesday, November 23 .

Facial features eye structure

This is the presentation on eye structure we went over in class on Monday.

Facial features eye structure

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November 15-19

Studio Projects: Charcoal Self-Portraits

• Monday: Introduce Self-portrait project, Demo on Measuring with the "perfect eye".
• Tuesday: HW: 5 socks due today. Mini-lab Assignment-Facial Features Due Today. Use measuring and proportion techniques to work on Charcoal Self-portraits.
• Wednesday: Work on Self-portraits-proper use of black and white charcoal on gray paper.
• Thursday: Work on Self-portraits.
  
• Friday: Finishing techniques for charcoal self-portraits.

Homework – Beginning on Tuesday November 16 your homework will be to draw 5 Modified Contour Self-portraits. You will need to look at yourself in the mirror because you should be drawing from observation! Use pen, record the beginning and ending time. Draw for 5 minutes uninterrupted. Remember this is modified contour drawing – all will be in line. Drawings due on Tuesday, November 23 .

Mini-lab Assignment – Cut-out parts of large parts of faces from magazines and paste in your journal (these should be as large or larger than life-size). You should cut-out eyes, nose, mouth, ears. You will then draw all of these in your journal on the same page as the pasted image as realistically as possible! Eyes, nose, and mouth should all be from a frontal view. You should have 2 ear drawings, 1 where you can see the whole ear, and another where the ear is partially covered by hair. Due on Tuesday, November 16.

November 8-12

Studio Projects: Color Value Drawings

• Monday: Continue Color Value Fruit Still-life Drawings on Felt paper.
• Tuesday: HW: 5 pants due today. New Mini-lab Assignment-Parts of the Face Drawings. Last day in-class to work on Color Value Fruit Still-life drawings (because we're using real fruit!)-Due Friday.
• Wednesday: Introduce Self-Portrait Proportions and new studio project. Use measuring and proportion techniques to begin drawing portraits.
• Thursday: Use mirrors and measuring techniques to draw self-portraits.
  
• Friday: Color Value Fruit Still-life Drawing Due Today. Work on Self-Portrait Drawings.

Homework – Beginning on Tuesday November 9 your homework will be to draw 5 pairs of socks. You may not finish the entire sock, but you should be looking at all the folds and details and drawing from observation! Use pen, record the beginning and ending time. Draw for 5 minutes uninterrupted. Remember this is modified contour drawing – all will be in line. Drawings due on Tuesday, November 16.

Mini-lab Assignment – Cut-out parts of large parts of faces from magazines and paste in your journal (these should be as large or larger than life-size). You should cut-out eyes, nose, mouth, ears. You will then draw all of these in your journal on the same page as the pasted image as realistically as possible! Eyes, nose, and mouth should all be from a frontal view. You should have 2 ear drawings, 1 where you can see the whole ear, and another where the ear is partially covered by hair. Due on Tuesday, November 16.

Green rubric 2010

If you have misplaced your rubric, here is another for you to download.

Green rubric 2010

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Color Value Spheres Mini-Labs

This is the value spheres mini-labs handed out on November 2nd.

Dp color value minilab assignment (3)

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Using Color to Create Value and Form

This is the power point to introduce our move to color. It was shown on Monday, November 1st.

Dp Color Value Lesson Slide Show

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