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.