DRAW/PAINT II SUMMER HOMEWORK
All work is due on the second day of class
All work will be critiqued & graded!
Please e-mail Mrs. Albaneze if you have any questions:
[email protected]
CHOOSE ONE! YOU ARE ONLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE!
All work will be critiqued & graded!
Please e-mail Mrs. Albaneze if you have any questions:
[email protected]
CHOOSE ONE! YOU ARE ONLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE!
1. the r.i.s.d. test (rhode island school of design)
Students applying to Rhode Island School of Design had been asked to submit a study of a bicycle. It is an intense test of technical skill! Create a drawing or painting of a bicycle in any material you choose. Maximum size is 18 x 24”. Make sure your composition and lighting are both STRONG.
See examples below:
(Yes... these are all drawings)
2. portrait in water
Step 1: Wait until the light is right! Take photographs of someone in a pool or at the beach, but wait until the sun is lower in the sky (preferably early evening in the summer). Noon never works well!
Step 2: Zoom in on the person’s face. Get low to the water with the camera, (without dropping it in the water!). The lower the lens is to the water, the more the surface of the water will make beautiful shapes. If you have an underwater camera, you may experiment with underwater photographs also.
Step 3: Work with close –ups, even possibly cropping the persons face slightly. Arms, legs, etc. are good as well, but this must primarily be a “portrait” of a face. Do not take old vacation photographs! Set out on a photo-shoot specifically for this painting.
Step 4: Create a work of art in color from the photograph of your choice! Medium: Open, but preferably paint!
Artist to look at: Laura Sanders, see below.
Step 2: Zoom in on the person’s face. Get low to the water with the camera, (without dropping it in the water!). The lower the lens is to the water, the more the surface of the water will make beautiful shapes. If you have an underwater camera, you may experiment with underwater photographs also.
Step 3: Work with close –ups, even possibly cropping the persons face slightly. Arms, legs, etc. are good as well, but this must primarily be a “portrait” of a face. Do not take old vacation photographs! Set out on a photo-shoot specifically for this painting.
Step 4: Create a work of art in color from the photograph of your choice! Medium: Open, but preferably paint!
Artist to look at: Laura Sanders, see below.
3. forcing perspective - sky vs. land
Create a landscape using rooftops and mostly sky. The sky should either be 1⁄2 of the work of art or more than half in the composition.
Look for a unique sky.
Look for unique rooftops... (Consider storefronts... just seeing the names of stores and maybe “grand opening” flags with mostly sky could look really interesting as a composition)
Make sure the light is really beautiful... typically at the end of the day when the sun is very low... but not always at sunset.
After thunderstorms many times the clouds and the sky are extremely beautiful. Sunsets can be pretty... but they are also slightly cliché and overused! This painting is a great example of how even a blue sky with clouds can be interesting if the compositions of rooftops beneath are composed well.
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Look for a unique sky.
Look for unique rooftops... (Consider storefronts... just seeing the names of stores and maybe “grand opening” flags with mostly sky could look really interesting as a composition)
Make sure the light is really beautiful... typically at the end of the day when the sun is very low... but not always at sunset.
After thunderstorms many times the clouds and the sky are extremely beautiful. Sunsets can be pretty... but they are also slightly cliché and overused! This painting is a great example of how even a blue sky with clouds can be interesting if the compositions of rooftops beneath are composed well.
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4. Human torso/animal head
Take a photograph of a human torso. Use dramatic lighting in order to get plenty of contrast.
Next, find an animal head… this can be a live animal or a skull.
Create a drawing in pen/ink using lines (hatching) and/or crosshatching to create the illusion of a “print”. (See examples from a MICA student below)
Next, find an animal head… this can be a live animal or a skull.
Create a drawing in pen/ink using lines (hatching) and/or crosshatching to create the illusion of a “print”. (See examples from a MICA student below)
5. simple yet dramatic still life
- Set up a simple still life of one to three objects on a simple background.
- Use extremely dramatic lighting.
- Create a painting or drawing from this photograph.
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Painting samples below by Daniel Jackson (contemporary painter)