Post Your Portrait and Complete the Self Evaluation

Upload your Self Prortrait and the very first portrait from the beggining of the year.

Grade yourself on the items below:

Scale 1-10, 1 being the lowest, 10 the highest

1. Personal Effort
2. Wise Use of Class Time
3. Neatness
4. Correct Placement of Facial Features
5. Attention to Detail
6. Shading, Shadows, and Highlights

Answer the following questions (look back at earlier blog posts of yoyr drawings)
Describe the progress you have made in drawing during this year?

What areas have been challenging or easy?

Describe the strengths and weaknesses in your work.

How did observational skills play an important role in your learning during this unit?

Please provide examples to support your statements. example: Instead of saying "A strength in my work is my hair because it looks good," you should say "A strength in my work is the hair because of how I used highlights and gradation to make it appear 3D."

Here are some before and after drawings from past classess:

 

Experimental Photoshop Creative Day!

I am at an art conference so today you have permission to be as creative as you would like on Photoshop.

Create a 10 in by 7 inch document with 100 Resolution. You may create another collage, or experiment with various special effects. It's ok to try out new tools and experiment.

Save your work as a .jpg.

Post your experiments on your blog 

Finished Collage

Photoshop Collage 1

Today we will work on a collage in photoshop.
We'll make a collage with the photos in this post.
I will give step by step instructions in class.
Next time you will use your own photos to make a collage.

Download the pictures to your computer:

Upload the weeks drawings and answer the questions

The pencil drawing of the manniquin
The big charcoal drawing of the manniquin
The white chalk on black paper of the tubes and spheres
The 30 minute drawing you chose

Answer the following questions:

1. Which drawing was the best? Why?
2. Which one was your least favorite?
3. What was one thing that you learned that you will apply to your self portrait?
4. On a scale of 1-10, how much care and effort did you put in to the work?

Uoload Your Color Theory Practice

Today you will upload the folllowing work from our color practice:

• Color Wheel with Primary, Secondary, and Intermediate colors
• Color Wheel with Hue, Tint, Tone, and Shade
• Organic shapes painting with Monochromatic colors
• Geometric shapes painting with Complimentary colors
• Your choice of Oganic or Geometric Shapes with warm or Cool colors
• Your choice of Oganic or Geometric Shapes with warm or Cool Analogous colors
• Pencil Drawing using Value

Tuesday, February 7 - Design with Colored pencils

I am not in class today. Here is your assignment...

Today you will create a design with colored pencils.

Make a design on the 6x6 inch paper (on the round table) using either organic lines, geometric lines, or a combination of the two.

Choose a color scheme, monochromatic, complimentary, or analogous, using either warm or cool colors.

Color in each lines using values of the color from light to dark. this will create a feeling that the lines have turned into forms.


Look at the examples below:



Complimentary colors, organic forms




Monochromatic color, organic forms