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Foundations Homework #1 Due Sept. 10th
Foundations Homework #1 Due Date: September 10th Gesture drawings Assignment: As you see on the back, you will be making quick gesture movements with your pencil, pen, or other medium to create a drawing. Concentrate on the contour (outside lines of the person) and then work inside. We are not showing great depth or detail [...]
Drawing Class Homework 2010-11
Drawing Class Sketchbook homework Rubric or how it will be graded. Students will be expected to draw in their sketchbooks during the year. These exercises are to help student skills grow and blossom above and beyond expectations. Each student will be expected to complete drawings every 2 weeks in their sketchbook. a. Visual information: the [...]
Art Room Rules and Expectations
The Ten Commandments Of The Art Room 10. Thou shall remain silent during instruction and listen to thy Lord Bennett’s word. 9. Thou shall always pay art fees and often give an offering to thy Lord Bennett, as a token of gratitude of his awesome power. 8. Thou shall always inform Lord Bennett of thy [...]
Foundations Last Homework Of year!
Foundations Homework #14 Due May 7th Assignment: I want each of you to take your favorite fruit of vegetable (now it must be fresh) and cut in two equal sections. You are charged with drawing it larger than life showing the intricate details. Some ideas for this may be to arrange the two pieces opposite [...]
Foundations Homework 13
FOUNDATIONS HOMEWORK #13 DUE DATE April 30 Students will draw a piece of popped popcorn looking to draw the shape as it looks and to exaggerate the dark and lights creating proper chiaroscuro. Each of you should have at least spent an hour of drawing time on the piece. The following rubric will be used [...]
Foundations Homework #11
Foundations Homework #12 Due April 23rd This is going to take some time! Each of you are to work on the technique described in class, Mircrography. This is the technique of using words as your shadows, but you must work with the shape of object in order to make it appear 3 Dimensional. So, each [...]
Foundations Homework #10
Foundations Homework #10 Due April 16th Assignment: For some artists, philosophy, literature and art itself is a source of inspiration. Drawing can provide a way of exploring concepts, bouncing thoughts around and expressing feelings that are difficult to put in words. Traditional art forms often used allegorical figures and dramatic gesture, realistically painted, to express [...]
Foundations Homework #9 Due April 9th
Foundations Homework #9 Due April 9th: Make sure you take your time! This is all about values using dots (stippling or pointillism)! Assignment: · Students will create a stippling drawing of any 1 to 2 random objects they desire. Hint it is called still life….no images from magazines. · Each will have around 2-3 hours [...]
Foundations Homework #8
Foundations Homework #8 Due Saturday March 27th Project: Students will be working with reflections. Your assignment is to draw yourself in a reflective object. The image will be very distorted and very exaggerated with value and contrast. You are to draw the object, the image, and the hand holding it; if you are holding an [...]
Foundations Homework #7
Foundations Homework #7 Due March 19th Find a line of poetry, passage from a book, or song lyric that you can relate to. Your mission, should you choose to accept it (and it would be wise to do so), is to illustrate your selected line, passage, or lyric in your sketchbook. You may choose to [...]
