Monthly Archives: December 2022

Self Portrait (art class)

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This project required us to look in a mirror next to us and create a self-portrait based on what we looked like. We had to remove our masks and hats in order to see our entire face and head with all of their features. We needed to create either one portrait facing at an angle and one portrait facing towards us. This project also had use an easel board for the first time to hold up our canvases and we had to be facing the center of the paper so that it could be drawn properly.

Materials: Conte Crayon, Compressed Charcoal, Gray Paper, Charcoal Pencil

Canvas Size: 18 x 24

Tonal Skeleton Art of a Human Skull

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For this project we had to draw a life size and anatomically correct skull from a newly found skeleton. We had to work under two different forms of light in order to have a sense of what the temperature of light was reflecting off of a specific side of the skull. We also had to use conte crayons in order to capture the different temperatures of light on the skull. The skull needed to be elevated in order to captured the full thing but not every single detail was required to be captured.

Materials: Conte Crayons: black, brown, white, sanguine, Charcoal Pencil, Compressed Charcoal, Toned Paper,

Canvas Size: 11 x 14

Mixed Exploration Bell Peppers (art class)

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Contour
Cross-Hatching
Stipple and Cross-Hatching

This project required us to draw a bell pepper using 5 different art techniques: Contour, Hatching, Cross-Hatching, Washing, and Free-Form. We did not have to use the same bell pepper for every technique but using the same bell pepper made it easier. it also allowed us to capture the different shapes a bell pepper could be grown in. This project also required us to use materials we haven’t used before which made it more interesting than the previous ones.

Materials: Crowquill Pen, Ink, Bristol Paper

Canvas Size: 9 x 12

Additive Drawing + Quiet Piece

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This project was when we had to pick one object that could match the theme: Quiet. We then had to make an Additive Drawing of the object we chose. Additive Drawing is when you draw or sketch continuously without the use of an eraser. For my Quiet Piece I chose a bag of Starbucks coffee grounds. The reason for this is because when you’re the first person up on the morning and you make a cup of coffee, you tend to have a nice and “quiet” start to your day as you sip from your coffee mug. The hardest part of making this piece was trying to add the letters because when I tried to outline them they came out bolded instead. I had to go off of a picture of the coffee grounds on my stove because at the time someone wanted to have a peaceful and quiet morning, and needed the bag back.

Materials: Charcoal Pencil

Canvas Size: 18 x 24

Additive Value Art of a Recycled Being Sculpture (art class)

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Recycled Being
Drawing of Recycled Being

This project required us to make recycled still life’s out of whatever recycled materials we could find. We also had to make an Additive Drawing based on the recycled beings that we made. I wanted to make my recycled being be as wild as possibly could but still have some restraint when making it. I chose to use objects that would remind people of what my generation did when they were younger, They would eat peanut butter(Skippy Jar bottom left), ramen noodles(green bowl on the left), and strangely hot Cheetos(paper airplane on the right). I tried to draw my recycled being first before adding enough shading to make it look more 3D on paper. But afterwards it still looked the same except more darker than I wanted it to be. i then erased all of the shading and tried to add some different and more gentle shading where it needed to be and it came out as decent as I wanted it to be.

Materials: Charcoal pencil

Canvas Size: 18 x 24

Reductive Still Life Drawing (art class)

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This project required us to draw a total of five objects using Reductive Value. We could not move from where we were sitting and could only draw based on that location only. The reflected light on each of the objects had to not be changed or it would mess up the entire drawing. This project was the most interesting one we did so far.

Materials: Charcoal Pencil, Compressed Charcoal, Vine Charcoal, Paint Brushes, Charcoal Powder

Canvas Size: 18 x 24