Painting Maggie

When sketching a pet, or any animal for that matter, one needs to work quickly. Students sketched our model for the day, Maggie, and had to stop when she moved and concentrate on other parts of their drawing, then return. We made 5 second gesture drawings that stretched into a 20 min sketch. A lot of fun.

FOOD

Wayne Thiebaud

Your next painting will be OF food. But it will be ABOUT light, the colors of white, and thick textured paint.

sketchbook assignment: full page drawing of food on a plate with:

Dramatic lighting 5pts

size, view, placement 5pts

3 mapped gray tone shapes 5pts

raking shadow 5pts

due friday

YOUR CLASS PAINTING WILL BE A 5X7IN

MICROLAB OF THE PASTRY OF YOUR CHOICE

3/4 portraits using the "formula"

In these oil paintings the students had to use 'THE FORMULA"

Their compositions had to inclide an "escape hatch" to lead the viewers eye back out of the picture and include at least 3/4 of a figure.

They were their first large oil paintings.