COLOR: Watercolor and Ink

Yesterday the class added watercolor to the ink drawings from Monday. Students explored multiple techniques of wet on wet to wet on dry.

Joy

Joy has effectively rendered the local colors of objects by using layered applications of color to build up the values. Notice how she uses warm colors towards the light source and cool colors in the receding and shadow areas. In addition, she has applied a final glaze of yellow over the objects adding depth and luminosity.

Emily

Emily started with a very complete ink drawing in black and white before adding color. She has very skillfully located similar colors in diagonal locations to unite the elements strengthening the compositional balance.

WATERCOLOR: Atmospheric Perspective

Yesterday the class made ink drawings from a group still life. Tomorrow we will color the drawings using watercolor. The objective is to explore the application of watercolor on an image illustrating the properties of atmospheric perspective and the distal cues.

COLORED PENCILS: Personal Theme

The class continued working on their drawings exploring a personal theme. These drawings will be critiqued on Monday.

Dylan

 Dylan has created a pop surrealist image of cosmic desserts and interstellar birdies. This humorous display of his subconscious is well balanced with repeating shapes as well as colors. "Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese."

Jesse

 Jesse has created a very bold composition by engaging with all four sides of the paper. Notice the triangulated rhythms between the blue, rectilinear forms and the spheres.

Judy

Judy has also entered the realm of Pop Surrealism with her rendition of "Mr. Potato Head consulting his dog." She has skillfully addressed the value and color patterns observed across the forms. The layering of colors (notice the reds and oranges within the brown) is similar to "glazing" techniques in painting which adds depth and luminosity to the forms rather than flat, "cartoonish" qualities.

COLOR PENCILS: Personal Theme

Patti

Yesterday the class began work on there color drawings exploring their own personal theme. They will continue with these on Wednesday followed by a critique on Monday before moving onto Ink and Watercolor drawings addressing atmospheric perspective.

COLOR PENCIL: Still Life

Yesterday the class made color pencil drawings from a still life. The three drawings above illustrate very different techniques in the handling of the materials. 

Jose

 Jose has applied a very light touch in rendering the color patterns observed on the various objects. By allowing the paper to show through many of the objects the positive and negative areas are united while creating a dreamy, surreal atmosphere.

Julianne

 Julianne has employed a more dense and saturated application of the medium. The colors are bold and rich. Notice the rhythm established by the placement of red and orange hues.

Nick

Nick's approach is more expressive in comparison to the previous two. The strokes and marks from the pencil swirl around the light patterns adding energy and dynamics to an otherwise stationary composition.

Georgia

Kayla

Luke

Lyric

Yesterday the class completed work on the "List" drawings. Georgia has created a very well designed composition with strong attention to the design principles of similarity and repetition. By changing  scale she has crammed in the objects from the list and more. In addition, the colors are rich and perfectly suited to the festive, undersea imagery.
Kayla, too, has wisely chosen her colors. The slightly faded complementary colors of yellow and violet are reminiscent of an old map adding to the adventurous theme. The real strength of her composition is the meandering serpent-like body of the dragon.
Another strong composition with great attention to the distal ques throughout the space is Luke's drawing. The bold, graphic style is very complementary to the dark and fantastic narrative. The image is rich with mark-making addressing light, form and texture.
Lyric has created a puzzle-like composition where each object appears to lock into place leaving very little empty space. Again it is her attention to the principles of design as well as scale change, overlap and actual as well as implied diagonals that makes her composition so balanced and strong. In addition, the modest drawing style of line and soft tonalities is very complementary to the lotus-like gesture of the figure.

COLOR: Personal Still Life

Ivan

Luke

Sydnee

Yesterday the class finished working on their Color projects. Ivan has created a surreal world where roving eyes patrol the landscape. His use of angles and extreme perspective add to the menacing characters and apocalyptic narrative.
Luke has created a very well balanced still life arrangement with an "x" rhythm established through the placement of the yellow objects and the repetition of the waxy, green blobs in the lava lamp and upper left corner. The location of the red objects creates a triangular movement. The colors are bold and rich and the light is luminous.
Sydnee has created a cosmic, boat ride down a twisting and meandering, blue stream. Her use of repeating elements throughout the composition keeps the "eye" moving throughout the image.