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.

COLOR PENCILS: Reverse Drawing

Yesterday the class made drawings using white pencils on black paper. When using toned paper it is beneficial to take advantage of the papers value. With black paper, the shadows are already present. Therefore, the artist works from dark light. This requires thinking in reverse to working with dark materials on white paper.

Crystal

 Crystal has created a very stable composition by engaging the top and bottom edges of the paper. The large scale of the objects fills the composition activating the negative areas and establishing rhythmic value patterns.

Jose

 Jose has very keenly observed the subtle tonal variations within the transparent objects. The values are bold and striking. The centered composition allows him to address the still life in its entirety.

Laura

Laura has also employed "cropping" to great effect with her composition. This Cubist inspired drawing is composed of many positive and negative shapes interlocked together. Observe how she uses brighter values in the negative areas and switches to diffused values with the transparent, positive areas.