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 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: 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.