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.

THE LIST

Last week students worked on the "List" project. I've extended the deadline to Wednesday, March 29. Students will have all of Monday, Mar. 27 and most of the 29th to complete their projects. We will have a critique at the end of class that Wednesday.

PORTFOLIO DUE and EYE LEVEL AND BASELINES

Portfolios are due Monday, March 13. The list is posted in the tabs above.
This week the class is working on the Eye Level and Baselines project. Pics to follow.

COLOR: watercolor and ink

Georgia

Andrea

Alyssa

Luke

Jake

Yesterday the class completed work on their watercolor and ink drawings. Georgia has very skillfully created a deep sense of space using a primary triad color scheme. She has effectively employed the distal cues as well as the design principle of similarity. As the objects move back in space they diminish in size and rise on the picture plane.  In addition, she has created rhythms by strategically locating and repeating the colors throughout the composition.
Andrea has employed a color scheme of earth tones. She has effectively used overlap and direction of the objects that move the "eye" through the space. In addition, she has complemented the large yellow area with soft, violet shadows and negative areas.
Alyssa has created a very well designed composition with the absence of cast shadows and employing repetition in colors. The dark bottle in the bottom right corner directs the "eye" towards the other dark objects moving back into the composition. She has also created secondary rhythms with the blue-gray objects and the yellow objects.
Luke too has very skillfully employed the distal cues. He has created a brilliant and rich composition of pure primary and secondary colors. The layered and controlled values suggest light and form while maintaining visual interesting brush strokes.
Jake has employed open value areas of color. By superimposing the line drawing over the loose colors he has simultaneously created a space with two-dimensions as well as three.