Landscape Homework Assignment

In working toward developing our Conceptual Landscape, each student should gather as much research information as possible on subject matter. In addition to our in-class studies, each student will be required to complete a series of observational sketches of their own backyard. These sketches should focus on elements of texture, shape, color, value and form and should also look toward the principles of correct proportion and unity of elements when studying the relationships between various objects in the landscape. These sketches should amount to approximately 2.5 hours of outside class time and the resulting drawings should be commensurate with that time allotment. Sketches may vary from detailed observations of a specific object to compositional studies of broader vistas.

Deadline: Friday 9/24

Homework Assignment #1: The Glass Still Life

Your first at home drawing for the Breadth Portfolio section is due on Friday, Sept. 17. The drawing must conform to the following criteria:

1. No smaller than 14" x 17"
2. The drawing should extend to all 4 sides of the paper or canvas.
3. The drawing is in black & White, but media is left to student choice (pencil, charcoal, conte, etc.)

Subject for the drawing is a glass still life. This can entail any collection of 3 or more glass objects in a compositional arrangement. This may include common items such as water glasses (full or empty or half-full, etc.), vases, crystal figurines, etc., but thespecific glass object will be left to the student's own resources.

Remember the following in planning and executing your drawing:
1. Focus on what the glass is reflecting—not the glass itself.
2. Focus on your light sources.
3. Tone and value are very, very important when drawing glass
4. ALL transparent objects are comprised of dark and light patterns in varying degrees of value.
5. You don’t always have to draw the exact reflection—sometimes you can just indicate the reflection as a diffused image (draw just the patterns and not the picture).
6. VERY important in drawing glass—Highlights, midtones, darks---work the darks first, then the highlights and then fill in the midtones.


Critique will take place in class on Friday, Sept. 17.