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.