Perspective Strategy Drawing

Purpose:

To review the perspective strategies that you learned;

To make connections between what you learned and demonstrating your understanding by creating a drawing using one of the perspective strategies.

For this drawing, I used the atmospheric perspective strategy. In a picture like this, things in the foreground would be clear and definite. In the distance, objects would get less clear and more hazy and cloudy. Coloring a picture like this one was a challenge to stick to those characteristics because it was hard to keep the mountains in the background light and foggy. In the end, I think I did a decent job showing the definitions of the atmospheric perspective.

Perspective Homework

Definitions:

Linear perspective- the organization of shapes in a space.
The horizon line- an eye level line that runs across the image. It is where the sky meets the ground.
Vanishing point- located on the horizon line where all parallel lines run and come together eventually.
Orthogonal lines- help the viewer see where to connect the points around the edge of the image into the vanishing point.
Transversal lines- always at a right angle to the orthogonal lines. They help establish a fixed height or width between orthogonal lines. They are always parallel to one another.

One point perspective- uses only one vanishing point. 

Two point perspective- uses two sets of orthogonal lines and two vanishing points in an image.

Practice drawings:

One Point Perspective

Ellipse Perspective

Depth Perspective: Vanishing Point

Depth Perspective: Atmospheric

Two point perspective

Expressionism

Expressionism is a form of art that emphasizes expressive characteristics in paintings or illustrations to show feelings and inner thoughts. Artists wanted to evoke emotional responses that they had to objects or events. Expressionists were influenced by Henri Matisse and the cubists as well. Expressionism started in the early 20th century around 1905. Some expressionists from this time were Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Edvard Munch.

Cabin in the Moonlight, 1997, Siri Beckman

 Woman’s Head against the Shore, 1899, Edvard Munch

A similarity these two images have in common is their composition. The main object in both images are in the middle and near the bottom of the carving. The house on the left is in the middle near the bottom surrounded by trees and plants and the woman on the left is in the same position, surrounded by water. Some differences these two different artists have in their work is the type of marks made. The one on the left appears to be more detailed with neater marks and looks more hand drawn while the one on the right gives a more looser, not as detailed look. Also, Siri Beckman's piece is in black and white, not a portrait, and has a complex background while Edvard Munch's piece is of a woman, in color, with a very simple background.

"EXHIBITIONS." MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art, 2011. Web. 10 Apr. 2014.

"Guggenheim." Collection Online. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, n.d. Web. 10 Apr. 2014.

Post-Impressionism

                                   

Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh

1889

Purpose: To gain a basic understanding about the Post-Impressionism Art Movement and to identify Artists who work(ed) in this style.

Post-Impressionism was not a formal movement or style. Post-Impressionists were artists who rebelled against the strictness of Impressionism. These artists developed Post Impressionism into a range of personal styles that showed emotion, structure, symbols, and spiritual elements that they felt weren’t shown in Impressionism. Post-Impressionism started to develop in the late 19th century to early 20th century. Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Seurat were artists who were Impressionists that pushed the creative boundaries of the style and created Post-Impressionism.

From doing this assignment, I learned a little bit about Van Gogh's style and how he painted. Doing this copy drawing showed me a whole new way to draw and to add color to an image. Also, this was the first time using cray-pas, so this drawing was a whole new experience as I learned how to draw in a different style using a different medium, which I didn't end up liking.

"Post Impressionism - The Roots of Modern Art." Post Impressionism. Www.artyfactory.com, n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2014.

Half Portrait Drawing, Sketchbook

Purpose:

To look closely at half of a portrait and complete the portrait by drawing similar features;

To practice drawing facial features: eyes, nose, and mouth

When I did this assignment, I learned how to draw facial features that were different from mine. It was interesting trying to draw a differently-shaped eye, nose and mouth. Because I'm right-handed, it was more challenging for me to draw the left side of something. I also think that I became better at shading with pencil.

Realism, Inspired Drawing, Sketchbook

TIGRE ROYAL FURIEUX

Date Unknown

Rosa Bonheur

  

Dragan Gilic

  

Veronica Handy

Purpose: To gain a basic understanding about the Realism Art Movement and to identify Artists who work(ed) in this style.

While working on this assignment, I learned how to grid a drawing off inch by inch to make the drawing part of the project easier. It also helped me by showing proportions and the different sizes of things in the original drawing. This assignment also showed me how to shade using color and different drawing techniques. I learned how to layer colors on top of each other using colored pencil to create different values and shades.

This painting is similar to the realism painting because they are both very realistic. The paintings both portray the two different kinds of animals as they naturally are. The tigers are roaring and growling, naturally being protective. The elk is standing still, in a forest, naturally looking calm. These paintings are different from each other because the contemporary piece is a lot more colorful and more detailed than the realism piece. The realism painting has more of just a plain color behind the tigers, and hardly has a background while the background behind the elk is very real and distinctive. I prefer the contemporary drawing to the realism painting because I find the colors in the contemporary drawing to be much more attractive, bright and it has more of a contrast between lightness and darkness. I think that the realism painting has more blunt and boring colors that don’t attract your eye to them as much.