THE JPG. CHALLENGE “the lucky 13”

THE JPG. CHALLENGE “the lucky 13”

THE JPG. CHALLENGE “the lucky 13”

messy desk

“THINK LIKE ARTISTS”

So I am giving you a very short but easily accomplished assignment: take a few minutes a day and take photographs of the following 13 subjects with camera or phone :

1. Household tools

2. Glasses or bottles filled with a liquid with light behind it

3. Food

4. Objects with a shine

5. Inside a closet

6. Messy desk

7. The street

8. Looking through a …?(your choice)

9. The bathroom

10. The kitchen sink

11. Looking around the corner

12. A messy drawer, partly open

13. In the mirror

You will post these pictures on your blog IN NUMBERED ORDER as above.

You will be graded on ORIGINALITY and CREATIVITY as they apply to lighting, viewpoint, and thought provoking ideas. ie, Can you show the commonplace to the world and have us see it in a new or different way? Hint: extreme closeup works very well on these subjects.

PICTURES 7pts a piece

CREATIVITY 10pts

food

household tools

glasses with light behind

Update your Blog page.

1. Studio artists. Copy and paste any  and all of your work from the pictures below. Include your Mentor sketchbook assignment, your white on white and your pool ball paintings.
2. title and describe what you were doing for each photograph.
3. answer the following questions as a paragraph for the Color of white picture.

• Do you think the objects still appear "white' in your piece? Why/ why not?
• Do the shadowss look like they have the same light source/
• Did your Mentor study help you with your painting in any way? How or why not?
• Did  you want  your painting to have MORE or LESS color?
• What have you learned about the PROCESS of painting? (pointers, tips for success?)

YOUR ANSWERS AND PAINTINGS WILL BE EVALUATED AS A SEPERATE BLOG GRADE.DUE WEDNESDAY.

White on White Reflection

 

 

 

 

 

Don't Touch The Edges

 

This lesson is a beginning painting lesson that introduces the concept of MAPPING and COLORS and SHADOWS ARE SHAPES.

Materials:

·        1 pool ball ( students can work in groups from different angles

·        Gessoed Canvas paper taped to cardboard 8X10 OR 9X12

·        Red acrylic paint for priming

·        Oil colors

·        Spotlight

Student adheres pool ball to white paper (so it doesn’t roll) and experiments with lighting angles.

3 thumbnail sketches the size of a credit card are drawn in the sketchbook in pencil

There will be NO gradual shading- students have to make a decision where a shade changed by drawing lines (think paint by numbers)

This exercise forces them to examine very carefully the simple object they are painting and look for nuances in color between shadows and objects.

It is very important to NOT HAVE ANY COLORS TOUCH.