Project 3

Bring still life objects to photograph for Project 3 next Monday (October 26). Also, I've downloaded the pdf of MC Escher's work -- just so you can see the kind of surfaces, gradations, and attention to textures and details that we're going for in this drawing.

Scaling up your image!

For Project 2 (food), will will be scaling up an image of food to fit your 18" x 24" drawing paper. Your image will be photographed with directional lighting, using a digital camera. Most digital cameras take 4" x 6" images, and enlarging that to fit an 18" x 24" size will require cropping that image to a 3:4 ratio. Probably the easiest thing to do is to scan your image into Photoshop and crop the composition to a 6" x 8" size. Print the 6" x 8" picture and draw a grid directly on it using 1" squares. The corresponding grid on the drawing paper will use 3" squares. Both the photo and the drawing paper will have squares of 6 rows by 8 rows.

Important dates to remember

Just a reminder about some important dates that are coming up:

October 12 -- Individual critiques and open studio. You will have an individual critique with me (see the sign up sheet). The remainder of the class time will be spent working on outside Project 2. Outside Project 2 must be 75% complete at the time of your individual critique. I will also review your current progress in the course.

October 14 -- Midterm critique. Attendance and participation is mandatory (see your syllabus for critique requirements). Outside Project 2 must be 100% complete. The class will discuss these completed projects for the full 3-hour class session.

October 19 -- You will finish and turn in the project begun during our last class session (October 7).