COLOR

Last night students drew from individual still life arrangements.

Ashley Garr

Ashley's drawing is mostly a complementary color scheme (red-violet and yellow-green). The objects are arranged in a triangle bringing diagonals to the composition. The entire paper has been addressed creating directed light that gradually recedes into the background.

Jacob Lockler

Jacob's drawing evokes a scene from film noir. The lighting is very focused and direct capturing an air of suspense and intrigue. In addition, the objects lend themselves to the narrative. Each item is rich with symbolism and metaphor.

COLOR

Last Friday the class began working with colored pencils. The first still life arrangement consisted of one die and one ball placed on a letter or number.

Ezra Barbour

The drawing above exhibits a well balanced composition with attention to the left/right placement as well as top/bottom location. In addition, the objects are well proportioned to the paper dimensions. The categories of light have been well addressed resulting in three-dimensional objects with believable sense of mass and weight.

Celindrea Debuck

Dorothy Fast

In the afternoon, students made their own still life arrangements. Celindrea's migrating dinosaurs are very well rendered with light and volume. She has effectively applied the Distal Cues where appropriate.
Dorothy's haunting structure of antlers looming over a figure and die evokes a cold, wintery scene. The tangled structure and cast shadows add to the image's sense of menace. The combination of colors skillfully complements the subject matter.

COLOR: Still Life

John Burgess

Last night the class made drawings from their own arrangement of 3 to 5 objects. They were free to multiple, distort and embellish the objects in any way. John has created a composition using repetition, scale change and atmospheric perspective. The pin cushions introduce the composition and establish a rhythm throughout the space. The areas of blue make a secondary pathway. The image reads like an astronaut lost in a surreal solar system. Scrambling, yet restricted by zero gravity as he tries to collect his nightmarishly large, human-made objects that have escaped from the loading bay. 

COLOR: Dice and Balls

Jack Ryan

Last night we began class with a discussion on color schemes and some of the technical considerations when working with colored pencils on black paper in particular. Everyone drew from a simple still life arrangement of a ball supported on a plastic letter or number and a die. In the drawing above, Jack has very skillfully located complementary colors. The orange letter is surrounded by blue and the green die is encircled in red. All of which are placed on a surface of analogous colors spanning across the color wheel moving left to right with cool colors to warm. In addition his mark-making on the sphere addresses the cross-contours by swirling out from the highlight. In contrast, the horizontal strokes on the ground plane reinforce the flatness of the table top.