FA 209 Painting 1 Week 6

Week 6 recap - this week students participated in a drawing workshop with visiting artist James D'Andrea on Tuesday, while finishing up their warm/cool painting projects on Thursday. A Limited Earth color palette demonstration was given on Thursday as well.

Composition and Block-in

First Pass Limited Earth colors

FA 106 Color Theory Week 6

Week 6 recap - this week students finished the ink blot/ double face color field theory project and began working on the Faces of the Mohawk Valley Pixel Portrait. 

FA 202 Intermediate Drawing Week 6

Week 6 recap - Monday Students worked on mid term assignments while getting a triple drawing tool demonstration. On Wednesday I shared my progress on the growth drawing project - theme Hero's Journey as fine art. Sketchbooks should be updated on Monday.

Dodo Triple Tool Drawing

Dodo - Hero drawing character study

Venus - Hero Study

FA 104 Figure Drawing 2 Week 5

Week 5 recap - this week students continued working on creating figures in a common space using the scaling method. This practice will lead to a longer mid term drawing during the week of Oct 8-10. Next week students will begin the focus on anatomy. Homework #1 was also collected on Thursday.

Figure Space with Background

Figure Space with 6 figures

FA 209 Painting 1 Week 5

Week 5 recap - on Tuesday students began the warm/cool painting project. Student will paint two small still lifes on one panel. The choices for color palettes are: a. Ivory black, titanium white and transparent red oxide or b. any one bright color with black and white to change the values. Student should budget about 1.5 class periods for each.

Cool Palette BRW Demo 1

Warm Palette RBW Demo 2

FA 106 Color Theory Week 5

Examples B, D, C, and A in clockwise plus color tests

Week 5 recap- this week students worked on completing the ink blot/ double face color field theory project. Students should create the following: a. One color looking like two others, b. two colors looking like the same color, c. Color vibration, d. High and low intensity color. Next week students will begin the faces of the mohawk valley pixel portrait.

FA 202 Intermediate Drawing Week 5

Week 5 recap - on Monday students had time to work on completing the 3 midterm object/theme drawings or start the growth drawing project.

Ink Wash Black and Brown

Students also reviewed the work made during class last Wednesday 

Cloud Deconstruction Ink Demo