Sketchbook #4-3

Choose a profession and draw the tools involved with it.

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Sketchbook #4-2

Well, I have appartently fogotten to update the sketchbook assignments lately! Here is a new one for you - finally!!

I think every household has a "junk drawer" - that drawer that's filled with all the "stuff" no one knows what to do with. Open the drawer, don't move anything, and draw what you see as a modified contour drawing.

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Term 4 Assignments

Your term 4 assignments are posted to the right of the page.

Visual Arts 10 - Complete the following:
Essay
Art Critique
Sketchbook

3 of the following 5:
Papier-mache fish
Mask
Decorative Art
Mosaic
Portrait Collage

Art Foundations 11 - Complete the following:
Essay
Art Critique
Powerpoint questions

Products of Nature
Painting Reinterpretation
Woven Photo
Photo Essay

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Sketchbook #4-1

Find a noisy place. Draw noise.

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Sketchbook #3-8

The famous American Pop artist Andy Warhol said, "Everyone will have at least fifteen minutes of fame in their lifetime." Illustrate your fifteen minutes of fame.

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Sketchbook #3-7

Draw a pile of laundry waiting to get washed. Pay attention to the shades and tones of the colours, as well as the lines.

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Sketchbook #3-6

Draw a scene from a bird's eye view. How would the scene appear by looking directly down on it. You may choose to sketch your house and yard, a place in your town, or you may make up a place.

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sketchbook #3-5

Pop some popcorn. Take a few kernels and look at the shapes and shades created. With pencil and smudge shading, study a few of the kernels and fill the page with them. This drawing should show a good sense of drawing skill and soft grays or some blending device.

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Sketchbook #3-4

One of Salvador Dali's most famous paintings, "The Persistence of Memory", depicts melting watches. Choose on object, and draw it melting.

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Sketchbook #3-3

Copy the Mona Lisa, but make her contemporary. Consider the background and her clothing. How would she look if she was painted now? Make sure you keep the pose the same!

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Sketchbook #3-2

Find a magazine or newspaper photograph of a person looking full forward. The photo should be at least 5" x 8". Cut the photo down the middle. Glue one side down to your sketchbook page. Draw the other side using pencil and full shading. Or, think of a creative way to complete the same task, such as in the picture below.

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Sketchbook #3-1

Choose an enclosed space such as a kitchen cabinet, a television, an oven, a refrigerator, in a drawer or closet. What human qualities do the objects in the enclosed space assume when no one is watching? Do the mustard bottles dance? Do the socks play cards? Fill your page with details…be sure and show the interior of the space as well as the objects. Make sure you have a focal point to the drawing and that your composition is strong. Use shading to make things appear to be three-dimensional.

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Sketchbook #2-5

My hands are full of . . .

You are to make a drawing of your two hands holding something. It can be done in colored pencil or graphite. You must use 3-dimensional shading to create believable 3-dimensional form. Figure out where the light is coming from and make believable highlights and shadows.

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Sketchbook #2-4

Illustrate a favorite story of yours told by a grandparent; uncle, or other relative.

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Sketchbook #2-3

Draw a winter scene, real or imagined.

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Sketchbook #2-2

Imagine you are an ant. Draw what you see.

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Sketchbook #2-1

Here is your first sketchbook assignment for term 2!

Arrange 3 related objects (3 kitchen items, 3 shoes, sports equipment, etc.) into a composition. Draw using a light source and shading.

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Sketchbook #1-7

Draw the interior of your room, and what's in it from wherever you are sitting, on the floor, up on the bed, from the ceiling looking down.

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Sketchbook #1-6

Look at yourself in a spoon and draw the distorted image you see.

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Sketchbook #1-5

Sketch a group of leaves. You may wish to do them right from a tree, or arrange them in a gathering. Try to get the details of the edges and the veins.

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