Possible Breadth Assignments
Create contour, cross contour, gesture and more realized drawings of common objects. Look at Jim Dine’s tool series. Look at Vija Celmin’s early work.
Create a drawing of a toy. Explore media: graphite, colored pencil, crayon. Look at Chris Cosnowski, local artist John Hartley, Cesar Santander and Andy Warhol.
Create gridded and distorted self-portraits. Look at Hans Holbein’s “The Ambassadors”.
Create a negative space drawing of a group of chairs. Color in the negative space in an interesting way. (Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain)
Illustrate a well-known story.
Create a self-portrait, or several different ones, that expresses a specific mood/emotion–e.g., anger/rage, melancholy/loneliness, happiness/joy, etc. Manipulate light and color to enhance the psychological atmosphere. Also, consider the development of the environment/setting.
Create a foreshortened self-portrait with pencil modeling techniques.
Create a drawing of a reflective object with white prisma or chalk on black board.
Create a monochrome self-portrait with prismacolor.
Investigate the Principles of Design using various media: scratchboard technique, silver point, India ink, charcoal, graphite, pastel, and conte crayon.
Create an Architectural Myth with Photomontage: Collect photographs/photocopies of city skylines, landscapes, and seascapes. Also collect photos/copies of household and technical objects—e.g., eggbeater, toothbrush, toaster, electric fan, automobile grill, etc. Carefully implant the photo of the technical gadget within the photo of the environment to create a surreal cityscape or landscape. (You might want to look at the work of the artist Max Ernst who took printed images and recombined them to create hybrid forms). Create a drawing based on the montage.
Create compositions that involve the use of inset imagery (image within image such as details/close up views).
Create a graphite drawing of a still-life arrangement that consists of reflective objects—your goal is to convey a convincing representation with a full range of values. To add interest to the composition, you might also want to render yourself being reflected in the objects.
Create tromp l’oeil drawings of objects.
Create a value drawing of a still life with an exaggerated lighting set up.
Draw from unusual perspectives.
Create a pattern drawing. Draw outlines of shapes to create a composition. Then create at least 5 different patterns, and fill in the outlines with these patterns.
Create a value drawing of drapery. Change the rhythm, speed and pressure of your mark making.
Create a pencil or charcoal value drawing of part of an insect.
Create a drawing of cakes or candy. Look at the work of Wayne Thiebaud.
Create drawings of structures or landscapes employing one-point, two-point or three-point perspective.
Subtractive Charcoal Self-Portrait—using a combination of vine and compressed charcoal, use the dark field method to create a self-portrait (lay a field of charcoal over the entire surface of the page and use an eraser to create a range of values).
Explore liquid media: pen and ink, brush and wash and monotype.
Create contour, cross contour, gesture and more realized drawings of common objects. Look at Jim Dine’s tool series. Look at Vija Celmin’s early work.
Create a drawing of a toy. Explore media: graphite, colored pencil, crayon. Look at Chris Cosnowski, local artist John Hartley, Cesar Santander and Andy Warhol.
Create gridded and distorted self-portraits. Look at Hans Holbein’s “The Ambassadors”.
Create a negative space drawing of a group of chairs. Color in the negative space in an interesting way. (Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain)
Illustrate a well-known story.
Create a self-portrait, or several different ones, that expresses a specific mood/emotion–e.g., anger/rage, melancholy/loneliness, happiness/joy, etc. Manipulate light and color to enhance the psychological atmosphere. Also, consider the development of the environment/setting.
Create a foreshortened self-portrait with pencil modeling techniques.
Create a drawing of a reflective object with white prisma or chalk on black board.
Create a monochrome self-portrait with prismacolor.
Investigate the Principles of Design using various media: scratchboard technique, silver point, India ink, charcoal, graphite, pastel, and conte crayon.
Create an Architectural Myth with Photomontage: Collect photographs/photocopies of city skylines, landscapes, and seascapes. Also collect photos/copies of household and technical objects—e.g., eggbeater, toothbrush, toaster, electric fan, automobile grill, etc. Carefully implant the photo of the technical gadget within the photo of the environment to create a surreal cityscape or landscape. (You might want to look at the work of the artist Max Ernst who took printed images and recombined them to create hybrid forms). Create a drawing based on the montage.
Create compositions that involve the use of inset imagery (image within image such as details/close up views).
Create a graphite drawing of a still-life arrangement that consists of reflective objects—your goal is to convey a convincing representation with a full range of values. To add interest to the composition, you might also want to render yourself being reflected in the objects.
Create tromp l’oeil drawings of objects.
Create a value drawing of a still life with an exaggerated lighting set up.
Draw from unusual perspectives.
Create a pattern drawing. Draw outlines of shapes to create a composition. Then create at least 5 different patterns, and fill in the outlines with these patterns.
Create a value drawing of drapery. Change the rhythm, speed and pressure of your mark making.
Create a pencil or charcoal value drawing of part of an insect.
Create a drawing of cakes or candy. Look at the work of Wayne Thiebaud.
Create drawings of structures or landscapes employing one-point, two-point or three-point perspective.
Subtractive Charcoal Self-Portrait—using a combination of vine and compressed charcoal, use the dark field method to create a self-portrait (lay a field of charcoal over the entire surface of the page and use an eraser to create a range of values).
Explore liquid media: pen and ink, brush and wash and monotype.
