Sketchbook #5: Word Play

"Butterfly"

A compound word is made when two independent words are joined together to make a new word. Select a compound word that interests you and will work for this assignment.

For example - "butterfly, pigpen, quarterback" (DO NOT USE THESE!)

You can find a list of compound words here.

1) Brainstorm several different ways you could illustrate this word if you were to base it upon the words used to make it, (see the illustration above).

2) Find and collect source imagery (in magazines, online, or other places) you can use to base your illustration on, but be careful: do not directly steal another artist's idea or concept!

3) Make a collage, trace elements of your source imagery, (like we did in class for our painting compositions), or draw your own elements that illustrate this compound word in a new, playful and creative way.

4) Your drawing should have an interesting composition: (use the entire space of the page, touch two or more sides), and should show strong studio skills, (shading, form/value, and craftsmanship). The drawing media you use is completely up to you!

DUE: Wednesday, Feb. 3rd

Personal Journey Painting

Now that you have created a "blueprint" composition for your personal journey with your collage, it's time to personalize and transform this event into a painting!

This painting will not be a simple "paint-by-number," but rather a painting with a color scheme that uses complimentary, analogous, and various other color qualities of value, temperature, and intensity to both emphasize and unify parts of your composition.

Your painting must demonstrate the following in it's final form:

1) Have a planned color scheme that uses both analogous and complimentary colors to both unify and emphasize parts of the composition.

2) Use modified colors, (no straight reds, yellows, blues, blacks, or whites) that have their value, temperature, and/or intensity altered in some way.

3) Neatness, care, and craftsmanship in your brushwork and paint application!

Final painting DUE: Wednesday, February 3rd.

Midterm Study Guide

Below is the study guide that outlines all of the elements of art, the principles of design, the three aesthetic categories for categorizing an artwork, and additional vocabulary words you will see on the exam. Please know these terms for the mid-term exam next week!

Mid-term Study Guide