Using charcoal (and later, chalk for highlights), draw a still life comprised of three to five objects of personal significance.
Objectives:
Materials:
Parameters:
At least three objects and a backdrop (cloth).
Grading Criteria:
To Start:
Objectives:
- Improve observational accuracy
- Build a strong composition
- Notice (and recreate) subtle color changes
- Mix colors with specificity and accuracy
- Establish form via chiaroscuro
- Improve your ability to create a rich range of tonal value
- Become skillful with charcoal
Materials:
- Objects
- Charcoal paper, 18 x 24"
- Charcoal
- Chalk
- (Easel)
Parameters:
At least three objects and a backdrop (cloth).
Grading Criteria:
- Composition
- Accuracy
- Recreation of nuances of value
- "Completeness" - Craftsmanship
To Start:
- View/study examples of still life drawings and paintings by master artists
- Set up still life
- Use viewfinder to establish composition.
- Draw thumbnails and/or rough drafts of the composition, in pencil on paper, blocking out the basic arrangement of lights and darks.
- Measure proportions and distances using your drawing tool (pencil or charcoal stick).