Assignment #9: Matisse Self Portrait Project

Self-Portrait Sketchbook Project: Matisse

ART 104 – Professor Kyle Stevenson

Due: The end of next week

You are to choose a Henri Matisse portrait drawing.  In the same manner as the Van Gogh project and the Ingres project, make a copy of the Matisse drawing and make a self portrait drawing in the same scale, style, and position as the copy. Matisse was all about line quality.  His line has an unselfconscious whimsical quality that is also extremely confident.  In copying his line you cannot possibly be authentically unselfconscious, but you have to look that way.  Spray fix!

There are a number of websites that are great image resources: artcyclopedia.com, and artchive.com, but also try Google images.  Be creative in how you search for images.  They’re definitely out there . . .

Hint: Be sure to choose drawings, not prints that look like drawings. 

Blackboard is LIVE!

Hi All,
My Blackboard shell is up and running, and we will do business through it from now on.  Note that the Museum Visit Paper is due later this week!  Also, in the "week of March 23" folder in the Lessons section are the homework, the quiz, and the "classwork" for this week.  I'm still trying to figure out how to effectively post demo videos and stuff to help out and to connect a bit.  I also reserve the right to call a Collaborate or Zoom meeting at some point at our normal class time, though not this week. Stay safe, healthy and SANE!
Kyle

Blackboard discussion thread

Hi All,
I just created a discussion on blackboard, and I'd like everyone to find it and comment on it as soon as possible.  If there are problems PLEASE let me know ASAP.
K

Migration to Blackboard

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I've begun migrating over to BlackBoard.  Please log in to make sure you can access the class, see my posts, and eventually submit drawings and documents to me.  I also sent you an email from your student account. 
Thanks!

Assignment #8: Ingres Self Portrait Project

Due: Next Week

You are to choose a Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres portrait drawing.  In the same manner as the Van Gogh project, make a copy of the Ingres drawing and make a self portrait drawing in the same scale, style, and position as the copy. Spray fix!

Again, you are making two drawings total: a forgery and a self portrait.

There are a number of websites that are great image resources: artcyclopedia.com is chief among them, but also see what google images gives you.

Hint: This project is about following directions as much as anything else.  Make sure to read the directions carefully.  Also be sure to choose drawings, not prints that look like drawings. 

Quiz list for the rest of the semester

For the rest of the semester all the quizzes (and we will continue to have them) will be taken from the same master list below.  Study it and you'll get to know it pretty well . . .

·         Femur

·         Fibula

·         Patella

·         Tibia

·         Pelvis

·         Tarsals

·         Metatarsals

·         Greater trochanter

·         Iliac crest

·         Ribcage

·         Sternum

·         Clavicle

·         Humerus

·         Radius

·         Ulna

·         Carpals

·         Metacarpals

·         Phalanges

·         Mandible

·         Zygomatic arch

·         Nasal bone

·         Deltoid

·         Biceps

·         Triceps

·         Olecranon process of the ulna

·         Head of the ulna

·         Hypothenar  muscles

·         Thenar muscles

·         Gluteus maximus

·         Illio-tibial band

·         Rectus femoris

·         vastus medialis

·         Gastrocnemius

·         Tibialis anterior

·         Achilles tendon

·         Medial malleolus

·         Lateral malleolus

·         Sternocleidomastoid

·         Trapezius

·         Pectoralis major

·         Latissimus dorsi

·         Rectus abdominus

·         7^th cervical vertebra

Assignment #7: Van Gogh Self Portrait Project

Van Gogh Self-portrait Sketchbook Project

ART 104 – Professor Kyle Stevenson

Due next week (remember that we will have a quiz as well--see succeeding post about that)

Read Page 267-293 in Goldstein (basically all of Chapter 6).  Note how style might affect the power of a drawing.  You can be "wrong" sometimes from an observational point of view, but if you've made the right kind of marks your "mistakes" might actually make the drawing better!

You are to research/choose a Vincent Van Gogh portrait drawing.   (A portrait is a drawing of a person where the identity of the sitter is clearly important)  In your sketchbook, copy that drawing exactly.  You are to reproduce it line for line (in other words, if there are 384 lines in his drawing, there should be 384 lines in your drawing!), taking into account line quality, and not just location and direction.  After that, on the next page in your sketchbook, make a self-portrait drawing in the same scale, style, and position as the Van Gogh drawing that you chose.  You MUST spray fix your drawings (outside) or they will smear into the facing page!

There are a number of websites that are great image resources: vggallery.com and artcyclopedia.com, among others

Review: So, you are to “forge” a Van Gogh drawing, and then make a drawing in the same style and scale substituting yourself in the place of the Van Gogh subject.

Hint: This project is about following directions as much as anything else.  Make sure to follow the directions carefully.  Also be sure to choose drawings, not prints that look like drawings. 

What to bring to class on Thursday

Just a reminder that you'll need to bring 4 different values of paper to class on Thursday: white (drawing paper is fine), light gray, dark gray, and black.  Canson Mi-tients (or equivalent) brand. Plus a glue stick. The toned paper to bring is usually sold as individual 19x25 sheets.  You'll need two of each.  See you Thursday!

Assignment #6: Hand and Foot Bones

Sorry All, even after repeated reminders I kept getting distracted from posting this.  Mea Culpa!

Due Thursday

Choose your most interesting hand drawing and your most interesting foot drawing from the previous sketchbook assignment.  You are to re-draw them, superimposing the skeletal structure of each into the drawings (do not merely make a skeleton hand and foot without the flesh surrounding it).   Each drawing should fill a sketchbook page.

Reread pp 100-110 in Goldstein about the bone structure of hands and feet.  Also, do your own research about the skeletal anatomy of hands and feet enough to be able to accurately place each bone into its respective spot.  You are to be anatomically accurate, allowing the various processes and recesses of each individual bone to be expressed.  Do not merely make cartoony versions of bones.  The shape of each distal phalanx should be separate and distinct from the shape of each medial phalanx, for example.  Also, be sure that your skeleton matches up with any visible landmarks caused by boney protrusions, so that the medial malleolus of the tibia actually causes the protrusion known as the inside ankle bone.

Both of these drawings should be as made to be as believable and as beautifully crafted as possible.  Take into consideration the perspectival shape of foreshortened bones, plus the necessary overlapping of bones that such drawings require.  Use any reference sources available to finish the project as long as you yourself are the one making the drawings.

Quiz list

·         Tarsals

·         Metatarsals

·         Carpals

·         Pisiform

·         Metacarpals

·         Phalanges

·         Calcaneus

·         Head of the ulna

·         Hypothenar  muscles

·         Thenar muscles

·         Achilles tendon

·         Medial malleolus

·         Lateral malleolus