Contextual Intuitive Formal...Please pick 2 objects from the still life closet. Only choose bottles,...
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Open to a new page in your sketchbook and titleit “Art Criticism Warm-Up”. In completesentences critique the following works using thetype of criticism labeled above the work.
Mark Rothko
Untitled
1968
Dorothea Lange
Untitled
Photographed during the GreatDepression
Contextual
Daniel Garber
Tanis
1915
FormalIntuitive
OBSERVATIONALDRAWING
Paul Cezanne
Still Life withApples
1893
What makes a drawing “good”?
Don’t forget…•Lines of Symmetry•Level Lines•Ellipses
Drawing the Ellipse
Step 1: Choose your subject.
Please pick 2 objects from the stilllife closet. Only choose bottles,
cups or pitchers.
Arrange all of your objects as agroup in the center of the table.
Step 2: Practice!
Start by drawing the object closestto you.
1. Ellipse2. Line of Symmetry3. Continue will ellipses all the waydown the form4. Connect ellipses with contour line5. Continue drawing objects that arebehind the first object you drew
Observational DrawingTips & Tricks
• Draw what you SEE, not what youKNOW.
• Look more at your subject than yourpaper.
• Draw LIGHTLY when you are mappingout your composition.
• Check your forms for symmetry byturning your paper upside down.