This I modeled after a village I go skiing in, Mont Tremblant. I tried to mimic the cartoon style houses and the colors used there.

For this piece my influence came from a newspaper headline I was given. It included gambling and the death of an old man. To combine the two I wanted to create a morbid theme with a touch of realism. To impose this mood upon the piece I used the symbolism of death, cloaked firue, and the realisitic setting of a poker table. The black background created depth of space.

Alex art and question

Question: what inspired you to add so much detail to your pieces? what was the message you wanted to portray through detail?

Alexander's pieces are amazing! the amount of detail in his drawings and the precision of his paper cut outs is incredible; my mind cannot even grasp how he was able to cut the paper out! Another piece of his art which i found interesting was the figures he draws. While some (the rat) are real animals other images he portrays are what appear to be figures though morphed by nature or fantasy into other things. Like the piece of a man, on either side of his head trees sprout and other flowers and plants make up his body. His unique approach to art and the ways he expresses them interest me and I look forward to seeing his show

Drawing from Observation Skills

Each of our pieces required the use of different art skills. For our small drawing of a piece of paper, we needed to understand the idea of shadow, edges, and background light compared to the objects light. Because the piece of paper stood out from our background do to its color, we needed to make the background paper darker than our piece of paper. For the next, bigger, piece of the wall it was esentail to use spacing and alignment. Because each object was different in size and texture we needed to be able to position them in the right place compared to the wall behind it. Finally with the biggest and hardest piece, the still life of geometric shapes, We had to incorporate not only shading and position but, the angle at which we were drawing it from. From my view some of the shapes blocked out the back of the table and others extended past the edges of the table meaning we had to adjust everything.

Drawing from Observation Skills

Collaborative Drawing

With each new drawing we did I would first step back and look at the piece and the objects we were drawing. I would try to notice the spacing of the live sculpture and compare that to the piece of art. Also i would look at tone and shadow of the piece and try to copy exactly what i saw.

My drawing had not been changed too much after I returned. The thing that was most changed in my piece was the paper towel roll which was re-spaced closer to the chair. I liked seeing the changes in my piece because I could see where the errors where and how they were fixed. To finish my drawing I added more tone and shadow to the piece and tried to get rid of noticible line and instead, make everything seem more fluent having black fade to white and white fade to black.

Pre-assessment

Though we have done a lot of observation drawing from my last term, I felt creating the picture came more naturally to me. Being able to decide which things to draw and how to draw them allowed me to use shapes and images that i knew how to draw or had more experience drawing. Also i could position them whatever way I wanted to which also helped perspective wise.