This is it!

This is the last week of class.

To do:
1. Make sure paintings are finished.
2. Write final reflection on your blog.
3. Use the end of term checklist to make sure you've done all the posts on your blog.
4. Clean materials and take them home or arrange for their storage.
5. Clean off you shelf.
6. Make sure any still lives you've built are cleaned up and the objects are put away.

On friday we will have a major clean-up.

This is week 10.

This week you should get started on your Sense of Place paintings. Select your locations, make sketches, and get going. 

Don't forget to post a photo of your location on your blog and to describe the mood you've decided to communicate and how you will do so.

Additionally, there is a new homework assignment to do on your blog and, if you haven't already, post your notes from the critique of your first two paintings.

White Objects Thumbnail Sketches

  

These are three possible compositions for my White Objects Painting. I chose the horizontal one because I liked the symmetry of the two pitchers facing in opposite directions.

Studies in Smallness: finished paintings

  

These are my three finished paintings.

I struggled with _______________ because of _______________. I felt successful about ___________________________ because of ______________.

Studies in smallness: my set-ups

Create a post with a photo of each of the three set-ups you made for the Studies in Smallness project. If I took the pictures for you you can find them in your First Class email account. Don't forget to check the labels.

Color mixing chart

Post a picture of your color mixing chart.

Morandi vs. Van Gogh: Color

Below you see two paintings by Giorgio Morandi and two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh.

Describe the differences between the artists' choices of color palette and subject matter in these particular paintings.

Also, how does the choice of color palette influence or affect the subject matter?

Still Life, 1955, Giorgio Morandi

Still Life, 1955, Giorgio Morandi

Irises, 1890, Vincent Van Gogh

Sunflowers, 1888, Vincent Van Gogh