1. Locate 3 works of art- 1 still life, 1 portrait, and 1 figure that employ the fundamental behavior of light that we have studied in regard to the sphere. For each piece, compose a paragraph that identifies the key elements of light behavior in the given piece. Be sure to include a link to the artwork, or identify the artist and title.
2. After completing the Aristides reading (Edline), find 3 parallels between her teaching approach and the approach of Anthony Ryder. Identify these parallels and substantiate your claims with direct quotes or excerpts. Then, focus on the distinctions between the two authors/artists and repeat the process.
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Brian Cronin
1)Jeremy Deck, The Ant- The squash in the painting is a figure that shows shading that is very similar to those ones we practiced on the spheres.
2) Justin Hess, Sharp Beak- The egg has shading from the light source coming from the top left and reminds me of our practice shading.
3) Head Studt, Devin Cecil- This is a picture of a head on a drawn neck and shoulders, the features on the man's face show shading from the light off of his nose, eyes, cheeks, etc.
Portrait: http://willkempartschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/singlelightsourceportrait-e1352898024117.jpg
This Portrait is of a man who looks shocked at something he is looking at. The light source is coming down from the top right corner. You can see that the top of his hair closer to the light source is lighter and as you travel away from the light, his hair gets darker. Like the sphere, there is an oval like shape on his forehead where the light is hitting his face. It gets darker as you get further away to the point where his left eye is barely visible and you can’t tell where his chin ends and his neck begins.
Still Life: http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/17/c8/90/17c8909b0c76d4a33c835ca17b7c1c6e.jpg
This still life is of a whole tomato leaning on another tomato cut in half. The light source is coming from the top left corner of the drawing. On the whole tomato, you can see the leaves create a shadow on the tomato itself. That oval like shape where the light source hits is seen on the tomato and the tomato gets darker as your eye travels to the bottom right. The whole tomatoes shadow is darker where the shadow hits the tomato and lighter as you get further away. The half tomatoes shadow does the same thing. The half tomato also has a shadow that is seen on the whole tomato.
Figure: http://www.actionplanet.com/figure-drawing-9-12-8.jpg
This figure drawing is of a naked woman sitting down on the floor. She is crossing her legs and arms and seems to have her eyes closed. The light source is coming from the top left of the drawing and is shining down on the front of her body. Her body is facing toward the light, while her head is looking off to the side. There is a dark shadow under her legs and behind her back because these are the areas blocked with her body from the light source. The very front of her legs, the right side of her face, her chest, and her arms are the brightest because these are the first things the light source hits.
-Amy Patrone
An example of a still life painting is “Pelion Summer” by Emilie Lee. It includes a small white building - that may be a house or a shed - with a window. Red flowers have grown on top of it, and it’s at the bottom of some kind of slope. The light source (presumably the sun) is coming from the upper left, which isn’t seen, but is suggested by the location of the cast shadow.
An example of a portrait is “Self-Portrait in Russian Hat” by Gregory Mortenson. It is of a bearded man in, obviously, a Russian-style fur hat, against of a backdrop a snowy wintertime forest. The sky above is gray with cloudy, and because of this, the shadows in the painting come from the hat and are on the upper part of the man’s face.
An example of a portrait is “Underground Busk” by Gregory Mortenson. It is of a woman wearing a dress and holding an accordion. The ground beneath her is a grayish brown and might be concrete (I’m not entirely sure, that’s not really my area of expertise) and something that looks vaguely artsy behind her. The light source comes from above her because she’s underground, and her body’s cast shadow is to the bottom right.
There are a few subtle parallels between the two books’ approach to drawing. For example, both stress that a good drawing takes a lot of dedication, patience, and hard work. It doesn’t just happen in a couple hours - it can take days, or weeks, or months, or even years. Also, both believe that people who say they “can’t draw” actually can draw, they just haven’t put the effort and time into making themselves into good artists. So, basically, they aren’t untalented, they’re lazy. Lastly, both mention math. Aristides talks about the golden ratio, while Ryder talks about using triangles and other geometric shapes to help create block-ins.
There are also differences between the two approaches to drawing. For example, Aristides focuses heavily on the golden ratio and beauty from math, while Ryder only briefly mentions using shapes. Also, Ryder comes off more casually, like he’s on a more friendly basis with the readers, while Aristides is more professional-sounding. Lastly, Aristides talks more about drawing as a whole, while what I’ve read of Ryder is all about block-ins.
1) Severin Roesen, Still Life With Fruit: This piece portrays a cornucopia of fruits in a large basket, with a light source coming from the bottom left of the image. The light cast upon the grapes shows a high-key highlight on the top of each grape, as well as a reflective light on the bottom of each. The round fruit in this piece also all have visible terminators and other artistic aspects a sphere should have.
2) Diego Fazio, Sensazioni: This photo-realistic piece of art creates the look of water by showing multiple high contrast highlights on the water over the woman's face as well as grooves that show the direction of flow from a light source that seems to shine from the center of the image, behind its frame of view.
3) Reinisgailitis, Figure Drawing of Young Male: This figure drawing shows a young man from a viewpoint of about half-height with a light cast on him from the center but slightly above. Each muscle shows a fading/receding shadow as the figure angles further away from the light source. The front (left) leg is also a darker shade compared to the lighter behind (right) leg in order to show foreground and background on a human figure.
The similarities I saw between Aristides and Anthony Ryder in there writing is they both mention how important it is to work on the basic skills and to use those to help your artistic ability grow. they both also mentioned you need to love what you do to succeed at it and to get better at it. "this love gives a person the desire to pursue an objective in spite of obstacles that arise and provides him or her with the stamina necessary for extended study". lastly they both mentioned the importance of mathematics in art.
How they differed is there way of writing and the tone they used, she seemed a bit stiff and hard edged, ware he seemed like a helpful relaxed teacher/writer. also she spent a lot of her time in the passage writing about the history of how the techniques were created, and he just went over the form you use and how to do so. lastly how they differed is how they used math in their artwork and technique, she used measurements and numbers , ware he used shapes and forms.
-Arianna Heath
1 still life: http://www.drawingforkids.org/50662-still-life-with-blue-vase-and-clementines-by-minna
This painting demonstrates the behavior of light by hitting the vase and creating a highlight. There is a reflected light on the side farthest from the light source as well. The vase is blocking the light and causes a cast shadow to fall opposite of the light.
1 portrait: http://andreanutt.com/paintings/drawing/self_portrait_drawing.jpg
This charcoal drawing displays the behavior of light by the way the highlight is bright on her face. The length of her features, such as her nose cause a shadow to be cast on to the side of her face. There is also reflected light on her ear and the back of her arm.
1 form: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01472/Cat-look-up_1472675i.jpg
In this photograph the light displays the fundamental behavior of light by the way it strikes the cats face. The light is the brightest where the cats face is closest to the light and then the cat’s body gets darker and darker the father away it goes from the light. Also the cat’s body is very dark at the bottom and a little lighter in some areas and the dark background gives the cats fur an edge and the cat pops.
In the readings Aristides and Anthony Ryder’s book there are many similarities. The author’s both strongly agree that anyone can learn how to draw. They understand that skills can be taught and with patience and dedication one can master drawing. The author knows and tries to elaborate on that it takes time to complete a drawing, it does now happen in minutes. Anthony Ryder discusses he may spend 6 hours on a block-in. There are also some differences between the two readings. Ryder uses block-in methods such as tilt, and nonparallelism, while Aristides refers to the golden ratio. Lastly Anthony Ryder used a more laid back tone in his writings while Aristides felt more formal.
This still life by Diane Hoeptner contains fundamental skills which our Interdisciplinary Art class has practiced with spheres. The center orange -being a sphere- contains a highlight. From there, the values get darker and the off center is darkest before the reflected light comes in to play and lightens the edges. The shadows also start dark and then blur out a little bit. Image: http://cdn.dailypainters.com/paintings/frosting_fruit_still_life_oil_painting_hoeptner_0ddb80f3637e7c3e5eb981a0da96c083.jpg
This portrait of Adele by Kelvin Okafor also portrays basic light behavior and drawing skills. There are highlights on her nose on her cheeks and on her chin which fade into light shading. The shadow to the left side of her nose (our left) fades out and disappears softly. This shadow technique is depicted multiple places on the face, including under her eyes and to the left of her lips. Her lips show a lot of similarity to the spheres we drew in class, on a fundamental level. The bottom lip especially shows a small highlight, and then a soft value scale moving outward from said highlight, and a light cast shadom on the chin. Image: http://www.weoccupy.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/KelvinOkafor-Adele.jpg
In this figure drawing, the muscles on the man’s arms follow the guidelines of a sphere. This guy’s butt is awesome, the same principles apply to his cheeks. ( I can’t believe I’m typing this) There’s highlight and then a soft value scale, followed by a dark cast shadow. Might I add, I quite like this figure drawing because the light source is coming from just slightly right of the viewer’s perspective, making the light dance in a peculiar way. Image: http://www.proko.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/amit3.jpg
Task #2:
There were a few prominent similarities between the Anthony Ryder reading and Aristides reading. One similarity between the books is that they both wrote a little about the use of geometry and the “block-in” process. Another similarity is that they both believe that good drawing is the result of lots of practice and lots of patience. Lastly, both also stressed the fundamentals of drawing; Ryder even went into the right way to hold a pencil. Something like the first rung of the ladder isn’t any less important just because there are rungs above it? Deep.
-Merri Whittington, D block
2.) Military Portrait of
The Chaplain General To The Armed Forces: This painting of a portrait of the man has a light cast shining on the right side of his face, leaving his left ear darker in the shadow that his face creates. There is a little shaded part of his face the way it is angles towards the light from his left temple down to the bottom left corner of his chin and neck. https://www.google.com/search?q=a+portrait+painting&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Uv8pVP2xIIaxyAT39ILQDw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=o5yAFSG4obeihM%253A%3BcF9BIZxmYcnN0M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Fshu%252Fphotos%252FThe%252520Chaplain-General.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Foil_paintings.shtml%3B400%3B311
3.) The figures and buildings in this painting are an example of what we have been learning in the sense of the behavior of the light. The sun (light source) is clearly behind all of the buildings, causing the shadows to fall closer to the bottom of the painting. The shadows of the buildings are also long and stretched out therefore the sun is lower in the background in which casting longer shadows. http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14128061
2.) Military Portrait of
The Chaplain General To The Armed Forces: This painting of a portrait of the man has a light cast shining on the right side of his face, leaving his left ear darker in the shadow that his face creates. There is a little shaded part of his face the way it is angles towards the light from his left temple down to the bottom left corner of his chin and neck. https://www.google.com/search?q=a+portrait+painting&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Uv8pVP2xIIaxyAT39ILQDw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=o5yAFSG4obeihM%253A%3BcF9BIZxmYcnN0M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Fshu%252Fphotos%252FThe%252520Chaplain-General.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Foil_paintings.shtml%3B400%3B311
3.) The figures and buildings in this painting are an example of what we have been learning in the sense of the behavior of the light. The sun (light source) is clearly behind all of the buildings, causing the shadows to fall closer to the bottom of the painting. The shadows of the buildings are also long and stretched out therefore the sun is lower in the background in which casting longer shadows. http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14128061
2.) Military Portrait of
The Chaplain General To The Armed Forces: This painting of a portrait of the man has a light cast shining on the right side of his face, leaving his left ear darker in the shadow that his face creates. There is a little shaded part of his face the way it is angles towards the light from his left temple down to the bottom left corner of his chin and neck. https://www.google.com/search?q=a+portrait+painting&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Uv8pVP2xIIaxyAT39ILQDw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=o5yAFSG4obeihM%253A%3BcF9BIZxmYcnN0M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Fshu%252Fphotos%252FThe%252520Chaplain-General.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Foil_paintings.shtml%3B400%3B311
3.) The figures and buildings in this painting are an example of what we have been learning in the sense of the behavior of the light. The sun (light source) is clearly behind all of the buildings, causing the shadows to fall closer to the bottom of the painting. The shadows of the buildings are also long and stretched out therefore the sun is lower in the background in which casting longer shadows. http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14128061
2.) Military Portrait of
The Chaplain General To The Armed Forces: This painting of a portrait of the man has a light cast shining on the right side of his face, leaving his left ear darker in the shadow that his face creates. There is a little shaded part of his face the way it is angles towards the light from his left temple down to the bottom left corner of his chin and neck. https://www.google.com/search?q=a+portrait+painting&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Uv8pVP2xIIaxyAT39ILQDw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=o5yAFSG4obeihM%253A%3BcF9BIZxmYcnN0M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Fshu%252Fphotos%252FThe%252520Chaplain-General.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Foil_paintings.shtml%3B400%3B311
3.) The figures and buildings in this painting are an example of what we have been learning in the sense of the behavior of the light. The sun (light source) is clearly behind all of the buildings, causing the shadows to fall closer to the bottom of the painting. The shadows of the buildings are also long and stretched out therefore the sun is lower in the background in which casting longer shadows. http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14128061
2.) Military Portrait of
The Chaplain General To The Armed Forces: This painting of a portrait of the man has a light cast shining on the right side of his face, leaving his left ear darker in the shadow that his face creates. There is a little shaded part of his face the way it is angles towards the light from his left temple down to the bottom left corner of his chin and neck. https://www.google.com/search?q=a+portrait+painting&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Uv8pVP2xIIaxyAT39ILQDw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=o5yAFSG4obeihM%253A%3BcF9BIZxmYcnN0M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Fshu%252Fphotos%252FThe%252520Chaplain-General.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Foil_paintings.shtml%3B400%3B311
3.) The figures and buildings in this painting are an example of what we have been learning in the sense of the behavior of the light. The sun (light source) is clearly behind all of the buildings, causing the shadows to fall closer to the bottom of the painting. The shadows of the buildings are also long and stretched out therefore the sun is lower in the background in which casting longer shadows. http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14128061
2.) Military Portrait of
The Chaplain General To The Armed Forces: This painting of a portrait of the man has a light cast shining on the right side of his face, leaving his left ear darker in the shadow that his face creates. There is a little shaded part of his face the way it is angles towards the light from his left temple down to the bottom left corner of his chin and neck. https://www.google.com/search?q=a+portrait+painting&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Uv8pVP2xIIaxyAT39ILQDw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=o5yAFSG4obeihM%253A%3BcF9BIZxmYcnN0M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Fshu%252Fphotos%252FThe%252520Chaplain-General.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Foil_paintings.shtml%3B400%3B311
3.) The figures and buildings in this painting are an example of what we have been learning in the sense of the behavior of the light. The sun (light source) is clearly behind all of the buildings, causing the shadows to fall closer to the bottom of the painting. The shadows of the buildings are also long and stretched out therefore the sun is lower in the background in which casting longer shadows. http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14128061
1.) Still Life – Svetlana
This still life is a picture of a cup that leaves a shadow on the coffee itself in the cup. The spherical shape of the orange depicts the same values as the circles we drew. The glass pitcher in the back is receiving the light on the top but shaded on the bottom where the cup if blocking the light.http://willkempartschool.com/how-to-paint-an-acrylic-still-life-painting/acrylic-still-life-painting-course/
2.) Military Portrait of
The Chaplain General To The Armed Forces: This painting of a portrait of the man has a light cast shining on the right side of his face, leaving his left ear darker in the shadow that his face creates. There is a little shaded part of his face the way it is angles towards the light from his left temple down to the bottom left corner of his chin and neck. https://www.google.com/search?q=a+portrait+painting&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Uv8pVP2xIIaxyAT39ILQDw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=o5yAFSG4obeihM%253A%3BcF9BIZxmYcnN0M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Fshu%252Fphotos%252FThe%252520Chaplain-General.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.shela-nye.com%252Foil_paintings.shtml%3B400%3B311
3.) The figures and buildings in this painting are an example of what we have been learning in the sense of the behavior of the light. The sun (light source) is clearly behind all of the buildings, causing the shadows to fall closer to the bottom of the painting. The shadows of the buildings are also long and stretched out therefore the sun is lower in the background in which casting longer shadows. http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14128061
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