Still Life Objects

These are my still life objects. I can't wait to see what we do with them.The cylinder is a pringles can, the cube is a half & half container, the rectangular box is a tissue box, the cone I made out of a plastic soda bottle, and the sphere is a Christmas tree ball.

Space

Illusionistic Space

This street art is cleary three dimensional making it illusionistic.

I choose this drawning for illusionistic becasue it has a great feeling on depth, as if you are about to wake down this hall way.

This art work is illusionistic in that it has depth giving the impression of three dimensional. The lower left looks like a piece of wood then to the right the wood changes to different material and become shiny, like and apple. It makes me wonder what the artist is trying to get across in this piece of work.

The art work has a three dimensional feel to it. The stack of monster in the forground, man walking away twards the city in the distant background.

Flat Space

This art work flat space showing two dimension work. I look at this art work and see flat using sybolic space. The horse and the cow in the back ground are larger than the forground making them symbolic.

This art piece is flat showing only two dimensions.

The piece of art is flat. There is nothing in the piece to compare depth to and the bird itself is painted flat and doesn't have three dimensional effect to it.

This piece of art doesn't show any signs of three dimensions making it flat space.

Ambiguous Space

I choose this art work as ambiguous because it showes two dimensional space in areas and three dimensional in others. This is a very interesting piece of art work. Someone has done wrong, it's been covered up and protected but the truth with come out.

I love this one. The background is clearly three dimensional and the bird is flat, only it's out line exists.

I choose this piece as ambiguous because it feels three dimensional but looks like it is stuck to a two dimensional background.

This art piece is great. Parts of it feel like you could reach in and a pick a piece of it off.  Other parts of it are two dimensional and are not pickable.

Gestural Line Drawing

I had great fun with these gestural drawings. I had to work very fast because the subject is my three year old daughter. I was very happy with using vine charcoal for this project. The charcoals have more of a free feeling for me. When drawing with charcoal even your oops tend to look just fine.

In this drawing the subject was climbing up onto a bed.

Here the subject it sitting with her feet under her and she is rubbing her leg.

In this drawing the subject is rubbing chap stick all over her face.

In this drawing the subject is rubbing chap stick on her face while trying to get her hair out of the way.

In this drawing the subject is rubbing chap stick all over her face and switched the chap stick from one hand to the other. You have to get both side you know. The thing we mom's alowe to happen just to get our homework done.

Contour-Line Drawing

The contour drawing was very difficult for me. I found myself skipping my eyes ahead and moving faster than I was drawing and not paying clear attention to the subject. It was also hard to keep my eye on the subject and not the paper. This is something that I will need to practice a great deal more. I lack the discipline needed for this project. I did practice on many different objects and settings.

This drawing is of some of the objects that are on my desk. As you can see I lost concentration in a few spots.

This drawing was a little more fun for me to do.

Drawing Media Experiments

This experiment was very interesting and made me understand a little better about how these tools work. Starting left to right: The first vertical row was drawn with willow charcoal, second row compressed charcoal, third row conte crayon, fourth row 6B graphite, fifth row sharpie, sixth row 2H graphite.

I found through the exercise that I really enjoy working with the willow charcoal the most. I seem to feel a bit more freedom with it and not so uptight with my strokes.

From left to right: first row sharpie, second row compressed charcoal, third row conte crayon, fourth row HB graphite, fifth row 2B graphite, sixth row 6B graphite, seventh row 3/8" flat brush with india ink, eight row #4 round brush with india ink. 

With this drawing I learned that I feel a bit unsure when working with the 3/8" flat brush itself. The bristles are much longer than I am use to and I am not sure if I am using it properly.

From left to right: first row compressed charcoal, second row willow charcoal, third row conte crayon, fourth row 6B graphite, fifth row 3/8” flat brush with india ink.

Again here, I enjoyed working with the willow charcoal. I didn’t like the Conte crayon as much as I thought I would. With practice I am sure that all of these tools will be more enjoyable and easier to work with.

This last drawing I just did for the fun of it and thought I would share it.

Self Portrait Assignment

This project was hard for me. I decided to try drawing what I saw in the mirror. This project could be done and interoperated in many different ways. I started out with pencil and switched to pen. I am a little frustrated because I use to be able to draw without thinking much. Now I am drawing and trying to remember how to shade things to get the right effect.

Winter's Day

by Larry Howard in watercolor


I enjoy classic art of live models. The art work could be done with any type of medium and the model could be a rural setting, wild life, flowers, or a portrait. A painting or sketch of something we see every day can open your eyes to see the beauty you maybe over looking. We tend to take for granted what is right in front of us.


Howard’s painting portrays rural New England well. The stone foundation under the barn gives you an idea of when it was built and the work that was put into it. The boards leaning on the side of the shed indicates work to be done. The browned mountains in the background and the grey trees give way to a long cool winter. The cold snow blanketing the landscapes with the sun’s shadows and sparkling light bring a smile to your face and warmth to you soul.

Painting with watercolors is something that I would love to master. Watercolors tend to be very difficult for me to control.