Sketchbook Quarter 4 Due Monday April 30

#1 "Size Distortions" Choose two ordinary objects at home which have a relationship to one another but are not the same size at all. (Like: the front door and a key -- or -- the refrigerator and an apple. Draw the two different sized objects as if they are the same size, and draw them so they have a new relationship at the new size. (So: the key is as big as the door in the new relationship, and can only lean upon it!) (So: the apple could be so big that it occupied the entire inside of the refrigerator!) Be inventive! think up your own two related objects, and observe and draw their details carefully.  Plan an interesting composition on the page.

*Notes: direct observation, visual and spatial relationships, exaggeration, distortion

#2 "Machine Impossible" What do you wish you had a machine to do for you? Make your bed? Fix your lunch? Fetch your soda? Include: a power supply: Solar? Electric? Hamster? Hydro? Air? Arrange: the elements of your imaginary machine in an interesting composition, filling the page, and complete your drawing with a pleasing application of color

*Notes: invention, sequencing, spatial relationships, composition

#3 "Roller Coaster Contrast" You will be creating at least six continuous bands of color. (You can think of them as loops - like flat and really long rubber bands. ) Each band must reach at least 2 sides of the paper. Each band must cross or be crossed by at least 2 other bands. Bands should be at least 1/4" wide, with consistent width. One path will appear to be above another at each crossing site (you'll have to plan, and erase one set of lines.)

Shading info: Let's assume that things that are closest to us will get more light, and appear lighter, and that things further away from us receive less light, and are therefore darker. As we look at the bands you have drawn, bands passing under others seem far away from us, and bands on top seem near. To emphasize this, shade each band darker when it goes under another, and lighter where it passes above. (Layer combinations of colors to achieve best darks!)

*Notes: spatial relationships (overlapping), composition, gradations, and color layering

#4 Draw the inside of your own head  What are you like? Are you: Colorful? Plain? Accurate? Disorganized? Soft? Sharp? Poetic? Focused? Musical? Funny? Dependable? Flightly? Spacey? Numerical? Cautious? Organized? Fashionable? Rigid? Geometrical? Bright? Dull? Speedy? Mysterious? Exotic? Electric? Please, No "Brain" Drawings, No Heads!!! Be imaginative!!! Be conceptual!!!

*Notes: Conceptual, Abstract, Symbolic

#5 "Full of Contours Page" Do a page full (20 to 25) of "mini" blind and modified blind contour drawings. (May take 2 facing pages.) These are quick studies of people/children in different positions doing things. Perhaps --- go to a park or a sporting event of some kind. Observe and Quickly draw people being active Do this in pen please!!

*Notes: contour (blind & modified), figure studies, gesture, impression