Art 3 Homework River Hill High School

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Night and Day...

Media:
any black and white media (charcoal, black watercolor, ink, pen, pencil, etc.)
*if using wet media, use watercolor paper.
Size:
TWO identical sheets of paper, no smaller than 12 in any direction.
Your finished homework assignment will be two pendant drawingsthat is, they are works that could stand
alone, but are meant to be displayed together.
Assignment:
Part One
During the day, select a window or doorway in your home as the focus (but not necessarily the sole subject
matter) for your piece. Create a composition that depicts some portion of the interior of the house and a part of
the view outside the window/doorway. Experiment in your sketchbook with a variety of compositional
possibilities. Feel free to try unusual points-of-viewjust make sure you will be comfortable for a long artmaking session. Select a composition that is really intriguing to you for your final version. The objective for this
assignment is to capture the quality of the light inside the room, as well as the light outside the room. As
always, emphasize the value-shapes, squinting to better observe essential shapes and contrasting values.
Eliminate small details. Let your marks showkeep yourself loose! Plan on about 4-5 hours for this piece.
Part Two
Set up in the evening, when it is dark out. Select the same subject, but you may alter the composition if you like.
(You may keep it exactly the same.) Repeat the whole process described above using the same medium and the
same size surface.
DUE:
WHAT

WHO

WHEN

Three Thumbnail proposals

(total of six sketches...three
day, three night)

A- DAY

Wed. Nov. 11th

B- DAY

Tues. Nov. 12th

In-Progress Critique/Check:
(work should be
approximately 1/2 complete

A- DAY

Thurs. Dec. 10th

B- DAY

Fri. Dec. 11th

Final Critique

A- DAY

Tues. Dec. 22nd

B- DAY

Wed. Dec. 23rd

POINT VALUE
/30pts

/20pts

/100pts