College Art Classes Part 2

At 6 weeks in, I'm almost halfway through my first semester of college. It's been a busy month, but filled with good things like chapel services, a Global Impact Week of learning about other cultures and our call to share God's word with them, football games, hiking, watching plays and jazz concerts for our cultural events at school, and spending time with friends - lots of studying together!

I've also completed several more drawings and designs since my last post on my art classes. In Design I, we studied rhythm and applied it by creating a design based on songs of our choice.

Next we talked about the gestalt theory and how our minds naturally complete images and fill in gaps. So we created a shape by filling in the space around it with other shapes, so we were only "implying" the main shape.

And here is the harmony project from the last college art blog that I finished!

In Drawing I, we've moved on from proportions and discussed value. We created value scales using several shading techniques, mapped out the main values on an object, learned to work on global values before detailed ones, and created a half tone (solid shading over the shadowy areas) before developing the values more. We worked on drawing one object with value, then moved on to setting up a still life of 3 objects and discussed composition, then moved on the 5 objects. This last week we started our discussion of perspective. The cone of vision part was something new for me! It helps map out the parts that are in your line of sight, and anything outside of it is in your peripheral vision. This finally helped me understand why objects outside of the cone of vision get so distorted.