Homework due Tuesday, April 10th

Final project proposal: Portraiture

1. Type one page detailing your plans for your final project.  The description of the final project is below with questions that you must answer in your proposal.  Email me if you have any questions, and remember that this draft of your proposal is a rough draft that can be changed after we discuss it individually in class. Also, you can keep your plan very simple and straight-forward if all these options feel a bit overwhelming.

REMEMBER: You will be working on this project in class and at home on the weekends, so make sure that your project has parts that can be worked on in either location.

2. Bring a print-out of your project proposal to class, as well as reference photos, objects, etc. that you think may be helpful in explaining your project idea to me.  Bring in whatever supplies, photos, artist books, still life objects, etc. you need to do some quick drawings/sketches to further develop your idea in class.

In class on Tuesday, I'll discuss your proposals individually while you create some sketches of compositional ideas, do some smaller practice drawings, etc.  Please feel free to email me with questions and have a good weekend,

Prof. Waxman


Final Project:

 The main theme of this project is portraiture.  Broadly speaking, "a portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person...The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person."  You can do traditional portraits of people's faces if you'd like, or you can depict still lifes, room interiors, etc. with a specific person or personality in mind.  This final project gives you more freedom to choose the subject matter, medium, etc. to use, so this is an opportunity for personal expression in your work.  

1. How will the artworks in your series inter-relate?
(Do they tell a story?  Do they all use a certain style?  Do they all depict a certain subject?)

2. How many artworks will be in your series?  
(Minimum of two artworks in a series, and this number is flexible depending on how your series develops as you work on it)

3. How large will the artworks be?  
(They can all be the same size or different sizes)

4. What will be the subjects of your drawings? If your subjects are not people, which people do the still lifes, etc. represent?  
(Drawings of friends or family? Self-portraits? Hands and feet?  Still lifes, room interiors, views out of windows or landscapes?  Images of animals from photos?)

5. Which drawing mediums will you be using? (You must use at least two different mediums and combining more than one in an artwork is a good idea.  Any black, gray and/or white drawing medium is acceptable.  In addition to what we've used this semester, you can use collage, markers, acrylic paint, spray paint, etc.)

6. Which aspect of the artist's work that you researched will you incorporate into your series? (Some ideas: you could use a composition similar to one of their artworks, or use the same type of subject matter, or try using some aspect of their style or how they use lighting, brushmarks, etc.)