1. Getting ready for Art Shows
Upcoming Projects
Getting ready for Art Shows

2. Topic One: Still Life
Yes...this will be fun.

3. What?
Still life is a genre consists of an arrangement of inanimate objects that would typically be seen in a house. Flowers, food, pencils, and fabric are regularly seen objects in a still life painting.
Still life images are controlled completely by the artist. They create the composition, versus with landscapes, the land determines the composition.

4. History of Still Life
Still life drawings were found carved into the sides of Egyptian tombs. They became extremely popular in the 16th with classical painting.
Still Life consisted of allegorical themes (visual messages), and religious themes. The history of comic strips derived from still lifes because artists of old loved to throw in sexual innuendos.

5. Pyramid of Skulls by Paul Cezanne
Artists to Recognize
Juan Sanchez Cotan
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder
James Peale
Antoine Vollon
Edouard Manet
Paul Cezanne
Pyramid of Skulls by Paul Cezanne

6. How to Make...
The beauty of still life is the artist controls the composition: the arrangement of all the elements.
Choose objects that interest you.
Choose a fabric that compliments the objects.
Arrange on a table.
Think about: focal point, splitting image in thirds, rhythm, and colors.
Take photograph of your set up and use as reference when drawing.

7. Requirements
Students will complete a quality still life drawing, using soft pastel, oil pastel, or colored pencils.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of composition, movement, rhythm, color, and use of chosen medium.

8. Examples

10. And Next...

11. Self Portrait with Expression
Student will complete a quality self portrait in charcoal demonstrating a firm understanding of value, the medium, and proportion.
Student’s self portrait shall include expression as well as a background.

12. Examples
Kathe Kollwitz
Student self portrait
Chuck Close

13. Karine M.Swenson

14. Mads Peter Brandstrup Jensen

15. Directions Portrait by Courbet Students take photo of themselves.
Print out in 8 1/2 x 11. Can be done in classroom.
Grid by splitting in fourths.
Draw using willow and compressed charcoal.
Portrait by Courbet

16. You pick...now get started.
Deadline: April 1st.