MULTI-PERSPECTIVE STILL LIFE DRAWING

This project for Drawing + Painting students was a study on value and observational drawing...with a twist.

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Students began the lesson with a value scale warm-up sheet. This allowed the students to get an idea of what kind of values they could achieve using a pencil. (download worksheet below)

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Students studied Cubist artwork via videos and presentations. Cubist artists often depict their subjects from multiple different perspectives. This method of working was the inspiration for our mutli-perspective still-life drawings.

 

Each student started with an individual still-life object. With the object placed on their table, students drew the object while focusing on accuracy, line, and value. After one drawing was completed, students rotated the object and drew it from another perspective, connecting these drawings together. Students then repeated this process using different objects, creating an amalgamation of observational drawings.

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Additionally, students studied the work of artist Tony Orrico, who uses graphite in non-traditional ways. Students analyzed the work of Tony Orrico before and after watching a video interview of him explaining his process. The students were surprised to see how Orrico uses his entire body as a drawing tool. Orrico also uses a systematic, almost mathematical approach to making his artwork, something that students do not often consider as a possibility.