Norwood High School

Drawing and Painting IVC

Homework Assignments 2010-2011

 Overview: Each week there is a topic for you to draw.  For each topic, you are to complete 5 drawing that should take about 20 minutes for each drawing (feel free to work longer) or complete one drawing that takes approximately 1 hour. For weeks with less than rather five days in the week, you need to complete the number of drawings indicated.  

 

Requirements: All of the drawings must be completed in your sketchbook, but you can be creative about how you use the pages of the sketchbook (you can put multiple sketches on the page, you can overlap drawings, think creatively).  Drawings should be completed in chronological order (The title page is the first page, the next page starts week 2, etc).  Mark sure that you clearly write your name on the cover of your sketchbook.  MOST DRAWINGS SHOULD BE COMPLETED FROM OBSERVATION. Apply the skills that you learn in class.  The assignments vary, so your interpretation can vary.  The same object can be used, you just have to render it differently.

Drawings should be worked on the week prior to due date.

Weekly Assignments 

  • September 13: Acquire a sketch book, design your bookmark and title page.
  • September 20: Line Drawings
  • September 27: Tonal Drawings

 

  • October 4:    Visual Journal (see separate handout)
  • October 12:   Find an artist on www.artcyclopedia.com, look at his/her work, write a paragraph about your response to the artists’ work, and create a drawing that responses to their work.
  • October 18:   Thumbnails of ideas for your concentration (4 drawings)
  • October 25:   Visual Journal

 

  • November 1:   Your choice (anything you want, does not have to be from observation)
  • November 8:   Faces
  • November 15:  Figures (4 drawings)
  • November 22:  Groups of figures
  • November 29:  Visual Journal (3 drawings)

 

  • December 7:    Movement
  • December 13:   Research Paper
  • December 20:   Visual Journal

 

  • January 4:     Research Paper
  • January 11:    Research Paper
  • January 18:    Winter light (Midterms, 2 drawing)
  • January 24:    Things that holds things together (Midterms, 3 drawings)
  • January 31:    Visual Journal

 

 

  • February 8:    Memory
  • February 22:   Visual Journal

 

  • March 1:       Your choice
  • March 8:       Time
  • March 14:      Shadows (4 drawings)
  • March 21:      Depth
  • March 28:      Visual Journal

 

  • April 2:       Adjectives
  • April 11:      Play
  • April 25:      Visual Journal

 

  • May 3:         Concentration
  • May 10:        Final Project
  • May 17:        Final Project