Upload 4 small images of your color sketches followed by a large image of your final painting.  Answer the following prompt in 3-5 well developed sentences:

How did the color studies prepare you to paint the final piece?  How has your understanding of painting true color in all of its subtlety changed as a result of this project?

Due: Monday November 18

Assignment 2:  Post an edited image of your project on your blog.  This should be edited in Photoshop using the Crop tool (4th from top on left), and the Image Adjustments Tab at top to adjust Value with Levels and Curves and Color Balance to adjust color to be accurate.

Answer the following:  How did the process of creating something to draw from affect how you feel this piece ultimately turned out?  What was helpful about this process?  What did you find limiting?

Due: Monday October 21

Assignment: Post an image of the first photograph you took of your installation on your blog.  Post an image of it now from the angle you are actually starting your drawing and answer the following:

What have you changed about your installation as a result of the feedback you received in critique?  Why is this important or essential to your composition?  (Remember the key things we spoke about: What is the main focus, how is negative space being used within forms and on the outside of the frame, considering multiple angles and lighting arrangements.)

Due beginning of class Monday September 16th.

Welcome!

Welcome to the Westminster Schools Portfolio class blog.

In our first project we are constructing installations with paper cups, lighting them, and creating representational drawings based on these abstract forms.  Here are some of the artists we have looked at who also create things as a reference for their final art medium.

Small model photographed by James Casabere:

Cardboard Sculpture painted by William Daniels:

Paper and other materials photographed by Yamini Nayar: