Our Last Project!

Miss S. Noel has another one of the most delicate renderings this time. Nicely done drawing as well. She could go in and add some shadows if she wanted, but I'm enjoying the coolness of this Canadian mountain scene.

Miss G. Smith had perhaps the MOST challenging location of them all. I didn't tell her at the time that even I was a bit intimidated by the central falls and all the details in the vertical rock walls that form this chasm. (G: I know you struggled to get the borders 'clean' so I took the liberty of swiping them with my Photoshop 'eraser' for the web-pic.)
Doesn't this look like a pastel-painting? I like it very much...

Miss C. Lee chose to work on the smoother of our paper's sides. Can you recognize this landmark? It's only one of the most famous buildings in the entire world! What a nice way to wrap up the year. Well done, Missy.

Miss R. Fadler has used two concepts to create depth in her painting of two pyramids: increasing the "misty-ness" in the distance, and decreasing the amount of "detail" on the stone surface of her 'far' pyramid. Well done.

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Miss M. Wolfe has captured the essence of one of the more difficult scenes: dark sky on an 'Aussie' red-sand beach.

Miss M. Craycraft had a near monotone scene, though the photo was actually true color. More than a few first-year Fine Art & Graphic Design students have spent entire semesters working in black and white...This unusual mountainside in China resembled an odd face - almost a variation on those gigantic Easter Island sculpted heads.

Miss K. Breeding has done a sweet job of capturing a South American locale that we were all wishing we could be a part of just a month or so ago!

Master J. Wolters had an Irish isle that appears to be tilting...because it is.

Master D. Harwell had a tough time 'getting going' on this. A very nice starting drawing, though.

Miss Am. Cole has painted a very delicate picture of one of Russia's Kuril Islands, which are near Japan. She used the technique first learned/practiced in an earlier lesson this semester: 'lifting' off some paint to create clouds, in this case...but it can be used to lighten any area. I'm so proud of you!

Miss Alx. Cole. One of my favorites of the year. Delicate colors on her own very carefully done, original drawing. Bravo!

Miss A. Escue came through with flying colors here that read 'summer' for sure. I like the illusion of depth achieved with the 'simple' placement of a few lighter/brighter green stalks of vegetation at the foreground.

Where has the year gone? Above are 12 different painting locations. Students were 'directed' to their assignments as they arrived to class. (Some were a wee bit more challenging than others...but isn't that always the case in most things?) I'm proud of all of you for remembering and applying many of the things you've learned over the semester.

In a separate post I'll put up some designs created in Corel Photo-paint (a photo-manipulation program like Photoshop) just to give you an idea of 'what else' you might do with your work - especially when a painting's color-scheme turns out so nicely and then the dog chews up one of the corners or something...