Artists Are Inspired

FOOD

PROBLEM
How do you express color? Color is one of the first things you notice about a work of art and
can cause an emotional response. How do historically famous
artist use color and how do they inspire you? This exercise is to
help you use complementary colors to create convincing
transitions of value and the illusion of 3 dimensional forms.

QUESTIONS TO INSPIRE; MIND MAP:

1. What is your favorite color? Why?
2. What type of food do you want to recreate… sweet, savory?
You must have a photo reference so choose something you can
get easily.
3. Do you want to create a realistic or abstract drawing? Do you
want to use realistic or abstract colors? Choose a color
scheme.
4. How does the way you represent color represent you?

ARTIST TO RESEARCH (CHOOSE 1):

The artist you choose should influence your final creation. You are
REQUIREMENTS:
NOT duplicating one of their piece but creating an original piece
1. Must have a photo reference
inspired by them.
2. Use color (Color Pencils,
1. Wayne Theibaud Oil/Soft Pastels, Watercolor)
2. Andy Warhol 3. 70% positive space
3. Paul Cezanne 4. Touch at least 3 sides of the
4. Claes Oldenburg picture plane
5. Giuseppe Arcimboldo 5. Strong VALUE; direct,
consistent light source
6. Dennis Wojtkiewicz
6. Only black and white media
7. Roberto Bernardi
7. Follows rules of composition
8. Tjalf Sparnaay
(rule of thirds)
9. Henri Matisse
8. Follows Timeline- 2 weeks
10. Franz Marc

EXPERIMENTS/OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES: Practice and make final decisions on composition, media, and
subject matter. You have the choice of media and paper (white, black, grey, or tan). You can also create
an altered surface for your piece. Make sure your feel comfortable with your choice of media and are
able to blend colors. You must show costume mixing of colors, a change in saturation as objects recede
and show strong color values. You will use an original photo reference of your choice of food, which is
receding into space within an environment of your choice defined by a clear light source. Using your
chosen original image a sense of depth will be created using several techniques; overlap, size variation,
sharpness/focus and color saturation.

CREATE: Once your final design has been approved, create your personal still life. Please refer back to
the rubric often to check your progress.

REFLECT:
(Weebly) Complete your reflection in your Digital Portfolio.

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Points Earned

Objects are Objects are

Objects are Objects are
drawn and drawn and
drawn and drawn and
realized with a realized with a
realized with a realized with a
moderate low degree of
high degree of good degree of No attempt
degree of accuracy.
ACCURACY OF accuracy. accuracy. made
accuracy. Attention to
DRAWING Attention Attention to
Attention to contour and
details are contour and
contour and detail are
exceptional. detail are good
detail are fair. lacking.

Colors are Colors are

Colors are Colors are
somewhat poorly custom
custom mixed mostly custom
custom mixed mixed and
CUSTOM very well and mixed and not
with some maybe No evidence of
not muddy. too muddy.
COLOR muddying. muddied. light source
Evidence of light Evidence of light
Evidence of light Evidence of light
source is source is
source is mostly source is not
BLENDING present & clear. present.
present. clear.

Very soft
gradation of
Good gradation Fair gradation of Poor gradation
value changes
of value changes value changes of value changes
with no No attempt
incorporating incorporating 3- incorporating 1-
GRADATION smudging made
5-6 values from 4 values from 2 values from
OF VALUE incorporating 7
light to dark light to dark light to dark
values from light
to dark

Composition Composition is Composition Composition is

works very well acceptable in somewhat poor, creating Does not
COMPOSITION to create a creating a sense creates a sense little or no sense incorporate any
sense of depth of depth That of depth That of depth That depth, visual
All final That draws the draws the draws the draws the interest or
artworks will viewer into the viewer into the viewer into the viewer into the follows the
image through image through image through image through assignment
be judged on
use of the use of the use of the use of the criteria
compositional
criteria. criteria. criteria.. criteria.
design