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Danny The class continued working on the "Atmospheric Perspective" project today. These will be due next Monday morning. From there we will start color. Be sure to bring black, white, blue, yellow and red acrylic paint.

Paprika (work in progress) On Wednesday the class continued working on their atmospheric perspective paintings. We will critique these first thing on Monday before moving onto discussing COLOR. You will need black and white paint as well as primary red, yellow and blue.

On Monday the class began paintings employing the properties of atmospheric perspective. Using silhouettes, the paintings illustrate closed values addressing 10 different values; black, white and eight shades of gray. Somewhere in the design should be a value scale.

Last Wednesday we critiqued the paintings addressing atmospheric perspective.  Katelynn has effectively used value to address the atmospheric perspective. In addition, her use of value is very complementary to the subject. The dark values in the ominous, tangled foreground of roots and trees provides the perfect exit into the more inviting space of lighter values spreading throughout the canyon. Katelynn Pizzio After the critique the class began their color wheels and sketches for color schemes.

Ayda Uraz Kacie Brunk Today students made drawings exploring the various methods of creating the illusion of depth within their compositions using line and mark-making techniques in ink. The Distal Ques are explained in the menu above. Ayda's drawing above very skillfully  illustrates atmospheric perspective . Notice how the line quality and size of the objects diminishes as the image recedes into space. Kacie has employed line weight variation, overlap, value and gradations as well as size change to suggest a deep sense of space. Mushky Rice After completing two quarter sheet compositions, students changed the format to a half sheet with the same objective of creating a deep sense of space.  With her use of dark values to recede, overlapping shapes and variable line quality, Mushky has effectively addressed the objective of the project while adding a psychological twist with the subtle distortions applied to the shapes and lines.