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Expressing Identity Through Still Life: Who Are You?

Explore the essence of self by creating a still life composition with personal symbolic items using pen techniques to convey your identity. Practice pen shading, create composition sketches, and evaluate the expression of your identity. Draw inspiration from artists like Van Gogh and Warhol to enhance your artwork. This project aims to merge artistry and introspection to reveal your true self through creative expression.

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Expressing Identity Through Still Life: Who Are You?

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  1. Expressing Identity Through Still Life Who Are You?

  2. Who Are You? “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.”

  3. Who Am I? What do you know about me base on what I chose to include in these pictures and this PowerPoint? Think about the items in your still life as symbols.

  4. What are we gonna do? Ultimate goal: Express your identity through still life in pen Preparation: Practice shading with pen • Bring 3 personal items • Arrange your still life • Composition thumbnail sketches and description of symbolic items • Draw your still life • Assess expression of identity

  5. Creating Value with Pen Olive Trees in a Mountain Landscape Vincent Van Gogh Drawing, Pencil, pen, reed penSaint-Rémy: June - late in month, 1889 Still-Life: Flowers Andy Warhol 1950s, Blue ballpoint on Manila paper

  6. Practice with Pen • Required: a value scale made with the pen you will use on your still life before you begin your drawing Crosshatching Stippling Change in tonal value is the basis for our perception of form. Scumbling

  7. Criteria Today: • Practice creating value with pen • Create a value scale to use in your drawing • Identify what objects to include in your identity still life • Begin composition sketches Completed ProjectRequirements: • Composition sketches show understanding of composition • Range of tonal value (light to dark) • Still life objects are proportionate to one another and imitate real objects • Still life objects are personal and symbolic • Craftsmanship– Neat clean & complete. Good use of class time. (Didn’t rush.)

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