Essential Question: What are the necessary skills to create a convincing still-life drawing?

Project Goals:

• Learn about artists who work to use mark-making to show volume in their drawings

• Learn and refine observational drawing skills, including contour drawing, perspective, value, measuring, proportion, and placement of objects 

Artists Studied: Henry Moore, Giorgio Morandi, Vincent van Gogh, Winslow Homer, John Whalley

Reflection: 

I would describe the types of marks that I used as small dots layered on top of each other to create value in my drawing. The types of marks that I used were influenced by Henry Moore’s drawing style. In Henry Moore’s drawings, he uses many seemingly random lines that when looked at up close appear as a mess, but from far away the lines create one cohesive piece. Up close my drawing looks like a bunch of dots, but when looking at it from further away my drawing looks like objects on a table.