PROJECT 18 - WATERCOLOR: Drawing four

Objectives:

• Students should exhibit skill at using markers to enhance their sketching abilities.
• Students should exhibit skills which indicate an understanding of spatial organization, design detail and color harmony.
• Students should decrease the time it takes to present a visual impression of design intent.

Task:

1. Using the initial pencil and pen and ink studies of plant materials (See problem statements 4 and 10), students are to represent the same plant types with the use of watercolor.

2. Students are to lightly draw the materials in pencil onto a sheets of watercolor paper and then using techniques of layering, paint the plant materials using watercolors

References:

Lin: DRAWING AND DESIGNING WITH CONFIDENCE.
Lin: ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING TECHNIQUES, pp. 9, 33, 89.

Materials needed:

3 sheets of watercolor paper (block paper is suggested)
Watercolor brushes
jars for water
Palette for mixing colors
Pencils

Deadline:

Assigned: Thursday, Oct. 20
Due: Tuesday, Oct. 25; beginning of class

Approximate time to complete:    4 - 5 hours

For comments, contact Dennis L. Law (email): delaw@ksu.edu

revised: 29 Sept. 05