2. Introduction
Choose interesting and complex objects
Observe negative space
Draw the object from observation not from
pictures (consider close up or unusual angles)
3. Apples in Red Bowl, Nicole Etienne
East Sussex, 1958, by Bill Brandt
4. Practice Observational Drawings
Use a viewfinder
Complete a mixed media double page
spread of small but accurate drawings
using complex objects.
Be creative and original! Use any drawing
medium or mixed media: paint, pencil,
chalk, oil pastel, pen, etc.
8. Sketchbook Development with Art
Reference
Develop your sketches into more interesting ideas.
Experiment! You can distort, idealize, repeat, etc.
Research techniques or styles of a well known artist.
Comment on work using specialist vocabulary of art.
Cite your sources.
9. Michael Paulus
CHUCK CLOSE
"Self Portrait/Woodcut" 2002
43 colour handpainted woodcut
on Nishinouchi paper
paper size: 31 x 25 inches
edition of 60
19. Half Page Sketches of your Final
Ideas
Work more with some of your best ideas
to produce some small rough ‘thumbnail’
sketches.
produce two half page sketches to show a
final 2D expressive art idea and a final
printmaking idea.
27. The Final Works
Create a visually exciting final piece of
work, using one or more of the best ideas
from your sketchbook exploration
Produce a finished, well thought out print
using one of the methods demonstrated or
a combination of more than one.
