Architectural Art

The Architect’s Dream Thomas Cole 1840

What media will you choose and how will that effect what you are saying ? Oil on Canvas Pen and Ink on Paper Van Gogh Café terrace at night

Interior or Exterior?

One or two point perspective? Make sure to create some pre-drawings! Leonardo Da Vinci Perspective study for the staircase and horses for the adoration of the Magi

What will you choose to emphasize in your drawing What will you choose to emphasize in your drawing? How will you achieve this? Hint: composition, perspective, color, contrast….. Charles Sheeler, Delmonico Building, 1926

At what time of day or during what season will your image be set in? John Sloan

Will you tell a story about a place or time? Edward Hopper

Frank Lloyd Wright Or will you do your own Architectural rendering?

If you do keep it clean and simple! Hint: this does not mean easy!!!

Your Assignment: Create a work of art that features Architecture Determine what / where you are drawing (you can use photographs but it is better if you can actually visit and draw at the actual site at least once) Determine what direction / style you wish to use i.e. narrative, architectural rendering, how the light, time of day, season etc. effect the mood Look at artists from this ppt. or research artists of your own who work in the style you have chosen Determine your media: your choice but make sure you have access to it over break! You will turn in: Image is no smaller than 9 X 12, no larger than 16X20 A statement tying your artist to your art work, how it influenced what you created REMEMBER THE IMPORTANCE OFCOMPOSITION!!!!