1. Architectural Art

2. The Architect’s Dream
Thomas Cole
1840

3. 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

4. Interior or Exterior?

5. 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

6. 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

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

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

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

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

11. 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!!!!