Unit 1 artwork submitted in hard copy 4 Oct 2022.
Attempting also to post the items here on 5 Oct 2022:
Artist Research #1: BEILI LIU is posted on the FIN 110 Brightspace site, under Assignments. Here is the link to that posting . Also posting Artist Research #1: BEILI LIU directly to this site, immediately below:
Unit 1 Sketchbook Exercises: Line Variation and Line Density
Unit 1: Portfolio Drawing One WORK IN PROGRESS shots see below– thumbnails, several stages of the drawing. The final work is with Linda at time of this posting — will photograph and post next week when it’s back in my hands.
Thumbnails for Portfolio Drawing 1: see annotated thumbnails immediately below. See also text box under the thumbnails for additional comments on the composition of each
Thumbnails 1 and 2 have asymmetrical structure, a triangle shape with its apex to the right of centre. There are circular figures in each of the three main shapes, that draw the eye to move around the page from circle to circle. Thumbnails 3 and 4 are also triangular but with approximate horizontal symmetry. In 3 and 4, there is also a new shape — one of the trhee main objects (the moonshell) is switched to an angular object (6-sided form with triangular faces). I chose thumbnail 4 because of the potential for a strong diagonal line that starts the eye moving from the bottom left of the frame, in a series of zigzags to each circle in turn — top of the bell, label mid-carafe, top of carafe, shadow. See notes below directly on the thumbnail sketches, including ideas on thumbnail 4 about rearranging the objects and cropping the frame to improve the symmetry and rhythm for the final still life arrangement.
