Observational drawing, Thiebaud, Watercolor

1. CANDY STILL LIFE
Observational drawing, Composition, Wayne Thiebaud, Watercolor

2. CONTOUR LINE DRAWING

3. CONTOUR LINE DRAWING
*a line that shows or describes the edges, ridges, or outline of a form.
• Look at the object with a fresh eye every time.
• Capture the interior and exterior details
• Show an understanding of the object as a form in space.

4. CONTOUR LINE DRAWING
*a line that shows or describes the edges, ridges, or outline of a form.
• Look at the object with a fresh eye every time.
• Capture the interior and exterior details
• Show an understanding of the object as a form in space.
• Expression of an idea
Michelangelo
Ringgold
Schiele
Rivera

5. BLIND CONTOUR
A blind contour line drawing is
completed with out looking at
the paper.
• Look only at your hand.
• Move slowly
• Follow the edges that you
see
• Don’t pick up your pencil
It’s not supposed to be pretty

6. WHAT DOES BLIND LOOK LIKE?

7. DIRECT CONTOUR
• Observational drawing for
any subject
• You can look!
• Should be more accurate
• Still move slowly
• Let the pencil follow your
eyes

8. WHAT DOES DIRECT CONTOUR
LOOK LIKE?
• Fluid lines
• Look ,Look, Look
• Draw the lines your
hand makes
• Make it Round
Observational drawing helps you to turn your
drawings from representational symbols into
realistic expressions.

9. COMPOSITION
Still life drawing

10. WHAT IS COMPOSITION?
• DEF: the placement or arrangement
of visual elements or ingredients in a
work of art.
• How is the artwork organized?
• A thoughtful composition creates
an interesting work of art.
Wayne Thiebaud

11. WHICH COMPOSITION IS MORE
INTERESTING?

12. Cakes, 1963
Wayne Thiebaud

13. VA7PR.3 Uses the elements and principles of design along with a variety of media, techniques
and skills to produce two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art.
COMPOSITION RULES
Off center focal point
Objects overlap or touching
Objects go off 4 edges of the page
Objects change direction (balance
repetition and variety)
Activate negative space with cast
shadows
Still Life with a Basket of Apples, 1893
Paul Cezanne

14. RULE OF THIRDS:
COMPOSITIONAL TOOL
DEF: Concept for organizing dynamic
and interesting compositions so that
the main elements fall on the
intersections.
Used in most visual mediums such as
painting, photography, and film. Still Life with a Basket of Apples, 1893
Paul Cezanne

15. RULE OF THIRDS

16. SET UP THUMBNAILS FOR RULE OF
THIRDS
Composition Rules
Off center focal point
Objects overlap or touching
Objects go off 4 edges of
the page
Objects change direction
(balance repetition and
variety)
Activate negative space
with cast shadows

17. SET UP THUMBNAILS FOR RULE OF
THIRDS
Composition Rules
Off center focal point
Objects overlap or touching
Objects go off 4 edges of
the page
Objects change direction
(balance repetition and
variety)
Activate negative space
with cast shadows

18. FORM: ILLUSION OF 3D

19. VALUE TO FORMS
Form: 3D objects Value: how light of dark a
color is.

20. VALUE TO FORM
Applying value correctly creates the illusion that the forms
are round or 3D.
Look for the highlights and cast shadows.

23. THIEBAUD TO WARHOL

24. WAYNE THIEBAUD
AMERICAN, ARIZONA
1920-STILL LIVING

25. Wayne Thiebaud Is Not A Pop Artist.
Thiebaud painted his
memories.
He grew up in Califonia.
As a child, Wanye spent time with his
sister while she worked at a
restaurant.
He would sit and draw in front of the
dessert case.
Later, he worked in a restaurant
himself and grew to love family
dinners.

26. As an adult Thiebaud became a
cartoonist and worked for Disney
as an animator.
Later he joined the Navy and
continued creating comics for the
navy.
He trained as an illustrator after
leaving the navy and decided to
take his art making more seriously.

27. WHY IS THIEBAUD NOT A POP
ARTIST?His focus on food was about
capturing light and his memories.
For Thiebaud, his paintings were
about the best times of America.
-Sitting in diner as a child
-Having large family dinners
Critics and viewers looked at his work
and linked it to the consumerism of
pop art.
Thiebauds painting gained
attention in the 1960’s

29. HOW DOES THIEBAUD GET LINKED
TO THE POP ARTISTS?
Pop Artists made art about mass
culture. Food was often used for
inspiration by pop artists, because
food is universal.

30. THIEBAUD VS. POP ART
Thiebaud found fame in the 1960’s
Work is about his memories.
Pop Art movement began in the late
1950’s.
Artists focused on commercialism and
brands of everyday objects.
Used images that were already
designed by another artist, but they
applied their own personal meaning.

31. Pop Artists used common images from
everyday culture as their sources including:
Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiece, 1962
• Advertisements
• Consumer goods
• Celebrities
• Photographs
• Comic strips

32. POP ARTISTS USED BOLD, FLAT COLORS AND HARD
EDGE COMPOSITIONS ADOPTED FROM
COMMERCIAL DESIGNS LIKE THOSE FOUND IN:
•Billboards
• Murals
• Magazines
• Newspapers
Campbell's Soup II, 1969,  AWF

33. Pop Artists reflected 60’s culture by using
new materials in their artworks including:
•Acrylic Paints
• Plastics
• Photographs
• Fluorescent and
Metallic colors
Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive II, 1963

34. Pop art was appealing
to many viewers, while
others felt it made fun of
common people and
their lives. It was hard
for some people to
understand why Pop
Artists were painting
cheap, everyday
objects, when the
function of art
historically was to
uphold and represent
culture’s most valuable
ideals.
Listerine Bottle, 1963,  AWF

35. ANDY WARHOL WAS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS
POP ARTISTS. PART OF HIS ARTISTIC PRACTICE WAS
USING NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW WAYS OF
MAKING ART INCLUDING:
• Photographic Silk-Screening
• Repetition
• Mass production
• Collaboration
• Media events
Andy Warhol, Brillo
Boxes installation,

36. WARHOL APPROPRIATED (USED WITHOUT
PERMISSION) IMAGES FROM MAGAZINES,
NEWSPAPERS, AND PRESS PHOTOS OF THE MOST
POPULAR PEOPLE OF HIS TIME
Silver Liz [Ferus Type], 1963,  AWF
©2006 Life Inc.

37. WARHOL USED THE REPETITION OF MEDIA EVENTS
TO CRITIQUE AND REFRAME CULTURAL IDEAS
THROUGH HIS ART
Jackie paintings, 1964,  AWF

38. WARHOL TOOK COMMON EVERYDAY ITEMS AND
GAVE THEM IMPORTANCE AS “ART” HE RAISED
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NATURE OF ART:
Knives, 1981,  AWF
What makes one work of art better than another?
Brillo Soap Pads Box, 1964,  AWF

39. THE ART WORLD TODAY REFLECTS MANY OF THE IDEAS, METHODS
AND MATERIALS INITIATED BY THE POP ART MOVEMENT.
Barbara Kruger, Untitled, 1991
Courtesy: Mary Boone Gallery, NY
In Untitled, 1991, Barbara Kruger uses
the iconography of the American flag
and hard edge graphics to pose a series
of provocative questions about
American cultural values.
In Rabbit, 1986, artist Jeff Koons cast a
mass-produced inflatable Easter bunny in
highly polished stainless steel. The
sculpture became iconic of art in the
1980s.
Jeff Koons, Rabbit,
1986,  Jeff Koons