Final assignment for Drawing I Fall 2022: Food Self Portrait

1. Final for Drawing I
Food Self Portrait

2. Final: Food Self Portrait
• DUE DATE/Final Critique: Wednesday December 7, 12:30, Late
work will not be accepted.
• Wednesday November 23: Regular class: finish color and/or
start ideas for final
• Monday November 28: Work at home on final
• Wednesday November 30: Student reception @12:30 Cliff
Gallery, work in open lab or at home
• Monday December 5: Work at home on final
• Wednesday December 7: Final Drawing and Artist Statement
due in class

3. Final Assignment Details
Create a composition using your favorite meal (food) that
best represents you. Arrange a real-life meal that you love to
eat and draw it using color pastels.
Materials: minimum size 18 x 24 inches, quality drawing paper
or canson mi teintes paper, color pastels
Artist Statement: Students will learn how to write an artist
statement and write about their final drawing. Artist
statement is due at the same time as the final drawing.

4. COMPOSITION
Composition: horizontal or vertical orientation, placement on page,
scale of objects in relation to page, negative and positive space
arrangement

5. SPACE/PERSPECTIVE
Space/Perspective: consider the background, middle ground and
fore ground, sense of depth, surface on which the objects rest,
what is behind or surrounding the objects

6. VALUE
Value: aspects of dark and light observed from life, consider
lighting when arranging your still life, use a lamp or natural lighting
situation

7. • Color: naturalistic, expressive, or arbitrary use of color using
techniques like hatching, blending, pointilism or scumbling
Color & pastel technique

8. Artist Statement
Describe your
artwork. What is the
title of your artwork?
How did you create
the work? Describe
process, technique
and materials.
What is the main idea
behind your artwork?
Describe inspiration,
other artworks or
artists that inspired
you.
What was learned in
the making of this
art?
Is the final work what
you imagined it to be
in the brainstorming
and sketching period?
How will this artwork
or the process you
took influence your
art in the future?
Must be typed and
submitted to
eCampus Blackboard.
12 point Arial font.

9. Artists Who Made Art About Food

10. • Still Life with Ham,
Lobster and Fruit
• Artist: Jan Davidsz
de Heem (1606-1684)

11. Wayne Thiebaud

14. • Shrimp Boil
• Elaine Hodges

15. Noah Verrier

16. Greg Carr

17. • Patianne Stevenson

18. La Table de
Fruits de
Mer Painting
Dianne
Parks

20. Final: Food Self Portrait
• DUE DATE/Final Critique: Wednesday December 7, 12:30, Late
work will not be accepted.
• Wednesday November 23: Regular class: finish color and/or
start ideas for final
• Monday November 28: Work at home on final
• Wednesday November 30: Student reception @12:30 Cliff
Gallery, work in open lab or at home
• Monday December 5: Work at home on final
• Wednesday December 7: Final Drawing and Artist Statement
due in class