1. ASSESSMENT
Your assessment for my section of the subject will be based on a written and visual report containing:
1. One finished A4 pen and ink drawing of a mythological scene, based on a story from the Metamorphoses of the Roman poet Ovid. You are required to design and execute an original composition showing a scene chosen from one of the seven stories listed below. Any work that is a copy of a pre-existing work by another artist will be treated as plagiarism.
2. Preparatory work done inside and outside class, that must include:
(1) all of your compositional studies exploring and developing alternative compositions and tonal schemes.
(2) your original photo reference and sketchbook studies that you have used for the figures, details, landscape settings, etc.
(3) your full-scale final preparatory study (modello) in pencil.
(4) three reduced-scale colour roughs exploring the expressive effect of alternative colour schemes.
3. A concise written account explaining your choices, successes and difficulties in each step of the project (maximum 500 words).
You should ensure that your choice of subject allows you to demonstrate your grasp of the topics dealt with in this section of the course. Specifically, it must
(1) show an effective composition, based on demonstrated exploration of alternative arrangments,
(2) show a minimum of two figures that look "solid", and whose psychological interaction is displayed in believable and expressive gestures,
(3) be in some kind of architectural setting, with all elements of the picture in a consistent and believable perspective, and
(4) make use of original photo reference and sketches (i.e. don't guess anything that you can find out).
Weighting: 25% of subject
TOPICS:
Choose your scene from one of the following seven stories. Remember, you must choose a scene with at least two interacting characters in some kind of architectural setting:
Phaeton at the Sun's Palace (Book 2, lines 1-149)
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Latin/Metamorph2.htm#_Toc64106101
Semele, Juno and Jupiter (Book 3, lines 253-315)
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Latin/Metamorph3.htm#_Toc64106187
Arachne (Book 6, lines 1-145)
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Latin/Metamorph6.htm#_Toc64106362
Niobe (Book 6, lines 146-311)
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Latin/Metamorph6.htm#_Toc64106367
The Minotaur, Theseus, and Ariadne (Book 8, lines 152-182).
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Latin/Metamorph8.htm#_Toc64106496
Pygmalion (Book 10, lines 243-296)
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Latin/Metamorph10.htm#_Toc64105570
Ulysses and Circe (Book 14, lines 223-305)
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Latin/Metamorph14.htm#_Toc64108196
DEADLINES (due in each case at start of class)
Week 4: SHOW first compositional roughs in class
Week 7: SHOW completed full-scale pencil modello of illustration in class
Week 9: SUBMIT final drawing and accompanying materials
OVID LINKS:
TEXT:
Ovid Metamorphoses (translated by Tony Kline)
Tony Kline's free, plain English translation should prove quite readable, even if English is not your first language. Furthermore, the pdf has a fully hyperlinked contents, making it easy to find any character in the text.
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/klineasovid.htm (pdf, 4.2 MB)
or browse online at:
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Latin/Ovhome.htm
IMAGES and COMMENTARY:
OVID: METAMORPHOSES (Hans-Jürgen Günther)
"Richly illustrated by famous artists in European history"
http://www.latein-pagina.de/ovid/ovid_m1.htm
to
http://www.latein-pagina.de/ovid/ovid_m15.htm
Achilles to Zephyr: An Alphabetical Listing of Greek and Roman Art by Topic (Lilith Gallery, Toronto).
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/greekroman/Achilles-to-Zephyr-List-of-Greek-Roman-Art.html
Theoi Project (Aaron Atsma).
http://www.theoi.com/Galleries.html
Images from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Visual Renderings from the Middle Ages to the Present
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/shum404/gallery.htm
The Ovid Collection (University of Virginia)
http://etext.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/
The Ovid Project: Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses (Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont).
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/ovid/
The Ambrose Collection
http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/?Page=mainpagelinks/ambrose.html
Engravings by Johannes Baur. 1703.
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/ovid/baur1703/index.html
Images from the 1640 edition translated by George Sandys
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/ovid/sandys1640/sandys1640.html
Ovid's Metamorphoses (Rijkmuseum)
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_encyclopedia/00046929?lang=en
Greek Mythology Link (Carlos Parada)
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/METAMORPHOSES.html
EXAMPLES OF LINE ILLUSTRATION
Flaxman's Iliad and Odyssey (pdf book)
http://books.google.com/books?vid=057SsIKCquMO884tT7w&id=azcRAAAAIAAJ
http://books.google.com/books?vid=0OYFmpcf0F-bq8xjXDn&id=wjcRAAAAIAAJ
Flaxman's Odyssey (images)
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/ashp/flaxman_odyssey.html
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/John_Flaxman
Willy Pogany's illustrations for The Adventures of Odysseus & the Tale of Troy.
http://www.bartleby.com/75/illus.html
EXAMPLES OF ARCHITECTURAL SETTINGS
For ideas for classical architectural settings, see these 185 paintings by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=8
2. ADDITIONAL READING FOR CLASSES
O-Week: LANDMARKS in the HISTORY of WESTERN ART.
Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art).
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
Week 1: SEEING SHAPE.
Two classics on drawing available as free ebooks:
Speed, Harold. The Practice and Science of Drawing.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14264
Guptill, Arthur Leighton,1922. Sketching and Rendering in Pencil.
http://www.archive.org/details/sketchingrenderi00guptuoft
Week 2: CONSTRUCTION.
Vilppu Drawing Online (Glenn Vilppu):
Here are five short tutorials selected from a series of twelve in the free online version of the Vilppu Drawing Manual.
Introduction
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&column=vilppu&article_no=764
Gesture
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&column=vilppu&article_no=573
Spherical Forms
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&column=vilppu&article_no=440
The Box
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&column=vilppu&article_no=402
Seeing Anatomical Masses
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&column=vilppu&article_no=1177
Week 3: MATERIALS.
A Drawing Glossary (Fogg Art Museum).
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/fogg/drawingglossary.html
Drawing Materials and Drawing Techniques - an Introduction (Michael Miller).
http://web.archive.org/web/20070618182235/www.nyu.edu/classes/miller/guide/contents.html
Printmaking techniques - short summaries with links:
http://www.monoprints.com/info/otheraspects.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/prnt/hd_prnt.htm
PEN ILLUSTRATION TECHNIQUE LINKS
Ellwood, G. Montague , 1927. The Art Of Pen Drawing.
http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scripts/use_scripts/advnew/metainfo.cgi?&barcode=139999 (read online)
or download whole book here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?04liryfzinb
Maginnis, Charles. Pen Drawing - An Illustrated Treatise.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17502 (4.9 MB zip) OR
http://www.archive.org/details/pendrawingillust00magirich (DjVu/pdf)
Sullivan, Edmund J. 1921. The Art Of Illustration.
http://www.archive.org/details/TheArtOfIllustration
Sullivan, Edmund J. 1922. Line - An Art Study.
http://www.archive.org/details/lineartstudy00sulluoft
Week 4: COMPOSITION
Poore, Rankin, 1903. Pictoral Composition and the Critical Judgement of Pictures.
Good source of ideas on artistic composition current at the start of the twentieth century. http://www.archive.org/details/pictorialcomposi00pooruoft
Dow, Arthur Wesley, 1913. Composition; a series of exercises in art structure for the use of students and teachers.
http://www.archive.org/details/compositionserie00dowauoft
Compositional Studies for Barocci's Visitation.
Week 5: PERSPECTIVE
Loomis, Andrew, from Figure Drawing for All It's Worth.
Good section on the figure in perspective.
http://fineart.sk/show.php?w=900 (to 919)
http://fineart.sk/index.php?s=8&cat=12 (index page)
Storey, G. A. The Theory and Practice of Perspective.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20165/20165-h.zip
Watson, Ernest. How To Use Creative Perspective.
http://www.archive.org/details/howtousecreative036957mbp (pdf 11 MB/ DjVu 7.5 MB)
Loomis, Andrew, Perspective from Successful Drawing.
http://fineart.sk/show.php?w=161 (to 210)
http://fineart.sk/index.php?s=16&cat=15 (index page)
Week 6: PRODUCTION WEEK
Week 7: LIGHT AND SHADE
Briggs, David, 2007. Basics of Light and Shade in The Dimensions of Colour
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/021.php
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/022.php
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/023.php
Loomis, Andrew, Light on the Basic Forms, from Successful Drawing.
http://fineart.sk/show.php?w=211 (to 230)
http://fineart.sk/index.php?s=64&cat=15 (index page)
Week 8: COLOUR
Briggs, David, 2007. The Dimensions of Colour.
http://huevaluechroma.com
Basic Color Theory for the Desktop (Adobe)
http://dba.med.sc.edu/price/irf/Adobe_tg/color/main.html
Colour links (efg's Computer Lab)
http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Library/Color/index.html
http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Library/Color/Science.htm
http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Library/Color/AndComputers.htm