Apple Drawing and Painting

We will draw the apple in front of you.  We want the apple to look 3D (like it has form) instead of 2D (a shape).  After drawing the apple, we will paint it.

Cross contour lines

1.  Bite into the apple.  Why?  Because drawing a perfectly round apple is boring!

2.  Draw the outline of the apple.

3.  Sketch the cross contour lines (vertical and horizontal).  

4.  Draw in the shadows.  Follow the direction of the cross contour lines - if your cross contour lines are curved, your shadow lines should be curved too.

Draw in the shadows

5.  Look carefully at where the light reflects off the table and apple.  It may surprise you!

6.  Don’t forget to draw the shadow!

7.  Take 3 pictures of the apple.  If you tap on the screen, the camera will focus on a different part of the frame: Shadow on the table, the darkest part on the apple, the lightest part on the apple.

Focused on the lightest part of the apple

Focused on the darkest part of the apple

Focused on the shadow

Art Fundies: Final Painting

Entire still-life display

1. Looking through a cardboard viewfinder, observe the entire still-life display.  Find a few compositions that you think work well.

2. Use my iPad Mini to take a picture of your favorite composition.

3. Adjust the colors and levels of the photograph on iPhoto on my computer.  Crop photograph.

4. Print.

5. Trim off white border.

6.  Measure and draw a 1-inch grid on your photograph:

7. Pick the size of your canvas.

8. Tape all 4 sides of your canvas, creating a 1" border.

9. Grid your canvas PROPORTIONATE to your printed photograph.  You will end up with the exact same number of squares in your grid, but they will be larger than 1".  Use fractional math to figure out how large to make your squares.

10. Draw the photograph onto your canvas.