Assignment #3: Rocks

Due March 21

As always, this projects is meant to be a point of departure to a vast number of directions your paintings could take, so I’ll make it as simple as possible:

Igneous. Metamorphic. Sedimentary.

As you’ll remember from 9^th grade Earth Science, these are the three types of rocks found in the earth’s crust.  Your painting must include them and be about them.  Have fun! 

Assignment #2: Plants

Assignment #2: Plants

Much like the first painting of the semester where you made a painting about a variety of animals, you are now to make a painting about plants.  Like animals, every plant in existence is unique and complex.  Like the animal painting, this painting embraces the pattern and textures in nature that synthetic materials tend to edit out.

You are to design a composition that includes a variety of plant types: at least one deciduous plant, at least one succulent plant, and at least one flower. You may have other elements to the composition, but the painting must be primarily about the plants.  Embrace the surface and texture that will probably come of making a plant painting. 

Like the animal painting, research any possible meaning that your particular plants or combinations of plants might have.  Good luck!