Collage and Still- Life (it tasted great!)

Greetings once again my journal. Keeping to my promise that I made yesterday, I’m writing in you at the soonest chance that I got; after chemistry home-work and Spanish revision was finished. Today in art class we drew a still-life just as Miss had on the agenda. Before we actually go down to business Miss gave us the definition of collage and she also gave us a few tips to help us while making a collage.

Collage

A collage consists of using materials not usually associated with each other and sticking them onto a flat surface, to create a composition.

Here's my collage ( it's supposed to be a setting sun) just in case it wasn't clear

I thought that this was pretty hard to do if that is what it meant I had to do. It basically means that in a collage I should use pieces of pipe with pages from an old magazine; use materials totally in contrast from each other. Or at least that’s what I took it to mean.

Back to the still-life, I chose an apple as my still-life which surprisingly came as a challenge to draw. I really wasn’t expecting it to be so intricate but, as usual, that’s what drawing is about. We started at around 11:00 a.m. and Miss told us to stop drawing at 11:35 a.m.  Things to remember about drawing are to always discern where your light is coming from. Also when you are shading a circular object you should be mindful not to shade as straight lines bout rather in 360 degrees circles so as to not stray away from the true nature of the object and to give it a proper three-dimensional look. Another thing that Miss reminded us about was that when our outlines for our drawings are too dark and sharp looking we should soften them by lightly passing an eraser over the outline.


And this is my Still-life apple and like I said... it tasted great after I drew it.