Home assignment:

Intro to Mixed Media: Combining Collage & Conté Crayons

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Instructions

Week 1:

Finish collaging your backgrounds from class if you didn't finish.

Home Assignment:

Create and photograph a still life. Think about:

  • Your objects
    • How many to include
    • Switch your objects out
  • Your perspective
    • Higher, lower, from behind, facing the left or right
  • The position of the light
    • Higher, lower, from behind, facing the left or right
  • Variety of objects' heights
  • Staggering objects so they're not in line with one another
    • You can make objects in line with another as long as there's another interesting point, like unusual ligh
  • Composition
    • Balance
      • Asymmetrical or symmetrical
    • Cropped or not
    • Zoomed in or zoomed out (how much background is showing)
  • The shapes of negative spaces

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