Open to a new page in your sketchbook and titleit “Art Criticism Warm-Up”. In completesentences critique the following works using thetype of criticism labeled above the work.

Mark Rothko

Untitled

1968

Dorothea Lange

Untitled

Photographed during the GreatDepression

Contextual

Daniel Garber

Tanis

1915

FormalIntuitive

OBSERVATIONALDRAWING

Paul Cezanne

Still Life withApples

1893

What makes a drawing “good”?

Don’t forget…•Lines of Symmetry•Level Lines•Ellipses

Drawing the Ellipse

Step 1: Choose your subject.

Please pick 2 objects from the stilllife closet. Only choose bottles,

cups or pitchers.

Arrange all of your objects as agroup in the center of the table.

Step 2: Practice!

Start by drawing the object closestto you.

1. Ellipse2. Line of Symmetry3. Continue will ellipses all the waydown the form4. Connect ellipses with contour line5. Continue drawing objects that arebehind the first object you drew

Observational DrawingTips & Tricks

• Draw what you SEE, not what youKNOW.

• Look more at your subject than yourpaper.

• Draw LIGHTLY when you are mappingout your composition.

• Check your forms for symmetry byturning your paper upside down.