Animal Portrait
Option # 1

Walton Ford is a contemporary artist currently working and exhibiting around the world. He is well known for his watercolor paintings of animals doing unexpected behaviors or in unexpected settings. His work is highly detailed employs a wide variety of color and value to achieve his level of rendering. 

Animal Portrait

You are to digitally paint an animal of your choice, either in a natural setting or in a portrait style. 
It must include the following:

1. A close up of your animal if it is a portrait. Or your animal in its natural habitat. 
2. Minimal background if a portrait. Or a natural background that makes sense for your animal.
3. It must show evidence of accurate texture (fur, feathers, skin etc)
4. There must be a wide variety of values to create form. 

​​There is no new tutorial for this assignment. You should be able to use my skull painting tutorial (which I've included below) to set up your work for painting. It is the same approach. ​

Emotional Portrait
Option # 2

Gustave Corbet was a french painter who lead the realist movement of the 19th century. His paintings are characterized by their heightened emotional state of unidealized people painted in a dramatic, romanticized way. His portraits have intense values to create form and depth and a strong light source. 

Emotional Portrait

You are to digitally paint a portrait of a person showing emotion. 
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It must include the following. 

1. It must be a close up of the face. 
2. Minimal background if at all (again, it is a closely cropped portrait) 
3. It must show an extreme emotion to give the painting visual interest. 
4. There must be a wide variety of values to create form.  
5. It cannot be a celebrity. We want an average person or a model (that isn't famous)

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​There is no new tutorial for this assignment. You should be able to use my skull painting tutorial (which I've included below) to set up your work for painting. It is the same approach. 

​Vanitas (Still Life) Painting
Option # 3

Rembrandt is one of the most influential artists in art history and is one of the great dutch masters. He employs chiaroscurro and a strong light source to achieve the value, depth and form evident in his paintings. 
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A Vanitas is a type of still life painting that has a high level of contrast or, chiaroscuro, to give the painting depth and a high level of drama. They depict live items such as flowers alongside dead and dying items such as rotten fruit and bones to drive home the concept that we should live life to the fullest and not concern ourselves with vanity, since none of us will escape death. 

Vanitas

You are to digitally paint a full Vanitas. It must include the following:

1. At least 5 objects in the Vanitas. (one skull, 2 live flowers, 1 dead flower, 1 hourglass.....etc)
2. The symbolism of the object must be clear! (Remember the symbolism of a Vanitas- death, life, time etc)
3. The objects must be on a surface of some kind. 
4. There must be chiaroscuro evident in the painting (as you recede into space your values should darken significantly)

There is no new tutorial for this assignment. You should be able to use my skull painting tutorial (which I've included below) to set up your work for painting. It is the same approach. 

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