All students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of texture, composition and value, through planning, sketching, and the creation of a tonal still life drawing.
Vanitas is a category of symbolic works of art, especially those associated with the still life paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries in Flanders and the Netherlands.
Philippe de Champaigne
Vanitas Still Life with a Tulip, Skull and Hour-Glass
Below are examples of other Baroque style still lives, How do these use juxtaposition?
Warm up: 20 min
Draw: Complete a detailed sketch of the human skull based on handout.
Answer: If you were to make a still life with a human skull, what are two other objects that your would juxtapose with the skull? How does the object you picked for this assignment relate to you? What does it symbolize to you?