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An indoor window at the entry to a local Japanese restaurant gives patrons a view of what they can expect.

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While walking through the courtyard, I noticed that the gazebo nicely framed a neighbor's doorway and divided the frame into three vertical parts. The middle level was then divided again into thirds with the door in the center and trees on each side.

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During Cherry Blossom season I often use branches and leaves to frame flowers or the hanging cherry blossoms to frame buildings and monuments. While the cherry blossoms are past the hydrangeas are in bloom. I tried to capture two flowers framed between 3 trunks of the crepe myrtle.

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I attempted to photograph and crop the image evenly, but some of the edges might have gotten cut off.

I was surprisingly nervous about this assignment - I don't have much experience with freehand drawing. I think that it is because I am left-handed and it was difficult when I was younger. Still, I'm trying to push myself with new methods. I did want to experiment with more geometrical lines than the figural images in the student examples as a start and kept trying different things. I tried a lot of cross-hatching as the use of that for shading was new to me. I'd seen it many times in computer graphics but not as much freehand.

I actually enjoyed the brush exercises quite a bit. I do enjoy the style of liked chinese/japanese brush and calligraphy drawings so that is motivation to keep practicing. I did try both the wet and dry brush work methods. One method from the videos that I really enjoyed practicing was painting the paper with water and then dipping some ink into the still-wet part and seeing the ink diffuse to fill in the image. With this method it was interesting to work "blind" and then see the image appear.

I will certainly need to wait longer for the ink to dry, as it was a bit frustrating to notice the smudges after I moved the paper to take a photograph.

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I learned quite a bit from the layering exercise, as getting different shades required a different method in each medium. I was most used to the pencil method. Using Ink, I tried the first method (no cross-hatching) in two different ways. The method that I found worked best was to repeatedly work throughout each of the 8 shaded squared, and each time start one square further left. So the first time I would go through 8 squares, the second time 7, the third time 6 squares, and so on. This allowed me to control gradually darkening the squares.

Paint was fairly challenging for me. I found it interesting to mix the white and black paint to try and produce different shades and to go over previously-painted squares again to adjust the darkness or lightness of the square. When I repeat the exercise, I'll probably test the palette in the paper plate I used to mix the paints. I would try mixing several still-wet dollops of paint to get a ange of greys before transferring them to the paper.

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My photo with grid. The photo was slightly larger than 8 x 10 so I left the extra space off of the grid.

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My sketch of the photo. It definitely needs some work, especially around the face details, but I learned a lot from this lesson. I drew the squares in 1.5" size to fit the drawing pad that I had. I did add some shading to help me tell which features (hair, glasses) were which.

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This was an interesting exercise that taught me how much can be done with shades of grey. One surprising challenge was estimating how much of a certain value of paint I would need when blending and then trying to match it if I needed more. I also did have a bit of difficulty not seeing the whole image even if I rotated the painting, and I painted most of this with the canvas sideways. Having one of the cut-out cardboard sheets like in the videos might have been helpful. However, I found that I generally wanted to complete all of the sections with one value ata time, and then move to gradually lighter sections as I went on.

This assignment was a very educational practice.

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This was a fun exercise remembering geometry classes.

As the video suggested I drew an extra line to bisect the red and blue pies for the two different hues within each.

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This was an interesting assignment. I've used color wheels in software programs before, but I enjoyed blending the different hues together and seeing how various colors emerged. It's a great exercise to get familiar with a set of paints and I now have a better understanding of how various colors in paintings were created.

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While reading about colors, I was fascinated by the many different natural sources of pigments that artists would find. I was inspired by this idea to find a color scheme in my local grocery store based just on the colors of fruits and vegetables. I chose green as the base color, as that would give me the most variety with this natural palette.

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Based on the green of a Granny Smith apple, I found that limes had a similar hue, inside and out. By arranging them I created a monochromatic color array.

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There were plenty of hues of green available to build an analogous palette. Yellowish green bananas that weren't yet ripe bordered the yellow hues, while a pear helped transition to apple green. A cucumber provided a darker green and the blue-green of the kale provided the other border.

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A red Honeycrisp apple contrasts with the green Granny Smith. A red bell pepper, cut open, provides additional contrast in color and shape while mirroring the cut lime.

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Looking around the color wheel the orange bell pepper and violet eggplant create a triadic color scheme. As I learned from the color wheel, purples tend to be very dark and the eggplant is darker in this picture than in reality, but finding light purples was a challenge.

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The "little library" giving away seeds at the local community garden, framed by foliage.

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White flowers in a frame with the garden fence

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Blue chair behind screened garden fence.