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MARCUS ROSS, COMIC ARTIST @ EVERGREEN . marcossart.tumblr.com + instagram.com/marcrossart

Month: December 2018

PORTFOLIO: ALL IMAGES

Assignments
:
Week 1
2 blind contour portraits
3 color field/blind contour landscapes (intentional/accidental compositions)
Soundscapes (no pics of shared soundscape)
Dusk and dawn sky watercolors (from panoramas)

2 gridded color fields



Week 2
Still life value painting & drawing (bottles)
2 examples from Monday drawing/painting workshop
Week 3
Creative copy #1 (landscape, 2 paintings)
Still life painting of gourds (1 painting with glazing)
Week 4
Creative copy #2 (still life, 2 paintings)
2 examples from Monday workshop: Figure (skeleton) drawing & painting

Week 5
Creative copy #3 (figure, 2 paintings on alternative surfaces)
Photograph copy from the neck up (incomplete)
2 examples from Monday workshop: painting the figure




Week 6
Painting of a warm/cold object from imagination
Misc.
2 Wednesday life drawing sessions (dates of sessions, 2 examples from each session)

Final Project
3 images of process work
, stages of experimentation and where you took risk, weeks 7, 8, 9
1-3 images of final work
(one image of the final body of work installed in the exhibition is

required and more detail images are optional



Week 9 Final Update + Final Images

On Tuesday I greatly edited my large painting and made slight edits to all of my other paintings.  I completely redid the large painting pretty much.  I hadn’t done much for it yet but was dissatisfied with what I did have, so I painted over it completely with shades of blue.  The painting at this point was very muddled and chaotic, completely covered with unique shapes.  So I kept flipping the canvas over and over again until I saw a potential painting amongst the random shapes.  This is how I did most of my paintings this quarter.  Especially with the toothbrush plate painting, where I loosely globbed gesso on it and came up with a painting based on a composition I saw in the random gesso shapes.  The gesso shapes are still visible beneath the paint.

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