Project inspired by Wayne Jiang, Edward hopper, andAndrew Wyeth

Creating a “Sense of Place”

Jiang said, “I like to create paintings that reflect on stillness, solitude, and mystery.”

Create a “sense of place” inA painting. Take multiple pictures of places that you wish the viewer to “feel”.

Let the lighting guide youIn creating the sense of mystery, wonder or intrigue that you wish to convey. Make multiple thumbnails to capture what you want to paint.

How do artists create a sense of mystery or intrigue? Is someone about to walk in, or did they just leave? Can you hear silence or noise in a painting?

“I believe in using simple, quiet scenes and objects to communicate deep emotion and relevance.” Wayne Jiang, 2009

Edward Hopper

American Artist (1882-1967)

Edward Hopper gained widespread recognition as a central exponent of American Scene painting, expressing the loneliness, vacuity, and stagnation of town life. Yet Hopper remained always an individualist: `I don't think I ever tried to paint the American scene; I'm trying to paint myself.'

Paintings such as Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago, 1942) convey a mood of loneliness and desolation by their emptiness or by the presence of anonymous, non-communicating figures. But of this picture Hopper said: `I didn't see it as particularly lonely.

Rooms by the Sea, Edward Hopper, 1951

Sun in an Empty Room, 1963

Chair Car, 1965

Andrew Wyeth, American PainterJuly 12, 1917-January 16, 2009

Groundhog Day Study, Watercolor, 1959

The New Table28 x 20, Oil on Canvas

Her Room, 1963

Otherworld, 2002

From an AP2D Design Concentration(See website for more Pictures)

Jessica Hovis, AP 2010

Charcoal drawings of her Church court yard (at different phases of the moon)

Will Farrell, oil painting 16 x 20, AP 2010

Jessica HovisSense of Place, IrelandAP 2010Oil

Elizabeth ShinnOil painting for Sense of PlaceAP 2010

Mary Pate Mills, AP 2010, Sense of Place from a missions trip photo

Mary Pate, from Concentration series

Instructions for project:

1. Capture interesting scenes/places that you would like to illustrate. Make sure that there is a sense of mystery, intrigue, emptiness, warmth, or some similar emotion you wish to convey through the scene you choose to illustrate. Use a digital camera to take multiple pictures of different places so you will have choices.

2. Print your thumbnails images (digital photographs). Working from the thumbnails, create a small ‘notecard ‘ value study, merging shapes and massing values together until you have 3 main values. One value should be dominant (do not give the same amount of space or importance to all three values, let one dominate the image).

3. Enlarge your best composition to approximately 4” x 6” in your sketchbook, making a complete value study. This will make your painting or drawing more powerful.

4. Decide on a medium, and create several small color studies to determine the best color scheme.5. Find a canvas or piece of paper that works best with your choice of media (no larger than 18 x 24)6. Collect your supplies and begin your project. It is due in 2 weeks from the day you begin the

assignment.

Rubric:1. Planning (thumbnails, value studies, and color study) __________/202. Execution (craftsmanship, handling and use of media) __________/303. Composition (arrangement of elements and principles of art) __________/354. Creativity (use of media, challenging approach to the project) __________/15

Project total _________/100

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