(Continuous Tone: After Seurat)

Plan: 

Placing a focus on soft and subtle transitions of value, the “Blurry Selfie” will be created by rendering shades of gray smoothly into neighboring values and through a process similar to that of the mass gesture made through a series of tight scribbles. Students will strive to achieve a volumetric illusion of form and dimension with the drawing, and utilizing Georges Seurat as the primary point of reference, consider the texture of the paper as a means to create his signature pointillism effect.  Through this work, which employs the use of graphite pencil on toned charcoal paper (ingres paper), students will obtain an understanding of value to create volume and spatial depth, demonstrate the relationship between value, color temperature, and form, and further their development in building negative space through the push of figure/ground.