October 3th class: Volume and Value

Final drawing - Ancient Egyptian culture

This is my final drawing from my exploration of Ancient Egypt culture. After focusing on the way they depicted the figures, I started exploring the colors used in their paintings.

I made this collage bringing together the forms and colors from Egypt, and from now. In spite of the differences, a lot of things are similar in both scenes. The pyramid-like form at the top of buildings is one example.

Ancient Egypt Culture

After going to the Stray Light Grey exhibit, I thought of choosing a culture that had a very different way of representing the reality in drawing.

So, I chose ancient Egypt because they had a very specific way of depicting things. All drawings are in two dimensional, there is not a notion of depth. They drew heads, eyes, legs and feet positioned as if you were looking at them from the side. They drew shoulders and chest as if you were looking at them from the front.

My first drawing is an ancient egypt woman, and the second one is a modern woman depicted with their way of drawing. Both of them carry objects from their world.