A great video. Watching all the great sketching videos of 12 days of Christmas series had me discouraged a bit, but watching yours renewed my hope if I keep practicing consistently, and lean on talented people for help when I need it, I will be able to achieve my best. Thank you

Thank you Stan for critique. I am so happy you choose mine. While doing the assignment I was confused. You have cleared my doubts. In the video you had mentioned about the fruit that looked like kiwi, well that is a fruit found in Cambodia called Logan.

Well I am late for submitting the assignment but here is my submission. I was able to do make lines intersect in the center but they are wobbly. Also the points on the circle are not exactly where they should be

What an interesting assignment. This assignment has taught me to look at a painting not just with admiration but with attitude to analyze , understand, and get inspired by a painting. Here is my submission. Three of the studied paintings First---Thomas Moran I could find 4 elements in this landscape of cliffs of Green River Wyoming by Thomas Moran. D -Diminution -biggest cliff looks closest and the further away cliffs are smaller in size. Even the figures are getting smaller as they are moving further away. Size of trees is bigger in front than at the back. C- Convergence -Cliffs are converging towards left same is with group of people, animals and trees. F- Foreshortening- I could not find evidence of that here. O Overlap- lots of evidence. First the Cliffs main subject of the landscape has cliffs overlapping. Figures and trees are also overlapping. A -Atmosphere. Clouds in sky and their shadows on cliffs and bit of fog on cliffs is a way that Mr. Moran has depicted the depth in this beautiful landscape Second---Andre Bouvard Andre Bouvard’s –Venice In this landscape D--I see use of Diminution when artist made the right side building bigger and left side houses are much smaller giving illusion, we as an observer are closer to right building. Again the green door on right looks much bigger to the brown door on the big building giving impression that smaller building with tree is the closest. C -Convergence one point convergence is very clear F –Foreshortening. Here too I could not find any evidence of it. It might be I do not understand Foreshortening. O –Overlap-Various buildings overlapping, pink sailboat overlapping yellow sailboat making it recede. Gondolas are overlapping. A Atmosphere -Hazy sky and blurred building at the back. Third --Jim Lee Trinity by Jim Lee D -Diminution Look at the buildings, building in foreground are bigger than ones in background. As the building are receding artist made them smaller. C -Convergence - Artist made three figures which are converging. White rays in sky seem to be converging to same point. F -Foreshortening – There is plenty of evidence. Superman figure, exaggerated fist, thigh of batman, legs of wonder woman. O -Overlap- Overlapping buildings, plane overlapping buildings and three figures overlapping everything. A -Atmosphere – Blurred buildings in background and clouds in sky

Here is my submission, as traveling I took pictures of various still life and some rock sculpture that I saw, instead of arranging my own still life.

Tried all the drawings without any tools beside pencil and eraser. Lines are not very straight and angles are not perfect but I wanted to learn from it without any instruments. Once I understand the concept little I will try again with tools/ instruments. First 3 submissions are replication or studies. Last two drawings are my imagination. Tried to portray three rods inside each other. It was fun to see by just changing few lines how the order of rods going into each other changes .

Here is my submission that I tried to submit on 10th but an error message popped up saying my submission was treated as spam. I am traveling and out of my home country that may be the reason for it. I am resubmitting my assignment. First few are replication of studies and last two are my imagination of three rectangular sticks inside each other. It is so very interesting to see how changing just few lines you can change which block goes into the other one. I have not used any tools as I wanted to understand the concept before complicating it with precise lines and angles.

It is very inspirational. So excited and ready to learn from a great teacher

Here is my submission for both levels. Before I started I thought it will be an easy assignment but when I started doing it it was challenging. To judge base and make it flat was tough. It was tough but a very enjoyable experience. I have hardly used markers so that was another difficult part to make it streak free. I was unable to do that but will try again and learn. Below are the images. First one is level one, second one is blind one - level2 and last one is using prismacolor marker cool gray.

When I see a painting that catches my breath I want to go inside and learn all about the story in front of me. I want to draw not just the story in front of me but also the story that is happening away from our eyes, in other words my goal is to learn perspective so I can correctly depict what is in front of me as well as from angles I cannot see. My other goal for future is to depict people in places that I have captured in my imagination. Some of the paintings I enjoy looking at and their artist 1. Raphel 2. Jacques Rousseau 3. Thomas Cole 4. Casper Van Wittel 5. Arthur E. Grimshaw 6 and 7 are couple of the pictures that I captured on my various travels that I would love to bring to life on a canvas and also draw them from a different angle.