Standing in the Shoes of Renaissance Masters

Thanh Ngo

Leonardo da Vinci

In my sketch, cars are traveling forward through a street with buildings on both sides toward the sunset at the horizon. I chose to leave the image in black and white because I’m not good at coloring. I started this drawing by choosing a point where I want my horizon and then drew orthogonal lines around that point. This point became my vanishing point as I used the orthogonal lines to draw the street, cars, and buildings going toward that point. I showed atmospheric perspective by drawing objects that are in the foreground very dark and having them get lighter as they progress towards the background, the horizon. When the horizon is approached, every object, car, and building, the street, and the sun are drawn extremely light. To enhance the perspective of my drawing through scale, I drew cars and buildings that are in the foreground large and progressively smaller as they approach the horizon in the background. The car, the buildings, and the sun at the vanishing point are much smaller in scale than the objects at the foreground of the drawing.

Jarrod Pinkerton

Leonardo da Vinci

The city in the background is the vanishing point in the sketch. I used orthogonal lines coming from the vanishing point to make the road leading to the city. I made the tree and the road in the foreground darker to show atmospheric perspective. As the road approaches the city, it gets lighter. The tree closer to the city is lighter as well as the city itself.

Minh Nguyen

Michelangelo

At the beginning I thought it was an easy project, but when I put my hand on the peace of foam I don’t know where to start. It took me three tried to get the fourth one right. You have to have a very good idea of what to do before you even begin, if the idea is not there than there is a good chance of you messing up. I now understand the process of Michelangelo and even admire his work more. The object I have done is a bottle.

Ragale Russell

Michelangelo

For my sculpture I chose to do something that I thought was fairly easy. My subject was a Flat Screen Dell desktop computer. While at first this project seemed to be easy, I must say that after two ruined bars of soap I soon found out that it would be much more difficult. My first attempt was to try to achieve a 3-D effect with the bar of soap. I wanted my computer screen to sit up and have the keyboard sitting flat. On my first attempt I completed the computer screen but I could not carve off enough soap to get the keyboard to sit flat like I wanted it to. After cutting off too much soap the first time and cutting my soap completely in half the second time I gave up on that project. For my third try I decided to keep it simple. I carved out a computer screen and right underneath I cut out the keyboard. I decided to keep both on a flat surface to avoid any further mishaps. My finished product was not what I expected but it was the shape of a computer and would have to do for now. Michelangelo was able to create magnificent sculptures from marble. Even with a bar of soap I can acknowledge that this was not an easy task. From this project I now have a greater respect for his artwork and his approach to creating masterpieces.

Dennis Onabajo

Michelangelo

As soon as I put my eyes on the block of soap, I saw a tennis racket hidden beneath the layers. Often times artists express themselves in their art to reflect past experiences or desires. For me it was not a surprise to sculpt a tennis racket as it is something I have loved to do since I was a little child. I found it quite difficult to put my visualization which I had in my mind and make it a reality on the bar of soap due to the precision which was needed to create the 3d object.

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