This is another “birds eye view” of a still life that I created in ink and liquid acrylic paint in 2010.

I have been  an adjunct professor  teaching art at St. Louis Community College at Meramec  since 1997.
A class I teach is “Drawing for Graphics” ,which I call drawing ideas for graphic design. It was the first class that I taught at Meramec and since 1997 I have changed the assignments many times.
One of my early assignments in this class was titled “Drawing textures and shapes. One part of this assignment was to draw four  rectangle  shapes
4″ wide x 2” high and within those rectangle shapes draw a square, triangle, rectangle and circle. The students were to overlap shapes to create foreground, middle ground and background. They were to draw within the shapes texture and tone to create depth. Below is one of the best solutions to…