Photography & Drawing: Idea

Photographs can be used to encourage and help students continue practicing their drawing skills. In class I show the work of William Wegman, but not just the photographs of his famous dogs!

He has a body of paintings in which he incorporates photographs on the canvas and then finishes the image using paint.  Students are often inspired by his work and develop various ways to apply his techniques in their journals and in final projects.

(examples of his paintings and drawings incorporating photographs can be found here: http://www.wegmanworld.com/gallery/works.html)

 Here is an example from a Photography I student.