Students were asked to develop a minimum of three concepts for their upcoming project. The concepts needed to deal with the idea of "transformation" and needed to include a "transition" from black and white to color. Students developed their 3 concepts, refined their ideas down to one final concept, and submitted photographs to use as references for their finished product. However, what the students did not know was that their final projects would be created without ever knowing what the finished image would be. I wanted the students to really focus on the colored pencil techniques they were learning and not on the image itself. I took each student's concept and created images in Photoshop, cut them into 30 squares, and gave each student a bag filled with their 30 individual squares. Students drew a grid on their final project paper, and one square at a time, began to transfer each square onto the final paper. As a result, students refined their colored pencil techniques by building up each layer of pigment, blending colors together, color mixing and pressure control. Here are the results!
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