SPACE: Homework for Monday 24th

Thank you all for making it to College Green to take a small part in an international movement.

oh and drawing in the cold.

SPACE: a complicated concept in the second dimension.

3 drawings.  in you sketchbook.

Each Drawing should have the same subject (observational drawing.)
each 3 drawings should have a different spacial sense.

utilize:
light
speed
density
focal point
atmospheric perspective(fuzzy/clear)

Medium?
size of support(paper)

Ink and Paper Collage due Monday 17 October

Nice work exploring Ink with your individual Stillife setups.  I saw successes in everyone's work.

For homework, Continue to explore Ink and Try Collage as you conduct "research" about your final project.  Keep the research open , keep exploring, don't get too specific yet.

Due on the critique wall monday is a series of some sort, utilizing the mediums of Ink and paper collage.  You can draw/paint with Ink and/or you can make different values of paper with your ink to collage with.  You can use any paper.

A few possibilities to consider as part of your ongoing research (better to focus on 1 or 2 at a time):

TECHNICAL 
What type of support (try painting/collaging on several different types of ground)

Size/numbers of Support (what will your series look like, many small works, 2 large works, etc)

Mark Making/ Shape finding (ink is a good medium to explore types of marks and what they express for you versus          how your audience reads them-get a read at critique)

CONCEPTUAL


BIG IDEA(what are all the possible subjects that connect to my idea?)

What does each sense(smell, touch, sight, sound, taste!) have to say about my Big or more specific idea?)

Observational/Conceptual/Abstract?  Sketches/Thumbnails?

Goods luck have fun, I look forward to seeing what u find
-Cheryl

Technical Homework due Wed 10/12

Value chart.
10- square inch boxes,  sharing an edge to edge vertically lined up make a value chart when the #1 box is left white and in a even fade the inches darken (increase value) evenly up to box 10 which should be black.  The transitions between the values should flow, not be sharply delineated.


3 charts, each made with a different grade pencil, ex., 2B, 6B, 8B, employ your gummy(gray eraser)

Value-The relative lightness and darkness of all things.

Homework due monday october10

The series of Four drawings, including the 'most transformed fruit image' and 3 others of your direction
&
a big idea that your Final paper concept(little/specific idea) might fall under.

this may help:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qrE_rBrJQ&feature=related

working in a Series, starting with a Gesture

TO DO FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26.

2 drawings, related*= a series.

*related, by medium, content, size, etc.

Assigned Process=
1.  Begin drawings by covering all -almost all white of page with gesture drawings of a live subject.
2.  Use eraser to continue working into/on drawings, deductive step.
3.  Follow where drawing wants to go, may continue to work deductively or additively
4.  Keep drawing ALIVE
5.  Have Fun
6. Stay aware, bring thoughts as well as pieces to crit on Monday

CHECK OUT GESTURE DRAWINGS:
http://www.google.com/search?q=gesture+drawings&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=M816TrizBKmFsgLznKGhAw&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1091&bih=615

Back on Track

Due Monday September 19:  A large drawing(18x24) on Drawing Paper,(Bristol)
An abstract space composed of lines 'found' from sound.

1.  on a scrap piece of paper listen to 5 sounds, with each listening experience, try to translate the sound and possibly rhythm  into marks.  Invent and transpose rather than illustrate.

2.  Use one, some or all of your found marks to create a composition .


3.  How do the marks interact, relate to one another?  Have you varied their size.  What are the marks relationship to the outside edge of the paper?

4.  What type of space are you building, ask the drawing what it sounds like?

5.  Have Fun

make-up in- class for last week:  Monday's class, drawing outside, 1 landscape view, concentrating on variation of mark, and 1 object from the landscape(close up.  homework; 2 objects or two landscapes, landscapes could be made smaller than full page by drawing box/frame for drawing prior to beginning to draw.

Wednesday(from classtime), contour drawing of plant:  2 blind contour drawings, can do in notebook if making up, do not look at page, do not lift pencil, be the ant, become aware of your own pace.  1 long study of plant, including cross contour, the lines, or dotted lines or indication of the ant (and our eye traveling across the plane, the leaf, the arm, whatever the form may be.)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

Sunday, August 28

3:00 pm

5:15 pm

Tuesday, August 30

7:00 pm

9:15 pm

Wednesday, August 31

7:00 pm

9:15 pm

Thursday, September 1

7:00 pm

9:15 pm

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

In 1994, one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of the decade came to light in a cave in Southern France, known as the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc: etchings estimated at around 30,000 years old. The date of origin made these some of the oldest remnants of humankind ever discovered. Unsurprisingly, these artistic remnants bore a precious fragility — experts asserted that overexposure, even to elements as seemingly harmless as human breath, could severely damage or destroy the drawings. For that reason, few obtained access to this area. One exception arrived in the form of maverick German filmmaker Werner Herzog, who not only obtained permission to film (with lights that emit no heat) but did so in 3D — a process that enabled him to convey the textured surfaces on which the figures are drawn, as well as the shape and depth of the cave’s stalagmites and other structures. This astonishing 3D documentary not only provides exquisite visual detail of the cave (as Herzog explores it) but uses the visuals as a springboard to broader philosophical questions about the nature of humanity itself and the transience of humankind.

“To call this movie fascinating is akin to calling the Grand Canyon large.” -Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter

90 min, 35 mm

Trailer: http://www.ifcfilms.com/videos/cave-of-forgotten-dreams-2

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I hope everyone has set their eyes on this imagery.  

HOMEWORK:

2 pages of "notes" in sketchbook

1 pg written reflection, "your connection to a figure in the film", who/what do you identify with?

1 large drawing (18x24 or larger) "inspired by" Herzog's film.

TERMS/SOURCES FROM CLASS:

George Nick(the great corrector) realist painter, google him.

Countour Line