PROJECT GALLERIES
Simulated Woodcut Self Portrait / 40 points (due Monday, March 14)
Create a self portrait that expresses some aspect of your personality. (You could consider doing one that is: symbolic, superhero, just waking up, sad, nude, highly caffeinated, funny etc). What does the choice of pose tell you about the person? (Shy, confident, modest, romantic, confrontational or neutral), What is the background setting a specific place or something more ambiguous? You MUST include a background of some type and utilize the ENTIRE page.
Size: 1/2 sheet of black paper (This will be handed out in class, along with a white pencil- you already have a white conte crayon)- Below are some samples of student woodcuts to give you an idea of how you might think about mark making.
Remember, you are drawing the WHITE areas (Highlights) and letting the BLACK areas be the deep shadows. Study the various ways you can make marks, cross hatching, stippling to create the GRAY areas.
Create a self portrait that expresses some aspect of your personality. (You could consider doing one that is: symbolic, superhero, just waking up, sad, nude, highly caffeinated, funny etc). What does the choice of pose tell you about the person? (Shy, confident, modest, romantic, confrontational or neutral), What is the background setting a specific place or something more ambiguous? You MUST include a background of some type and utilize the ENTIRE page.
Size: 1/2 sheet of black paper (This will be handed out in class, along with a white pencil- you already have a white conte crayon)- Below are some samples of student woodcuts to give you an idea of how you might think about mark making.
Remember, you are drawing the WHITE areas (Highlights) and letting the BLACK areas be the deep shadows. Study the various ways you can make marks, cross hatching, stippling to create the GRAY areas.
Transformation / Metamorphesis from the ordinary to the extraordinary
Final Project: Chimera/Exquistie Corpse Project: (40 points)
Each of you will make a collage and then draw it.
You will select from the following catagories:
Exquisite corpse (from the original French term cadavre exquis, literally exquisite cadaver), is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun." as in "The green duck sweetly sang the dreadful dirge.") or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed.
The Chimera (/kɪˈmɪərə/ or /kaɪˈmɪərə/), also Chimaera (Chimæra) (Ancient Greek: Χίμαιρα, Chímaira means 'she-goat'[1]), according to Greek mythology,[2] was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature, composed of different animal parts from Lycia, Asia Minor. It is usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat protruding from its back, and a tail that might end with a snake's head.[3] It was an offspring of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra.
The term "chimera" has come to describe any mythical or fictional creature with parts taken from various animals, to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.
Each of you will make a collage and then draw it.
You will select from the following catagories:
- Celebrity, hero/villian, president, horror movie character,
- Creatures: insect, mammals, birds, reptiles, fish
- Inanimate objects
- Robot or monster
- Skeleton,
- Famous artwork
Exquisite corpse (from the original French term cadavre exquis, literally exquisite cadaver), is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun." as in "The green duck sweetly sang the dreadful dirge.") or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed.
The Chimera (/kɪˈmɪərə/ or /kaɪˈmɪərə/), also Chimaera (Chimæra) (Ancient Greek: Χίμαιρα, Chímaira means 'she-goat'[1]), according to Greek mythology,[2] was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature, composed of different animal parts from Lycia, Asia Minor. It is usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat protruding from its back, and a tail that might end with a snake's head.[3] It was an offspring of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra.
The term "chimera" has come to describe any mythical or fictional creature with parts taken from various animals, to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.
Non-objective drawings
Collaged Still Life (40 points)
For this project you will begin by taking a couple of reference photos of the still life. Selecting different compositions.
You will then lay out a simple thumbnail sketch of the composition onto your large paper.
Then you will start cutting up and collaging textures, values from your previous drawings and glueing them onto your base sheet.
In some cases you may cut out an object you've drawn. In others you will create the shape and values by utilizing different patterns.
You will glue light scraps to create highlights and darker valued shapes to create shadows.
For this project you will begin by taking a couple of reference photos of the still life. Selecting different compositions.
You will then lay out a simple thumbnail sketch of the composition onto your large paper.
Then you will start cutting up and collaging textures, values from your previous drawings and glueing them onto your base sheet.
In some cases you may cut out an object you've drawn. In others you will create the shape and values by utilizing different patterns.
You will glue light scraps to create highlights and darker valued shapes to create shadows.
Optical Illusions
Readings from Launching the Imagination
| 1_basic_elements_line.pdf |
| 2_shape.pdf |
| 3_illusion_of_space.pdf |
| 4_texture_value.pdf |
| 5_critical_thinking.pdf |
| 6_constructing_meaning.pdf |