Friday, November 16, 2012

Value Puzzle

These puzzle pieces will be  assembled and included in the  Who Am I? collage below.
  1. cut picture into 5 or more pieces
  2. cut through facial features not around them
  3. trace shape on paper
  4. glue photo piece next to drawn shape
  5. complete 2 tonal grids before proceeding to....
  6. copy what you see in the picture shape into the drawn shape
  7. match the dark and light areas
  8. mix up the media. do some in colored pencil, watercolor,ballpoint etc.
  9. re-assemble into face/photo
  10. glue down onto collage paper
  11. organize the background with found collage material.  

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Who am I ? Who do I want to Be?

This is a question that every one asks themselves. Artists explore this idea constantly by creating. Our next artwork is going to combine the Formalism of Klee with real imagery of the face combined with collage elements that answer the questions of Identity.
  1. draw portrait from picture, viewfinder, or mirror.
  2. transfer onto paper  intgrate into
  3. create a grid pattern and overlay it on your  face.
  4. write song, poems messages in the grids
  5. watercolor letters  
  6. collage words and pictures and intgrate into design 

Friday, October 26, 2012

Visual SONG/POEM/Prayer

Find the  lyrics to a favorite son ,poem or quote and create a klee painting on a background of a printed book. In watercolor

Klee design in Analogous colors

 Using your name (other options can be your family and friends) creat a FORMALIST design inspired by the Paul Klee painting shown here.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

NEGATIVE SPACE DRAWING OF AN ACTUAL CHAIR

NEGATIVE SPACE PROJECT USING A SPORTS PHOTOGRAPH

  1. Draw a sports figure from a photograph, using only negative space. Viewfinder optional.
  2. draw it upside down to confuse LEFT side of brain
  3. fill in each negative space with "doodle textures"
  4. you may do line in in colores, if you wish.

DRAWING A CHAIR USING NEGATIVE SPACE

DRAWING LEAVES USING NEGATIVE SPACE

Drawing Flowers or leaves

Draw a line drawing of a flower or branch of leaves. Using your viewfinder is optional. This drawing is graded on the accuracy and quality of the lines. OBSERVATIONAL LINES NOT MEMORY LINES.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

line abstraction




Pick a page in your sketchbook that has a picture or is partially filled.  Fill up all  of the un-occupied negative space with all of the doodle line techniques you have learned.
hide the word/element "LINE" somewhere in the picture.

due friday 9/28