Drawing II- OLIVER
Assignment 2
(1-5 Due: Wednesday 3/12, 6-10 Due: Wednesday 5/7)
Ten Experimental Drawings
Materials: OPEN
OBJECTIVES:
To challenge your creative problem-solving skills and experiment with new
methods, ideas, and approaches to making.
Assignment: Each week, for the next 10 or so weeks, you will be
assigned an experimental drawing. You will need several sheets of 8.5 x11
paper, or paper that is approximately that size. You will be presenting each
drawing in your “ITOYA Art Profolio” portfolio.
For each completed Experimental Drawing, you will need to write an
‘Idea Sheet’ in response. This Idea Sheet will also be presented in the
portfolio, on the opposing page, so that you can see the drawing and read the
Idea Sheet simultaneously. Both the drawing and the Idea Sheet are due
together.
You must use a different type of paper for each drawing. Some of
the experiments will specify the type of paper, and if not specified, you must
collect a variety of papers individually. I can make suggestions as to types of
paper you might experiment with if you’re not sure.
Experimental Drawings 1-5 Due 3/12
Experimental Drawings 6-10 Due
5/7
Idea Sheet
Instructions
After you complete each Drawing
Experiment, you must write one page of responses to your work. You may type and print this page or neatly
and LEGIBLY write by hand your responses to the following questions:
1.
What materials did you use?
2.
What was the process of making
this piece?
3.
What does this piece mean to you?
4.
Describe at least one way you
could expand upon, change, or use this work in a new way.
Drawing Experiments
These drawing experiments are for your benefit as an artist. They
may feel interesting, inspiring, frustrating, boring, weird, etc. They are not drawings that you should rush or
speed through carelessly. The more seriously you approach each project will
determine your success and, ultimately, your possible points.
You do not
need to do these experiments in order. CHOOSE TEN:
A. Make a
drawing using office supplies only, from the paper to the materials. Staples,
highlighters, white out, or any material that is strictly an office supply and
not a traditional or commonly used art material.
B. Make the
Ugliest Drawing Possible.
C. Cut out a
section of a map, a newspaper, or a chart. Modify the information or respond to
the surface/visual information by drawing any way you would like, with your own
materials/methods.
D. Cut an
unusual shape out of 8.5 x 11 paper.
Create a drawing on/in the shape that seems to belong to that shape . Do
not make the shape symbolic (heart, cross, moon, etc)
E. Draw the
sound of a jet engine.
F. Capture the
spirit of a color or favorite food.
G. Make
repetitive, continuous ‘marks’ on a single sheet of paper for an hour.
H. Photocopy one or more
three-dimensional found objects. Draw on this photocopy, reacting to the
imagery.
I. Draw
something expensive in as much detail as possible.
J. Make a
drawing in response to something (a program, sitcom, news broadcast,
commercial, etc) you saw on television.
K. Using cut-up
and pasted-on pieces of a coloring book or a ‘fuzzy poster’, create a work.
L. Use ONLY
drawing materials found in your kitchen
M. Cover
something in GLITTER and then draw the reflective detail
N. Tell the
most UPSETTING thing you have ever heard in your life in an image
O. Feel FREE to
create your own experimental drawings as well, but make sure you put THOUGHT
and EFFORT into this. Ask me if you hit a kink at any point. PUSH YOURSELF! IF
YOU ARE NEVER UNCOMFORTABLE AS AN ARTIST, YOU WILL NEVER GROW.
Would digital media be acceptable? I'd like to do these ones on my PC if I could-
ReplyDeleteC. Cut out a section of a map, a newspaper, or a chart. Modify the information or respond to the surface/visual information by drawing any way you would like, with your own materials/methods.
K. Using cut-up and pasted-on pieces of a coloring book or a ‘fuzzy poster’, create a work.
C. seems more adaptable to this. the texture and absorbent nature of the paper in K would be cancelled out by changing the format, no? Would you plan on projecting these or printing out the final pieces (and would that then be on a flat or 3-d surface?)? How do you see these pieces being realized? And does doing these digitally still stay within the bounds of the project's parameters? Are these still considered exploratory drawing projects in your opinion?
DeleteThey both struck me as 'cut and paste' projects. Although, they are loosely defined - I suppose someone might come up with a dozen different ways to do either of them.
DeleteAs a cut-and-paste project, I see it pretty much as the same basic process whether doing it in photoshop, or actually cutting out and gluing down paper pieces.
For the coloring book project I thought about doing it in Photoshop, printing it, and then having a kid color it.
For the map, I was thinking about putting together some satellite map images in an order that's meaningful to me, printing it out, and drawing or writing on that.
I think I would consider both to be drawing projects, mixed with other media. They would definitely be exploratory, as I've never done something like either of them.