Embroidered Drawing

Embroidered drawing due on Friday!
Remember that the piece must be mounted and ready to display for final critique
Packet 0/1 due Monday
Packet 1/2/3 due Friday
Please see me if you have questions!

Drawing with thread

Finish sample pieces/Embroidery

Finish grid/Memory

-Use 2 techniques in order to add value

Talk with me about two techniques you will be using for self portraits.

Text as Drawing Wrap-Up

Text drawings/Shells-Due
Image transfer/on Texture Due

Memory Box Drawing
Begin!

See window for process description!

Wednesday-Alternative Drawing Techniques Powerpoint!

QUARTER 1 ENDS FRIDAY THE 16TH!

Due: Friday

All shell exercises!
1. paper bag drawing with value scale
2. marbled paper with pen and ink and watercolor
3. white pencil on black paper
4. colored pencils/complimentary colors, and color grouping
5. textured background with wash and image transfer
6. drawing on fabric/sew
7. text
8. transfer to another media

Drawing the light!

White Pencil on Black paper!

Bring a Blanket!

Self Portrait- Look! Think about your self-portrait!

Bring towel or blanket for Wednesday. If it is nice we will be going outside to draw before it gets too cold!

All memory boxes must be photographed and photoshoped!!

We will be taking self portrait images next week- remember the three themes (jeepers peepers, wrapped, or contained)

Creating the Illusion of form

Examples of shell drawings

Various techniques

Shell Experiments/Techniques:

1.Pencil/ with value scale
2.Pen and Ink with watercolor/alternative paper surface
3. texture/acrylic/images transfer
4. colored pencil/burnished
5.clay/transfer
6.fabric/stitch
7.crayon/wax/beeswax

Memory Box Set Up

Due Tuesday

Bring in Memory Box-
What you will need-

1. Box given to you in class

2. Bedding for the box

3. Toy (small) Think about composition!
(Use of positive and negative space)

4. Organic item-(shell, bone, pod, leaf, etc... be creative! Think outside the box! Ha!

5. Image of influential person. You may know this person, or it may be someone who has influenced your life who you have never met. It may be a religious figure, and icon, a family member, etc.... think!!!-

6. Item that has been saved to remind you of an event in your life. ( old tooth, feather, piece of
a pony tail- from when you cut off your hair, etc.... Think about items we save that document
events in our lives. These are the items that help us key into our memories.

7. Background text for your memory box- The text should be something has meaning in your life. Comics, sports page, bible, poems, quotes, post cards from vacations, letters from family, birth certificate, traffic ticket, etc....etc.... Think.......think....think

Homework: Texture Exercise

Please make sure you turn in your texture assignment on Tuesday!
Sketchbooks covers are also due!!

Sketchbook/Homework DUE!

Make sure you have turned in your post-it sketchbook assignment that was due on Tuesday!
Start on Textured Hand drawing that is due next Tuesday!
Turn in sketchbook/Recycled /Trash is a failure of the Imagination project!!


If you have questions-ASK!


Thanks!
Lisa Rogers

Making Sketchbooks!

Do you need to review the videos we watched in class?

Fusing Plastic

Binding it all together!!!

Ferrin Gallery

http://www.ferringallery.com/dynamic/artwork_detail.asp?artworkid=3683

Perspective

http://studiochalkboard.evansville.edu/lp-intro.html

Using a grid to draw

http://drawsketch.about.com/cs/mechanicalaids/a/grid_drawing.htm

Blind Contour Drawing

http://drawsketch.about.com/cs/drawinglessons/a/contourblind.htm

Thinking about NEGATIVE SPACE!!!

http://drawsketch.about.com/od/learntodraw/ss/negativespace.htm

Drawing from the right side of the brain

Exercises
http://drawright.com/vaceface.htm

October 26, 2003
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STAND STILL AND LOOK UNTIL YOU REALLY SEE
Betty Edwards' famous book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, contains a wonderful series of exercises for those who are convinced they can't draw. I only picked it up after I'd read Edward de Bono's Serious Creativity and discovered that creativity is a learned skill, not something that you're 'born with' (or without). Edwards' book taught me that drawing is also an acquired skill. Or, to be more precise, it's an 'unlearning' skill, because it requires you to defeat our natural inclination to view objects as series of icons (a left-brain 'shorthand'), and instead view them as lines, shades and spaces (a right-brain abstraction). The reason we think we can't draw, says Edwards, is that when we try to draw, our left brain gets in the way, telling us that what we're drawing when we draw a face is two eyes, a nose, a mouth etc., which our brain symbolizes in certain iconographic ways, so that our drawing turns out to be a drawing of these symbolic icons, rather than what we really see.The most powerful exercise in the book, in my opinion, is the upside-down drawing exercise. Here's what you do:
Find a line drawing that you like. It can be the work of a master, a cartoon, anything.
Turn it upside down.
Now, without turning the page right-side up, draw what you see, trying to ignore the subject and focusing strictly on the lines, shades, spaces and proportions of the original. You're disabling your left-brain, which can't see or handle such abstractions, and allowing your right-brain to do all the work.Most people are pleasantly surprised with the result. When I did this exercise I was blown away -- I had been convinced I couldn't draw, and immediately did five more upside-down drawings, some of which I still have, and treasure. This exercise alone won't make you an artist, but it's a powerful first step. Now when I draw, I ignore the substance of what I'm drawing and focus strictly on lines, shades, spaces and proportions. Sometimes I use software to help defeat my left-brain: I take a photo of something I like, use graphic software (which has an 'outlining' feature) to make it into a black-and-white pseudo-line drawing, turn it upside down, and draw what I see. The results are amazing.The book provides some other exercises to improve the strength of your right-brain and apply it to the art of drawing. What's more important to me, however, is the realization of how the analytic left-brain, which our culture tends to favour and over-exercise, diminishes our awareness of the world around us. I remember in high school a poster with the caption Stand still and look until you really see. When I am trying to get in the frame of mind to draw, or photograph, or write poetry or fiction, I try to do just that. Here are some exercises that I've found can help left-brainers to 'really see':
Move in close, so you divert attention from individual objects and start to see instead colour, texture, shape, shadow, reflection, pattern
Find an unusual perspective from which to look -- get down on the ground and look up, look at something through trees, through a microscope, or by candlelight, anything that will let you see things differently from usual
Look at things under unusual conditions -- in the fog, at night, right after a heavy rain, just at dawn or dusk
Stimulate your other right-brain senses -- get your nose up close to things, listen to birds, or insects, or train whistles, or music, walk in your bare feet
Walk or bicycle without a pre-determined destination, direction or time limit
Study something -- birds at your bird-feeder, time-lapse of a flower over the course of a day or a week, a spider-web, how moving or dimming the lights in a room changes its character, how a bottle looks different when viewed from different anglesIn the book Easy Travel to Other Planets, Ted Mooney describes a future world where people are so bombarded with meaningless information, abstract facts that don't really matter, that they become psychologically paralyzed, unable to focus on anything, and succumb to what Mooney calls 'information sickness'. In some ways we are already there. The trappings of our society and culture have already separated us from, and deadened us to, most of what is real in this world, and surrounded us instead with artifice -- bland, manipulative, numbing 'entertainment', office and home lighting (and air conditioning, and jobs) that are artificial, news that shows wars as light-shows instead of people dead and dying, cars that insulate us from any exposure to real people or real weather.Looking until we really see is important, and not only to artists. In a way it's shock therapy, a test to prove to ourselves we're still human, still real, still really alive.