DRAWING/LISA ROGERS

No posts for Semester 2/ I do not have a drawing section!

2011-12-29T05:28:00.001-08:00

No drawing section this semester! I have two new sections/ Sculpture and Painting! Check out the new blogs!

Final Reflections

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Final Reflection
Documenting your learning
Developmental Workbook
Final-

Reflection involves looking back on experiences. Reflecting helps to reconstruct, analyze, and evaluate what happened. At a time and place away from the immediacy of the experience.

Reflect on the following questions!

1. Describe in detail how your planned for the artwork. (How did you create your piece? What was the process? What did you need to know?) What were you trying to do? Use value to create the illusion of depth without outlining? (example)

2. What materials did you use? How did the media influence the artwork?

3. What ideas, meaning, message or feelings have you expressed in your artwork?

4. In what ways did you take risks?

5. What problems or difficulties did you encounter? How did you solve them?

6. What suggestions did you get from your classmates or teacher?

7. What possibilities or ideas for future artwork did you get from this project?

8. What artists influenced your work? (explain why or how)

9. What concepts or skills did you learn about yourself, or about the world?

10. What was enjoyable or rewarding about making this art?

Final Reflection Rubric/Assessment/ Summative

¬-Photographs of Images included

-Reflections

4- You explain

-All the reasons behind what, how, and why?

(process, with details is included)

-Your creative process and problem solving

(What happened, What worked? What didn’t?)

-How successful your final result is. (What worked? What improvements or

Changes would you make next time?)

-You answer ALL of the questions. The entry is well organized, neat and clean. The work is documented using visual images. Your opinions/personal responses are stated in depth. It shows understanding of the art process and personal growth.

3- You explain

-what, how and why

-changes you made along the way with your reasons

-the problems you had and your ways of solving them

-how successful your final result is.

You answer most of the questions. The personal responses are stated with some depth. It shows understanding of the art process.

2-You describe what, how, and why, as well as what worked well and what didn’t. You answer about 50% of the questions. The reflection is rushed and unclear.

1-You describe what you did but there are hardly any other ideas about how you did it. You only answer 1 or 2 questions. Incomplete. Very messy with no thought or care. Minimal opinion or personal response is present.

Final Notes

2011-12-08T05:06:00.000-08:00

Last day to turn in Eye, Nose, Mouth Drawing : 12/7/11
Final Self-Portraits: Due on Final Day/No exceptions!
Developmental Workbooks: Due on Final Day!

Beyond the student i.d.: The self portrait!

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How does an artist tell more about themselves when creating a self-portrait?
How do we go beyond the mugshot, or student i.d. photo as a representation of ourselves?

Each of us carries with us our own individuality. How do we represent this in our self-portraits?

Drawing the Skull with Value! Using what we have learned!

2011-10-09T15:54:00.000-07:00

Now we are going to put what we have learned about value into a more realistic form!
Be aware of negative space!
No gridding!
Use your eyes!

Trust yourself!

Wrap Up! Figures in Space with a variety of media

2011-10-09T15:44:00.000-07:00

Finish 1,2,3 Objects in space assignment.
Try everything!
Charcoal
China Marker
Acrylic
Pencil
Conte
Use what you know about shading from the shading technique exercise!

Value/Shading Techniques/Making Marks

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...particularly with drawing.

Let's look at how you define failure with drawing.

Have you failed if you do not draw what you have conceived in your head before you began the drawing?

In this class, you should be drawing what you see, NOT an ideal figure.

Have you failed if you do not draw what you see in front of you?

How much do you really see? Are you focused on details or the overall picture; the overall figure? What is more important; the individual fingers and small facial details or torso, legs, arms, head?

Have you failed if you make mistakes?

If you don't make mistakes, then how are you going to learn anything other than what you already know?

Combining zentangles with photographic images

2011-09-02T10:27:00.000-07:00

http://paullaiz.com/ Let the fun begin!

Sketchbook: Japanese Stab Binding

2011-08-25T21:25:00.000-07:00

Since Drawing does not a fee, and our budget has been drastically reduced, we will be making our sketchbooks.

Doodling and the Zentangle!

2011-08-25T21:20:00.000-07:00

ZENTANGLE!

We are going to start off the year with MINDLESS drawings. We will begin with doodling and reflecting on the concept of PLAY!

Drawing Animal in Costume!

2010-10-19T09:46:00.000-07:00

This is an image from

Tina Mullen from the Penland Gallery.

You will be drawing an animal to dress up!

Choose well!

End of 1st Quarter is Approaching!

2010-10-03T15:17:00.000-07:00

VALUE SCALE

Everyone should have turned in their sketchbooks Friday! Make sure stitching is tight, and your name is on the inside cover! (Make sure you used a variety of paper types, magazine, text, sketching paper, fed ex box etc....)
Now it is time to start our sketchbook assignments!!
Sketchbooks should be done outside of class!
Sketchbooks are required, and will affect your grade if they are not done!

What is a doodle?

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A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a persons

attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simpel drawings that can have concrete reperesentational meaning, or may be abstract shapes.

Stereotypical exampes of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen or paper are available!

Embroidered Drawing

2009-11-27T17:13:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-11T10:20:00.000-08:00

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

2009-10-25T19:17:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-10-10T11:51:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-09-29T13:45:00.001-07:00

White Pencil on Black paper!

Bring a Blanket!

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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

2009-09-22T15:45:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-13T08:40:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-07T00:17:00.000-07:00

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

Sketchbook/Homework DUE!

2009-09-02T20:04:00.001-07:00

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!

2009-08-22T07:54:00.000-07:00

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

Fusing Plastic

Binding it all together!!!

Ferrin Gallery

2009-08-08T21:43:00.000-07:00

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

Perspective

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

Using a grid to draw

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

Blind Contour Drawing

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

Thinking about NEGATIVE SPACE!!!

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

Drawing from the right side of the brain

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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.