For Class September 29

For Class September 29

In class September 29 we will begin the first in-class project. So, you will need to prepare your ideas/materials/resources in order to start this project. Here is the project description:

In-class Project #1:

Do a painting/drawing/artwork stealing from another artist or artists.

Look at the list you made of artists you like and what you would steal from them (before the September 22 class), and carry out some of those thefts. Think about how to combine something that comes from you with things stolen from other artists. Are there any techniques you would like to learn from these artists? We will have class time part of two classes for this (maybe five hours), but you are welcome to borrow time from your independent series homework time to do something more ambitious if this interests you. 

Also for class September 29: Come up with and bring to class two possible ideas for the group project (explained in class 9/22). The ideas may take the form of an instruction piece that the class will then carry out, or they may be aimed at creating one artwork where everyone does a component. There should be some element of chance in this (could be just the chance involved in individual interpretation of the directions). We will vote on which idea to carry out as a group. There will be parts of one class (about 2.5 hours) to devote to making the project, so keep that in mind when considering ideas. This is called "In-class Project #2" on the schedule.

Some Examples:

-Do an image search on a photograph of yourself (from Facebook or elsewhere). Use an action shot, rather than a portrait. Draw the first image result that is not you. Write about your alter-ego, or the scene depicted.

-Write the name of your first pet on a post-it note. Post it on a door or window and take a photo. Reproduce this photo by drawing.

-We’ll start with a small image, not very well reproduced, with lots of small detail. Without showing the original image to anybody, we’ll cut up the image into a number of pieces equal to the number of students, and give everyone a piece. Each student enlarges the image, and draws it as they imagine it should look (filling in any gaps in information from imagination) interpreting as needed (that stripy area is probably a tiger). All the drawings are reassembled to make one large image.