#17 Drawing is About Mark Making “Every mark has a distinct character and quality.Every mark is a signature. Variations in pressure and weight is the visual equivalent of intonation. Marks, or lines, of consistent weight or thickness surrounding a figure or object will flatten the image. Tapering or breaking a line in a curve can connote a highlight or make the curve flow. Also, a tentative line will read as such. Give every mark or line authority and make sure it serves a purpose. Try to use only the marks you need.”
101 Things to Learn in Art School, Kit White, 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kit White
6th Grade: SLABS!!
CERAMICS FIRST – Jennifer Alexander’s Ceramics Boxes – This is what WE are going to start working towards…
Slab Building and the PROCESS of the box is where we are headed. Also – What is important to you as an artist? This is going to make the works unique and special to you!
7th Grade: Neurographic PORTRAITS + Watercolors! MARKER TIME!
Neurographic Portraits
FRANK – Insert the image of you for this space. If others are seeing this note to myself – you will have to come back and see the image later.
We are breaking the faces into shapes and then adding STRONG LINE to the outside… How can we SEE values throughout our faces and BREAK THEM into unique and organic shapes?
8th Grade 2D Design: Wrap Up (QUICKLY) NAME TAGS and Line work!
Zentangle and Parabolic Line Drawings.
Let’s Break into GROUPS – GROUPS to WORK WITH and then get going on Lines and Lines and Lines and DESIGN! We are going to be working COLLABORATIVELY with one another in the beginning of the week and then we are going solo on 2 different designs – HANDOUTS will be available!
Relax and Enjoy the process!
AND THANK YOU TO CT for this Fractal Generator Link. Let’s take a look at how PARABOLIC LINES work in the DIGITAL realm!
https://sciencevsmagic.net/fractal/#0768,0270,4,3,0,0,1
ALSO – Bridget Riley and OP Art and Victor Vasarely – OP Art. REAL ART that uses MATH
Vega 222, 1969-1970 (Credit: Erling Neby Collection, Oslo/Photo Øystein Thorvaldsen) https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190305-victor-vasarely-the-art-that-tricks-the-eyes
8th Grade Sculpture: Hand Built Sculpture IDEAS and DRAWINGS and then CLAY IN THE HAND!
CERAMICS FIRST
This hasn’t changed from last week so we will keep it the same.
We have two things on our plates – Creating a HAND BUILT Totem(LIKE) or Sculpture in the round that talks about US and our CULTURES. HOWEVER – we are NOT appropriating the TOTEM from the Native American Culture but rather are being inspired BY the ideas.
Photo (c) 2010, Robyn Hanson. http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/totem_poles/
Art With Korb 