This project required making rules to create 20 drawings in 20 hours. These drawings are modeled after the bubbles/disturbances in water after someone falls in. Charcoal, one blue pastel, water, a paintbrush, an eraser and a blue bottle of nail polish were used for these drawings. The drawings all began by layering the pastel and charcoal and erasing into it in layers.
In this assignment, students were required to layer 10 steps (5 controlled mark-making and 5 uncontrolled mark-making) onto each other.
Final Project:
The first step of the process was to create a line inventory, which included 75 squares showcasing different kinds of lines made with the supplies. After in class critique, I redid the line inventory, making 75 new squares.
Next, I did gesture and contour drawings of a lamp from two points of view.
In class, I did the same thing to a phone, but this time made sketches of four different views.
Using my sketches as a reference, I made a wire sculpture. The sculpture is weighty at the bottom and has a vertical extension like both drawn objects. The phone wire and phone itself influenced the vertical extension, while the plastic bottom of the lamp influenced the geometric shapes hanging in the base.
Shadows from the sculpture were used to create lines on large paper. Then, those created shapes were filled in using lines from the earlier lines inventories to create the final, edited product:
