Thursday, July 21, 2011
Everything Book: Memory Drawing
(coffee staining is bleed through from my alter book project).
Project book
Images from my project book. I had my 19 month old daughter draw on my papers, then I drew over them to create images of her creating art.
Nicole Kirkpatrick, Bags
We were given a brown bag with an item inside. We were not allowed to look, but could feel the object. We did a series of drawings based on what we thought the item looked like. Mine was a chisel.
Susan Striepe—Altered Book
I am in the middle of creating the altered book. How I interpret something from the middle is going to be different from how I will interpret it once I am finished. At this point I feel I don't have enough time to give it that precious finished quality I so desire. Yet, this unfinished quality is forcing me into unfamiliar territory and I am working in directions I would not have anticipated. My starting book was a 70s view of what computing accomplishments would mean in the future. I decided to take this and emphasize the AI quality of this technology. I am using texture and textural contrast to emphasize the "plasiticity" of this technology.
Carolina Roussakis, Color Associations
I enjoyed this project very much. By simply using the color swatch names as a prompt, we were able to be spontaneously more creative than if our only prompt was the color (given certain connotations and generalizations associated with certain colors).
Altered Book
The Altered Book Project was a project that really got me"out of my box". I have always enjoyed drawing from realism and like nice clean, neat work. This book is not at all like that. I plan to go back and refine a few of the pages and clean them up a little.
The name of the book,
"Good, Clean Violence: A History of College Football" really jump started my brain. Overall I am truly happy with my ideas and I think it was a creative response to the subject of the book, my love of football, and my reaction to being a UGA Alumni and coming to my rival college.One of the first pages that I felt "worked" is the man with the alligator boots. The red backgroud makes the football player really pop. I thought the alligator boots was a nice comical touch . Further more the size relationship of the boots to the body add more humor and makes the tough football player look a bit goofy.
The cover of the book is a simple stencil of the Georgia G. I may want to add something else to this but I'm not sure yet.
The Florida page is another one I like. I found this really cool image of alligator skin that had a lot of texture in it. The reverse UF was a clever thought by Lauren and of course I had to use it as that is often my attitude when UF kicks UGA's butt's!
teaching environment
I have learned so many things this week that I plan on taking back to my classroom. The brainstorming (prompting) activities and the critical thinking and questioning techniques are the most important thing that I can translate into my teaching. I came to this class struggling with keeping all of my students engaged and helping them to be creative on their own. I also really enjoyed learning how to use new materials in making projects, such as the powdered graphite, wax paper drawings, and the many transfer techniques. Of course, the altered book project will also be a must-try activity for my AP students. I have really enjoyed all of the new information I learned through this course and also taking the time to create art again. I can't wait to see how my students translate these activities in their own way.
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