Today's Class- Today we continued with line, this time using it to explore the concept of negative space. After an introductory brain-teaser exercise, the students did two portfolio exercises involving aspects of negative space, which is all the space in a given area of art that isn't made up of positive shapes.
How to make this up- The students did two exercises involving drawings and negative space. The first involved a wooden chair and drawing the spaces between the wooden parts. The second was a still life of bottles, with negative space being used to calculate the space between them and to depict them in relation to each other.
Specific instructions for these two assignment, as well as student examples from previous semester, can be found here.
These are portfolio exercises that can be made up for full credit any time before the end of the semester.
Homework- Nothing in art, but the first draft of the museum assignment is due November 2, 2018.
For next class 9/28/18- We start our study of value, using light and dark to imply form and many other things. Bring your 18" x 24" pad, black charcoal (vine or compressed) and your kneaded eraser. I'll provide the subject, which will not be a chair or a shoe.
