How to make this up- This will be a multi-week project, and today was the first step, making a collagraphic plate. It is basically a flat surface to which items are attached for the purpose of making a print. There are countless approaches to this process, but what we were doing is using cardboard and attaching bits of cloth and similar materials using glue. It's not practical to apply ink and print it until the glue is dry, so that part will be done at a later time. Here are some examples from previous semester, plate and resulting print.
In each case the cardboard was the large panel of a cereal box, a cracker box, or something similar. The box of materials was mostly cloth from various sources, including scavenging from the Interior Design classes, but you may use anything you want. White glue works best.
Two rules-
1) The plate must include 8 separate textures derived from the attached materials. Most of what I brought today were cloth samples, but anything relatively thin will work.
2) The subject must be something recognizable to the average viewer- an object, a scene, etc. but what you chose is completely up to you. Skill in drawing the item is not part of the grade.
A few things to note:
1) The printed image will be a mirror of the plate. This matters most if letters or numbers are used, as they should be backwards on the plate to print regular on the print.
2)The color of the glued on object will have no effect on the resulting print. The plates will be printed by rolling on black relief ink.
3)The prints can be colored after the ink dries, as in the bottom example above, using pastels, watercolors (both in your list of materials) or colored pencils. You will also be encouraged to collage materials onto the printed page.
This is a portfolio exercise, but if you want my help in printing it, you need to bring in the completed plate on November 15, 2019.
Homework- The collagraphs will be printed in 2 weeks during the class. I will bring in the necessary ink and tools, you will provide the paper from your pad. The resulting print will be part of your semester portfolio.
Most students turned in the rough draft of their museum assignment today, as it was due. I will grade all those this week and next week return the papers, along with the grade and what changes would be desirable for the final version, due by the end of the semester. The rough draft is worth fewer points than the final version, but it is still a graded project, and the longer it takes to arrive, the fewer points it will be worth, so I advise you to to get it done soon. If the rough draft perfectly deals with all the aspects requested, you will have the option of having it count as your final paper and being done with it.
For next class Nov 8, 2019- We are starting the first individually graded art project of the semester, not part of the portfolio. Because it is the biggest graded project so far, you will have all next week to work on it in class, and all of the following class, with the project due the class after that. I'll have the specifics for that next week. Bring your 18"x24" pad, pencil and eraser, and a set of pastels, as included in your materials list.
