Today's Class- We are getting near the end of the fall semester. I returned all the comic strips collected last time, graded, to those who attended. I also returned a few late arriving museum papers and student collagraph prints I printed in my studio over the Thanksgiving break. Mostly we prepared for the final stretch. Students picked words from hats, nouns and modifying words and phrases, to produce randomly generated phrases, which will be the subject of the 3D final project. That project is our last remaining art assignment for the semester, and can be worked on during our two meetings next week.
How to make this up- The first step is to get your randomly derived phrase. If you don't want to wait until our next meeting, let me know you want something right away and I'll use the same procedure to pick you two random phrases, and you may pick one as your subject. The post before this one (same date as today) shows several examples from earlier semesters, both the originating phrase, and the student created three dimensional work that was created to visualize it. I'm leaving that up as a reference, but as promised, here are several more examples of this project, done by previous students of FA 1000. All creative solutions to the assignment, all worth an A grade.
Chicken Story
A chicken with sneakers (magazine photo glued to thick rubber) is mounted to a road (another magazine photo) by a paper clip, heading to the "other side"
Against College
Shown in class today, buildings made from cut foam, signs printed from a computer, police caution tape, and evergreen leaves, to tell the story.
Sting Despair
A shoe box top, dead leaves, and a rose sculpted from clay, with red paint dripped on to represent blood. Simple, but effective.
Let's Get Hearts
Contained in a box, interior painted to look like outdoors, with some small dolls and fake evergreen trees, and the front side removed to make viewing easier. Essentially a small pop-up store in the woods that sells hearts.
Homework- This 3D project is the last thing we start this semester, due by the end of the final class meeting for your section. You may contact me for your phrase by e-mail, or select your own at our next meeting. If you want to think about what you might do and know what materials you'll need to bring to work on it, you should probably e-mail me before the next class.
If you haven't yet turned in your comic strip or your museum paper rough draft, you need to get those done. Those had due dates, and the longer they take to get to me, the less they are worth. Once the class has its final meeting, they are worth nothing.
Some students requested a list of the pieces that will be part of the semester portfolio. All classwork started (and usually competed) during class time. Here is a list of the assignments and the dates we did them. All can be found on this blog.
9/13/19- Contour Lines (shoes)
9/20/19- Negative Space (chair, bottles)
9/27/19- Value drawing (shading with charcoal or graphite)
10/4/19- Mosaic collage (cut magazine paper color)
10/11/19- Color Theory- (color wheel and complement mix)
10/18/19- Photography (take home assignment)
10/25/19- Rhythm in art (interpreting music in watercolor)
11/1/19- Collagraph (cardboard plates created)
11/15/19 Collagraphs printed and colored
11/22/19- Two point perspective drawing (room interior)
The semester portfolio will be checked on 12/13/19, our last day of class. I'll have a sheet where things are checked off. Bring it to class, and you'll bring it home that day.
For next class Dec 11, 2019- We have a special Wednesday meeting next week, part of our getting our 15 class days in, a schedule created by the university. Same hours as our Friday meetings.
First order of business in the course evaluations. Prior to this semester, this was done by filling in all the circles with a pencil and scanning the result, but this semester they switched to an online system, and have requested that we allow time for students in class to do it. Thus, they had us inform students to bring in laptops or smartphones to enable logging in to the system for that purpose. Since we only got word of this over the break, I mentioned it today, and have time set aside on Wednesday, December 11, 2019 for this purpose. The school likes it done at the start of class and I can't be present, so I'll make sure it's started and go elsewhere for a while. When it's done, I can return and continue with class. Since many students said today that they already received the link by e-mail from the school (and some have done it already), I won't bother to provide it here.
Nothing new will be started that day, so you can use the time to work on anything related to the class. Bring whatever materials are appropriate to what you plan to do. I will be there to collect and return work, answer questions, etc. Our last meeting of the semester will be on Friday, December 13th.
