Open studio

Everyone welcome!!!

Location: Room 205 Old Science building

11/02-11:00 am-2 pm
11/30-11:00 am-2 pm
   

Fall schedule 2018 (update 1106)

Week 6

10/02- Finish Skills and visit drawing spot
HW: Read planes defined post and text
10/04- Class 1: Studio still life (drape): 30-60 minute lecture, (take notes)

In studio: Objective is to match value and state desired folds.
Subjects-chair, apple and drape including gravity and half-lock folds
Medium: Stonehenge paper plus Nitram and white charcoal

HW: Draw a paper lunch bag- bag on bag 9 x 12 inches- examine and state the value structure with the primary goal in mind- In addition, describe the folds, wrinkles, creases, pleats, etc. Due-10/11
Read: pages 74, 75. Begin to re create figure 4.28 in your text. Size: 9 x 12. Due-10/18

Week 7

10/09-Class 1: No school
10/11-Class 2: Bag crit. (Drape cont.): 

Objective-match value. Chair, apple and drape including gravity and half-lock folds.

Four Possessions Portrait assignment:

Includes a drawing (18 x 24 inches) and two written statements typed/printed to be completed for a grade.

(Each element worth 100 points)
HW: Bring to the next class four Possessions that represent who you are as person, a crate size box, drape (color, size) your choice and your clamp light (optional). 

Due at the beginning of next class: First statement-based on study/research of French painter, Chardin, 1699-1779.  Type a 300 word statement profiling Chardin's life and work. Investigate and describe something you discovered about the artist related to still life painting/drawing and how it could be applied to your next assignment. 

Second Statement (reflective) due 10/25 at the beginning of class and it must be typed, min. 300 words. 

Content should include and define choice of objects, the drawing process, use of value and your ability to articulate the desired folds. Discuss problems, solutions, successes and failures.

10/16- Class 1:  Four Possessions, in studio

10/18- Class 2:  Four Possessions, in studio

Week 9

10/23- Class 1:  Four Possessions, in studio

10/25- Class 2:  Four Possessions, in studio (Drawing due at the end of class)

Week 10

10/30- Portrait lecture- must take notes
Terminator discussion -
Studio set with sphere and planes of the head
HW: Re create Pat with idealized light- 9 x 12, due 11/01
HW: Must bring mirror to next class
11/01-Self Portrait, 18 x 24, must bring in a mirror and large pad
Objectives:

Obtain likeness- physical attributes
Convey the essence of the subject
Explore and state the entire value range
Draw life-size
Have fun
https://www.louvre.fr/en/routes/eugene-delacroix
Examine how Delacroix describes the body language of his painted subjects, in turn conveying the the emotion of the scene and the emotion of the subject.
Assign Hat Project

11/06 Self Portrait, 18 x 24, 
11/08-Self Portrait, 18 x 24, must bring in a mirror or Begin Hat project- 

11/13: Hat in studio-photo due
Assign Final
11/15: Hat in studio

Break

11/27  Hat in studio due at the end of class
11/29: Non-linear project
Thumbs due

12/04: Non-linear project
12/06: Studio TBA

12/11: Studio-work on final
12/13: Final due

Plane defined

Read pages 67-96, pages 86-91 (Ink wash content is optional)

Plane defined: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plane

noun

1. a flat or level surface.

2. Geometry. a surface generated by a straight line moving at a constant velocity with respect to a fixed point.

3. Fine Arts: an area of a two-dimensional surface having determinate extension and spatial direction or position:

Oblique plane: a plane that is not parallel or a right angle. 
Biomorphic plane: think in terms of organic in shape.

Recording planes:
Understanding the planes that make up the subject will help you identify and record the structure, mass and value of the it.  Identifying the planes should happen in tandem with your ability to see value.  This should occur as a result of observing the subject, the discovery of planes and value is associated with the idea of drawing from general to specific. 

A core requirement of drawing from observation requires the artist to investigate the subject with the goal to see and analyze the subject.  It's reasonable to say that we will understand the subject better after continued study especially in contrast to the immediate response, (ie, your brain will have more visual information after two hours of observing the subject compared to five minutes of observation).  This observational concept supports the idea of drawing from general to specific. 

Being mindful of changes is a good rule (tool) of thumb when drawing planes and defining values from observation.  The core idea is that you identify and react to the subject that you're drawing.  In most cases if you identify a shift in value, seek out a planar change, and conversely if a plane has changed, seek out a shift or transition in value. The changes or shifts could be a result of the subject turning away from you based on your position in space or it could represent a change in the physical structure of the subject.  Regardless, something changed, respond to it and use the information defined as changes to help describe your subject and achieve sculptural weight.

Review Duchamp's work:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/wwi-dada/dada1/a/marcel-duchamp-nude-descending-a-staircase-no-2

Figure 4.16 and 4.17 in your text are solid examples of recording and describing planes and values and should be reviewed.

Pastel by Gary Kelley

The above image by Kelley, a contemporary illustrator, demonstrates defined planes and value shifts.
Kelley's work is often informed by Cubism and can be viewed at several Starbuck/Barnes & Noble locations.

The Barnes & Noble in Vestal does have a Kelley mural displayed!! (check it out if you are in the Binghamton area)