Thursday, April 24, 2008

"stick" drawings

Back at the beginning of the semester, We had to draw these objects presented to us by our teacher - but we had to tape our pencils to a paint stirrer stick and draw the objects by holding the end of the paint stick while standing up.

Here is what I produced. 

They are by no means great drawings but they are pretty interesting considering how we had to draw them. 

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Craigslist assignment

In the end of January, We had an assignment to draw an object and post it on craigslist under the group of what the object was [ appliances, cameras, apperal, auto..etc] and not say anything about it being a drawing in the title but just listing it as the object that we drew. We had to list it around $10 and see if anyone would actually buy our drawings of this object.

I drew my medium format camera.

I got an email about wanting to by the camera and not the drawing - which the camera was and is not for sale. I emailed the guy back saying that it was just the drawing that was for sale and I think he or someone else reported it and took it down shortly after.

I dont think anyone in our class sold a drawing, but I think this was a really interesting assignment to see how people react to this kind of "trick".

Diebenkorn Charcoal Drawings

In class a month or so back, we had to recreate a Diebenkorn Charcoal drawing that our teacher gave us copies of in pairs. We had to recreate it to almost the exact original, with small details and everything.

Here is our recreation of the diebenkorn drawing our teacher gave us.


The following week, we had to search around greensboro- or where ever we live, around our small towns that we reside in or whatever... and photograph the side of building, the goal was to find a very flat surface. We had to try and find a side of a building that resembles the Diebenkorn drawing that we worked on in class.

I took this very literally, it didn't HAVE to look exactly like what we drew in class but the style of the simple lines and compositions that Diebenkorn creates in his drawings. But, I drove around in Kernersville and searched for a building that looks similar to the drawing above.

We then had to draw a Diebenkorn style charcoal drawing from the photograph we took of a flat building side.



Here is my drawing from the photograph I took to resemble the Diebenkorn drawing we did in Class.SO I took this photo and made it black and white and did the above drawing from it.

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