Compositions

Early in March we had do this assignment during class in which we traced some business cards.. the outline, the shape of them - 4 to a page.

Then we went around the art building and drew interesting/simple compositions in the rectangles we had on the paper. We had to have about 2o rectangles. It was all about compositions and really nothing else.
Here are two of my sheets.




Enjoy!

"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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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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Line/Chance drawing

A few weeks after the semester started, we did these drawings in class where our teacher had a dice roller on the computer. It was some site on the internet, It was two dice. We made a list of 12 different kinds of lines we could draw. We drew a square anywhere on the page and came up with all different kinds of lines as a class. 

We each scrambled up all the different kinds of lines we listed different on our pages.

He rolled the dice and we had a mintue or 30 seconds to draw that kind of line, then he'd roll them again and we'd have the same time do a different kind of line. Whatever number the dice rolled on, was the kind of line we drew for what we listed. 

this is mine. It got pretty crazy after awhile, and it also kept rolling a lot of the same kinds of lines which got kind of annoying. haha. again, I've learned that assignments like this would be way cooler on larger paper but, I suppose that is what made this assignment a challenge was to try and fit it all in that box in a cool composition [ and not knowing what you were going to have to draw next.] 

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Helen O'Leary Visting Artist

We had to draw this artists exhibition in the Gatewood Gallery in the art building at school for design class.

We didn't have to make it pretty, just to show the work and the relationships between objects.

Mine aren't that great.
I started using measurement and realized it was going to take me 300 years to draw it if I did. Its lots of lines and over lapping things. anyhow... its semi-accurate.
So, don't judge from my drawings.

Go see the exhibition yourself. Its pretty neat... We had to hear the Artist talk today and it made the work a lot more interesting.

the drawing above was divided by a large white space between the beginning of the next drawing. her work was up on 3 different walls.


The two drawings below are of the same wall. it starts on the left and continues to the right as one piece til the "column' and that is another painting. I photoshopped the two images on the left together as one.. and there is some details missing between the two images for them to connect as one piece of work from the left to the right.

J Stencil value assignment

We had to do an assignment during class one day in which, we received stencils from all the letters of the alphabet. .I got J. We did this a month or so back. 
We had to make an interesting composition on paper with the stencils and use different values of graphite to fill in the stencils.

Here is mine. 
 It didn't fit all the way on the whole flatbed scanner but There isn't too much your missing from the edges really. 

I like how mine ended up kind of like a pattern or a design. 

almost.

I would have liked to see it on a larger scale. As much as big paper is annoying, I'm starting to realize that things are better on bigger paper. 

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[I started this post last week and just am now posting it on March 27th.]