Art 1011: Drawing II

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Final Projects (Clue Diptych) are due on Wednesday. (Also any edits or reworks)

You may pick up your project during our final:
December 14 from 10am to Noon

Unclaimed work will then be recycled.

Final Project: Clue Diptych

Image Credit: Olivia M.

You will be making 2 (18 x 24") drawings that explore implied narrative. Represent an action without showing it by showing the moment before it and the moment after it.
We will have individual meetings where you need to have 6-10 sketches for us to consider. (Part of your grade). These can be sketches of the same action or pairs relating to different actions.

Image Credit: Bryan D.

Animal Project: Student Work

Image Credit: Ashleigh A.; Haley T.; Lindsay D.; Tasha L.; Victoria S.

Abstraction Project

Image Credit: BibliOdyssey

PROCESS:
Find a way to use an observed, naturalistic subject and transform it into the basis of an abstraction.
You can solve this problem in a variety of ways:
1. Creative cropping that removes the familiar in context
2. Natural/Anatomical forms on a microscopic level
3. Use elements of landscape/organic growth that removes them from context
4. Transform the mundane

Link to Previous Student Work

Links for Reference and Inspiration:
Collection of images of squid/mollusks (Cephalopoda)
Collection of images of coral
Collection of engravings based on starfish and sea urchins
Collection of images of Icones Zootomicae
Collection of cloud references

Some of the artists from the PowerPoint presentation:
Ernst Haeckel
James Roper
Peter Jellitsch
Mark Mawson
Yellena James
James Jean (Illustrator)
Jeff Soto (Illustrator)
Artist Zhou Fan (Link to Portfolio)

Sara Schneckloth's drawings were featured in New American Paintings, Number 82, August 2009

"Drawing on the visual culture of science, Schneckloth creates images that speak to the physical and emotional processes of remembering. The notion of the gesture factors strongly into her work, figuring as both the mark on the page and as an invitation for viewers to intimately interact with her drawings."

Confluence Drawings (Link to website)

Additional artists to look at if you are interested in abstraction (not for project solutions):
Elmer Bischoff
Susan Rothenberg
Piet Mondrian (Geometric Abstraction)
Yvonne Jacquette
Andre Derain (Figurative abstraction)
Henri Matisse (Figurative abstraction)
Romare Bearden (Figurative Collage)
David Park (Figurative abstraction)
Richard Diebenkorn (Figurative abstraction)
Artist Jon Fox (Illustrator)

Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) November 1

The British Museum is hosted two exhibitions of Mexican artwork and culture - "Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler" and "Revolution on paper: Mexican prints 1910-1960" - and displaying Day of the Dead papier mâché figures and an altar, created by Mexican artist Adriana Amaya and children.

In addition to these major exhibits and Dia de los Muertos, Redstone Press has issued a neat box set of over sized postcards, titled Calaveras: Mexican Prints for the Day of the Dead.

Plus just for fun, Ernesto Yerena made these animals of the dead prints.