Week 2

Tuesday 9/3: Dot, Line & Shape Exercise
Screen:  Katy Patterson
               Yayoi Kusama

• In your sketchbook, make a "dot sampler" using the widest variety of tools and materials available.
• On a second page create a "line sampler" using the widest variety of tools and materials available.
• On a third page create a "shape sampler" using a ruler. 

Homework:
Find an interesting black and white photograph by a photographer from the list on the right. Make sure that you really like the image. Print it out (8x10) in black and white.

Also, collect a handful of technical pens. Bring to class on Thursday.

Thursday 9/5: Linear Networks Project (8x10)

• Sketchbook Exercise:  Using a technical pen, experiment with different methods of creating areas of value and texture. Stippling, cross-hatching, cross-contour, and controlled squiggles could be used separately or in combination to render a wide range of effects. Reference your reading and try all examples listed there. (30 min)
• Place a sheet of vellum over the photograph that you have printed out. Using your Linear Networks that you have practiced, translate your black and white photograph--or fragments of photograph--into a single pen and ink composition. Consider the transition between the images and the overall composition. Use the remaining class-time to work and finish over the weekend if necessary.

 

TOOLS: Variety of Pencils, Technical Pen, Ink,  11x14 Sketchpad
 
Weekend Homework:
Read Mary Stewart's Launching the Imagination: CH1 Section on Shape  (pp. 11-22)
Purchase/gather all items on your Materials List. Bring all to class next Tuesday.