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See you at 10:35am for some color exploration via zoom. The link is in moodle.
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Week 15: Introduction to Color
Good morning 2D Design! Welcome to week 15, our last week of the semester. The plan for this week is to explore color. You will be working independently today and we will zoom together for class on Wednesday to continue our exploration as a class community in real time, from wherever we are.
To begin our exploration of color, please do the following today:
1.) Read the short PDF introduction to color from “A Field Guide to Color: A Watercolor Workbook” by Lisa Soloman. This is brief short introduction to the concepts of color theory and big ideas. It is very short. This pdf will be available on moodle by the start of class today.
2.) Get out your watercolors and PLAY. Here is a short video to watch about using watercolors to introduce to how they work briefly and some of what is possible to do with them. Use today’s class time to make a mess, touch and explore every color in your watercolor set.
3.) Devote several hours today to exploring your paints. Pay special attention to colors. Don’t worry so much about making something that you like. This is research into color and how watercolors work. Some folks like to make color charts of new paints they get. If that sounds interesting, use the image above as guide to make a color chart for your Kuratake watercolor set. If that sounds stressful, explore your watercolors in another way. Have fun!
4.) Post images of your color research exploration to your blogs to get credit for it.
We will meet for our via zoom on Wednesday at 10:35am to continue the exploration into color together in real time. (The link will be on moodle shortly.)
This will be our first time trying to have class via zoom, so be open to something a little different. This will not be the same as being together in person. It will feel strange to do art this way. Embrace the unfamiliar. Learning can still happen, despite this strange.
Please shoot me an email if you have any questions. Otherwise, happy color exploration and I will see you via zoom on Wednesday!
Images above:
your Kuratake watercolor paint set
The next 3 images are all from the Lisa Solomon book you will read a little excerpt from on moodle today: an example of color research in the form of rainbowesque stacked archs of color stripes, an example of a what a color chart is, the cover of the book “A Field Guide to Color:A Watercolor Workbook by Lisa Solomon.
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Finals Session: Monday 12/7 @ 10:15am
Join me on Monday December 7th at 10:15am for our zine conversation about your collaborative zines. If you have not already, these need to be finished up and shipped back to me ASAP in order to arrive by Monday December 7th. (Shipping addresses are all available on moodle.)
We will talk about what you have created for our final class session of the semester during finals week. Our scheduled time slot is Monday, December 7th at 10:15am.
I’m really looking forward to seeing your collaborations!
The Zoom link information will be available on moodle shortly.
Feel free to email me if you have any questions!
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Question of the Week:
What does it mean to be a Christian artist?
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Question of the Week:
What makes an artwork good or bad?
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Zine Collaborative Teams
Here are the teams which we assigned this morning in our zoom conversation for your final zine project of 2D Design. Also included in the image is your 2D Design dice roll for the particular design element, design principle and the why to use to inspire and inform your zine making.
Yay!
Images, from top:
duo of Aden and Sofiya
duo of Brice and Natalie
duo of Kateryna and GiGi
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Studio Project #4: Collaboration Zines
For our final zine of the semester, I am inspired by art history, (specifically works of mail art and collaborative art) our current covid realities, the usps art project which I participated in earlier in the quarantine, and the process of learning something new.
Here are the rules:
1.) Make a zine in collaboration with another person in our 2D Design class community. (We will assign partners today via zoom.) You will turn in 1 zine that both partners have created as a team.
2.) Your zine should travel through the mail 3 times and then be mailed to me. Person A mails the zine beginning to Person B. Person B adds to the zine and mails it back to Person A. Person A continues to add to the zine and mails it back to Person B. Person B finishes the zine and mails it to the professor.
3.) The subject of the zine is up to you. However, I want you to learn something new in the process of making this zine. This could be a technique of zine making (such as the accordion fold zine making technique for example). It could also turn the learning into the subject matter (like the video above from bon appetite). It could also turn learning into teaching as a how to project. It is up to you as a team to determine how to incorporate the learning process into your zine.
4.) Please be sure to get your zine to arrive to me in Marysville absolutely no later than December 7th, the first day of finals week. (My grades for the semester are due by the end of the finals week, so this is hard deadline.) My plan is for us to discuss the project in our finals week class session via zoom. Day and time tbd. (Addresses for everyone in our class are available in a pdf on moodle.)
In order to have this project done in time, you will need to start right away!!
You should plan to use the week of thanksgiving to work on this project independently from wherever you will be spending the holiday. It will take several days for the work to travel through the mail, so do your best to get your zine back in the mail quickly once it arrives to you. You will need to be in communication with your partner regularly through the zine making process and plan your process together so that these hard deadlines can be met.
Enjoy this! It is fun to send and receive mail.
Images, from top:
Please watch this youtube video by bon appetit. It is part of a series of videos called gourmet eats with Claire, a pastry chef, attempting to recreate junk food at home. It showcase how the creative process works and is a great reminder of what we talked about earlier in the semester.
"Alba’s breakfast” a collaborative artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente and Andy Warhol made in 1984. It is a mixed media work on paper mounted on canvas and measures 46″ x 59″.
The final 3 images are made by artist Ray Johnson. The are considered mail art, a kind of art making that started in the 1960s and continues to this day.
You can view an archive of many of Ray Johnson’s mail art projects online linked here. You can even see the envelopes. Its pretty cool!
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Studio Project #2 Zines
I’m blown away by such fantastic work on your zines this week, so well worth the wait! Here are a few pictures to recap your zine + specialness projects....
Images from top:
the zines in a group photo (as seen in my instagram stories this weekend)
This is the stunning centerfold spread of fingerboards and skateboard decks from Aden’s “Have You Seen Him” zine.
Here are a few pages of Brice’s “value” zine highlighting her value manifesto and a fun take on a title page structure.
The centerfold spread from Kateryna’s zine “Questionnaire for friends” had the surprise of a paper folded element and stickers (not shown in image) and lovely hand painted notebook paper details.
Natalie’s zine “hand” featured an optimistic reflection on the concept of a hand with original drawings and collage construction techniques employing an analogue design methodology and an unconventional use of materials (plastic flowers!).
This is just one spread from Sofiya’s zine, where each individual page featured a photograph, short inspirational text, and a hand drawn fashion design sketch derived from this source material.
Great job everyone!
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Question of the Week
Why would artists choose to collaborate? What the benefits and drawbacks of collaboration?
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Mandatory 2D Design Zoom Meeting on Monday @ 10:35am
Learn more about the collaborative zine project and get your partner assignments this coming Monday in our zoom class meeting.
Look for the zoom link on moodle on Monday....
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Questions of the Week:
How does context- where we see and engage with art- affect the way we perceive its value?
What makes something a work of art?
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Work Day for Linocut Print Edition
Happy Monday! For our independent class time this week, please plan to devote time to working on your Studio project #3, the 2D Design Print Exchange. Here is a link to the post about the full details of the project if you need to refresh.
You will need to complete your printed edition by Wednesday, November 18th, when we will exchange our prints and talk about how they turned out. This is our last in person class session of the semester. (The following week you have the week off to celebrate Thanksgiving and the remaining weeks of the semester will be all online.)
Because this is a firm deadline, it is really important that everyone completes their projects on time so that is why I have decided to allot this week’s class time to help make that possible.
Have fun!
Images from top:
work day infographic with galaxy vibes
a very posed image of the process of printing a linocut edition
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Zine Critique Rescheduled for Wednesday
Due to the small group of us who were able to come to class last week, we decided to reschedule our Studio Project #2 Critique of zines for this week instead, so more of us could be a part of the conversation.
Please be here for class on Wednesday with your zines ready to go and we will spend some time talking about them together.
Can’t wait!
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Studio Project #3: 2D Design Print Exchange
As we talked about last week, Studio Project #3 will be to make your own signed & editioned linocut print for our very own 2D Design Print Exchange!
For this project, each artist will need to design, carve and print your artwork in an edition of at least 9, so that each student in the class can have one of your prints.
We will share and distribute our prints during class time on Wednesday November 18th.
The Studio Project #3 Rules are:
1.) Design, carve and print your artwork in an edition of 9.
2.) We have white printmaking paper in my supply cupboard for this project as a default paper option. However, you can use whatever paper you want as your project ideas dictate. Please do not feel limited if your work would make more sense printed on a different surface. Your choice of paper is one way that your artwork communicates is meaning to others, so do take some time to consider this choice as you design your project.
3.) Your finished prints should not exceed 9″x 12″, but can be any size smaller than that. Again, your choice of size of paper (and the scale of your print as it relates to your paper scale) is another way that your print communicates its meanings to others, so please push yourself to consider all the variables of the project and use them to serve the ideas and purposes of the artwork you are making.
4.) Sign and edition each of your prints appropriately following general printmaking edition guidelines. Use the guide above and website link here, to help you insure that your print follows the rules.
5.) Your print will be printed with any of the inks available to us in the art studio (black, white, and metallics). If you don't like these colors, you will have to source your own ink. Once these inks are gone, they are gone.
6.) Get excited! You each will have a new artwork from each class community member to take home with you for Thanksgiving. Your own art collection starts here!
This project is a great way to think about exploring the element of space, specifically positive and negative space. Please take some time to watch this video above to remind yourself about this design element as you consider how to best use composition in this print.
I have limited extra linocut blocks if anyone needs a new block for this project, just let me know in class on Wednesday.
Images above:
Check out this great example of positive and negative space in this poster by Shigeo Fukada. Similar effects are possible with a high contrast design in a linocut print.
This image shows some prints from an annual international print exchange. The deadline for this particular print exchange has passed, however, if you enjoy this class project, considering finding another print exchange online to do additional print projects in the future and continue to grow your art collection.
A infographic showing how to sign and edition prints. Here is a link to the website with more information about this, for your reference.
Watch this video about positive and negative space today (Monday) during class time and continue to work on your zines and printmaking projects.
I’m excited for our zine critique on Wednesday! Join in the zoom check in session today if you have any questions. The zoom link is on moodle.
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Question of the week:
Must an artist have an identifiable style? What are the benefits of having or not having a style?
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WORK DAY TODAY!
Good morning and welcome to week 10 of the semester. I know for many of you, this past weekend was very busy getting your art show work documented and turned in. In light of this, I’d like you to spend your class time today working independently on your current 2D Design studio projects rather than assigning a new exercise or composition assignment.
As we talked about last week, you have two projects in progress: your zines (3 pages, staple bound + specialness) and a printmaking project which we started last week and will talk more about in class on Wednesday.
Please devote some time today to:
1.) Continue to work on carving your designs into your linocut block. The hope is that you could run a test print during class time this week!
2.) Please also continue to work on your zines. I will bring my zine stapler on Wednesday to class if anyone is ready to use it for their projects.
Images, from top:
zine & linocut work day graphic
installation view of 2 works by Andrea Zittel as shown in “Since 2000: Printmaking Now” at the Museum of Modern Art from 2011.
The wallpaper project is called “Wall Sprawl (Next to Las Vegas Bay)” from 2008.
The artwork on the wall is called “Sprawl 1″ from 2002.
Learn more about the work in this brief interview, linked here.
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Question of the Week:
What are the subjects, issues, and themes important to artists working today?
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