Thanksgiving Break Homework:

• Complete your self-portrait. Critique Wednesday after break (12/3).
• Shoot & edit slides (if you have the capabilities). 7 sides due Tuesday after break.
• Choose your favorite piece of artwork that you have made this year. Start thinking about your best works essay—we will write this the week of Dec. 1.
• New assignment: Create a tiny still life of personal objects that are important to you or represent you. This could be keys, a camera, a paint brush, a pencil, a book, a fork, a coffee cup, and a toothbrush… WHATEVER. Choose your lighting carefully. Create an enlarged drawing, filling the page with three or more of your objects. Use all four sides of the page. Spend at least three (total) hours on this. Use graphite and then incorporate something else (ink, colored pencils, charcoal, all of the above? Or something else?). Due Monday after break (12/1).

Due dates for edited slides & portfolio critiques

Please leave a question or comment so that I know you've seen & read this post. Leave an addition comment with constructive (i.e., SPECIFIC, not just general encouragement or criticism) feedback on one of your classmates' Chaos & Order posts for extra credit!

November 7: 5 slides due
December 2: 7 slides due
December 12: 10 slides due for 12/15 portfolio critique
January 16: Completed breadth portfolio submitted to drop box (12 slides) for 1/20 portfolio critique
February 18: Initial Concentration set due (3 slides)

Other dates TBA... remember that the ENTIRE portfolio will be completed by May 8th, 2009.

Concepts to think about and look for in the 12/15 and 1/20 breadth portfolio critiques:

Drawing:
Light and shade
Contrast/tonal values
Line quality
Technique
Perspective
Illusion of depth
Mark-making
Composition
Pattern
Color relationships
Representational works
Abstract works
Range of materials
Range of styles
Range of content
Risk-taking & experimentation

2-D:
Unity/ Variety
Contrast
Color relationships
Balance
Emphasis
Rhythm
Repetition
Proportion/Scale
Figure-ground relationships
Representational works
Abstract works
Range of materials
Range of styles
Range of content
Risk-taking & experimentation

Order vs. Chaos

Order; when i was thinking chaos, first thought i had was just crazy surreal organic stuff everywhere. Pure abstract with just plain shapes an what not i dont enjoy though. its like you dont have a set plan. And thats what i did, experimented. but didnt like any, as you can see its like a salmon swirl color with bearly jade in it, then the jade bubbles. First i used tape an painted over that to see if it would make cool lines, but turned out crappy, and i really didnt like the purple. so after 3 layers of paint later, i used a rough green cleaning sponge to make the swirls, and used a stenci to make messy bubbles. Then later thought i would add the faces to my bubbles for a nice touch. So it didnt seem pure abstract to me. This was originally going to be my chaos picture, but it looks too suddle an relaxing to be a chaos picture, its not hectic.




Chaos; this one was suppose to by my order because of the geometric shapes, but when i think of it, just think of smooth solid shapes. i at first wanted to make the shapes going into vanishing points, but didnt like it so much, so i figured i would bring it to this fade on the corners taking away the sight of the crappy vanishing points. the backgroung an 'explosions' you can call them make this piece look more chaotic then it was actually intended to be. i also addedthe face on the face of that cube for good measure. funny how these pieces turned out.