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Spring 2023 Adventure No. 1. Plan on utilizing class time to complete that day's self study.
13 Self Studies.
Conceptually, these self studies are under your control...below find the materials for each study. These should be completed consequently each day daily and will have a mind map to accompany. Please work these studies in your visual journal. Why is this endeavor important? Self studies are way to center, understand, and practice as an artist using what we know best, ourselves.
1 ball point pen
2 charcoal
3 acrylic
4 oil pastel sealed with mod podge
5 liquid watercolor
6 monochromatic
7 triad
8 analogous
9 complementary
10 collage
11 blind contour
12 artists' choice
13 artists' choice
Spring 2023 Adventure No. 2
What's in your pack?
Final Series Options: 4 works total
1. The passage of time
2. Psychological portraiture
3. Observational mini series
4. Perspectives
Dreams: Surrealism: Past: Present: Future
Mark Ryden, artist below, fuses memory with dreams to create very unique compositions that both disturb and comfort.
Our dreams are clear and hazy. Our memories are too. What would happen if we allowed these entities to intermingle? Brainstorm what this would look like for you...a merging of your dreams of the past, present, and future.
Frida Kahlo infused her paintings with rich connections between her past, present, and future dreams/reality.
Observational Mini-Series-Contrast Vignettes.
1.four artworks connected by observation
2.artworks must also be connected by subject matter, a formal concern, and/or a theme
3.artworks must depict a dichotomy between the frame and the inside image, 8x10 or smaller
4.process will begin with a proposal
5.your proposal should include a formal and conceptual description of each artwork and full color thumbnail sketches
6.once your proposal is approved execution of the final artworks may begin
7.see OBSERVATION notes under the Drawing One Tab and incorporate:
at least two concepts from the “why artists observe” box
at least two places from the “where artists observe” box
consideration of all other boxes
1.four artworks connected by observation
2.artworks must also be connected by subject matter, a formal concern, and/or a theme
3.artworks must depict a dichotomy between the frame and the inside image, 8x10 or smaller
4.process will begin with a proposal
5.your proposal should include a formal and conceptual description of each artwork and full color thumbnail sketches
6.once your proposal is approved execution of the final artworks may begin
7.see OBSERVATION notes under the Drawing One Tab and incorporate:
at least two concepts from the “why artists observe” box
at least two places from the “where artists observe” box
consideration of all other boxes
Jacklyn St. Aubyn, Las Cruces NM. Observational Mini Series-Natural Vignettes.
Series Reminders:
Think of each artwork within the larger context of the series. Think of the series as an album and the artworks as the songs.
Work on multiple pieces at a time so they can inform each other.
Try not to “begin” and “end” pieces, rather work on them continuously.
Think of the artworks as sentences of a paragraph - parts to/of a whole.
Arrange individual artworks, but in a flexible order.
Let your ideas evolve during the production of the artworks instead of turning them on and off. Let them move in and out of each other.
Keep commonalities between works.
Working on artworks over an extended period of time allows more insight, exploration, and consistency.
You are ultimately introducing the element of time, the passage of time. Art is not made in a fragment of a moment, nor is it experienced that way.
Think of each artwork within the larger context of the series. Think of the series as an album and the artworks as the songs.
Work on multiple pieces at a time so they can inform each other.
Try not to “begin” and “end” pieces, rather work on them continuously.
Think of the artworks as sentences of a paragraph - parts to/of a whole.
Arrange individual artworks, but in a flexible order.
Let your ideas evolve during the production of the artworks instead of turning them on and off. Let them move in and out of each other.
Keep commonalities between works.
Working on artworks over an extended period of time allows more insight, exploration, and consistency.
You are ultimately introducing the element of time, the passage of time. Art is not made in a fragment of a moment, nor is it experienced that way.
Psychological Portraiture
Create a visual journal entry in response to the following prompt.
