Mark Making with Tool

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Notes 10.8.10

Human Figure

what holds art together?

• Conceptually
• Formally

Formally (point, line, shape, value, texture, color, space)
  -how we organize principles of design effects how we see harmony<-------->contrast
  -includes:  repetition, gestalt, placement(isolation), balance (symetrical/formal, asymetrical, informal, shape texture, color), scale/proportion, focal point.

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Reading outline...


Intro
-art compared to music
-Isaac Newton chose 7 colors to correspond with the diatonis scale.
-James Whisler(1834-1903): title paintings arrangment, nocturne, and harmony
-"Composition": piece of music/element of design = unify a whole
-"Harmony": sounds of pictorial arrangment = easy on the eye

Mark Making: 10

Methods:

fold

gesture

left vs right

stab and pull

roll in hands

Mark Making: 16 ( and 10 quotes)

Quotes:

• "Take these feelings and lock them away"
• "You're born of a jackal!"
• "The lighthouse beam has just run out"
• "Let it fester and boil inside you"
• "Start a brand new colony"
• "We'll cut our bodies free"
• "No time to think of consequences"
• "I can't accept that it's over..."
• "Why I have to leave"
• "You've got a lure I can't deny"

Methods Used:

Fold and splatter:

Attach and swing:

 crumple and then lay flat

object under paper (leafs)

tape

Instead of laying tape flat on paper, I bundled a bunch up and set it onto the paper.  By dripping, the ink would fall in the open spaces and by holding the paper upright it would fall from the tape onto avaliable white space.

gestures

backhand wrist flip

twist

arm movement



Same motion with different objects:

small leafs

large leafs

 

eh....I don't know what they're called. Pine leafs?

styrofoam

Left hand:

Same basic gesture done two different ways yeilded very different results: