today

we are meeting today at 3:30 at 109 River. please bring drawing materials that will enable you to draw outside.

rain delay

it's supposed to rain tomorrow, so unfortunately we're going to meet at studio arts, like usual. see you tomorrow!

homework for tomorrow

as discussed, please take a small section of one of your series drawings and blow it up to the size of your newsprint and draw it using a different material. so, if you used something like tin foil in your series, then render the texture of the tin foil using something like pencil or charcoal. when selecting the section you will draw, please consider composition. also, please bring your series back in so we can compare your new drawing to the older one.

also, do NOT forget your three ink wash tones, paper, and brush.

Things for Tomorrow

For tomorrow, you will need:

1. A bamboo brush (size 8 or 10)

2. Drawing pad (not newsprint, the thicker stuff)

3. 3 containers with different shades of ink. Mix water and ink to create three distinct shades. Please test your mixtures before class to make sure there is a discernible difference between all three. 

please please please please please bring all these things. if you forget them, it will break my heart.

grid instructions

here's a recap of the instructions of the grid you're making for tomorrow:

1. cut a 6 x 8 inch window into a piece of cardboard
2. with strings, create a grid that makes 1 inch squares inside the window (ie cut lengths of string that are as wide as the window and then tape them to each side, one inch apart. do this horizontally and vertically)
3. draw a 3 inch grid on two sheets of your newsprint (ie each line is three inches apart)
4. label the columns on both your cardboard grid and your newsprint with letters (a,b,c...) and the rows with numbers (1,2,3...)

the more carefully and accurately you make both your grids, the more accurate your drawing will be.

look at this!

below is a link to tom phillips's book "a humument". it's a victorian novel he altered with drawings while letting certain words remain legible. i was talking to eva about this, and it occured to me it might be useful for all of you to look at it.

http://humument.com/gallery/slideshow.html

this is a really great example of turning a found object into an interesting series of drawings.

along those lines, zak smith did an illustration for every page of thomas pynchon's "gravity's rainbow" (which is like 700 pages long).

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/title.htm

i would consider something like this series of drawings to be in many ways a take on a found object. all of the drawings are directly inspired by a pre-existing work. the website is not ideal, but you can check out some of the drawings.

individual meetings!

here's the schedule:

thursday:
11:00 Eva
11:20 Alex
11:40 Spencer
1:00 Yun

friday:
10:20 Benji
10:40 Anna
11:00 Matt
11:20 Patrick
11:40 Erika
12:00 Andrew
12:20 Elise
1:00 Greg
1:20 Adam
1:40 Scott

meet me at java house on e. washington st (between dubuque and linn downtown). i'll be camped out at one of the tables towards the back.