Like last week, our coloured groups met and exchanged information about the assigned readings. I really like doing this because, first of all it’s hard to read that much and remember it all, secondly it’s a way to converse with your group, hear one another’s perspectives and it often facilitates discussion.Then we were given a large blank piece of paper and some felts to work with. Alex told us to draw our journey to UBC, from the moment we woke up to when we got to school.At first I was a little bit worried that I couldn’t draw all those things (especially myself), but once I got started it went all right. I drew myself as a stick person so it was easier to put more detail into other things. Then we traded with another group to see other people’s days. I liked doing this because it made me feel better (sometimes worse) about my own drawing, but it also gave me ideas for next time. I realized that I didn’t have to draw myself in each picture, I could just draw something that represented what I was doing or what happened. Secondly, I didn’t have to do it in a linear fashion, although it seemed logical to me and easier to remember what I did when I drew them sequentially.
Line drawing: We had to draw an object that was around us, but without looking at the paper that we were drawing it on. We used a black outlining felt and it was pretty hard, but more difficult just to keep yourself from not looking! Then we had to look at another object, for 30 seconds only and had to remember it and draw it. That was a little easier, but I guess it depended on how complex the object was. So this technique was called line drawing. Alex asked us to think about volume and how we could make the object have volume. Some suggestions were shading, more lines on the drawing. We had to make the object 3D on the paper. I was actually quite proud of mine. I drew a camera case and it actually looked like the real thing.
Next, Alex went over the stages of children’s drawing. He went from scribbles to intentional scribbles to deliberate drawings. It was neat to see the evolution of a child’s drawing and this was a good intro into our own child’s drawing that we had for an assignment. Alex then had us line up from youngest child to oldest. Mine was one of the youngest at 4 years old. My child, Owen drew something that just looked like scribbles but it was actually a huge story that unfolded as he drew it.Alex asked me what the story was and I told the class, I didn’t go into too much detail but they got the just of it. I thought that getting into a circle like that was a good way to see each other’s child drawings. I really liked observing Owen drawing and seeing what his imagination had in store.
Elements and Principles: Each table received an elements and principles sheet with the definitions for each. Then we had to look through magazines and find pictures that represented these elements and principles. I found this fairly hard because virtually all the pictures could fit into each principle. We were finally able to narrow it down, but some of us had different ideas of what represented each element or principle. We had to glue each one on a white piece of paper and write the name of the element or principle in a creative way. This was a good way to learn the elements and principles because it enabled different perspective and discussion over them to find out which were really well representative of them. It also made us realize that there are pictures that could fall into several elements or principles and that they were not limited to only one. Overall I thought it was a good introduction into elements and principles.
For the last half hour we started to create our plaster puppets. We wrapped plaster around one or two fingers and could create a little puppet out of it. We didn’t get very far, we only finished what we could, but I can’t wait to finish what we started next week!
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Intro to elements and principles
Like last week, our coloured groups met and exchanged information about the assigned readings. I really like doing this because, first of all it’s hard to read that much and remember it all, secondly it’s a way to converse with your group, hear one another’s perspectives and it often facilitates discussion. Then we were given a large blank piece of paper and some felts to work with. Alex told us to draw our journey to UBC, from the moment we woke up to when we got to school. At first I was a little bit worried that I couldn’t draw all those things (especially myself), but once I got started it went all right. I drew myself as a stick person so it was easier to put more detail into other things. Then we traded with another group to see other people’s days. I liked doing this because it made me feel better (sometimes worse) about my own drawing, but it also gave me ideas for next time. I realized that I didn’t have to draw myself in each picture, I could just draw something that represented what I was doing or what happened. Secondly, I didn’t have to do it in a linear fashion, although it seemed logical to me and easier to remember what I did when I drew them sequentially.
Line drawing: We had to draw an object that was around us, but without looking at the paper that we were drawing it on. We used a black outlining felt and it was pretty hard, but more difficult just to keep yourself from not looking! Then we had to look at another object, for 30 seconds only and had to remember it and draw it. That was a little easier, but I guess it depended on how complex the object was. So this technique was called line drawing. Alex asked us to think about volume and how we could make the object have volume. Some suggestions were shading, more lines on the drawing. We had to make the object 3D on the paper. I was actually quite proud of mine. I drew a camera case and it actually looked like the real thing.
Next, Alex went over the stages of children’s drawing. He went from scribbles to intentional scribbles to deliberate drawings. It was neat to see the evolution of a child’s drawing and this was a good intro into our own child’s drawing that we had for an assignment. Alex then had us line up from youngest child to oldest. Mine was one of the youngest at 4 years old. My child, Owen drew something that just looked like scribbles but it was actually a huge story that unfolded as he drew it. Alex asked me what the story was and I told the class, I didn’t go into too much detail but they got the just of it. I thought that getting into a circle like that was a good way to see each other’s child drawings. I really liked observing Owen drawing and seeing what his imagination had in store.
Elements and Principles: Each table received an elements and principles sheet with the definitions for each. Then we had to look through magazines and find pictures that represented these elements and principles. I found this fairly hard because virtually all the pictures could fit into each principle. We were finally able to narrow it down, but some of us had different ideas of what represented each element or principle. We had to glue each one on a white piece of paper and write the name of the element or principle in a creative way. This was a good way to learn the elements and principles because it enabled different perspective and discussion over them to find out which were really well representative of them. It also made us realize that there are pictures that could fall into several elements or principles and that they were not limited to only one. Overall I thought it was a good introduction into elements and principles.
For the last half hour we started to create our plaster puppets. We wrapped plaster around one or two fingers and could create a little puppet out of it. We didn’t get very far, we only finished what we could, but I can’t wait to finish what we started next week!
~ by rissaglendinning on February 6, 2008.
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