Audio Drawings

Project description: each student will select a non-lyrical musical composition of their choice and visually represent it through a two-dimensional drawing.

My choice of music was Brahms Hungarian Dance No.5. This is one of my favorite classical music pieces. When I listen to the music I found there were three quite clear parts in the song, and I chose to make three different drawing – one significant for each part.

My chose of paper was mylar, because I like to work with that material. I used ink, gesso and char-kole.

The first part is soft music, but with a bit of power as well. It is much violins playing, and I thought that long brushstroke and grey color will explain this music piece very well.

The second part is the most powerful because they start with percussion instrument. I chose to illustrate this with much ink. But there are two times in this part they just play the violins and then I chose to make it a little bit lighter.

The third part was happiest so I chose to make this painting lightest. They play instruments like flutes and triangle and when they did that it felt like dots, so I made that. But they play also violin and I have illustrated that with darker lines in the drawing.

This was a fun, but a little bit difficult project. I listen to many different songs before I finally chose the Hungarian Dance No.5. I was very satisfied with my choice of music, but it took very long time for me to decide how I should show the music in a painting. From the beginning my thought was to do just ONE drawing, but I thought it was more interesting to divide into three parts. Especially when the parts are very obvious in the music piece, and I think it should have been messy if I only have had one painting.

2D Wood Floor Sculptures

This was a project we did a long time ago, so I don´t really remember all the details or instructions.

But I think it was something like this;

We were divided into groups with three persons in every group. We should choose approximately 6 wood pieces each (totally 20 pieces). Then we got different instructions about how we should compose the wood blocks.  

Here are some:

-          Build whatever you want

-          Build a shape

-          Build a shape with no negative space

-          Build something with negative space that look like one of the wood block

-          Build something simple that you could do identical one year later

This assignment was okay, not that fun. It was nice to cooperate with the classmates, but it was hard to know when we were done with our shape, because we start to change it over and over again. My favorite was the one when we could chose to do whatever we want. It looks so symmetrical and nice, but not in a boring way.

Plexiglass Layering Paper Sculptures

The class was divided into small groups with three students in every group. The group chose four different color of paper. Our group chose silver, orange, purple and yellow. We got five plexiglass slides and the assignment was to cut the paper in different shapes and place the paper between the different layers.

Our group made up simple rules to follow, for example that we should have the same kind of shape on each layer. The first one was just a big square in silver, it become the background. The second layer was only lines and bars. The third was circles and the fourth squares.

The result was quit cool, it was nice to see the depth in the creation. I think the colors was a great combination, but maybe it was just a little bit too much 70s and the shapes as well seem to fit that era.  

 

Diebenkorn Drawing

 

The assignment was to make a big Diebenkorn drawing together with a classmate. I and Erika got a copy of a Diebenkorn painting and then we took a really big paper and start to draw with char-kole. We chose to draw the big areas first, and then as the time went on we draw more detailed things.

I thought it was a little bit difficult to draw two persons on the same drawing, because I started somewhere and Erica somewhere else. And in the end it doesn’t fit in the middle, so we needed to do some changes in the end.

And another thing that was difficult was that I made a mistake and drew a black line, where it should be a white area. And I tried to erase it, but afterwards it was still possible to see that I made a wrong line. That was bad.

Book Secrets

One day the whole class went to the library and then we got a new assignment. The project was to choose five books with interesting titles and do bookmarkers to all of them that had something to do with the book. Then we could put the bookmarker somewhere in the book and return it to the library. The next person that borrows the book will find the marker, and probably react positive!

The bookmarker could include collage, drawings and color. I enjoyed this project, and I thought much about that my bookmarker really can change a person’s day in the future. If I was the person that found a bookmarker which is common for the book, I should been very happy, and even happier if it stood something funny on the piece of paper. 

My titles were the following:

Dairy Queen

The Thousand and One Days

Food in Film

The Classic Ten

Indian Art

Photo Project with Candy

The project was to create 3 different photos of candy organized and composed in real space.

There were some rules; we could only use one type of candy, but we could use as much or less candy of this type as we want. Only the actual candy could be used. And a big NO was that the candy could not include chocolate!

I bought two packages of “Mike&Ike Tropical Typhoon”. I choose it because I wanted to have many lovely colors. When I heard it should be in “real space” I thought it was meant to be outside, so I walked around campus and took all my pictures. It was so fun because people stopped and ask me if I was okay when I was lying on the ground and took photos. Then I explained that this was a design project and they started to laugh. Everybody thought it was a fun project! And I like this assignment too. It was interesting to try the candy in different environments. Unfortunately I lost my inspiration after a couple of hours and went back home again.

15 Google Images

We should choose one word, I chose “chair”, and used Google image to find pictures related to the word. Then we selected 15 pictures that we liked and printed them.

The second step was to choose one of our “Diebenkorn pictures” and look at the composition, and use it when we constructed our drawing. We got a mylar paper and we put the images under the mylar and then drew lines with a pencil from the image to the paper.

It was a fun assignment, it was a cool result. I really liked it! In the end of the lecture it was hard to see which line was to which chair, and I got a little confused in the end because it was impossible to erase anything without erase everything else. 

Credit Card Drawings That Portrait Our 10 “Diebenkorn” Photos

The assignment was to draw 10 credit card drawings that look like our “Diebenkorn” photos. Details were not important, but the composition was significant. I don´t know what happened, but it seems to I not can count, because when I had finish my work, I saw that I had 11 drawings instead of 10. I think I made 11 squares because it look more esthetic beautiful on the paper  

10 Photos in Diebenkorn Style

The assignment was to take 10 photos of things that look like a Diebenkorn painting. One main thing we should think about was the composition. This assignment should be done when I was in New York, so many of my pictures consist of buildings from that area. When I was walking on the streets in that big city I thought much about this project and used my camera a lot, but it was a quite tricky assignment and not that easy that I thought it should be. There are some pictures that I like more than others. The photos should be printed in black and white.

Homework in New York

I missed the class October 22nd because I was in New York with my family then, so I´ve got one homework and it was to visit MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art. I like to visit museum with art, especially if it is modern art. I´m a fan of paintings that include lines, bars and squares. I like when it isn´t possible to see what the painting should describe, and were I can use my own fantasize. Two artists with this kind of art that I really liked were Piet Mondrian and Franz Kline.

The third floor includes among others design and architecture. And I thought this part was quite fun because I found a design from my home country. It was the invention Self-Alingning Ball Bearing done by the Swede Sven Wingquist.

One highlight was to see art painted of Andy Warhold and Roy Liechtenstein. I have always seen this both men´s paintings in books and magazines, so it was amazing to stand in front of those.

Two other famous artists were Salvador Dali and Picasso. They have also made lots of work which have been really famous, and it was fun because direct when I saw a painting/sculpture I could immediately recognize their “style”.

Here are some pictures from my visit.

Shapes in black floating in rectangle

 

The assignment was to draw 8 shapes from 4 different categories; functional, non-functional, implied and ephemeral. It become totally 32 shapes. The next step was to choose 16 of these (4 from every category). We start to cut out the shapes, and then we put them in the middle on another paper and cut them out one more time. The piece we have cut out was painted with black ink. When the piece has dried we put it back in the “hole”. This was a time-consuming assignment, it felt like it never should ended. But I really enjoyed this! I have never done something like this before and it was an interesting and enjoyable process.

Shapes in black with lines and bars (rule based system)

The next assignment with the “shape” theme was with help of different rules paint graphite bar and line, white gesso bar, grey gesso bar and thin black bar over the shapes. The different methods have each three different restrictions; horizontal across side to side, vertical top to bottom, off one side only. We should use 5 “actions” for each drawing, and every action should be selected a minimum of 5 times. It was so many rules in this project and I was so afraid to fail, but I come up with a good system and I think I made all lines and bars right. I liked my shapes before all the lines and bars, so from the beginning I didn´t like this new idea. But when I saw the finish work I was very happy over my paintings anyway!

Value Project documenting activity

The assignment was to make a physical event with different values. I am living on the fifth floor in I-house. I have a mission that not use the elevator, and use the stairs instead. I count how many times I went up or down through the stairs every day, and I made this for 10 days. Some days I was more active than others, when I was much lazier and use the elevator. Here is the result.

Date	9/7	9/8	9/9	9/10	9/11	9/12	9/13	9/14	9/15	9/16
Value (stairs)	4	5	6	5	11	8	10	13	7	9
Value (color)	1	2	3	2	8	5	7	10	4	6

This was a fun and different assignment. I liked it and got a lot of exercise too. The funny thing is that I have never used the elevator after the assignment, only the stairs! So I think the project resulted in something very good!

Tate St. Drawing

The assignment was to draw lines we could find in Tate Street Coffee House for 1h. I think I misunderstood this assignment, because I thought we only should draw lines that we could find and not that it should imagine something special. When I come to the class and saw the other students’ drawings I was dissatisfied with my own. I think I´ve could make a better drawing if I have understand the instructions a little bit better. But one thing I was pleased with was that I only draw lines and no values at all.

Composition Studies (credit card tracings)

In the beginning of the project we picked one credit card and then with help of the card draw 3 small squares on 6 papers. It becomes totally 9 horizontal squares and 9 vertical. The purpose was to draw something we could find in the art building and carefully choose where we should put the object in the square. We used only graphite and we were allowed to draw both lines and values. This was an amusing but stressful assignment. We had only 1-1,5h to make 18 drawings.

Eve replicas from Weatherspoon

The project was to create a drawing with similar technique that the artist Eve Aschheim has used in her beautiful paintings in the Weatherspoon. We visit the exhibition one time with the class, one time by our self and then one more time when the project was done.

I enjoyed this assignment. I thought it was fun to paint on mylar paper. It was such an amazing feeling. I was very satisfied with my drawing, I thought it was clean and the lines were perfect. But.. maybe it was too clean and not quite similar to Aschheims work. Here is the first one;

 

I decided to add some graphite in the painting to see if it would be different. The answer is yes. Now it becomes more similar with Eves paintings, but I cannot decide with one I like the best!

Value Scale

Here is just a normal value scale from 1 to 10, with the lightest as one and darkest as ten. I think it was a little bit tricky to get the right color in the right value on the scale. The assignment claimed lot of precision.  

Painting with wooden stick and ink water

Each student was invited to go out and pick a wooden stick. The next step was to get a paper and a small bowl of water included a few drops ink. In the front of the classroom there was placed different objects, one at the time, which we should paint with our stick as a brush. Some objects were for example skeleton, vacuum cleaner, table, chair and a bicycle wheel. Every time we shifted item we added some more ink in the water, so it becomes darker and darker. I really enjoyed this assignment. First of all it was cool to paint with a stick, and secondly it was amazing to see how the painting was changed. From the beginning it was so light and for every item we painted it become darker.

Still of EXTRA from selected film and text

Assignment: Pick a movie and study an extra!

Description of the Extra

This is a scene from the movie Dead Poets Society. The extra is wearing a school uniform, as well as the other boys. Grey jumper and white shirt. He has brown hair. He is in a classroom and they are totally 18 students. He and 7 other boys are sitting in the classroom, whereas 10 boys are standing on their benches. The extra is sitting in the left lower corner. He has a thick book in front of him, probably about poetry. He has his head bent down and staring/reading his book. He looked a little bit ashamed. It seems like the things happens around him doesn´t affect him. He is quite passive.

Why I selected this Extra?

I like this movie because it so capture and this is one of my favorite scenes, because it is so beautiful symmetry in the “picture”. The boys are creating a nice square when they are standing on their desks. It had not been that beautiful view if the extra also was standing on the desks. The extra is highlighting the other boys on their benches.  And it hadn´t been the same effect if not the extra have been there. He is so unaffected, and don´t care what the other boys are doing.

Tracking number: 1.59.34

It was very interesting to see a movie and watch everything that happened around the main role. I saw so much things that I never have taken notice of before. In the future I think I´m going to observe “smaller things” which take place the background instead of always focus on the main character.  

Drawing with a pencil on a straight-edge

We used a straight-edge which we had fixed our pencil on. The assignment was to draw something we had found outside, I found a kind of cone. I think the restriction was to only draw lines. It was quit hard to draw because the pencil was so far away, and it was difficult to have control over it. But I think it was innovative to use the pencil in this way.

Checkers with Char-Kole

The assignment was to play the game checkers. I have never done it before, so the whole thing was quite new to me. I and Erica took a big paper that covered the entire table space between us. Then we began to draw a big square, with 64 smaller squares in it. One small square was 2*2 inches.

After Erica had told me the rules we started to play the game. She had the black marks and I the white marks. We made the markers with char-kole.  Every time we moved a marker, we drew it in a new square and erased the old marker. After a while it was quite messy on the game plan. I´m so glad that I had the white markers, because I didn´t need to erase that much then.

I liked to play that game and the paper looked quite cool afterwards. I won also by the way, so I was happy! But it was not so fun to erase all the time and get char-kole all over the body.