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.

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.