Classwork:
Review mackintosh studiesFinish Mackintosh inspired botanical studies
review homework handout for Monday 9.20
Homework:
RECOMMENDED:
Try to attend the Musicircus on Sept. 16, from 9-10 PM @ the Visual Arts Center in Richmond @ 1812 W. Main St. This event is organized anually by Brian Jones and is inspired by a concept created by John Cage, in which a whole bunch of musicians play music simultaneously in the same space. If last year is any indication it is sure to be a boistrous, cacaphonous hullabaloo!
REVIEW James Audubon links prior to class on Monday (see link on the right)
FINISH today's classwork if you haven't already
CREATE a positive negative study based on a landscape of your choice over the weekend. Pick a block of time and work "plein air" outdoors. Simplify nature's forms into a drawing which emphasizes positive and negative space. Create a figure ground reversal based on the handout you received and the drawing you complete during this session.
Refer to the handout regarding guidelines and process!
considerations:
*fill page with positive/negative composition
*emphasize negative space
*use salt in negative space
*choose a warm and a cool color and vary the tonal range, opacity and transparency of these two colors
*The negative space should emphasize the foreground (positive space)
BRING natural forms to class that you've found in nature (rocks, limbs, seashells, etc)
