Homework:
*Finish In-Class Grey Scales (Both pages-front AND back)
*Finish Photo-Grid Project (Pencil on Bristol)
*Attend "Sympathy for The Devil..." Exhibition at MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) and write a one-page essay about your favorite piece in the show. The essay should be neatly hand-written in your sketchbook with some sort of visual documentation of the work (sketchs/picture<----PREFERRED). You can type it and paste it in your sketchbook later if you prefer. Please include some thoughts on the works formal elements/principles. LINK:
*MCA-September 29, 2007 - January 6, 2008 Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967
ADDRESS:
MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Review
In-class
*See the illustration below concerning your in-class work (formatting, medium, etc.).
PAGE #1 - Pencil/Bristol. Using a pencil/ruler, measure two columns of 9 rectangles. You're using two method for creating your pencil value scales:
Column(1) Accumulation - Literally accumulate marks..the more marks - the darker the value, and...
Column(2) Touch - Utilize your whole range of pencils in creating even and smooth rectangles of value. Use a paper towel or a tortillon (tightly wrapped paper - you can buy one or make your own) - OR you can make sure you pressure on the paper is even and constant as you lay out each field of value.
#1 BACKSIDE - Draw two spheres and two rectangles - giving each their own light source (using touch). look back at your notes concerning the rules of shading.
PAGE #2 - Ink/Bristol. Measure another two columns of 9 rectangles using your pencil and ruler.
Column (1)Accumulation
Column (2)Dilution - This is where you get out your mixing tray and brushes. You will DILUTE your ink from jet black...in gradual steps...to white.
#2 BACKSIDE - Two spheres, two rectangles using ink/dilution.
IMPORTANT!!!!!!!
*Each step in your grey scales should be even and gradual. In other words there should be a smooth transition from step #1 to #2 - to # 3....and so on. NO LEAPS IN VALUE! It is sometimes easier to start with WHITE first...and slowly get darker.
*If you're having difficulty or have not created an even flow of value - do it over.
*Accumulation basically means that you're adding an increasing amount similar line (squiggles, crosshatching, etc).
Photo-Grid
*The photo (not including the white border) is exactly half the size (5.5" x 7") of the Bristol (11"x14" - if yours is larger - cut it to an EXACT 11"x14").
*Each of you should have a photo (handed out in class). Using sharp, light pencil and ruler...grid out the photo into 1/2" squares. Using the same method, grid out a sheet of Bristol to create 1" squares - DO NOT tape frame the bristol. We're using the entire sheet.
*Moving from one square to the next, translate the photo grid to the bristol grid using your pencils. Mimic values, textures, lines, of photo exactly. We're going to put all of these grids together to form a larger composition - so the class depends not only on your doing the assignment, but faithfully recording the values from your photo.
*Remember your lightest light (white) may not be purely white, and similarly, your darkest dark may not (and most likely IS NOT dark black).
