Now that is mark making (Tony Orrico: Penwald)

2D Project 2 Story LINE and Mark Making project parameters

2D Project 2 Story LINE and Mark Making parameters

by Chinney

 David's made with string.

by Katy

by Krystal

Artists of interest (worth googling)
Jill Moser
Brice Marden
Robert Ryman
Cy Twombly
Howard Sherman
John Adelman
Arshile Gorky
Antoni Tapies
Agnes Martin
William DeKooning
Piet Mondrian
Edvard Munch
Frank Stella
Sol LeWitt

Movements
Abstract Expressionism
Minimalism

Supplies to bring for 2D Wednesday

BRING

1. Pencil, smudgy charcoal, ink
2. Eraser(s)
3. Rag
4. White paint of any kind you have
5. Perhaps white out tools
6. Perhaps 1 dang art tool like a cheap brush
7. A variety of surfaces to work on (paper, cardboard, newspaper, etc)
   Also consider any surface that might relate to your story. One can work on the side (inside or outside) of a suitcase, a trash can, a tire, a door, a window, a boat, fence planks, etc. Any surface which can have white paint applied to it to function as the ground and then can have ink, pencil, or charcoal applied to it. You may have to harvest surfaces to bring Monday if they are not accessible today.
   
   
       Mark making by Katy
   
   Reread your story and see if their is a natural surface that would make sense from your story that might function as the surface to draw on. Paper may be best choice. I simply want you to think outside the box and see what comes to mind.
   
   
   
8. A printed copy of your original story and revision or rewrite. (Bring from now on)

2D HW assigned 2/28

PART 1: mental imaginings, lists and Q&A

Visualize a series of objects. (1) Make a list first of 15 objects (nonliving or living),  (2) then work through it, mental visualizing each object from multiple angles, and (3) see if you can determine a pattern in your own imaging ability. (4) Now add a motion or change to each object in your list (ie if you visualized your mother in first list, now visualize her breathing or sneezing or gasping), (5) visualize each and see if you can determine a pattern in your own imaging ability. (6) Post lists and answer to (7) questions on your blog

1. Are you better at visualizing people than objects? Or worse?
   What seems to be mentally different?
2. Are you better at two-dimensional objects than three-dimensional? How so?
3. Where do you see your image?
4. Is it out in front of your eyes or back in your skull somewhere or somewhere else?
5. What is brought to bear in these instances is a keen sensitivity to a non-modular perceptivity of sense-data. Why might this be important in your field?

PART 2: your Story LINE

LISTS from your story line (most current). Make a list for each type of sensation referenced in your story LINE.

1. Sight
2. Sound
3. Smell
4. Touch
5. Taste
6. Balance (equilibrioception)
7. Temperature (thermoception)
8. Pain
9. Pressure
10. Motion and acceleration (kinaesthesia)
11. Direction (magnetoception)
12. Temporal (sense of time)

Make an additional list recording all types of emotions or mood referenced in your story line.

Post lists to blog and bring hard copy to class Wednesday

PART 3: MAKE STUFF!

Choose 3 items from any of you story lists and translate each into 3 distinct mark drawings (= 9 drawings) representing your story's sensation/mood/emotion. You should spend a minimum of 10 minutes per drawing, recommend 15-20 per drawing (between 2 – 3 hours on your drawings). You may use any technique and material we’ve done and used in class or as homework. From your blog posts the charcoal ghost drawings with significant erasures seem strong and interesting.

Goal is tearing the language based sense reference out of its habitual context (thus achieving) by translating it tactilely into a visual reference creating a heightened awareness of sensory texture relevant to your story for the viewer.

STORY LINE: Readings Monday morningplus revision/rewrite

Before Monday morning you should post your revision or your rewrite to your blog. If you've emailed me your original or revised for privacy, please make a blog post for each titled either Story LINE and Revised/Rewritten Story Line and then in body just note that you submitted by email.

Click to read an example original Story LINE and rewrite by Zack.

I am interested in having a handful of you read your story LINEs aloud on Monday. If you are interested in doing so, please email me to say YES and include a copy of what you intend to read.

1. If you want to read yours, consider and PRACTICE the following use of
2. Space (positive=talking; negative=silence [pauses])
3. Value (voice volume and force)
4. Contrast (variation in space and value)
5. Rhythm 
6. Direction or movement (voice modulation???)

These items are used to create interest, tension and focal points with the reading. Use of space, particularly negative space, is one of the most important features of storytelling. Consider laying out your text in a way that lets you know when to put in your silence (breaks in lines, long spaces, etc). This will help you read it the way you intend even when you get nervous up front.

LECTURE blog reminder

Your mapping lists should already be posted, if not get them up before Monday.
If you are sending them directly to me via email, make a post title Mapping lists and then write emailed.

Homework assigned Wednesday, 2/23

2D—Mark Making 2/23 HW

MAKE
Gestural emotive marks via smudgy charcoal, rag, and eraser

Three drawings for three distinct pieces of music (total= 9 drawings)
Listen to music and repetitively use a gesture that suggests the mood of the music (repeat gesture for 5 minutes). You may also want to experiment with repetitive smudging along with the marks. Minimum size 11x13.

Ghost marks
Two drawings for two distinct pieces of music (total= 2 drawings) Minimum size 11x13.

Drawing ONE, STEPs

1. Draw repetitive gesture dictated by mood of music for 3 minutes.
2. With rag, wipe away drawing
3. Repeat #1 to same music
4. With rag, wipe away drawing
5. Selectively erase residuals lines or smudges to create negative space
6. Repeat #1 for third time
7. If needed, erase more

    by Krystal

    by Katy

Drawing TWO, STEPs

1. Draw repetitive gesture dictated by mood of music for 3 minutes.
2. With rag, wipe away drawing
3. Repeat #1 to same music
4. With rag, wipe away drawing
5. Repeat #1 for third time
6. With rag, wipe away drawing
7. Repeat as many times as you choose to build up surface for next step
8. Draw a repetitive gesture dictated by mood of music for 3 minutes with your ERASURE
9. If drawing feels done, so be it. Otherwise repeat any of the above steps to your hearts content
10. Use any mark making method we have tried so far on creating a representational drawing.

Choose method we used in class or homework and use that one method for entire drawing. (1 drawing) ?????

FINISH Story LINE revision and post to blog

sample rewrite The other side by Zach

North
I abandon the house and head for the field,
Where the grass has grown too tall to cut.
Towering above the grass is a lone pine, whose trunk is like a silo.
The smell of diesel drifts through the air as I pass the tool shed.
I reach the fence and carefully grab between its barbs.
As I push down, the staples growl until I release them back into silence.
I walk down to Bell's pond where cows wade in the dark water.
They don't seem to mind the rocks skipping past them.


East
I abandon the house and head for the pines.
Slipping through lines of spindled rust
I enter a new world that smells like sap.
Spiders stitch webs in fallen needles
And crows lay eggs in broken tree tops.
I run through the corridors of cedar saplings
And leap across a shallow creek with steep embankments.


South
I abandon the house and head for the pond,
With a friend and a boat in tow.
We have trouble getting it over the fence,
And end up having to toss it.
Carrying it through briers and honeysuckle bushes
We make our way down to the pond.
The instability is apparent as we watch the boat
Rock violently in the muddy water.
Heedless to its warnings, we grab sticks
to use as paddles, and climb aboard.
Blinded by a false sense of bravery
We push off from land and begin to paddle.
Grins sweep our faces
Until the boat topples us into the water.


West
I abandon the house and head for the fort.
I jump the fence in the corner of the yard
Where the thick posts provide good footing.
The ladder shakes as I hurry up its rungs.
I sit down in the fort's cedar belly,
Surrounded by names and sayings carved into its sides.
My pellet gun rests against the wall as I scan the surrounding trees.
A pine cone at the end of a branch comes into view and I put a pellet in the chamber.
I raise the gun and find the cone with the scope.
Holding my breath, I squeeze the trigger, and watch the pine cone fall to the forest floor.
The wobbling branch sends birds from their nests.
They are too simple to know I would never harm them.

MATERIALS (for Monday)
ink, lots of paper, cup or large mouth object for ink, a large assortment of non art objects to dip in ink, funnel if you already have one

Bring all drawings to class

DOCUMENT
HW 2/21 on blog
HW 2/23 on blog
Story LINE rewrite

3D—Monologue pre-Friday homework

READ/RESEARCH
Complete lists from lecture on mapping and use as source material for developing MONOLOGUE IDEAS…before FRIDAY

Harvest ideas from mapping lists for raw source material or inspiration for your monologues which can take the form of rant, chant (original), chewing out, persuasive, state of the __ address, humorous, declaration, manifesto, diatribe, converse, homily, debate, sermonize, pitch, soapbox, pep talk, instruct, scold, scoff, telling off, give a talking to, berate, reprove, praise, beg, dress down, lambast, call down, chew out, acclaim, commendation, eulogy, tribute, laud, debate, bombast, tirade, or a confession.

PARAMETERS
sixty seconds
no cuts
no editing
YOU (only)
Choose two distinct monologue forms
Language based (you = sound symbols from your mouth)

things to consider

background within shot
peripheral (distractions?)
framing shot—close up, ultra close up, medium, etc
camera angle—bird’s view, worm view, etc
horizontal/vertical
facial expressions—eyes, mouth, etc
body mannerisms—hands, posture, etc
mood
voice (loud, soft, variations, steady?)
energy of monologue
(expected relative to topic or counter on purpose)

review, revise, reshoot once
review, revise, reshoot twice

MAKE
Two different monologues, 60 seconds each,
harvest content from mapping lists (your life)

shoot 3 of each (totaling 6)
upload to an account you create for yourself with www.youtube.com
email me the url for each video (in one email) before Monday
you may have to setup an account but you should be able to do this via your blogger/google login and password (I did)
embed all six in one post on your blog

Burn all six to cd or dvd; write your name, WASH Spring 2011 and Monologue with sharpie

MATERIALS (for Monday)
Monologue necessities
CD/DVD with your six monologues
Laptop
Video camera (camera, phone, laptop)
Spare batteries, charger, transfer cables

DOCUMENT
Final images of MM along with insights of class crit
Post 6 monologues to blog. Title Monologue ______ Rant, Confession, or whatever method you chose, etc…

Bill will present more info on Monologues this FRIDAY

Homework assigned Monday, 2/21

2D—LINE

Mark making

1. draw 100 parallel lines with your eyes closed
2. attack the page with a mark making tool
   
   Krystal attacks the page with a sponge
   
   
   
   
   
3. draw 200 lines. 100 with each hand at the same time
4. crumple paper and smooth, then draw lines (4 minutes)
5. fold paper and smooth, then draw lines (4 minutes)
6. tape your page down, write your name 100 times with your eyes closed
7. tape your page down, write a thought over and over until the page is full (plus 10 minutes?)
8. bring drawings to class on Monday
9. photograph each carefully (no arm or camera shadow).
   Experiment with cropping and/or zooming.
   Post 5 most interesting photos before Friday.

STORY LINE – get at least 4 reviews of your story using the handout
REVISE REWRITE story line – post to blog

3D—MODULAR MADNESS

Pre crit write up for Modular Madness
needs done before Friday. See downloadable handout.

LECTURE—Read textbook in the making, chapter on inspiration

Post all mapping lists to blog.
Interpret requests per your understanding (see lecture 3 handout—mapping)

2D Mark Making HW part I (2/21)

Monday 2/21 Homework due Monday 2/28

1. Mark making (use simple repetitive gesture). Each drawing should be on its own sheet of paper.
   
1. draw 100 parallel lines with your eyes closed 
2. attack the page with a mark making tool (pencil, conte, charcoal, ink, etc--choose one)
3. draw 200 lines. 100 with each hand at the same time 
4. crumple paper and smooth, then draw lines (4 minutes)
5. fold paper and smooth, then draw lines (4 minutes)
6. tape your page down, write your name 100 times with your eyes closed 
7. tape your page down, write a thought over and over until the page is full (~10 minutes?)
   
2. bring drawings to class on Wednesday
3. photograph each carefully (no arm or camera shadow). Experiment with cropping and/or zooming. Post 5 most interesting photos before Friday.

Wednesday 2/23 HW tba (check back with blog)

it is time to write!

Quit surfing >.< and go find a quiet space to write your STORY LINE. Post to your blog. If it is way to private to publically post there, email it to me (you will still need to bring 6 printouts).

BRING SIX PRINTOUTS TOMORROW!

We will evaluate your stories tomorrow according to this guide.

Also bring lots of paper, a bunch of sharp pencils, ink, big mouth container to hold ink and weird objects to dip. Plus anything you need to complete modular madness and install.

The story LINE

Choose one of the 4 themes below and write about YOU AND LINE (visually, auditorally, tactility, literary, relationally, socially, politically, territorially, physically, metaphysically, spiritually, etc”ly”)

1. CROSSING THE LINE
   Choose one memory from your life that involves crossing a line
   and tells us that story. Post to your blog.
   
2. STAYING IN LINE
   Choose one memory from your life that involves staying in line
   and tell us that story. Post to your blog.
   
3. AN IMAGINARY LINE
   Write about an imaginary line you hold in your mind for some reason. Post to your blog.
   
4. AN OBSERVED LINE
   From a photo you have shot of some type of line,
   write a story real or fabricated about this line and this photo
   and your relationship to it.

This is a short story, real or mostly real, serious or humorous, hard truth or slightly altered truth, mundane or wildly adventurous, safe or scary.

Consider writing it in a way that would not bore you (or me)—a children’s story, fable, fairytale, journal excerpt, song, poem, comic strip, sci-fi, end of world, storyboard, as a description a story embedded in a painting, newspaper article, news story, history book excerpt, letter, prayer, etc.

Don’t forget some degree of tension – whether taught or a balancing of tension, include it.

The theme is LINE and it should relate to YOU and your experiences or mental ponderings that already exist!

Story due Monday prior to 9 am—posted to blog
Story due Monday at 9:30 am—bring 6 printouts of post

INDEPENDENT Photo Shoot

1. go for a walk and shoot a series of photos of observed  LINE
2. take multiple photos of each instance at different angles, distances, and image framing
3. post best 5 to blog (prints due a week from Monday)
4. post additional image most relevant (even if abstractly relevant) along with your short story

just fun line to play with