Project 2 - Intermedia Drawing Challenges

September 16, 2018

Project 2 - Intermedia Drawing Challenges

For our second project, I worked on five different "drawing" explorations. Part 1 was drawing on an object in an unconventional way. For this, I gathered a bunch of different types of leaves, and sewed them together into an approximation of the floor plan of my home. This was in response to a question from Paul Thek's Teaching Notes, which asks, "How many rooms are there in your home?" The answer is 8 or 9, depending on if you count the hallway or not. After sewing together the outline of my home, I added smaller leaves to show the inside walls. Then, I mixed some light blue paint, covered the leaves, and made a monoprint.

Stitching leaves together

Supplies

Laying out the leaves

The completed floor plan The painted leaves

Printing!

The final print

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For Part 2, I created four smaller experimental drawings:

A series of images from magazines over which I placed magnet poetry of my own creation
A box with paper and pens for students to draw pictures and place inside, located for a week in Westmont's library
A Starbucks mug I recreated with paper stamped with the letters "STARBUCKSMUG"
A series of three lists, each composed of all the combinations of the parts of two compound words