Spring 2011 WASHers

Check out spin cycle 2 for a preview of some of what we'll be doing in the spring.

Your spring MWF WASH blog, spin cycle 3, is located at
http://washspring2011.blogspot.com/

Your spring TTHF WASH blog, spin cycle 4, is located at
http://spincycle4.blogspot.com

Hanging the laundry

WASH student exhibition prep/timeline

Monday, December 6

1. Crit 5 photo hybrids and 2 photo/bw representation hybrids
2. Work in class on hybrid self symbol final presentation format
3. Work in class on character
4. Email invitations to exhibition to your friends, family, coworker
5. Review blog and fill in missed posts

Wednesday, December 8

MORNING
Finish hybrid self symbol
Finish characters
Finish updating blogs
Make any optional books to include in show or for BFA review

AFTERNOON
Crit characters
Patch, repair walls, paint walls
Clear out ALL personal stuff from studio by end of day
Sweep floors, arrange furniture
Make labels for each piece, including books that will be included in exhibition. Type your name and project title for each piece.

Review handout for list of materials to include, both required and optional.

Friday, December 10

1. Table team critiques (list one thing you have appreciated,  worked well, or is just good/helpful about each one of your table mates; choose 3-5 other classmates not at your table and do the same. Turn in.)
2. Divide into teams to devise layout scheme for each project area (2d: text as texture—wall/tables, mark making—wall/tables, texture—table, hybrid self portrait—wall/tables; 3d: cardboard—floor/tables, performance—table, modular madness—wall/tables/ pedestals, self portraits--wall/tables/pedestals, characters; lecture—wall/tables)
3. Install work and name labels

Monday, December 13

1. Send out reminder emails to friends, other professors and coworkers.
2. Install inflatables if needed (3:45 pm)
3. Exhibition: all students are to attend 5-7 pm
4. Deinstallation: 7-8 pm or Tuesday, December 14. All work must be removed by December 14. The combination to the building will be changed for the next semester and you will no longer have access—please remove your stuff or put in loft for accreditation process (will be notified by email to pick up from WASH building late fall 2011).

it is time to post your pics

of you as object. be sure to classify, label each pair. make your prints to bring to class tomorrow along with your collection and all previous works of your object. bring drawingpaper, scissors, glue etc. tracing paper would be helpful if you have some.

I am grateful todayfor having you WASHers in my life

thank you!

WASH building plumbing turned off

do NOT use bathrooms please

over thanksgiving holidays plumbing is being worked on
so if your plumbing requires relief

walk up the hill to taco bell...
please no wash building smells!

sorry i couldn't help the form of my public WASH service announcement.
sincerely, a laundry room attendant!

can't wait to experience inflatatopia tomorrow (11-2, LSC)

Don't forget to return and neatly store all power cables, blowers, etc, after inflatatopia! Bring your camera's it will be awesome!

You as object (representation part 2 - self portrait)

Representational Form (part 2)

YOU AS OBJECT

BRING EVERYDAY

Bring object and all previous photos, drawings, etc.
Bring your brand culture stuff library .
Bring camera, spare batteries, wall jack, cable to transfer images to computer.
Bring light source to class.
Bring background material.

SELF PORTRAIT
You will need be able to print these images out both BW copies (Xerox) and actual photographs. (They can be uploaded to Walmart and for about 10 cents a copy printed).

Series (capture 10 strong images for each numbered category)
For each series consider

a. consider lighting (indoor/outdoor/spot etc)
b. consider image resolution/quality
c. consider material/background context for object (you) to be set on
d. consider all peripheral materials that might be
inadvertently captured through the lens of the camera
e. consider scale
f. consider cropping
g. consider zooming
i. consider focus/clarity/image quality

Consider a theme for the (you) object to direct you imagery you shoot.
Ie. Body hair as masculinity, body or part as container, gender, unique feature about you, specific body part or area that represents you, etc. Once you have selected a them, for example nose, then all 130 shots should be about the nose.

Shot image (you) in a way that shows off its natural (10 of each = 130)

1. whole object (all of you)
2. lines
3. shapes
4. color
5. surface texture
6. depth/space
7. rhythms or repetition
8. balance(symmetrical/asymmetrical, formal/informal)
9. dramatic lights/darks
10. closure/metaphor/symbol
11. negative space
12. positive space
13. exaggerate scale
14. object as an abstraction
15. object in motion

Print and bring to class Monday, Nov 29.
1. Color photographic prints of top 2 images from each category (walmart)
2. BW print out top 2 images for each category (may be different).
Consider how it looks BW. Enlarge on copier to 8 ½ by 11.

Post Top two images from each category on Blog

POP CULTURE BRAND COLLECTION
Collect a range of branded (with logo) ephemera based on popular culture that is interesting to you, such as xbox, starbucks, bands, books, movies, clothing lines, etc packaging, ads, photos (you take) of product.

Some INSPIRATION
Look at work by artist such as Michael-Jean Basquiat, designer Ryan McGuinness, Gustav Klimt, Egan Schliele, Ray Ogar, Keith Harring, Gonzo247, Shepard Fairy, Barbara Kruger, graffiti or other art and design sources….and many more

tonight is the night. get your 30 images posted and labeled

don't forget your printouts and supplies for tomorrow.

WASHer sample.

object in motion (michael's artichoke)

 

object in motion (ashley b's plyers)

object as abstraction (alina's hairbrush)

object/shapes (dana's artichoke)

depth and space (danielle's garlic)

abstraction (edith's pineapple)

habits of work that will serve you well.

1. Direct Engagement
   (making/experimentation/testing)
2. Self Reliance
   (learning how you learn, where your ideas come from, going and doing, knowing when to ask for help)
3. Organized Persistence
   (test/evaluate/reflect/test alternatives)
4. Daily Practice
   (yup)
5. Appropriate Speed
   (learning to be efficient with your approach/adjusting where need be)
6. Incremental Assistance
7. Valuing Alternatives
   (test/evaluate/reflect/test alternatives/explore sideways ideas)

two more things to do this weekend involving looking and thinking

1. LOOK at each your table teams blogs, specifically consider their identity essentials projects. read the text they included. consider which images are stronger and why. do you derive their intended meaning or see something else in the work as dominance? come to class with an opinion along with your print out formidentity essentials and for our represent project.

2. relative to the represent project think about why you chose the object you did? be specific? relative to that explore three descriptive wireworms your object. consider action, mood, sensory experience, purpose, metaphor...

look
think
develop

Time to get to posting your identity essentialssee you at mfah.org at promptly at 10 am

a few of your fellow WASHer's solutions
to identity essentials photo project

 Brian :: the mouth metaphor

Daniel B :: gender/masculinity/hair

Trey :: the eye

Danielle :: the body as a container (and pliable)

Hunter :: undisclosed identity essential metaphor
(he figures you're smart enough to figure it out)

 Michael :: the body as container

That's pretty good...for a girl!

First generation feminist art (the waves before and after) Lecture 
Homework assigned (10/29)

Due Wednesday (11/3)

This assignment will make more sense after tomorrow's lecture.

Shoot: a series of a body, body part or a metaphor for a body part (my preference over naked gentile—ie Georgia O’Keefe and her flowers) photos considering one item below as the source idea…

Identity essentials

- the body as “container” (as form, but also in the abstract: the soul, thoughts, desires…)

- the body as landscape

- the body as site of conflict, debate, legal issue

- the essence of gender

- the body as spirit

- graphic elements as pattern/decoration, nature, text, graphiti

- role of age, history, time ( i.e. wrinkles, patina, traces of experience)

- the body as a site of loss and remembrance or associated with the passing of individual or cultural histories.

Post images to web (5), title post identity essentials, for the set indicate which ONE item you were considering when shooting the images. Include a short statement about your approach and why you chose the specific area of focus.

Print out one image (BW) enlarge to 11x17 or larger. Enlarge the photo

gosh. i was just going to post some samplesbut there were to many wonderful ones

students spent a week or so exploring mark making and then brought a quote of their choosing into the work. the goal was to express the quote in a way that mimics actual speech in creating breath (space) and emphasis, etc and yet maintain readability.

each work is 2 to 3 feet by 3 to 5 feet in size.

Color/Texture project begins Monday 10/25

Read Color Theory reading assignment (before 10/22).
Read 2D project 3 texture/color handout.
Collect 5 sets of 3 color swatches (paint section at a hardware store) and bring to class Monday.

Choose color sets for each of the following based on a specific:

1. mood
2. temperature 
3. season 
4. gender
5. persons profession (engineer, lawyer, teacher, doctor, etc)

For each set choose one hue with low value (light/pale), one with high value (dark/rich), and another hue of your choosing. (3 hues max)

Using adobe kuler picker http://kuler.adobe.com/ recreate your color swatch sets online and post to your blog before Mondays class. Post a link to kuler creation of swatch for each of your five sets, identify which category you are depicting with your color and specific type...ie mood/angry.

Reading before Friday, Oct 22

Color Reading

mini posters up and don't forget book making materials.

today is the day to post and finish

post your 10 mini poster images
finish your modular madness and install it if necessary (today?)

collect all materials for 2d so you are ready for the morning (review prep for tomorrow)

good example: Top 10 Poster Pics

dana's WASH blog: Top 10 Poster Pics

mark making monday (10/18)

mark making monday

1. critique TEN refined ~11x17 mark/word solutions
2. refine final solution/prep for enlargement
3. work on mark making sketchbook (stab binding)

a.  select 20 of your best mark making experiments
     that show a good deal of variety in mark style.
b.  sequence (consider variation vs clustering and pacing)
c.  determine best size for sketchbook
d.  crop/clean up sketches to work in book
e.  mount sketches (black paper)
f.  CRAFT matters! Be consistent.
g.  stab bind
h.  put name small on back

before Monday

1. from 50+ mark/word solutions choose top TEN
   (show variety styles of solutions)
2. refine and clean up craftsmanship
   of word/word application (create mini poster)/
   trim off edges that are unneeded on TEN
3. posted refined images to blog
   (also images of your mark making device
   should already be up on your blog)
4. bring to class ready to pin up on wall at 9 am.
5. make extra text/make extra matching background images
   (not combined so that you have materials to work with on Monday in class while refining based on crit)
6. bring supplies for book making
   (ie large black paper, needle, awl, thread, exacto and metal ruler, etc)
7. bring all previously made sketches and mini posters
   to class even if not part of final ten.
8. LOCATE store that has the equipment to enlarge your final piece before monday.

ps. i was very pleased with all of you that showed up to class with all your materials in order to work. YAY! It's the little things that bring me joy = y'all showing up prepared does that. THANKS it made my day.

I am also very much looking forward to seeing your MADNESS on monday with your modular pieces.