For my Intro to Art Education class (that was finished almost a month ago...geez) I made these little guys for our artist book assignment. It was a nice final project we got to do at the end after a hard semester of reading and writing papers. Lookit:
They each have three little graphite drawings (2"x2") with imagery derived from the concepts of learning, discovery, exploration and vision in the art classroom.
For those of you familiar with Shaun Tan, I was really inspired by his book The Arrivalfor this project.
It was fun to have another chance to revisit my book making skills. It had been quit a while since I had made any. The accordion pages are such a nice format and unfold to an elegant display.
I've been following John Martz on twitter and am now inspired to dabble in my middle school aspirations of drawing comics. I drew this yesterday on my lunch.
It keeps occurring to me as I see these on my living room wall that I never shared them on my blog. It's one of those "kept meaning to" sort of things. But since they are still new to you, dear viewer, here are the two paintings I completed last summer:
Assignment from my Sculpture I class last semester:
Found object materials project.
Dowel rods, sticks, wood scraps, cardboard, mat board, wire, guitar strings, and of course, masking tape.
Be sure to check out the interesting shadows these create.
This was a project I did for my Sculpture I class last semester.
The assignment was to create something exploring extensions or continuations of the body.
Media was wood (with glue and fasteners), gauze, and acrylic paint/gloss medium.