Sunday, November 7, 2010

Art Gifts, Fall 2010

Click on the link next to your name. You can leave comments at the bottom of this post letting me know if I came close to you idea of art and design.


Jerry - Kraanspoor: Dock Turned Office Building and Brixen Public Library
Maya - Caitlin Hackett and Sparrows Nest at Red Bubble and Bird Spirits (it is a drawing, scroll down the blog)
Jeremy - Martin Puryear and here for the ladder.
Callie - Things Organized Neatly and KAMKAM
Corrina - Hipstasurrealist Style and Clockwork Love
Logan - Typographic Playing Cards and Jeff Bartell and Wobbling Solutions
Caitlyn - The Johnny Cash Project
Josh - iRetrofone
Charis - Tape Art Opera
Roberto - stairs-house by y+M Design and Brixen Public Library
Sonni - Things Organized Neatly
Ryan C. - Zen Garden and Zen Garden
Kate - Tea Party Ring and Marie Antionette Shoes (scroll down the blog to find) and Gloves from Maps, Finding Our Place in the World and Seletti Table Palace.
Brittany - Color Charts and Reinventing Color at MOMA and Dynamic Logos by Nadia Troeman
Sarah - Slippery Skip and Table of Contents and Flow2Kitchen by Studio Gorm
Kimberly - Hannah Bertram
Becca - Gillian Bates on Flickr
Ryan F. - Film still from Gary Beydler's hand held day, Flickr
Megan - Jacob Hashimoto
Amber - Papillons Graphiques by Chris Waind
Gregg - David Trautrimas
Matthew - Aqualta by Studio Lindfors
Lucia - Grain Edit Illustration
Blake - Martin Puryear and Skeleton Art
Andrea - Hannah Hoch and Ellen Gallagher
Jessica - William Kentridge, Weighing and Wanting on You Tube
Nate - Robert Adams and Have You Noticed
Lindsay - Marcie Paper and Mark Rothko
Kristie - Megan Canning
Lauren - Film Category, Lost at Eminor

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Hybrid Design Applied To The Figure

The first image you see is the Venus of Willendorf, a small stone carving (about 4" in height). Dates to around 22,000 BCE. "The painting and carvings of the Neolithic period introduce themes into art that are still present in many cultures. Animals and humans still constituted a majority of the subjects that were represented, but they were often shown juxtaposed in such a way as to suggest that they coexisted in the same entity, either as a new, HYBRID form, or as a kind of spiritual guardian. Totems, or animal Gods, exist today in the religions of some native cultures, and are a recurrent theme in art everywhere." From Portrait History. Link here for more information.


Click here for a video that discusses how human proportions are manipulated.


Above Image, Tattooed Doll I by Michele Oka Doner. Link here.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Make Your Bed, Student Work, Fall 2010

Update, Summer 2012. Past assignments required student to replicate their own bed in miniature form. This assignment has evolved - rather than make your own bed, you are now making the bed that you visualize when reading Kafka's The Metamorphosis.







Thursday, September 30, 2010

Stitching and Details, In-Process Examples for Masking Tape Shoes

Example 1







Example 2





                                   Example 3







Example 4



Above marks made with sewing tool:





                       Example 5
Use metal hole punch and hammer in Wood Shop to create a series of holes. See Russell Maycumber, Wood Shop Manager, for these tools. 




Example 6





Example 7


Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Callie Cheney, Student Work





Example of changing form using one process.
Link here to see more images.  








Make It Roll Assignment Guidelines

Assignment:
Using cardboard and tape, design and construct a sphere that can roll.


Objective:
Using cardboard and tape, design and construct a sphere that can roll.


Materials:
  • Cardboard,
  • Masking Tape 
  • Utility Knife
  • Card Stock

Step 1
  • Create a maquette (a small model). 
  • Use card stock and masking tape. 

Step 2
  • Begin final solution. 
  • Must be between 18" and 20" diameter. 

Step 3
  • As a class, we will gather outside Proctor Library, near the ramp. 
  • Each student will have a chance to demonstrate their design.

No stacking cardboard.
 Use concepts of line and space to construct.
 Check out links to the right, "Cardboard" and "Kinetics, Art and Science".










Sunday, April 18, 2010

Art Gifts, Spring 2010

Art Gifts, Spring 2010

Click on the link next to your name.

Paul - Modern Log Cabin Hidden in a Stack of Wood and EVOL Mini Concrete Block Towers
Erica - 2009-4 Bart Swing and Betsy Timmer, Artwork 2004 and Elizabeth Duffy.
Jackson - Wil Freeborn's website, his home page, man drawing at desk. And check out his link to Flickr (at the bottom of his home page).
Sarah - Crystal Wagner and Robust Bark Encourted by Janae Easton (click on "drawings, last image on top row)
Calvin - Jane South and Making It Make Noise.
Paul F. - Balsa Wood Camera. Can't decide, so this too, Steampunk Phone.
Crystal - The Cocktail Party by Marisol
Brian - Fuse Project, Puma Clever Little Bag
Luis - Pieke Bergman, Lightbulbs and University of Design at Plymouth and Bright Woods Tables and Chairs
Laura - Wendy Walgate
Jenna - Tim Hawkinson, Feathers. Also by Hawkinson, Bird. And more of his work at Ace Gallery. And Kate McDowell.
Justin - La Bolleur, Mini Golf Club
April - Aliyah Gold, Swarm. And this Little People, A Tiny Street Art Project and The Fates.
Mac - Webb Bridge in Melbourne
Michelle - Anish Kapoor, Ascension. Follow to this link Contemplating the Void.
Amanda - When Books Are Like Butterflies
Matthew - Papierkrieg
Kerry - Postcarden
Jaclyn - Maurizio Anzeri at Saatchi Gallery
Eric - Sculptures by Hiroyuki Hamada
Audrey - Colleen McCubbin Stepanic
Leigh - Tania Bedrinana
Derek - Frances Jetter, Drawings, 79th and Broadway
Alane - Fire String Mountain by Ali Schmeltz
Gabby - DRAWINSTALL
Lizzy - Wheelbarrows and Shovels by Cal Lane and Clear Foil in open acrylic box by Mitra Fabian
Fianna - If and When by Terry Turrell and Nina Hole and Chester Nealie at Lacoste Gallery
Nate - Tim Rowan at Lacoste Gallery
Jim - Martin Puryear at Donald Young Gallery

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Student Work, Spring 2010

Pin Hole Camera Project:
Make a pin hole camera from found objects.





Luis and Jackson

Friday, April 2, 2010

Collaboration with Poetry Students, Spring 2010

Assignment: Create a visual work of art that responds/comments/narrates poetry. I have arranged for us to work with Liz Robbin's poetry students. See below.

Homework for Design II this weekend, April 2:
Meet Your Poet. Talk on phone, skype each other or meet in person. Make contact.

Artist and Poets
Design II, Art 224, Section A, 11:00 Class:
Mackenzie Hough and Anna Johanson
Derek O’Brien and Sira Khan
Lizzy Hartley and Benjamin Seanor
Paul Frasner and Joe Stiles
Calvin Meyer and Stephanie Renae Johnson
Justin Brawley and Jack McCahill, Chivalry’s Siesta
Kerry O’Connor and Leila Kandret, Missing You Kills Slowly
Amanda Twitty and Stephanie Boilard, Two-Star Troxel Helmet
Alane Mason and Mollie Saunders
Laura Kerpovich and Khan, Jack and Jill
Fianna Fluess and Colin Bailes, Saint Gerard Majella
Erica Peters and S. Vaccaro, What A Life
Leigh Abear and Shari Adams, Her Parents Are Fighting…
Matthew Herron and Calhoun, The Bobcat Prowls
Joanna Williams and Tori Warenick, Pioggia aVenzia

Design II, Art 224, Section B, 1:00 Class:
Luis M. Gonzalez, Jr. and Calhoun, Momma Bones Sings Tombstone Blues
April Arrington and Shari Adams, Heavenly Body
Sarah Floraand Lieila Kandret, Exclusion Zone
Gabby Burleson and Shari Adams
Paul Mancuso and Tori Wavenik, The Girl Who Cried Rape
Crystal Darin and Colin Bailes, Rain
Jaclyn Blizard and Stephanie Bailard, Two Star Troxel Helmet
Eric Morrison and Saunders, Gray
Brian Packo and Stephanie Renae Johnson, Oh Train Kissed Love Letters
Michelle McCallister and Khan, Jack and Jill
Jim McNeill and Colin Bailes, Rain
Jenna Stanish and Mollie Saunders, Where Were All The People
Jackson Holbrook and Joe Stiles
Chrissy Hubbard and Benjamin Seanor, On Beginning
Nate Fudala and Tori Warenik, The Girl Who Cried Rape




Calvin Meyer
Wood and Paper








Michelle McAllister
Various glass jars filled with colored water, labels designed by the student. 







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Jenna Stanish
Cork, feathers, utensils, mug, skin, fingernails, hair. 





Lizzy Hartely
Satin and cotton fabric stuffed with poly-fil.