Mark Making

 Use a pencil or pen. 

Lines - Ink - use brush or pen nib or stick. 

Wash - Ink - use a brush and lots of water. 

Drag a string that was dipped in paint or ink or gesso. 

Cut out shapes, place another paper/texture to show through cut out window. 

Frottage - place paper on a textured surface/area, rub surface with a pastel/charcoal/soft pencil. 

Make/use stencils. 

Splatter - a toothbrush works well. 

Drip

Sew/stitch.

Spray

Walk on the surface. 

Crinkle/wrinkle. 

Stain with tea and./or coffee. 

Student Work

Rae Hull, Student Work

Sarah Weismann, Student Work

Sarah Weismann, Student Work

Wood and paint. 

8" x 6" x 4"

Student Work, Print With Objects

Rae Hull

Fork Prongs

Rae Hull

Yarn

Bailey Schuler

Animal Crackers

Student Work, Cardboard

Bailey Schuler

Cardboard, pen, ribbon. 

Rae Hull

Cardboard, yarn. 

Bailey Schuler, Student Work

Drawing Collection Assignment (Online)

Assignment:

• Choose a process and/or concept from the quick challenges to inspire a drawing collection that  visually communicate content and meaning. Work should be innovative and resolved regarding processes and concept. 
• Develop content by selecting a theme for the collection. Theme can be broad or specific. For instance, sadness, freedom, healing, layers  - broad themes. Social commentary on a specific topic or representing a particular culture are specific.

Details:

• The collection includes10 pieces.
• Each piece measures 10" x 12" (or a bit larger). 
• Use the materials necessary to visually communicate your idea. 
• Consider how you can produce "drawings" that are innovative. For instance, you can cut into paper - utilizing negative space. Or don't use paper - you use another material such as cardboard, wood or sandpaper. You can create depth - glue or stitch objects to the surface, create a "shadowbox" by glueing perpendicular edges. You can print out photos and draw/paint/stitch into the photos. 
• You do not have to use the exact same materials for each artwork. 
• Ideas regarding video/digital images can be applied. Number of videos and time for each video needs to be discussed prior to student developing idea. Ideas for digital images also need further discussion. 

Step 1 - Proposal:

• Prepare a presentation. 
• Select at least three (3) of your favorite pieces from the quick challenges. 
• Gather at least three (3) pieces of research. Include a source for each piece of research. Various forms of research are acceptable: another artist's work, a music video, a TED Talk, a movie, lyrics to a song, a poem, a novel, an article, a location. 
• Include a brief paragraph about why/what you find inspiring about the research. 
• Propose two (2) different ideas for the drawing collection. 
• State the content/theme of the work you intend to make. 
• Use bullet points to list how you will achieve. For instance, the process and materials - and the significance of process/materials/imagery. 
• Optional - sketches.
• Place all info on your blog in the order listed above. 
• Clearly label all info as outlined above. 

Inspiration/Research:

• See right column on this blog, "Drawing Collection Artists". 
• Also, my Pinterest Board, "Drawing Collection"      https://www.pinterest.com/lauramongiovi/drawing-collection/

Step 2 - Select an Idea from Proposal:

• After feedback and discussion with instructor and peers, select an idea for Drawing Collection. 

Step 3 - Execute Selected Idea:

• Execute selected idea. 

How/what to upload on your blog:

• Six (6) Images for each artwork:
• 1 full image of each artwork. 
• 2 detail images of each artwork. 
• 1 image that shows measurement of each artwork. Set a ruler next to one edge of the artwork. 
• 2 or more in process images - for each artwork. 
• Make sure to photograph each artwork with good lighting. 
• Photograph each artwork on top of a larger white piece of paper, or on a white wall. Allow for the edges of the artwork to show. 
• If the final solution video or digital, see instructor for guidelines on how to post on blog. 

• Include the following information for each image:
• Number each complete artwork. 
• Caption in-process photos for each artwork. Example, "In-process, Title, Artwork #1"
• Include title, materials, size. 
• Keep all photos for each artwork together. 

Rae Hull, Student Work

Bailey Shuler, Student Work

Gregory Raymond Halili, Artist

Gregory Raymond Halili born in the Philippines in 1975, carves and paints mother-of-pearl shells. Halili received his B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His work focuses on the art of miniatures with interest in the notion and idea of memory, life, death, and cycle. The artist is represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in NYC. Follow him on Facebook. 

Source Link

https://www.crossconnectmag.com/post/151201407336

Ajit Chauhan, Artist

Among his works, my favorite are Chauhan’s erased album covers. By removing the big picture on the cover, Chauhan leaves you questioning not what this object was, but what it now represents. In his ReRecord series, you are left with an eery collection of eyes, hair, and errant limbs all floating on cream-colored backgrounds. But what is curious is that in the end, though you know these were once record covers, you are merely interested in what is left of what you may have once known. The origin is irrelevent.

Source is Power Animals

http://www.power-animals.com/2011/03/16/ajit-chauhan-at-the-jack-hanley-gallery-2/

Artist Website

http://ajit-chauhan.com/

Konstantin Bessmertny, Artist

Artist Website

https://www.konstantinbessmertny.com/recent-works

Lisa Kokin, Artist

Artist Website

http://www.lisakokin.com/sewn-found-photos01#!prettyPhoto

Marlene Dumas, Artist

Watercolor and ink wash on paper. 

Ellen Gallagher, Artist

Artnet. source link

http://www.artnet.com/artists/ellen-gallagher/deluxe-portfolio-of-60-OUempBKExtaCvrz5996RJg2

"The artist "whites out" such features as lips, hair, or wigs with yellow plastacine. These then stand out from the surface as a kind of sculptural relief, lovingly formed elements that read as a voluptuous ornamentation. They accentuate precisely the racial attributes the products were intended to diminish. The malleable putty is striated and carved in ways that recall African tribal art, although that's not the exclusive cultural reference." From article.com. Link here.

"I scan pages from advertisements about control: acne, unruly hair, corns, bunions, and asthma. These all have particular class connotations, and I remember hearing, as a child, that you got asthma from cockroaches, from enclosed spaces. Constriction is interesting to me as the loss of control of something as elemental as your breath. Corns and bunions have something specific about them too, something so black, that is funny to me. But they have a specificity that is not about race but rather about skin and about being on your feet all the time. Just like the ads have their own material history, plasticine was used for stop-action animation to suggest motion and also to make models. These structures are built out of whimsy but are also very tectonic." From Ellen Gallagher Talks. Link here.

From db artmag. Link here.