Tuesday’s art class was different and exciting for me. The students worked very quickly at coming up with ideas and it is always a pleasure to see how well they all work together. Moving on to the study of form, I decided to introduce some concepts within the application of graphic arts. I chose an exercise from a book which I have used in my own studies and altered it to suit their needs and abilities and to introduce rubber stamping techniques. After a super brief discussion about form and meaning, the students were glad to dive right in. They used 6″ squares of canvas paper and were limited to the use of one shape or rubber stamp per page, combining and overlapping as desired. One student very creatively interpreted this to indicate that as long as he was working with the same stamp, he could use it in many ways to create additional shapes and textures. In the picture above you can see how he did just this to express playfulness. You gotta love that! Once everyone had completed their six designs, they each rotated to the seat to the right and went through one another’s designs to match them to the words and label them. Then we placed all the designs in front of us on the big table and, after some discussion about rows and columns and a little reminder in the form of a joke from the student across the table of the importance of point of view, we formed a committee. The students chose one image per word for a make believe client. It took little prodding for them to fall into their role and everyone was quickly able to name reasons for their choices and to point out elements of design that helped them make their choices. Nice, fun learning by doing. I was happy to be a part of it. Here are some of the designs that were created.
I was very hands on throughout this class and unfortunately did not get any photos of the kids this time. That may also be due to the fact that I have fallen so behind in sharing them on my blog that I have slowed down in the picture taking department. Since my last post, I did get some pictures of the completed sunroom, the boat before and some after, the beam in the house after moving the center wall back, the salsa contest, and celebratory friends. Must post more. Must paint more. Must sleep. Tomorrow I get to go look at some stone pieces for the front of the house.
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