This week the homeschool students continued their work on space and form. We began with a discussion about the picture plane and house its shape influences the overall compositon. Last week’s stamped works served as excellent examples that the students already exercise choices in relation to the shape and dimension of their canvas. These kids have good eyes and are quick minds. We then discussed negative space and its importance to composition and they did the face/vase exercise. Everyone had fun with this exercise and eagerly went on the create a second and third one.
This week the students did another exercise from my favorite graphic design book. I assigned them each a word to depict in black and white only with no shading. They worked with pencil at first to depict their word four different ways. Above is the set of drawings Shannon did about salt. Everyone really like her salt container and recognized the girl with the umbrella immediately. I loved the salt being thrown over the left shoulder after the picture of the spilled salt. So clever! We had drawings of ice cream from Rachel, who works very quickly, to demonstrate how having more than one version required for the assignment forced invention. It was not until her third design that she lost the cone and her fourth was completely abstracted and geometric-magic! In this picture you can see which version she chose to draw larger and to ink. You can also see one of Shannon’s polar bear drawings.
Joan and Scoot worked at the long table together. Joah worked with the challenging word sugar and chose to include a drawing of his dog, named Sugar, in his set. That stumped the group! Joah then worked on the word ghost and and came up with a haunting design of the flowing and floating robed ghost with the word boo. His other depictions included orbs which seemed to glow right off the page. I took this picture as Scott was working on his smoke drawing. He began this work large and in ink and while it definitely did have the qualities of smoke, could also be interpreted as steam or clouds. Scott wanted to make a clearer, more obvious representation of smoke and he went back to work on his smaller pencil drawings adding elements such as fire to help the viewer along. Scott’s later depictions of a shark were quite clear and easily interpreted as the class made decisions about which images worked to convey their meanings most quickly.
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