SKETCHBOOK ASSIGNMENTS
1. Ceramic Terms Mind Map
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Task#1: Mind Map
You will need to create a Ceramic Mind Map (double page spread in your sketchbook).
MindMaps Criteria;
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Composition-fill the page/combine text and images.
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Content - use all required information
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Creativity - is your piece interesting and unique?
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Craftsmanship-neat and clean/NOT MESSY, good line quality, use pen.
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Include;
Ceramic Terms and definitions
-Coiling - a method of hand building by building using rope like coils
-Earthenware - low fire pottery
-Firing - transforms clay into a durable substance: Ceramic. Temp must reach1,500 degrees F or higher.
-Slip - clay diluted with water to the consistency of cream - used for joining
-Scoring - making marks on the edges of the two piece of clay before joining with slip.
-Sgraffito - scratching designs through coloured slip to allow the body colour to show through.
-Mishima - Slip is applied to carved lines. When the slip is leather hard, the excess is scraped off - creating fine lines.
-Slab - a method of hand building by evenly rolling out clay out in preparation of forming.
-Pinch Pot - a method of hand building by pinching the clay into the desired shape.
-Underglaze - slip with colourant (stains/oxides). Porous
-Glaze - a non-porous layer that has been fused to a ceramic body through firing.
-Wedging - kneading moist clay to eliminate air bubbles and produce uniform texture.
-Bisque - the first firing before glazes (sometime called biscuit ware)
Stages of Pottery
Leather Hard - stiff - consistency of leather - will hold its shape
Greenware - never been fired.
Bone dry - very fragile
Bisqueware - Fired clay, ready to glaze.
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Task#2: Your Culture
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You will be incorporating aspects of a culture (can be yours) into your mind map.
Please include the following information;
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Name of culture
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Background, for example location, beliefs, architecture etc.
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Recurring motifs from the culture you have studied - (Motif -a recurring subject, theme, idea. A distinctive and recurring form, shape, figure, etc. A design/dominant idea or feature)
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What elements and principles of design are present in the culture you have studied?
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2. M.C. Escher - Metamorphosis
https://www.dw.com/en/mc-eschers-optical-illusions/av-43659554
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https://www.dw.com/en/a-journey-through-perspective-pictures-with-mc-escher/a-43568129
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3. Artist Research
Over 2 pages - What would a vessel look like if it was designed by one of the artists listed below....your vessel does not need to need to be functional. ​
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Alexander Calder
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Henry Moore
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Alberto Giacometti
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Antony Gormley
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Jeff Koons
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Frank Gerry
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4. Transformation - Designing and Transforming an Object
Brian Jungen (born in 1970) is internationally renowned for his sculptures and installations made from repurposed consumer goods. An artist of mixed European and Indigenous heritage, he creates work that engages with Indigenous materials and traditions as well as pop culture and Western art history.
Jungen transformed sneakers to resemble Northwest Coast masks and Plains Indian headdresses for a series of sculptures called Prototypes for New Understandings (1998-2005).
"My work is largely about transforming things, but these sneakers also speak about where I come from. Nike Air Jordan’s are popular among Indigenous youth," Jungen says.
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Choose your object
What is popular among your friends? A brand, a logo, a toy, video game or book series? What reminds you of your personal heritage? Traditional clothing, objects or symbols? How would you transform and combine these things to create something entirely new?
5. Explore Positive and Negative Space
Theme - Round Things
Materials - square of black paper, a white piece of paper, glue stick, pencil and pair of scissors.
Design several simplified shapes, icons or symbols to represent a chosen theme (Round Things). Half of each shape is cut from the edges of the black square, with the cut out piece flipped over to complete the mirror image of each image, as shown. Once completed, glue all pieces onto a larger sheet of paper.
6. Make an origami crane and draw
This exercise combines sculptural 3D form with linear observational drawings of angular planes.
Find a youtube video the shows how to create an origami crane and create using the paper provided.
Draw this from observation - try a variety of angles, giving attention to line weight and shadows. Experiment with composition using your cell phone camera.
7. Using a black pen, coloured pencils, washes draw into a dictionary page using word found there as your inspiration.
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Glue a prepared dictionary page to a sheet of white paper and then choose a word(s) from the page to illustrate. Overlap, address edges, repeat (rule of odds). Consider rule of thirds when design your layout - focal point.
This can be done using dictionary pages, pages from novels or textbooks. The key is to prepare the page with watercolour, ink, acrylic and work back into it them.
8. Create a sculpture depicting an emotion from paper and draw it
Materials - Letter sized white paper, graphite paper and tape.
What does pain, sorrow, excitement, anger, melancholy, happy look like?
- Crease, fold, rip, roll and tare to create tiny sculptures that each represent a chosen emotion. Then draw, include shadows - focusing on lost and found edges. Make some notes about your chosen emotion.
Think about how abstract forms, shapes, lines and tone can suggest meaning.
9. Make an abstract sculpture from paper and take a photograph of it
Materials - white paper, scissors and clear tape.
Produce an abstract sculpture thinking about how light will pass through the sculpture and cast shadows.
Photograph your sculpture, using a flashlight and black sheet as a backdrop.
10. Design a building derived from a organic form
Generate an architectural design inspired by the shapes, patterns, textures of chosen a chosen organic form.
Materials - a variety of organic forms - shells shells, seaweed, seedpods, insects etc. Drawing materials, surface.
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Starting from observation draw multiple views of your chosen organic form.
Then start to transform by adding architectural elements;
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Make discoveries by extending lines,
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Repeat and simplify forms.
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Through your process and research move towards more resolved designs. You may want to add annotation based on your learning, use of materials etc.
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