Personal Art History - Brief- ISSUU Paper - Small Steps

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Printmaking with Morgen

I had Mojo (Morgen Joseph = MoJo) run the brayers over a PVC plate as he felt inclined.  He then used a couple golf tees to draw a LEGO brick - then put down some paper and used brayers for the transfer - pulled the print and then did the dance of joy!

Personal Art Development - SNEAK PEEK! OMG...

Well, the hits jumped last night to catch a look at my Infographic progress. So I'm guessing I'll get a few hits tonight on this - we'll see.

That little "lazy" voice in my head tells me to just slap together a Word doc with my analysis and toss in a few pic of my artwork.  But. I. Can't.   No matter what the assignment, I want to go for something I can look back on, rediscover or otherwise be proud to show even in many years from now when I am more experienced and hopefully more skilled.  It's not that other work would be "bad" but I want to make something that others would enjoy seeing, reading - experiencing. MAKE IT AN EVENT, NOT AN OBJECT.  Anyway, here it is - a couple pages anyway -  BIG propts to Adobe InDesign - I started using this program a couple years ago and hated it. Now I know the power and ease of it.  

Facebook Voyeurism

Well, if you want people to see your blog, post it to Facebook.  I get a hand full of hits per day. I posted , a, post, to FB yesterday and have had over 100 hits in the last 24 hours.  Thank you!  Everyone is a voyeur.

Working on Artistic Dev Project - found some old stuff!

From Architorture Daze - 

Infographic Progress - AKA I Can Turn Anything Into a Studio Project....ugh.

My concept is to "itemize" the elemental or molecular stages of Art Education. They then flow and morph into a child doing a summersault in pure joy of their creative self-expression.  Thanks to the digital media gods - AKA Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop... and a special shout to 3D graphics program Revit - These are all simple shapes repeated, scaled and with color shifts. I think it's looking good so far - running out of time quickly.  Also concerned with how the text or "info" of the graphic will gel. 

1st Grader Printmaking - FOLLOW UP #1

It. Was. Awesome.  

I had the students just splash some watercolor paint on a 6"x 6" PVC plate.  I need to pop the darker colors out of the palettes (side note) - I didn't tell them what it was for or give them any prompts.  Some tried to paint a picture, some went all in and splashed color everywhere.  We did this exercise last thing on a Friday so they could leave the plate to dry over the weekend.  

The next class we pulled the prints.  They all had to crank the press themselves and we we pulled the print off the plate the color explosion was magical.  I think they enjoyed it and I could really see the wheels turning in their eyes.  I plan on repeating this lesson a few more times through the year and see if they can apply what they have learned.  

One example:  
(I will post more once they are off the display wall and digitally archived)