Dot thumbnails and meaning crit

My 30 thumbnail sketches

Today is the second day of Wash and I must say it wasn't that bad, today in 2D class we first looked at our 30 thumbnail sketches of dots based on Gestalt principles similarity, continuance and proximity. Then we did mini critiques about everyones who sit at our table. Having other people look at your work and give you a critique about it does open up your mind and help you notice things that you wouldn't normally notice. Today we observed our habits that we use to solve problems, mine were that my dots tend to hug the corners; some of the dots, depending on the category, were very similar in size; I apparently like lines because of the way I arrange the dots in the thumbnail; I tend to have the dots all spaced out the same; the way I color my dots have a streaky-ness to them. I have to admit I didn't realize I did those things until this critique.

 

Kathy talking about the spheres.

In 3D class this afternoon we all looked at everyones spheres that were due today, looking at everyones it is pretty interesting to see how each and every person has a different approach to creating the spheres. After this critique we were given instruction and started working on our newest project that involves a small random object that we must make out of cardboard 2ft to 3ft tall and it must be wearable. Now onto making 6x6 in squares and filling them with dots.

The structural section of the spheres, glue could be used.

The section of spheres that focused on just the outside. Glue could be used.

All the spheres made with just cardboard. No glue or adhesive.

First Week of WASH

Our newspaper fashion show

Emily with her newspaper baby

Me and Emily posing, masking tape really stinks.

The first day of Wash started with everyone in the class creating an image of ourselves as either a nightmare or a fantasy out of a stack of newspapers provided. 

Considering that we only had two hours to work on our ideas, it was interesting how far people got into bringing their idea to life. After the two hours was up we had to strut our stuff on the runway and see how people interpreted our idea and be put into either the nightmare category or the fantasy category. My idea was to be a clown because I dont like clowns so I considered it to be a nightmare.

Once the fashion show was over everyone headed off to lunch and then 2D class started. Everyone was handed little scraps of paper with a quote on it that we had to memorize and then tell the class what the quote was and if we agreed with it or not. My quote was, "The best way to get a good idea is to get a Lot of ideas" by Linus Pauling. I both agree and disagree with this quote because if you have to come up with an idea it would be better to create lots of ideas in case the first one is a complete dud, but then sometimes it is hard to come up with a lot of ideas. After that we discussed another quote that said "All art is fundamentally about tension" by Kathy and we discussed everything that involved tension. We then went over what composition was and gestalt theory and did a group project with the people who sit at our table. Every group was given a word that described gestalt and my group was given value, we thought about what we were going to do and came up with the word cha-ching which symbolizes value. After every group did their word we went over more pictures and were given homework to do.