Environmental interactions with the Figure:
This assignment explores the idea of the figure and the everyday with mixed media on paper. We will work familiar environments with everyday people to be activated with images from the model.
1. As a class we will discuss ideas of how the presence of a figure or the lack there of activates an environment.
2. As a group, we will discuss ideas of our environment and begin to investigate them through drawing in our sketchbook. While working on these sketches, pay close attention to how these environments effect the people around them or how the people effect these environments.
3. Begin drawing 2 large works based on the sketches of environments and people. These will be a minimum of 42 x 72 inches on archival paper using a combination of graphite, charcoal, and gesso, etc. These beginning images of the environments only, must be as they come from your sketchbook, try not to reinvent what other people that might appear in the environment are doing.
4. After we have established our environments, we will begin to investigate the ideas of activating a space by adding a figure not previously present to the environment. We will bring in a model and do numerous sketches of various poses.
5. We will return to our large drawings and activate them with our drawings of the model. Using the sketches of the model, we will now reinvent and activate the environments we created by including this figure not previously present.
6. To turn in for this assignment:
1. A minimum of one finished sketch of each explored environment, in sketchbook.
2. 3 Sketches, minimum, of the figure model relating to pose or poses to be used in finished drawings.
3. 2 finished drawings using a combination of graphite, charcoal, and gesso, etc. on archival paper, minimum of 42 x 72 inches.