Painting Projects 2 and 3

Stine

Painting 1: 207 Project 2 and 3

The subject-reference for the next two paintings will be something current that you are interested in that you can find information about online and in print. This can be stories, videos, new headlines, underground things, events, objects, animals; the subject matter is open, but you must find information in print form and print online info in digital form.  From this information we will be building a 3d form and painting it as our “still life” subject, and then we will make a 2D collage and paint it as our subject. The 3D form & 2D collage should fit into your locker, or be stored within the painting storage rack area.

For project 2:

You will create a 3 dimensional object out of two-dimensionally organized information that references a three-dimensional world. Print material and digital material establishes a record, is destined for a particular readership, and is edited as a selective account of political, social, cultural, economic and natural forces. This “built” object can be an animal/person/creature/thing/place/scene/object/event- it can be made of more than 1 thing/element, but you will be building it out of 2d materials-- like paper, printed matter, images, text, clippings, even drawings.

Bring to class on Wednesday September 27th:

hard copies of information addressing the subject you are interested in;

these must include some text, you should have photocopies, digital copies (ink jet etc- color and black and white), magazine clippings, book pages, newspaper clippings etc-  your choice- but bring many.

-        masking tape /clear or colored packaging tape, hot glue and/or stapler

-        white drawing paper

-        some of your extra cardboard from project 1 if you have it

    

For the first painting: making something 3d out of something 2D- and looking at something 3D translating it into 2D :

Begin the project by looking at your printed information again. You will have already read it because you researched to find it, but reading it again in printed form, if it was digital, is a different experience. Identify stories, images, or an arrangement of pages that interest to you, or that provokes a question or idea.  Construct a three-dimensional / volumetric form* using the pages, copies, white and colored paper, and parts of one of your cardboard grounds + tape or staples, to create the form. (This is an extension of the challenges of spatial illusion in the paintings just completed, in black & white.) Develop this 3-D form to demonstrate some response to the subject or images which you have selected. The three dimensional form may be a simple volume to allow any image or subject to be visible across the planar paper surface; or it can replicate or respond as a more complex form, to the images or subjects you have identified.

Bring For Monday October 2^nd:

-        one of two stretched and primed, ready-to-go canvases that you made: proportions of your choice

-        your kit supplies: a full-color palette of paints, including black and white;

     *however*, for this painting you must work primarily with a limited color pallette: black (your own “mix” and tube) and white plus one of the complementary pairs: red/green, blue/orange, or yellow/violet;     

Create this painting from observation: You want to be able to reach in and imagine grabbing the item much like the still lives from the golden age. Consider the size of the form in relation to your canvas, and your point of view: depending on its character and your view of it, your construction may occupy what we might call “still-life,” “landscape,” or “figurative” space; consider the area under, around, or behind the form as a factor in your composition. Refer back to the slide collection to find inspiration and suggestions as to how to render white paper and forms in still life space.

For Project 3:

2D translated into 2D: collage into painting

For October 16^th:

• Bring your second completed primed and stretched ready-to-go canvas
• Bring your remaining print materials related to your chosen interest or theme. Print or collect more if necessary.
• Bring paper/canvas pad, glue sticks, tape, scissors, xacto.  

To get started, after building your second frame, stretching and priming with gesso, establish a “color” ground:  paint the surface with a color, tint or shade of your choice.

Then start to think about what kind of collage you would like to make as the subject of your painting. Stay away from “high school” collages, and imagine something closer to modernist collage. It can be abstract or create an image. This is a compositional exploration much like our 3^rd black and white painting, so consider both the positive and negative space being important and come up with something dynamic. 

Select one of these options for this painting:

•A collaged image: 2-D translated as an enlargement – must include some text or text fragments :

Assemble excerpts and images from one or more pages as a 2D collage on paper. You may want to use adhesive paste

for this,  I recommend YES paste or UHU glue stick.  Develop a painting based on the collage. Work from close observation.

Your prepared canvas should be approximately twice as large as your source or larger: enlarge the image of the collage so that it fills  or is adjusted in an exciting way within the proportion of your canvas.

•A collage image zoomed in or fragmented: 2-D enlarged to a greater degree : must include some text or text fragments :

Respond to a subject in your print media by selecting and excerpting a very small fragment of text and image.

Your collage should be less than 1/10th the size of your canvas. Little!! Paint this collage from close observation.

Enlarge all the information substantially, so that it fills, or is adjusted, to fit within the proportion of your canvas.

Refer back to the slide collection to find inspiration and direction.

Complete Painting 1 by October 16^{th-  (before class)}

(If the painting is not complete it is ok, but after October 16^th you can no longer work on this painting during class time. Try and manage your time effectively and finish by the 16^th.)

Complete painting 2 by October 30^{th- (before class)}

*both paintings are due for discussion and your Midterm exams:

critique day 1: OCT 30

critique day 2, NOV 1