Hi all,
While Tony and Lynne are delivering the workshops in Texture and Frottage tomorrow, I will hold tutorials. Next Friday 21st October, to build on the tonal work, I will run a workshop based on Richard Serra's action words. Students form small abstract forms in clay in response to these words, they then each make greatly scaled-up tonal drawings of one of them. There then follows a sort of 'visual Chinese whispers' as they rotate and draw from someone else's drawing and again from that drawing. The idea at the end of the exercise is that they should be able to match the original clay piece used to the last drawing they each made. The tonal information should have survived enough through the drawings of the drawings of the drawings... to allow this to happen. To conclude there will be a short discussion on the relative successes or otherwise!
Either Lynne or Tony will repeat their workshop and the other will hold tutorials. We will rotate again the following week so that there will be two of the three workshops available for the next three weeks.
I think it would be important that the students sign up for a tutorial on one of the next three Fridays. What do you think colleagues?
Claire
Good idea, they badly need tutorials in the step by step process of collecting visual information/research, touching base again on the principles and elements of A&D.
ReplyDeleteSome of the aspects of the urban fabric they have chosen might prove difficult for a Yr 1 learner to pull work out of, like for example, "street performers". I fear that they mightn't have the skills and experience necessary to effectively collect suitable quality visual research. In short, I think we have to steer them, prompt them and keep it simple. Tony
excellant work ...very impressed my fellow colleagues .. i gave them a talk last monday on the topics they were picking and gave them e and p hand out as a guideline on how to progress and develop a project ..so i hope that helped ..i stressed keep it simple ..lynne
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