Drawing Group A Week 2

In this second session Group A continued their exploration of line and dot, using ink wash to response to music.
Then we moved on to Shape (Circles, triangles and squares) and the compositional possibilities therein. Outline and solid were compared and the relevant principles were identified and examined.

Colour Groups A & B
Following a PowerPoint presentation on Colour , the students took to the campus grounds on an Observation Awareness exercise using their cameras to record colour in the field as they found it.
They were given an assignment on Moodle to upload 10 images. I published my own investigations on Moodle as an example. You can access these by going to - learnonline.gmit.ie-Galway courses-Aidan Linehan- Colour skills etc.. 

Drawing Group A Week 1 Sep 15 2015

Group A- In this first session, Group A responded to sounds/music through the act of Drawing using charcoal, pencil, marker etc. on paper.

Initially,  a piece of music was listened to without activity and afterwards the students recorded their impression. They then wrote a few keywords that described the same sonic experience. There was a wide gap between the ability of the drawings and the words to describe the images conjured up in the imagination of the listener. Images were personal and specific whilst words are shared, agreed and understood (relatively!). Therefore we acknowledge that "literal" imagery is not as effective at communicating as an recognisable communication system such as language.

With that in mind, the remainder of the Drawings did not concern itself with illustrating what was being heard but instead these drawings recorded the emotions or sonic sensation. The responses became more readily physical as the session went on. Experimentation with media and application resulted in allowing a level of control to be surrendered with unpredictable results. These are acts of liberation from convention as well as preconceptions of skills, value, worth etc.

We culminated with group shared works were every contribution is of equal validity in this learning context.

These exercises will be built on in the next session.