Drawing II
Lehigh AAD / Murphy
Project Description
What are maps? Maps to navigate PLACE. Maps to chart the SKY, MIND and BODY. Maps to hold DATA. How do we use maps in our culture? How do maps inform who we are and how we navigate through our world? We are in strange times in COVID quarantine – perhaps travel to a faraway place through your map drawing or use the floor plan map of your home to talk about isolation. Utilizing maps as a metaphor, building your final drawing as a self-portrait, still life, collage, kirigami (cut paper art) or abstraction. See Mapping Art and Content Google Presentation.
- Consider the organization of the picture plane, space, and scale.
- Consider appropriating maps into your final drawing
- Consider using maps as your drawing paper
- The format can be a single drawing, diptych, series drawing.
- Color must be incorporated, your choice of the amount of color
Potential maps:
- Subway maps
- Street maps
- Google maps
- Ocean maps
- Astrological maps
- Topographical maps
- Neuroanatomy maps
Process:
Find a mentor that uses the idea of maps whether literal or metaphoric in their art.
Create a compelling thumbnail sketch. You may use a computer as a drawing and sketching tool.
Challenge yourself to use a different format: Large or Diptych or triptych or mixed media.
Challenge yourself to use the medium in a different way.
Use the maps in some way whether metaphorically or literally.
Weekly blog posts
Timeline:
April 6-8 week 1: Brainstorm / Mentor Search
Compose your composition with a thumbnail sketch. Get your material and mentor. Large paper available in studio. Purchase any necessary supplies, rummage through recycling or find that old Atlas map that needs dusting off.
Mentor and thumbnail sketch research done during class session.
April 13 week 2: Present your idea to the class
Start working during the week utilizing feedback. Meet with Katelyn as needed.
April 20 week 3: Work week. Individual Meetings
April 27 week 4: Final work week. Small Group Crits.
May 4-6 week 5:
Present drawing progress to the group. All work and research should be in Google Presentation format. May 6 Final Critique & last day of class.
Tools & Materials:
Your choice of drawing, painting or mixed media
Maps can be appropriated, printed off the internet and drawn upon.
Drawing Requirements:
- Mentor Artist
- Thumbnail sketch / preliminary sketch
- Challenge yourself / Explore new territory
- Use color somewhere or everywhere in your drawing
- Final work submitted with attention to craft
Submission Format:
- Google Presentation labeled with Full Name
Slides must include:
- Mentor images (name and website where possible)
- Thumbnail Sketch(s)
- Process photos at least 2 per workweek, a total of 6 photos minimum
- Finished Drawing image and details shots
- Blog posts
Resources:
- Pinterest Deirdre Murphy’s map board
Artists:
- Rebecca Rutstein
- Sol le Witt
- Ellsworth Kelly
- Matthew Ritchie
- Christos
- Manny Farber
- Daniel Libeskind
- Julie Mehretu