Sketch Problem- Week 4
Angie Odom
Translucent Layers.
My sketch problem for the week was going to be creating something similar to the Alexander Cozen landscape box; however, my visit to the Mobile Museum of Art this week gave me an idea to continue the pursuit of form through the layer effects of glass. By taking each plane of motion apart and painting it on glass, I created a 3-dimensional piece that explains the depth of Anna Pavlova in motion.
Process:
First, I went to Dollar Tree and purchased 10 5x8 frames. I removed the glass from the frames and beginning one at a time, laid them over a black and white photo of Anna Pavlova dancing the “Rondino.” My first result was unsuccessful because I did not understand exactly what needed to be drawn in the foreground, middle ground or background. After several attempts, I was able to pull-out each layer. I drew pieces of each layer on the glass. Once the glass was lined up, it created an image with depth.
PEOPLE THAT HAVE INTERESTING/CREATIVE PROCESSES: Alexander Cozens: Painted shadows with a sponge tied to the end of a stick to increase spontaneity and looseness in his work. (http://www.handprint.com) Hans Burgkmair: Chiaroscuro Woodcut was a processes developed by Burgkmair where one color of ink was painted on one woodcut; another color on another woodcut, etc. and then stamped in sequence. This created a layering and diverse color scheme. (http://www.britishmuseum.org) Lord Alfred Tennyson: For Tennyson, a walk began his creative process. He would talk out loud and listen to his own words and try different rhythms and words. (http://personal.ashland.edu) Robert Bellamy: The artistic director of Azzizz Theater develops his productions from a base understanding that “we are all afraid of the unknown or death and we all want to be loved or accepted.” His story lines all develop around this base. (http://w3.gorge.net) T.S. Eliot: The poet believed that a form of detachment enhances the poem. His creative process started with a feeling related to images and “emotions” related to situations. A poem is created by a process of “fusion” which occurs under intense pressure…” by the need to express. (http://www.jstor.org/pss/460816) Ray Bradbury: The author of Fahrenheit 451 wrote daily and if he had an idea for a short story, he wrote until the story was complete without taking any breaks (see Letter on left). "Do what you love and love what you do.." |
This is the email that we send Angie, when she sent us the original PDF of her sketch problem:
ReplyDeleteThese layered studies are beautiful - post this to your blog with the words and everything so we can talk more about it there. can you just post the pages you made as images so people can see how carefully you laid out the text and images together? this is something we appreciate a lot....it would be nice if you could show this is you blog!
tell us what the architectural implications/possibilties are there
that way everyone can engage in the dialogue - us and your peers!
Also tell us what you want to do as a next step -
the glass layered experiment is one of my favorite things to do....did you try modulating the distance between layers? does it matter? could it matter more if the content changed in some way? in what way?
Is it still about looking more closely at other creative processes? Tell us what you think you might find and how that knowledge can be applied to the making of architecture.....
its ok so not do everything we suggest in the order we suggest. the important thing to help you move the fastest and quickest through the material and come to some conclusions that start to help define your thesis.....
I have been thinking a lot about this layered sketch problem today and how it can be applied to learn something new, perhaps to a site. What if you studied the site -- and here i do not mean the empty lot, I mean the 8 blocks around the site, trying to understand the horizontal layers of the landscape in the area that you want to study? Eventually this could also be applied vertically but I think trying to understand the complicated groundplane could be a good way to understand something new and apply this test to something more concretely about city/spaces/spatial possibility... give me a call if you want to talk more about this....
ReplyDeleteAngie, these are beautiful. I wonder how the same process can be applied to an architectural form? I would love to see these glass planes in your final built form somehow... Or perhaps glass panes is it? How would you experience this if they were giant glass panels and you were able to walk around/through them?
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