Our quest this quarter has been to explore positive and negative space through various sculpture materials. We have begun this exploration through the BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING project which included several sessions of the students looking at, and drawing their own hands. The first few drawings attempted proved generic and engagement was lacking. At some point, connections were made within each student – realizing there was an exciting connection being made in their own brains… truly observing and attempting to document what they see! As the lightbulbs started to go off, students started to commit to the process and really explore what they were capable of.
Once buy-in was attained, deeper connections could start to be made. These images are of the students exploring the use of wire and pliers to create their blind contour drawings three dimensionally.
Tags: blind contour drawing, LNAC, sculpture, wire
January 30, 2009 at 4:32 pm |
“Drawing” with wire is a wonderful way to transpose 2D art into 3D art. I’m willing to bet that early obstacles to student engaement had more to do with their technical difficulites working with the medium more than their interest.