A few adjustments: grading

• MCA visits will be graded as a formative grade. Your efforts are key– Homework, participation in visits, efforts in

“challenges”• Actual MCA projects will be graded as

concentration or Breadth pieces.– YOU need to figure out what they are and TELL me on

the back of your artwork– Use the chart in the back to see where you need more

work done.

Please know• I cannot add more than 5 extra credit points to

your grade for Breadth 1-9 and Concentration 1-3. Those were from 1st semester. – If you turned them all in, you already have these extra

points.• If you have concentration pieces that no longer

“fit” your concentration, you need to do other ones. The old ones can replace or add to Breadth.

• USE THE CHART IN BACK TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU ARE MISSING!

Goal: 24 works of art done by 4/28

• Everything photographed and uploaded by 5/2

• FINAL Artist Statements Written by 5/5• Choose 5 “Quality” pieces to mount on board,

label and send away 5/7• Digital portfolio submissions 5/8• Ms. King turns in digital portfolios & Quality

pieces to Ms. Maeda 5/9.

March 14, 2014Rafael Vera Response Project

• What are the major themes Rafael talked about that are seen in his artwork?– Gaps/spaces– Repeated patterns– Architecture– Space in between his culture– His house

“Vernacular Home”

• Vernacular: the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a specific place

Take a series of digital photographs of your home (a minimum of 20).

This was homework over the weekend! Did you do it? Check ins today.

• can be of the exterior or interior of your home. • create interesting compositions of pattern, color, line and shape• IDEAS to try out

– a material contrast, especially the point where they meet or intersect (corners, furniture/floor, cabinet/wall, pillow/night stand, etc)

– a visual repetition or “echo”– a temporary mark– unusual sculptural “bodies” (think of anything three-dimensional as a

sculpture, i.e. a dish drying rack is a sculpture that changes every day)– a gap or absence

Curate (select)a group of 5 photographs. Allow them to be a piece of art in their own right. You may call these a series. • Students doing a 2D portfolio: These photos

could also become part of your portfolio just as they are (can be manipulated digitally, too).

Pick the most interesting one, or the one that means the most to you.

• This will be your reference for a drawing & will be printed out for you.

• Mentally or physically, cut an element of your composition (X-acto knives are available!)

• It may be abstract or representational – meaning it could be a section of your subject

• CANNOT be the entire photograph

Once you made this “cut”, draw this shape out of its context.

• allow it to float on your paper• let the negative space (the empty space) to

become an important aspect of your piece.

Materials

• Your drawing may be done with graphite, color pencil, watercolor, or ink.

• It can be a digital printout, a manipulated Xerox transfer or a collage. – See Ms. King or Jason about these options

• It may be monochromatic or polychromatic. • WhitePaper; size 18x24”

Now:

• Check in photos– YOU HAVE HOMEWORK if you didn’t do this yet

• Work on monochromatic MCA3 project– Formative turned in today!!!– Summative due Monday next week

• Tomorrow: Guest artist, Jovencio