Wednesday, January 18, 2012

80 Drawings Reflection


In the first minute I didn't really think about what I was doing so the drawings are less refined, but also more raw. With the 3 minute drawings I normally thought aboutwhat I was doing and had a sense of what the final drawing would be. Sometimes I would finish this drawing in less than three minutes so they weren't necessarily complex. With the 5 minute drawings I tried so make more complex stuff to fill the 5 minutes. I have good drawings that I finished in all of the time lengths. The entirety of the group changes a lot due to the range of time that I did the drawings. Sometimes I would draw clean lines and circles and sometimes I would draw random shapes and just move the pencil randomly. I liked to draw simple and clean boats and cars but also very random shapes.  







Artist Emulation: Donald Judd

I built a box to emulate Donald Judd's style, but the final box has a much more texture and impurities. While making the box, my artistic sensibilities expanded to understand what texture can do to sculptures by adding interesting effects if done correctly. I first used clay, but that proved to be more difficult than I imaged because it broke so often. I tried a lot of wood boxes before making this one. I applied putty to smooth out the box and make it minimalist, but it turned out to be an awesome texture.




I painted the inside red to make the box stand out and scorched the edges to add even more texture. I will carry on my use of texture to make sculptures stand out.