Sketch Book
Assignment Mathematics in Art - FA 1020 \ MATH 1020
Instructor:
Derek Brueckner Winter 2013
Objective:
The
sketchbook is to be used to practice techniques and ideas presented in class,
as well as to develop your own style and themes ideally in an innovative manner.
It is a chance to experiment with: new processes, art materials and an opportunity
to organize your thoughts and unique ideas and conceptualizations. The sketchbook
should not be used for course notes for midterm or exam. Please note the
sketchbook will not be returned prior to studying for final exam. Generally I
will not be evaluating your art lecture notes but I will in part be using the
sketchbook to get some sense if you have been seriously engaged in the overall
course and lectures.
Due
Date:
Tuesday April 2
Handed in at the beginning of class. Once I leave the room, any sketchbooks
that are handed to me will be considered late, and will be penalized (one
letter grade per business day). I will not accept anything beyond three
business days after the deadline.
Required
Format of Sketchbook:
Your
sketchbook must be 8.5 x11 inches with 50 pages of your own: illustrations, drawings, designs,
patterns, paintings, collages, visual notes/ideas for new work or works in
progress, drawings on (taken or found) photographs/photocopies, this could also
include multiple photocopies of your drawings provided the original drawing is
presented in the sketchbook. If using photocopies apply a variety of hand
drawn/painted designs and art materials on the photocopies. See art materials
as listed on the supply list given the first day of class. You must use and experiment
with at least one wet medium. Wet medium means you must use some form of paint
in both sections of the sketchbook i.e.: watercolour, acrylic and or Gouache. In all 50 pages consider
colour to incorporate the background, the lines, shapes and construction lines
as part of the over all design.
Investigate with opaque and transparent materials and the variations of
physicality for each art material. Learn to figure out which art material can
edit and cover over areas, which need editing or modifications. Overall learn
to investigate with overlapping shapes and lines.
65%
of the book (33 pages) This section must be explicitly related to the
mathematical content of this course. Some portion of this should be based from
presentations/exercises done in class. (See list and directions below and on
next page) All 50 pages will require innovation with art materials but a
compass, periodically some object to draw circles and some sort of straight
edge must be used.
35%
of the book (17 pages) This section may be whatever you want in the mediums of
your choice as presented on the supplies list, however, the sketchbook work
must implicitly be related to the content (math concepts) of this course. This
section of the sketchbook assignment should be about exploring different types
of art materials (dry and wet) that are unfamiliar as well as investigating and
thoroughly demonstrating a trial and error process in the manipulation of
materials. In addition to investigating and thoroughly demonstrating a trial
and error process of how different materials work together there should be an
eventual discovery and or resolution in demonstrating which materials work best
together and which materials do not work well together. Generally all 50 pages
will require experimentation and editing but the 17 pages will emphasize extra
experimentation, editing and risk taking.
Your
name should be neatly printed on the top right corner of the outside front
cover (no student number required)
Each
page with work on it should be numbered. (if both sides of a page have work on
it - then both sides should be numbered)
Create
a table of contents, which is clearly labeled with corresponding page numbers
in the sketchbook and properly adhered to the backside of the front cover of
the sketchbook.
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Sketch Book
Assignment (continued) Mathematics in Art - FA 1020 \ MATH 1020
Required
Format of Sketchbook (continued):
Specifically
include and Tab the following points somewhere with in the 50 pages:
•
Select
specific pages, which you feel came the closest to working well in terms of
combining and layering different art materials on individual pages.
•
Pages
that you feel are closest to synthesizing ideas, unknown materials which you
feel are resolved in terms of interesting compositions, space and mastering new
or materials that you do not have any experience with.
•
The
page that best represents your other side or your extreme side(s).
•
Explore
range of physicality in art materials (controlled, expressive, thin, thick, transparent,
opaque, smooth, and rough applications of art materials)
•
Indicate
where your wet media was used
Specifically
include and Tab the following points in the 33 pages:
•
Various
Euclidean constructions integrated with a couple of black and white
explorations, and a variety of colour explorations (roughly rendered)
•
Perspectives
(at minimum 1 point and 2 point examples) (drawings or drawings on photographs
and or both)
•
Find
reproductions of works or make your own and divide into golden ratios/sections
and modules.
As one example: Divide a golden rectangle into a square and another
golden rectangle and put in an image or draw/paint an image that uses these
“guide lines”
•
Symmetries,
patterns, wallpaper, tiling and tessellations
•
Various
types of Fractals
•
Associated
Objects: conics, platonic solids and other polyhedra
•
Hyperbolic
Plane and Geometry
Sketchbook
Process and Additional Directions/Clarifications:
I
do not expect a sketchbook to contain 50 masterpieces on each page, or even 50
completed drawings. For the sketchbook overall it is expected that people work
on ideas from this course and that they develop concepts and techniques which
eventually answer problems or clarify uncertainties regarding materials,
concepts and techniques. The sketchbook should demonstrate ideas presented in
the course and textbook as well as demonstrate an overall experimentation,
exploration, innovation and risk taking. It is also anticipated that the
occasional failure/or unresolved problem with the art materials will occur in a
few select pages. Once again use the sketchbook to experiment and investigate
art materials and ideas from the class. Use your research, investigations,
experimentations and risk taking to eventually assist in a greater
understanding as to how materials work. By using this new knowledge synthesize
some of the processes into some specific resolved examples in the sketchbook.
The sketchbook should have a broad range of
approaches. The majority of other pages should include colour explorations (a
combination of roughly rendered and neatly filled in pages is the ultimate
goal) Some pages should include line work while other pages should include
filled in areas of planes and backgrounds and in some cases some of the work
should include both on each page. At times utilize a multiple layering process
with materials and as well at times consider an additive subtractive process
with your materials.
Explore your other side: If you are naturally
messy try at times to work neatly. If you are more controlled and careful then
on occasion try to work more expressively with the art materials. (either way
investigate the physicality and “truth of materials”) Overall investigate and
try to discover new things about art materials.
Please note: (Read this assignment sheet very
carefully)
Return of Sketchbooks:
The sketchbooks will
not be stored indefinitely. If a sketchbook has not been picked up five days
after the sketchbooks have been returned it will be disposed of. There will be
a limited schedule as to when the sketchbook will be available for pick up after
the return date.
