Very important to provide uninterrupted, quiet space to achieve FULL concentration.
Art is primarily an intuitive response, driven by visual, mental and emotional experience. Somehow, the marks we make can give form to feeling, intended or unexpected. Today: work to combine internal feeling and visual experience/expression. Try to feel, not think.
Slant boards, ink and cardboard squares ONLY. Six 12 x 18 white papers each, and 2-3 18 x 24 each. Props for the model to use as wanted, within reach of the model stand (cloth, pole, rope, bike wheel, hat, tree branch?). (Today is much better with a dancer posing, even with clothes. NEVER someone uncomfortable or stiff.) All sit, eyes closed and breathe. The instructor will say 1 word for each drawing that represents feelings we all experience. FEELING WORDS THAT ARE UNIVERSAL AND WORK WELL (give one at a time): excited, worried, angry, proud, fear, greedy, nervous, guilty, confused, disgusted, gentle.
STUDENTS: Draw with cardboard squares only.
1. Start with no model, make 2 instant quick responses on any scrap paper: “nervous”, “calm”.
2. Listen for the cue word, absorb its meaning for you and watch the model move into each pose. At each word that follows, all (model and students) try to truly feel that word/emotion inside in an honest way. When the model finds the pose, make very rapid marks with the cardboard on each of the 12 x 18 papers, trying for an ABSTRACTED sense of the feeling, not a lot of description. 2-3 minutes max for each of the 6 poses. Take time between poses to breathe and let go of the last feeling, and then to generate the next.
3. On 18 x 24 sheets and 10-minute poses done the same way. (Lonely, ashamed, sneaky, silly, mysterious, serene, arrogant, impatient, spiteful, smug, peaceful?)
HOMEWORK: (#16) FEELINGS + SPACE + MATERIALS = WHAT?
Follow instruction sheet to create 2 small drawings that are very particular to your personal mode of expression.
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