FIN 210 Unit 3

Unit 3 postings are organized as follows:

• page 1: Artist presentation, Artist Research, and Technique Assignment
• page 2: Independent Drawing: Research, Process, Final Drawing, Reflection

ARTIST PRESENTATION: Immediately below is my powerpoint presentation in PDF form to show the slides and the notes.

Artist Technique drawing: I selected a few Kentridge drawings that I might crop a small piece from and embed in my own drawing. Below, see a gallery of 4 pages of small trial croppings I made, aiming to reproduce the marks and colour/shading of his work.

Next step: Now I have some idea about the mark making and what I could possibly emulate or at least riff on. Next step is thinking about which crop has most promise to develop into a composition that interests me… See below some visual brainstorming…

See below, a few versions of 8 1/2 by 11 extensions of the cropped fragments. The first one, from History of the Main Complaint, probably the most successful although some trouble blending the top edge of the crop with the sky because charcoal dust accumulated along the cut edge of the paper. The second two are crops from Beethoven, one turned into a landscape and the other a crowd of musicians. Used the wrong type of paper (a yellowish cast) for the musicians so it was particularly hard to get the grey tones to match the original. The landscape was just on copier paper so it was a closer match to the colour of the cut-out-bit from Beethoven.