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Growth! 

HAYSTACK! 

Research project--What do you want to know? 
What images do you think might provoke responses? 

Never ask a questions that is a yes or no answer. 
All questions should be accompanied by a statement. 

Setting up paper and talking to the kids, selecting artwork. 

6 STUDENTS OR 4 OR 5 to observe. 

What would you like to know about these paintings. 

How we engage with materials and what we have learned with materials as we have transformed them. 

Materials have new and different kinds of voices. 
Rooted in relationship in the world 

There is the need to be expressive. 

Early adolescent drawings. Drawing as part of a theme. 
Multiple views of space. 

The best drawing of a person from memory. 
Look very carefully at model and think very carefully about the kind of line you want to use to draw with. 

What's the same and what's different. 
(Right Memory, Observation Left) 

Body movement. 
Detail shifts. 


Liked the observation drawing more. 

Make as many different marks possible. 
Pick your favorite marks. 


EXPLORATORY IN DRAWING and MARKMAKING

How is a narrow strip of paper. THE PARTICULAR VOICE OF A MATERIALS. 
How can you draw with a strip of paper. 

NOTICE WHAT YOU'RE DOING IN YOUR OWN WORK. 

You can transform it in different ways but you can not take it apart. 

Pieces of wire to transform. Understanding different properties. Wire sculptures 

Ways to make wires and lines thicker. 

ALUMINUM SCULPTURE --- PLAY AND EXPERIMENTATION AND HOW IT AFFECTS DRAWINGS

WHEN YOU CAN'T BEAT THEM BRIBE THEM. 

More confident in line work, CONTINUITY OF THE WHOLE, pay attention to line. 

THE SELF FEELS INCONSECQUENTIAL. 

make the figure present NOT ON THE PIECE OF PAPER BUT IN THE PIECE OF PAPER

SIT ON PAPER, TRACE SELF, CONSTRUCT THEMSELVES ON GROUND PLAN OF WHAT THEY HAVE. 

Paintings on top of each other of sitting. Mural. 
Color MIXING Tonal VALUES Hue 

Think of Human figure as human figure, or as an element in a painting. Think about it different to be a part of something else. 
What is abstraction? WHAT AND WHY? 

CLAY
But no clay explorations. 
some drew on the clay 
Still stuck in drawing. 

NON LINEAR DEVLEOPMENT 
HOLISTIC
SET WHAT YOU DO IN LARGER CONTEXT OF ART WORLD. 
CONVERSATION WITH THE WORKDS OF MAJOR ARTISTS. 
RECREATE ORIGINAL REPERTOIRE 

YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU CAN USE, REFLECT ON IT, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM AND MEANING. WE ARE NOT TELLING THEM ANYTHING.