In Class Assignement
Blind drawings:
With Sight:
Assignement 5
Blind Drawings:
In the last two section drawings, I was trying to show the rough under part. Also by blindly exploring this pottery, I found a bump inside of it that I probably would not have noticed without it.
With Sight:
With my sight, I was able to see the beautiful poke dot glazing pattern on the pottery and the signature of my friend underneath.
In-Class Exercise
Blind-folded drawing of white-out
(Blind-folded drawing on left, drawing without blindfold off on right)
Assignment 5
(Blind-folded drawing on top, drawing without blindfold at the bottom)
Blindfolded Drawing in Class
Part 1: looking for form
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Part 2: drawing how it feels in my hand
1 whole hand pressed against one side
2 holding it mostly from the bottom
3 light touch at the top on either side
No longer blindfolded. It’s a cup!
At Home, Still Blindfolded
1 looking for form
2 feeling pressure points of where the curves meet my fingers
3 drawing the texture
4 actual object, it’s a glass sea anemone. after drawing blindfolded I saw the object differently and instead of drawing the outline I saw the textural markers more clearly
In class exercise:
Blindfolded:
With sight: privileging accuracy
In-Class Exercise
Fully Blind Drawing
Same Item While Seeing
Fully Blind Object Drawing Touch Only
Blind Contour Drawing of Same Item
Fully Sighted Drawing
In-class Exercise: shell
While blindfolded, I tried to convey the shell’s elliptical form and rough, gritty texture. When I drew it without the blindfold, the smooth texture and the shininess of its interior surface stood out the most as this was not as noticeable through touch.
Assignment 5 – Scrunchie
My mysterious object was a scrunchie. While drawing blindfolded, I immediately noticed its wrinkly/wavy texture and how it could be flattened and stretched. I also felt a material change between two small smooth rubbery patches and the soft fabric.
When drawing with sight, I tried to portray the shadows created by the folds.
I asked my roommate to put randomly 6 things into bags. Here are the other 5 except for the one I chose.
Blind-folded drawing: I tried to draw the object from different sides as well as the uneven texture it has.
After the object (nail polish) was revealed, I realized the body of the bottle was transparent which was skipped when I temporarily lost my sight.
In-class exercise
In class exercise
Drawing a leather punch
Blindfolded
With sight: privileging accuracy
In front of me, I had three mystery objects and a variety of media (acrylic paint, pens, pencil, conte). After blindly selecting an object, I selected media that I thought would best convey how it felt.
The first object is a rock with a rough, irregular shape and texture, which has been cut transversely to reveal holes on the inside of the rock. Conte seemed to offer a lot of flexibility in ways of conveying the object. After drawing the object blindly and while seeing it, annotations were added with observations to compare the two approaches.
The second object is a cold piece of La Vache Qui Ri (a triangular wedge-shaped piece of cream cheese wrapped in tinfoil packaging). It was finger-painted with acrylic paint. I wanted to be able to touch the paper directly with my hand rather than using a tool for mark-making. Finger-painting limited the kinds of lines I could make, but seemed to work for something that was cold and smooth.
