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Assignment 2- Adding Dimension – Jenn Richards

IN CLASS

In class, I experimented with using rotating cubes in space.

AT HOME

Once home, I started drawing basic cubes and pyramids using charcoal for the shading.

I chose to show how the light was shading and reflecting through my green plastic water bottle:

For the fifth and sixth part of this assignment, I chose to walk to a small, unpaved pathway that leads to the bottom of a very steep hill. One of the residents constructed a small brick and stone garden in this space. To convery the grade and basic drawing location, I decided to draw a section to show where I sat within it, using the basic shapes from before to convery texture.

The following are the timed drawings from my viewpoint in perspective view.

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A11-Seeing>Visual Thinking> Idea

For the final assignment, I decided to use a collection of ‘doorway’ photographs I had collected on a recent trip to Europe (summer 2022) with which I have previously not done anything with.

The natural progression starts with the order the doors were encountered on my trip. 

The next grouping is roughly based on color/brightness of the doors and photographs, starting with white on white and progressing to a silhouette. This was not an exact science as attention is paid to both the door color, but also the brightness of the photograph.

 

 

When starting to analyze, I note the general shape of the doorway (curved, straight). Next I was focused on the ornamentation, if any, on the doors and what style and where this was evident. but separating and examining the elements on their own I could gain a better understanding of individual techniques and how they come together.

Finally, I plotted all the doors on an x/y plot focused on ornamentation (or minimalism) and edges (or curves). Additionally, I generalized some door sketches in attempts to make the graph more immediately legible. 

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A3: Mapping – Arevik Petrosyan

At Home –

To the grocery store and back

red lines indicate the trip to the store, blue lines are the trip back. Dashed lines are walking, the solid line is on the bus. I realized I could’ve taken a faster route on the way there if I had walked diagonally.

 

At the grocery store

In the kitchen


Tracked my roommate’s movement in the kitchen while cooking. This kitchen would be considerably easier to use
 if the oven were moved over a bit and the counter was extended around the corner.

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A4: Above, At & Below – Arevik Petrosyan

At home –

I noticed the drainage system from the roof of the nest is poorly designed. This portion of the wall is pitched, so any rain that hits it creates a waterfall at the bottom that you have to walk through if you want to get into the building. There’s drainage directly underneath it, so I guess they anticipated that there would be a lot of water coming down in this exact spot, and then didn’t fix the pretty obvious issue?

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Adam Larsen | Assignment 9 | Smell Notes

On a field trip with the class, I took photos and catalogued them in my sketchbook with what smells I was experiencing as I took them.  To start off at the waters shore, I wrote how green and chlorophyllic all of the plant life smelled, as well as some other less pleasant associated smells. I also took note of how the smells reminded me of an old basement.

I was sure to smell the seawall and took note of how it smelt like sediments and wet stone.

As the class moved deeper into Stanley Park, the environment changed drastically, and I was sure to document the overwhelming smell of fungi, mud, and cedar.

At home I began to map how I experienced the smells at the sites we visited. Starting with the shore, I wanted to show what I was thinking in relation to what was around me, therefore you can see my silhouette, in which is a family members basement. The shore was very mildewy and chlorophyllic which reminded me of a damp basement I had been in sometime when I was younger.

To visualize the intensity of smell while we were in Stanley Park, I represented the strength of each smell in my own head as compared to their sources around me. The smell of cedar was overwhelmingly strong, therefore the wooden element in my head is large. The smell of mud and fungi were secondary but still present, so their presence in my head is smaller. It is interesting to see the relationship between the actual physical quantity of elements producing smells compared to the strongest smells I experienced.

 

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A9: Smell Notes | Christopher Reid

In-class

Smells were mostly faint on our walk due to the rain, which also made it difficult to make detailed drawings or take too many notes. The strongest smells were the smell of seaweed and a dead crab leg by the beach, the trees as we approached Stanley Park, and the smell of rotting wood near old, dead trees within the park itself

At Home

A “smell walk” through my laneway on garbage night. It was a wet autumn night, and so besides the smell of garbage, dominant smells were of fallen leaves and the wet pavement and gravel of the lane.

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