On the first day of class, our teacher laid out a table with cloth and sewing supplies and said ‘You have an hour and a half to make a hat of any kind. Make it good, make it what you like. Go.
I wasn’t really sure what to make, so I grabbed two pieces of cloth I liked and cut out a demon skull and sewed it on.
We had to start with someone else’s drawing, and draw on top of it and change the image so much that a viewer couldn’t tell the original image from the finished one. I chose a random portrait of a classmate by another classmate, and went to town on it.
At first I wasn’t sure what to do, so I flipped it upside down just for idea’s sake, and saw a tree in the nose, and a hill in the hat, and my idea developed from there. Not really what I had in mind, but it worked out. Definitely one of my favorite pieces from the semester. I listened to lots of viking metal (Ensiferum, Eluvetie, Finntroll) while drawing.
Vine and compressed charcoal and white chalk on used 18×24 newsprint.
I walked out of the classroom, down the stairs, and turned around and there was my subject. Vine charcoal, 18×24 on newsprint.
There’s ink, charcoal, graphite and mixes of those in here. The graphite robed woman is from a Greek sculpture in the MFA, I went in and sat and drew for about 2-3 hours total, over two visits. All 18×24 on drawing paper.
There’s graphite and charcoal in here of various types, and they’re from various periods in the semester as well. We did a bunch of the word drawings (the one with ‘poetic’ in the top right) and this one didn’t make the final class show but every time I look at it I like the way it came out. It expresses the word really well.
