SEEING

Visual Language I
Lyssa Palu-ay SF 182

Homework: September 10, 2007
Due: September 17, 2007

“Turell’s work allows us to see ourselves “seeing”. Whether harnessing the light at sunset or transforming the glow of a television set into a fluctuating portal, Turrell’s art places viewers in a realm of pure experience.”


Objective: The Objective of this exercise is to “see ourselves seeing”. Observe and analyze your relationship to your environment, light and time. This will be done through a series of drawings and written responses.


1. Research:
-Choose a space/landscape/room, which will have available light from the outdoors coming into the area
-Go to this place 3 different times of the day: early morning, mid-day,
sunset or evening
-Describe the place, the time of day, objects, space etc. during these different times.
- Describe what the light is literally doing. How does the light describe the place, objects, and space?
-If a person were blind how would you describe the most interesting time of day to them?

Total: 9 written responses Post ONE of these responses on your blog.
Write the other responses in your notebook.

2. Analysis:
-Go to the place 3 different times of the day: early morning, mid-day,
sunset or evening
-Make a drawing in this space with the SAME attention to framing and composition in each drawing.
-The difference will be how you describe the light in this place.

3. Do this exercise in THREE different places.

Total: 9 drawings

Materials:
-Composition Notebook
-Charcoal and/or Pencil
-Sketchbook paper and /or newsprint (no smaller than 8x10”)


Methods: Contour & Value



Read: The Critique Handbook- Chapter 5 pages 93-119
-Write down 5 questions about the chapter in your notebooks.
Resources:
www.abelardomorell.net http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/turrell/


Contour Drawing

>Involves observing and recording the edges and boundaries of the shapes and the space between solid forms

>Requires accurate observation of all details and variations of the subject

Plain Contour-Look back and forth from the place to your paper to check the shapes and proportions

Blind Contour-Draw a single, continuous line that describes the edges of a form. Look only at the place (you are drawing) not the paper

Negative Space Contour- Draw the negative space contours (the open areas (air) around and in-between solid masses or shapes

Value

>The relative degree of light and dark

>Translates the effect of light