element of art. You will continue exploring the principles of organization, as you
did so well on Tuesday, but now I am asking you to address the positive and
negative space. We will examine next class together examples by Henri Matisse, Nicholas Wilton, Kara Walker, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Wassily Kandinsky and Arshile Gorky and others to further our study.
After choosing a motif from the handout (letter, number, suit from a deck of
cards, traffic symbol), you will then draw it about the size of your fist on a sheet
of 8.5x11 paper. You will then crop it, bend it, rotate it, flip it, fold it and punish
the paper as you see fit. Find as many abstract designs as you can—exhaust the
possibilities. You might decide to use some combination of photoshop, freehand,
illustrator, or streamline to distort the motif. In class you will probably use a loop/
magnifying glass and hand-fashioned “L” brackets. Do thirty thumbnails in your
sketchbook before transcribing your favorite design to the illustration board.
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