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Student Work
instructor: Larissa Bank

Pierce College
Intermediate Two-Dimensional Design
Fall 2006

Projects

1. Exploring Your Own Linear Vocabulary

This problem expands upon the basic vocabulary of line and demonstrates the unique power of line exploring an "all over" design making pattern process. Lines were made by tracing objects (letters, leaves, tire rubber, etc).

18 X 24 ink pens on vellum. Letter rubbings. Rachael Heller. 18 X 24 ink pens on vellum. Leaf rubbings. Pamela Grandinetti
9 X 12 ink pens on bristol. Tire track rubbings. Robert Fischer

 

2. Compositional Rule Breakers Collage

Rethinking and transforming focal point and emphasis through the usage of basic design principles and supplementary materials. This project will involve photographing images within a theme with very specific focal points that will be altered through the introduction of a thematically different element, altering meaning and focus.

9 X12 collage on bristol. Rachael Heller. 9 X12 collage on bristol. Rachael Heller
9 X12 collage on bristol. Pamela Grandinetti. 9 X12 collage on bristol. Pamela Grandinetti.

 

3. Alternate Approaches to Color, Creating Your Own Color Palette.

Exploring thematic approaches to color usage. Creating personal and narrative color schemes. Readings will be from David Batchelor's Chromophobia . Projects will involve transference of a famous individual's portrait into a repeating grid format colored with the new color scheme theme.

18 X 24 acrylic on canvas panel. Lenin in flag colors. Alexsey Tkach 18 X 24 acrylic on canvas panel. Famous 50s icon in laundry detergent colors. Robert Fischer.


4. Alternate Approaches to Materials and 2D form Making

A variety of techniques and materials will be explored. Techniques will be placed in historical context. Examples: automatic drawing and painting, decalcomania, frottage, collage, fumage, grattage, cubomania, and parsemage. This project strongly relates to creating pattern and personalizing pattern. It relates to deconstruction and reconstruction of surfaces, involving the process of cutting away and then rebuilding.
9 X 12 mixed media on bristol. Rachael Heller. 9 X 12 mixed media on bristol. Robert Fischer.

 

5. Final: Collaborative Mixed-Media Collage

This project will be chosen and developed by the students as a group. They will choose one theme to work from and then the materials and methods based on what they have learned through the class. Everyone must be in agreement on the theme and materials that are appropriate for the project.

Each panel is 18 X 24 on illustration board. Each panel blends into neighboring panel of alternate theme.
 
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