printmaking workshop
June 29, 2010
Some photos from a workshop I taught on June 27 as part of the Art Gallery of Windsor’s Sundays in the Studio programme.
Selective inking! And fireworks! [We had just had our fireworks a few days earlier. Because when you live on the Canada/U.S. border it makes total sense to have the joint fireworks celebration for your four-days-apart national holidays A WEEK AND A HALF EARLY for either. Just another way in which Windsor is charmingly whack.]
More multicolour prints using selective inking.
A two-colour reduction print.
The most involved print of the day: a four colour reduction of a fire-breathing monster, with selective inking in the last two runs.
Posted by jodi on June 29, 2010 at 7.24pm
student drawings
April 15, 2010
A few more from the Life Drawing II class.
Laurel Gough
Laura Randall
Lexi Dixon
Posted by jodi on April 15, 2010 at 9.40pm
all done
April 13, 2010
My marks are all entered. Feedback has been given on projects, portfolios are waiting for the students to pick them up again. Pretty soon I’m going to have to wash away this little drawing I’ve been working on since January with tea and a spoon.
Posted by jodi on April 13, 2010 at 8.28pm
student prints
April 12, 2010
This project combined woodblock printing and monotype techniques: each student was given one block of wood (16 x 24inches) from which to produce a series of six related monoprints. The works produced combined reduction and multi-block printing methods (most people used both sides of the block) with monotype, stenciling, chine colle and trace monotype. Here are just a few of the projects, with two prints from each to give an idea of the variation each student achieved across the series.
Caitlyn Nelson
Shea Lacombe
Sabrina Fenyvesi
Posted by jodi on April 12, 2010 at 9.59pm
interstitial
April 10, 2010
Now that the school year is over and there’s a bit of breathing room here, I can take my time doling out images of some of my students’ projects from earlier in the semester. The goal of this project, for the Drawing II class, was to bring to life a normally overlooked space, taking into consideration the space’s function, how it facilitates the movement of people, and what (if any) psychological impact the space has on those who interact with or travel through it.
Brittany Lee
Ben Barak
Derek Larose
Posted by jodi on April 10, 2010 at 3.22pm
buoyant
April 5, 2010
I had a funny story to tell, I’m sure of it. But if it had nothing to do with students and drawings and evaluating and critiquing and sifting through portfolios then it slipped my mind somehow. I’m almost through with it all, but still holding my breath until then.
I’m remembering to take breaks, though. The Monastery Pond is pretty now that the snow’s all gone. There’s a little niche out behind the parking lot where the nuns had a statue and a garden (yes, nuns in a monastery. No, I don’t get it either). I went out there at lunchtime and took some photos and sat and ate an apple and waited for the deer to come (they didn’t).
Posted by jodi on April 5, 2010 at 8.43pm
mired in grading
April 2, 2010
Seven hours at the Monastery today and I’m not even through grading one class’s assignments (although I did get them all photographed, so it should go more quickly now).
So far I’ve only been evaluating work from the drawing classes, as those are the portfolios I’ve got to return first, but here’s a sneak peek from the printmaking class’s bookwork project:
A series of three pop-up folios by Sabrina Fenyvesi, in collaboration with her son Gabriel Fenyvesi.
For fun this afternoon I picked this set of four taped-together linoblocks, left over from my class, out of the garbage and printed it (a little crookedly) on a singlet.
This is an introductory linocut project I borrowed from Melissa Harshman: cut up multiple copies of an image into pieces the same size as your small test blocks, hand them out randomly to the class, demo the transfer process and cutting and printing, and then have them mix and match blocks with their classmates in order to print the reassembled image. I even used the same image I saw her use (Chuck Close’s portrait of Philip Glass), because it’s so fantastic, and has a good balance of interesting open shapes (that hair!) and solid blacks (what better to torment students with when insisting their hand printed blacks aren’t salty?).
Posted by jodi on April 2, 2010 at 9.05pm
we’ve reached the end so soon
April 1, 2010
It’s been a long week of final critiques, a public lecture about my artwork, extra time put in helping students finish their projects and more portfolios and drawings crammed into my (shared) office than I thought possible. This afternoon was my last class, followed by an end-of-year party and the sad realization that I probably won’t see more than one or two of my students again after today. And tomorrow, the grading begins.
Here are a few pictures of the Monastery pond yesterday, with the ice almost completely off now.
Posted by jodi on April 1, 2010 at 10.48pm
student drawings
March 29, 2010
It seems impossible to have come this far already, but my time at Nipissing is almost over: classes end this week, and because fine arts studio courses don’t have a slot in the exam schedule, the last class of the semester is given over to the final critique. It’s almost over but for the very large task of grading portfolios and documenting work.
Here are a few of my life drawing students’ completed second-to-last projects, a two-week drawing using the skeleton and the figure. They had a week to work on the skeleton drawing, building it up with mixed media, before adding in the model the second week. I didn’t plan the pose to help them integrate it with how they’d drawing the skeleton, so they had to figure out for themselves how to make the drawings successful. Some of them chose to make the figures literal and solid while others allowed the two forms to move in and out of one another more fluidly; below are examples of both approaches.Their final project, a similar two-week drawing with two figures, is due this afternoon in our final critique.
Kelsie Lauzon
Laurel Gough
Cayla Carter
Laura Randall
Dan Pigeon
Posted by jodi on March 29, 2010 at 9.27am
student work: first colour print
March 26, 2010
A few of my students’ first colour linocuts from earlier in the semester. These are printed by hand with a baren and spoon, and are a combination of reduction and multi-block (they were given two blocks to work with and had to do a minimum of five press runs).
Caitlyn Nelson, Shani, 12 colour print (edition of four).
Shantelle Labrie, Cohen, 5 colour print (edition of four).
Cole McNaughton, Ooh, Shiny!, 5 colour print (edition of four).
Posted by jodi on March 26, 2010 at 8.44pm
