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Sketchbook Entries throughout the semester

The Sketchbook is the documentation of your Creative Processes & on-going research.  Think of it as a place to store all class and critique notes, assignment ideas, concept drawings, notes from lectures and/or videos, on-going research, bibliographic sources, etcetera.

Why?
a. Research is an expectation of all students.  
b. All sketchbooks are evidence of an investment in exploration and continued learning. 
c. Sketchbooks are a key tool in idea generation.  
d. They are a way to think in two dimensions and store ideas for future use as well as a way to work through ideas before investing large amounts of time in a finished work. 
e. Sketchbooks, in their various forms; book form, electronic files, BLOG, etc., are mandatory for all studio art courses.

Sketch books will illustrate the following:
  • The fundamental principles and elements of design
  • Research of historical precedent and contemporary approaches concerning visual representation
  • Class, lecture, and video notes, etc.
  • Concept thumbnail sketches towards further refinement in three-dimensions
  • Weekly concepts covered including: material engagement, application and process towards the constructed work
  • Sketchbooks are a way to collect your research
Get use to taking 
thorough bibliographical source material with the following information and include any URLs!

ARTIST / DESIGNER
TITLE / PRODUCT  (titles always in italics!)
YEAR
MEDIA 
DIMENSIONS
Collection (if available)

Please note where you gleaned the example from. 
This is your bibliographical source info (i.e. URL)

Make a number of notes on your discovered and researched visual example.
  1. Why does this particular work stand out to you?
  2. How does the work relate to the assignment at hand?

You should be collecting 2 per week.  
By the end of the term you will have, at minimum, 24 research entries. 

Here’s #1/25 …



Adonna Khare
Bear and Bunny
2017, pencil on paper
https://www.1stdibs.com/art/drawings-watercolor-paintings/abstract-drawings-watercolors/adonna-khare-bear-bunny/id-a_2286823/

1. I love this work!! I love how the artist composed the overall drawing. How the subject matter is forced to the left side, leaving the right side virtually empty.  For me, this operates like a dream, not only the surrealist subject matter of balloons being tied to the canines of a bear while a bunny rides ontop of them, but the white space itself allows me to think about what might come next in the narrative.  I can fill my ideas into that space. The two balloons, carry my imagination away !

2.  I think this is an excellent drawing that realates to our assignment.  The artist obvisouly used a great deal of photographic sources to draw their subject matter so accurately.  Combining the three elements that she did, Khare makes use of her subject matter in a surreal and dream like way. Her use of pencil is beautiful, making use of a full value range that expresses texture.  Well done!

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