So Far this Week

So far this week I started out working on putting ideas and drawings in the book I made last week. While working on my drawings I started to think about who inspires me and what I really want to do with my Senior Project. I would really like to work with children teaching them about art. I think it would be really interesting to let them choose what medium and help them learn more about working with the type of art that they choose.

What I did this past week:
   I probably spent around 6 hours drawing sketches in my sketchbook. Then 2 hours thinking about ideas working with children. I spent 1 hour watching an interview of Wendy Ewald, and another hour so far reading the first couple chapters of her book I Wanna Take Me a Picture. I also took notes and watched a short video about Viktor Lowenfeld's teaching methods. It was only about 15 minutes long, and wasn't as helpful as I had hoped.

What I discovered while working so far this week:
   I would prefer my work to have an impact on children, not just on myself. It's exciting to see a finished piece, but I think it is more important to influence and inspire other people, not just yourself. I also discovered a lot about the different phases that exists though art work from children age 2-14, and would maybe like to work more seeing the differences in photography taken by certain ages.

What I think I should do next:
   I plan on researching a ton more this coming week, and gathering a ton of books from the library and just gathering as much knowledge about developmental Psychology and art therapy and how the two are used together. I also plan on meeting with my GSI from my psych course to see if she has any suggestions on books I should be researching. I also have a meeting this friday with the head of a community service group "Celebrities against Autism" to see if I can maybe work with children with Autism teaching them art/ photography. I'm also going to ask her for knowledge about Autism, as well as books that would be helpful on my pursuit through create my I.P. project.

Work for last week

I'm still getting used to using a blog. But over the past week I finally put drawings into the book I made. I've been putting in drawings that resemble certain cells and zoomed in images of taste buds, and cones and rods and other biology related things. I'm not quiet sure if I want to create work that involves drawing but I'm going to keep experimenting.
I got an old argus camera this weekend which I might try to use this week and see if it influences my art in anyway.

first photograph taken with 35 mm camera

This was the first photograph I ever took for a class, I used a 35 mm cannon and altered the background in the dark room using a piece of scraped up foggy glass. It was exciting to alter a peice as soon as I started working in the darkroom.

Photographs from Freshman year which inspired my work

 

this was a set of images I worked on in collaboration with another girl, Alyssa B from SCAD. We wanted to create photographs from different decades using photoshop and different antique cameras. There was a story that went with the photographs but I couldn't reach Alyssa to get a hold of it.

first post Sept. 12 2011

During the first week so far I've been working on binding books and looking at different styles of book making. I'm not quiet sure what I want to do for this class yet, but I'm still pretty excited for this class and to start working.