Shhhhhh.....

Herb Kohl said: "Always be on the side of the learner."  

After Critique, Aileen listed some observations.

• It takes a lot of care and practice to critique student work. Be careful not to say everything is great, rather continue moving students in the right direction.  You can do a lot of damage if you are not careful.
• You must have conversation with a purpose. You are attempting to help someone become a better artist.  Sometimes asking a provocative question can aide in this.
• There must be a language shift. Maybe start with common words, but bring dialogue to a professional level.
• Find connections with other artists.
• Listen.  Listening to students speak about their work can bring great insight to who they are as artists.  "Teachers like to talk, and sometimes we need to listen"-Aileen

So during the critique of our letters, that is exactly what she did.  Here are some photos during crit.

Sarah's painted hand W-O-R-D projected

I was really impressed by my classmates work!  The materials used varied from food to feathers, painted hands to alginate molds of hands,  and everything in between.  Here is some of what they did...

Lucinda's N

Lucinda made an N using orange peals, but she coooooould lie and say Nectarine peals :)...or Naranja peals in spanish.  The blue painters tape background really made it pop!

Adnan made his G out of hair...G for gross or grodey!  But I loved it!

Adnan's G

And I also really loved Romina's U.  It was very warm, clean, and simple.  The repetition of the braid and color choices reminded me a lot of Eva Hesse's work.

Romina's U

Here is my rough draft of the animated alphabet: Missing F and L...who has those??
(The letters I made are in my previous blog post).

We then moved on to our next project with books and continued on the creation of our book covers.

We are making graphic novels with a theme of contemporary ruins and disappearing places. (spooky!)

In fact, many artists have dealt with this concept.

Christoph Buchel. 

the Chapman brothers

 and Felix Schram

to name a few.

Also a movie called The Road:

                                                                                   

And here are my sketches from last week.