TOOLS WEEK 2

We are coming to the beginning of the second  week of the Tools Part 2, where we have been concentrating on working through a range of techniques. If you have not yet done it you should be spending some time  presenting and briefly annotating the work you have done so far in your sketchbooks. All of the images you produced last week should be stuck in.

A checklist of what you should have for the project so far is included below:

• Well presented research into Florian Nicolle (collages) and Jim Dine (tool drawings), thoughtfully presented over at least 4 sketchbook pages and including sensitive visual responses to each Artist.
• A series of dramatic photos of a single hand tool - print out contact sheet thumbnails of your whole shoot and include some of your best images (4-6) printed at A5 or A4.
• A well finished sustained piece of tonal drawing from your tool (full page).
• One or more good carbon print images based on your tool photos.
• Any quick sketches completed in class (not sure if both groups have done this).
• ink and stick studies, some with bleach and coloured inks
• set of quick studies in pencil, chalk etc
• Collage with George to continue on Wednesday
• Colour inversions on the copier.

As extension work it would be good to add diversity to your drawing by experimenting with other media, e.g. expressive ink work, fine liner or biro sketches.  Please try out materials and techniques many times to get confident with these. 

Please bring £2.50 each as a contribution to materials for the project (the Spray Paints are the main specialist resource we need to fund), Thank You.

Techniques we will aim to cover this week are: monoprinting, gold card printing, stenciling, acetate collage, and PhotoShop image manipulation.