Future Drawings

Time Log 7: Senior Drawing

Total Hours: 10

This week, my time was split working on 2 different sketches of 2 of my friends. I took their pictures a few weeks ago, and this week, I was able to work on creating compositions from my photos.

I drew them with graphite sticks because it is on larger paper. I am contemplating trying to do the same compositions in charcoal to see if I like how one looks in comparison to the other. I know that I like to work in charcoal already, so I may try to stick with the graphite sticks because I don't have a ton of experience with them.

I also worked on my contract for the semester. I am haven't narrowed it completely down to graphite because I could end up going back to charcoal.

Kate Mase
October 11, 2011
Dr. –
Senior Drawing Contract

With drawing this semester, I would like to take the time to explore literal portraiture and symbolic portraiture. I will use graphite sticks (possibly charcoal if I find that I don’t like the graphite) on large pieces of paper. In addition, I will incorporate tracing paper into the pieces to create layering affects. This interests me as an artist and I want to explore it as much as I can. I will use techniques that I learned in drawing 1, but more specifically gesture drawing, with the intent to create more expressive, evocative imagery. I will use original sources from photos that I take. I would like to have around 10 images at the end of the semester.
The concept behind all of this is about sex trafficking. The symbolic portraiture represents the plethora of women and children that have been/continue to be sold into the sex industry globally. I have selected fruit because in art history, it is used as something that represents original sin and/or life. I see sex trafficking as something completely unnatural, and yet it continues to affect life after life. The literal portraits will be those of men who are consuming the fruit. In addition, I see fruit as something very common. Grocery stores are packed with fruit. It’s cheap. It’s replaceable. It’s easy to access… which is the case with many of these women and children.

Time Log 6: Senior Drawing

Total Hours: 8

This week I took more pictures of men eating fruit. I was able to get three, willing models to shoot. I started sketching out a composition. I made my models make more "fierce" or "malicious" faces while they were biting into their food to create a more evocative image (hopefully). I know that I have the control of that in my actual execution of the drawing. I am using big graphite sticks right now, but I might move to charcoal. I'll see how these 2 sketches turn out and go from there.

Time Log 5: Senior Drawing

Total Hrs: 10

Alright, besides the thoughts about the project (which is daily! It's crazy how thoughts about this thing can be so consuming), I was able to get some photography. I took photos from a willing male model that is completely unassociated with AU, which is kind of nice just to have new models because sometimes the same ones get tossed around in the art department. I started working on 2 drawings from the photos I got. They will in the end be combined to be 1 piece because of the layering. I am pretty interested in it so far. I think it has pretty neat potential!

Time Log 4: Senior Drawing

Total Hrs: 8

Whoops. Sorry, Dr. -! So this week I spent time THINKING about the project, sketching more possible thoughts, and barely tapped into photography. I think I'm going to try to take my own photos to work from for this project. I THINK (I know, a lot of "thinks") that I want to draw fruit (and they represent battered women & children). I want to draw the same piece being eaten by several different people over a period of time! So... obviously, the fruit will begin to be get smaller and deteriorate. This is an attempt at a physical representation the inner psyche of these victims. I have some preliminary sketches started.

Time Log 3: Senior Drawing

Total Hours: 5

WAY WAY WAY not as productive this week as I would've liked to be. I got caught up in other projects and life and work and definitely put drawing on the back burner. I did some more brainstorming and I bounced ideas off some friends. Their input is valuable to me. I also experimented with watercolour and transparent paper. It was pretty interesting. I'm not sure if I will use watercolour... maybe watercolour pencils! That might be the next direction I explore. I am still interested in open spaces (like rooms) and ruined fruit. This upcoming week, I would like to dedicate time to taking pictures to work from.

Time Log 2: Senior Drawing

Total Hours: 9

Brainstorming, researching, reading, sketching, buying, and drawing was my week this week. I went to Michael's and looked for velum... they were completely out of white velum... so I bought the next closest thing to it, pink. I like the strength is has, but I for sure need to get white when they have it in stock. I continued to draw on my tracing paper. I drew sketches of possible directions. These things interest me in relation to human trafficking:

- empty rooms

- 1/2 eaten/rotten fruit

- 1/2 figures of females

- totaled cars

I know... totaled cars is kind of random... but I kind of like it. We'll see. Still working with them conceptually.