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Experimental Drawing Stage 4

Experimental Drawing

A short term project to hone skill sets around lateral thinking, inference & extrapolation.

From the list given, create either an urban or natural landscape drawing using only the items on the list.

Some examples

The lists students used to create the following images varied considerably. These are all works by Stage 4 students.

The current list for this group

  • 3 batteries
  • 6 pieces of rope
  • 12 paper clips
  • 1 matchbox
  • 3 cups
  • 8 matchsticks
  • 10 lengths of wire
  • 7 balls of cotton wool
  • 1 mobile phone
  • 16 nails
  • 5 coat hangers
  • 1 flock of birds
  • 3 kangaroos
  • 1 microphone & cable
  • 1 piano keyboard
How do you use the list.

The idea here is that the list provides you with material qualities and physical properties that you can use to construct components of your natural or urban landscape. for example;

10 x lengths of wire = think: wire is flexible and can be bent into many shapes, wire can be extruded / flattened, you can melt wire. So how can you use this?

  • You can draw any single thing or group of things so long as you use an unbroken line to do so. One unbroken line equals one piece of wire.
  • Flattened wire can be used to represent a road or a pathway.
  • What can be done with wire that's extruded into a rectangular, square or triangular profile.
  • Molten wire can be used to represent bodies of water.

1 x Piano keyboard = think; a piano keyboard is composed of 88 rectangular black and white shapes. You can use these in isolation or any number grouping or as a representation of the traditional keyboard idea to construct a range of elements in your landscape.

1 x Matchbox = think; A matchbox, inside and outside, is made up of 11 rectangular shapes. You can use these in isolation or together to create components of your landscape. A matchbox also contains 52 matches which you can use individually or in any number grouping, burnt or unburnt to create representations of things in your environment.

1 x flock of birds = think; There is nothing to indicate how many birds are in the flock. There could be four or four hundred, its up to you to make that decision based on what it is you wish to use the flock or components of the flock to represent.

In this way continue working through the list until you have accounted for all the components. When your image is complete begin working with colour. Remember based on the notions of representation in realism, expressionism and abstraction you are able to adapt the representation of your landscape in terms of shape, form and colour.

In the examples below you'll notice that the solution is as unique as the person from whom it comes. This is natural as individual mental attributes, psychological profiles and body types.

Created By
Gary Poulton
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