Paper cutting assignment

This assignment was intended to demonstrate positive and negative spaces, and the relationships between background and foreground (or object/subject).  We were to represent someone's shape.  I chose to use myself as subject, and I wanted to explore the background as strongly black and white, my own boundaries or limitations in shades of gray, and the use of bright colours in loose Fibonacci spirals, positive and negative, to symbolize the desire for beautiful ideas.

Collage sketch assignment

This assignment began in class.  We brought materials for the collage and assembled them during class. the assignment was to reproduce, in pencil, a fully tonal, but slightly smaller version.  The photo is better than some earlier shots, because I was able to use natural light.  It does look a bit odd, because the light source used for the sketch is different than for the photo.

Tattoo assignment

This was a "line" assignment.  In black and white, it is the intent to design a tattoo for someone we know, and to explain why.  It was fun to consider what might be interesting.  The "line" that I really had in mind was an interrupted, or implied, line from the bottom of the right hand - up the arm - across the back - down the left hip - leg - and completion at the back of the left calf.  With tattoo details as part of the implied line.