Caley was the instructor for this week’s workshop. The community time was fun. I highly enjoyed watching all the students create blind contour drawings. Some did self-portraits, some drew friends, all turned out great, as blind contour drawings tend to do. Then we combined them on an overhead projector into one amazing, terrifying drawing.
Caley was using a
different space than we normally use because she needed a dark room for her
lesson. The students were going to project images onto a wall over themselves,
and then take photos of the resulting shadow/light image. It’s a really
interesting concept and from what I could see the students enjoyed it and got
some interesting photographs as well. I also was very interested in the artists
Caley pulled in as references.
It was hard to observe
directly what was going on in the dark room because it was a small room and in
order to get the best photos the door needed to stay shut.
I did notice that for
the girls not taking photos, other activities needed to be found. After they
had finished looking up possible imagery for their photographs they had to wait
for their turn in the dark room. Caley brought in the clay projects from a
couple weeks ago and later on I brought in some unfinished overpaintings and
got one student started on her fiber selfie since she had missed that day.
I think this turned out
okay because of our small class size. However, with a larger class size, how to
go about getting photos and turn-taking would need to be thoughtfully
considered so some students weren’t sitting around unsupervised. I think the
students will be really excited to see their final photographs.
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