Portfolio Project

4.A.‘What Do You Love?’ Poster

Intensibeautilover, pencil & collage, Cea Winter 2007

“When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked that way?”

Robin Williams

A closer look:

You are going to be asked to do an experiment. Draw a picture of yourself, with all that you love, forming and possibly spilling out of the top of your head. See what shows up. It can be part collage with at least half of it pencil drawing. You can use part of a picture of yourself and cut out or draw words or images of what you love filling and spilling, like a fountain, out from your brain.

• Translate at least one of the things you love into a structure or shape that makes up part of the skull bone (ex. Tennis racquet translated into a similar shaped bone).
• Use one or more types of shading.
• Create a texture (p. 193-195) as a background to the head image (optional)

(Time: 2 hrs.)

Materials

1.5’ x 2’ (aprox.) piece of white Mayfair paper
pencil
glue stick
possibly: picture of self, newspaper, magazines, downloaded images from the Internet

Steps to Making Poster (click on the photo to view the full size image.)

Journal Response:

Enter your Journal Response in the Notes section. Click the button at the bottom of the page to open the edit box . Type your response in the edit box and click the button when you’re done. (Remember to put the title of the assignment at the top of the page.)

1.) What kinds of things showed up as you thought about what you love? (2)

2.) If you could invent one word to describe the nature of many of those things, what would that be? (Ex. ‘adrenaliney,’ ‘peacelovefriendy,’ ‘freeflying,’ ‘glamafuzz…’) Write a definition to the word you just created. (4) (*This could work as the title to this artpiece.)

3.) What does this tell you about yourself and what you value? (2)

4.) Were you able to translate the idea of something you love into a structure or shape that made up part of the skull bones?

5.) What idea became what shape? (2) In doing this project, I realized… (name one thing you realized or learned about yourself that surprised you). (2)

Total: / 12

Submitting Your Work

To submit your Poster, save an image of it by scanning or taking a digital picture of it. (Remember to compress your file so it is less than 100KB) Then in the Draft submission section below click . A browse window will open up. Find the file you saved and click . The image file of your sketch is now ready to be sent.

Enter your Journal Response in the Notes section. Click at the bottom of the page to open the edit box . Type your response in the edit box and click when you’re done. (Remember to put the title of the assignment at the top of the page.)

Once both your poster and Journal Response are uploaded and entered, click the button.

Evaluation Criteria: