Portfolio Project

4.B. ‘The Invented Tool Paints It’s Kingdom’ Painting & Display

Jumbala, acrylic, pastels, found objects, Cea Winter 2008

The Tool, stick, key, wire, beads, fabric, goldenrod & digital play, Cea Winter 2008

Making the tool:

(Time: 2 hours)

Materials

Black oil pastel or charcoal stick
5-7 pages of light weight white paper (sketchbook)
1 piece of white Mayfair paper
Household items and/or objects from nature used to create the ‘texture tool’
Whatever is needed to construct a way of displaying the work (wood, wire, stone, string…)

Imagine a place where everything is expressed through the element of texture. There is no rainbow of colors, simply black and white and the values of gray in between. If you want to create a gentle or harsh atmosphere, you cannot do it with color, you can only do it through texture.

So your job now is to figure out what kinds of textures ‘feel’ soft, lilting and mist-like or hard, screeching and jarring. Spend some time experimenting.

You are going to create a tool that leaves or makes an unusual textural mark in paint. Along with all of the different textures you have discovered, create an imaginary landscape that gives us a glimpse of the place or culture that developed this tool. In this way, the invented tool paints its kingdom. You may want to create an entire story around the tools creation and importance.

The last thing to think about is how you are going to incorporate the tool itself into the painting. Think long, think hard, think unusual…or just see what happens when you place it different places on the artpiece and attach it with different materials (spring, thread, wire, or a doll’s arm…).

You are preparing this ‘collage painting’ for a show.Journal on what you need to consider about your audience, the show venue and how you will present it.

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All the steps you need to take to complete this project successfully are listed here. Just follow the list and you will create an intriguing work of art.

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. There is a twist of creativity in you, around this project, waiting to be grasped by your hand and unfurled into full form. I’m excited about this creation coming out and am keeping my eyes open. I don’t want to miss it.

Start by:

• Creating a tool.

• Imagining the place where the tool originated, from gutter to garden to kingdom. From what kind of culture or environment did it come from? Sketch this in your sketchbook.

• Decide on the mood of the place your tool is from. (Write this on the back- it could be a good title for the piece). Depending on this mood, collect texture rubbings, in black, that fit with the location. Oil pastel is your best bet- it won’t smudge easily.

• Using cut-out shapes from your texture rubbings, as well as paint making marks with your tool, create the place the tool has come from. Plan where the tool itself will be placed within the painting, how ‘The Invented Tool Paints Its Kingdom.’

Remember, this is all in black and white.

• Journaling on the questions below. What do you need to think about as the artist displaying this art?

Journal: Enter your responses by clicking on the button at the bottom of this page. This will open an edit box. Type your responses into the box. When done click . (Remember to put the title at the top.)

1. What audience do you think would enjoy your artpiece the most (your friends, musicians, university students, seniors, politicians, mechanics…)?

2. Where could you show it to get the most viewing from this group of people (café, school display case, art gallery, park, John Deere dealership)?

3. How could you best display it? On a stand (made of wood, mud, marshmallows, or wire…), hanging it as a mobile, attached to wall, light, tree...?

• Set your artwork up how you would display in a show at your venue of choice. See if you can display it at home, at school or perhaps at the venue you had in mind. Leave it on display for at least a week.

• Photograph it at the showing venue. Ask an adult present to sign a note stating the venue (show place) and length of time it was shown. Submit this with your project.

• What does this feel like having your creation on display?

.Stand back and take a look at your work. Who knew you had that in you? Well…other than me? Doesn’t it feel good to have it on the outside now?!

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange & extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorious age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How to Submit Your Work:

Upload images of your

Compress the images to less than 100 KB (For more detailed directions read, "How To Do This Course." in the course header section) Click the button and browse for the file containing your image. Select the file and click . REPEAT until all relevant images are uploaded.

Evaluation Criteria:

Must see:

Brainstorming & planning page(s)
Texture collage painting of tool’s place of origin (with tool attached) Journal questions
Verification the artwork was displayed & venue location identified

Student demonstrates the ability to:

Brainstorm, design & build a tool	/6
Brainstorm & design an imaginary place of origin for the tool	/4
Create a unified image of where the tool originated, using cut-outs of texture ru You are currently using guest access (Login) Samples