Note to Art I

Amanda Batson, Artist Book, Mixed Media, 2008

FRESHMEN:

I really hope you are as excited about this project as I am. This is going to be a wonderful experience in exploration and experimentation to create your altered book. Your new sketchbook assignment is to PLAN for your first assignment. The overall theme for your altered book is IDENTITY. I want you to plan for your first days work in your book when will be focusing on our CHILDHOOD using images that remind us of this time.

Use your sketchbook to come up with possible compositions and ideas about that time. PLANNING brings forth a better product. However, you are not a slave to your planning. Planning is used as a starting point that can be changed or kept the same.

Your planning needs to include your written component (as usual) with art language and a visual. Talk about what elements of art or principles of design you will use to create your composition. As we have learned in class, artists use these as tools and rules to make a great piece of art. KEEP those elements and principles close to you as we move forward through this project.

So PLAN, PLAN, PLAN and write. Let there be a conversation between your sketchbook and your altered book.


Now...I am on my way to my trip to Minnesota. By request I am putting the links I asked the Freshmen to look at while I am away. See you Wednesday! Also, Congratulations William Mills and Sabra Ewing for making a 100 on the Elements and Principles Test! :)
Teesha Moore
Sabrina Ward Harrison
Dan Eldon
Altered Books

Don't forget to bring your book and ink jet images.