self-assignment #2 results
January 17, 2007I finally found an hour to do self-assignment #2… the black and white shapes assignment. At first it was kind of intimidating. After I had inked my paper and cut it up into different shapes (I went with all angles, no soft edges), I sat there looking at the shapes and felt some hesitation to start. (I was thinking too much of the outcome. Hello?! That’s the point of the assignment: to have fun and not think about the finish.) So I picked up a random piece and ran across it with my glue stick and plunked it down. Then I just added to it until it felt done.
Then I did two more because I had extra pieces left. One turned out to look like an asterisk, which I liked for some reason. Maybe it’s the idea that it should be set aside and referenced for future creative blocks.
Anyway, here are the results:
One other person did the assigment with me (hope you liked it too!). Check out hers here.
Next up is self-assignment #3… which I’ll post here in a little while.
January 17th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
I like your self assignment ideas. The first image in this assignment brings to mind a velvety, black iris. The second image looks like a caption bubble - as in a comic character thinking of something or saying something. In this case, I’m imagining a cartoon foreman talking in bricks to his bricklayer - the translation: “Okay, so I want the wall seven bricks tall and…”. The third does look like an asterisk - a 3-D asterisk.
January 17th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
The middle one looks like a lovely stone wall with a little brick pathway leading up!
January 17th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
The first one looks like a crow sitting on a weather vane, and the last one looks like fireworks.
January 17th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Oh it’s a llama! And it’s getting ready to spit, with it’s ears all hanging behind it’s head. Can you see it?
January 18th, 2007 at 2:31 am
like these lots! especially the second one. the first one kind of reminds me of a witch flying on a broom somehow, really like them. i did get this self-assignment done too, a little late, but i managed it, much to my cat’s delight! have posted up my results on my blog… have a good day.
January 18th, 2007 at 6:01 am
or a laughing giraffe?
January 18th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Good name for a literary journal, that. “Laughing Giraffe”.
“Did you submit your poems to The Laughing Giraffe?”
“Ha ha [silence]. Yes.”
January 18th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Nice work. The first one looks like a bicycle seat with a level to raise it up and down.
I like the negative space in the second one.
January 18th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Hi, thanks for the idea, found you through Anamama, I did this assignment with my kids who are 3 and 5 this afternoon and they really liked it (we did add some colour). It is on my blog todays post.
January 18th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Thanks for the inspiration, I am going to try this. I like your middle image a lot.
January 18th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Miss Penelope-
When Colin was 4 years old, I taught his Sunday School class. We didn’t do any “holy” stuff, just some arts and crafts every Sunday from a packet that the teachers gave us each week.
One week the craft was to take lots of different-shaped colored papers and glue them onto a piece of paper with construction paper. I think the skill being practiced was the dexterity with the glue stick (heck, these little ones were only 4). Well, Colin was working, and working, long after the last kid was finished, and I was getting a little concerned that he would never be a “glue god.” However, what he finally turned in was an absolutely perfect robot, formed of blue, orange, yellow, and green shapes.
Whataguy, huh?
‘See you in less than a month!
Love and hugs
YMIL
January 18th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
BTW-
I thought the first of your pictures was a single rose.
January 18th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Thanks for the idea of the assignments. I’m doing them and looking forward to what’s next. Thanks!
January 19th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
here is mine:
http://www.anders.ca/amanda/2007/01/self_assignment_2.html
January 21st, 2007 at 6:55 am
Here is my Assignment #2. Thank you Penelope:
http://nataschasrosenberg.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-havent-seen-penelopes-assignment.html
January 22nd, 2007 at 3:49 am
Thank you for the idea!
Here are my results:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75737409@N00/