diary second semester

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1Colour and Space Material

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3Showcase

Drawing Workshop

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Colour And Space Material

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In the first weeks of the semester we have been divided into two groups to carry on different tasks:

colours and materials and film project. I focused on the study of the colours including different

colour types, the use of scrap colour materials, the perception of colour to the human

eye, the shading and toning of a colour and the use of colours in a specific site where

we have been asked afterwards to create a shelter.

Colour And Space Material

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The first exercise we have been asked to do was a colour wheel.

The colour wheel is a visual organisation of colour hues around a circle showing the relationship between primary, secondary and complementary colours. We were asked to use water colours and to apply twelve colours with seven shades each. I actually created 8 shades of each colour.

It’s really hard to mix the colours and get the right result. You can actually get thousand of different gradients using only 2 colours and adding black or white.

Create something that looks good is a real challange.

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The following weeks was all about understanding how colours work. Looking deeper and not only trying to define a colour for what it is, but also consider how they can work together, the perception to the eye and the contrast they create.

The exercise in the next page shows how two colours can look different according to their position. In the first box, the blue square comes out with a great power and seems to cover the whole space. In the second one, on the other hand, even if the yellow square stands out more, the small blue one is quite eye catching. That’s because the human eye can perceive differently the same colour. The sensitivity of different cells in the retina detects light, responsible for the colour cast, and adjusts it according to the size of the subject.

Another exercise was to create a box containing other 9 boxes with different colour shades. I started from an angle with a darker tone and made it lighter in a zigzag way.

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A collage is an artistic composition of different material and objects pasted on a surface, an assemblage of forms and colours.

We have been asked to make a collage using all the different shades of one colour, dark to light, gathering pieces of paper from magazines, newspaper and similar. I chose blue tones and arranged them in a eye shape. I then replicated it using yellow and arranging the pieces in a spiral manner starting from the darkest and ending with more lighter tones.

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Another assignment was to make a 3D collage. I find this one much more interesting and stimulating than the first one. I enjoyed gathering different materials, cans, bottles, pieces of paper…and putting them together to create a kind of street going through buildings using recycling materials. Unfortunately some of the stuff I stuck on the cardboard have been lost before I could take photos of it.

I did some researches and I was inspired by these two artists: Bram Carton and Phyllida Barlow.

Bram Carton Phyllida Barlow

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The drawing on the right is an abstract representation of my 3D collage as it was in mind. I would say very abstract but very effective in terms of colour.

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The observation process started to be more complex. We have been assigned to a specific site/building. We had to analyse the place and translate what we were seeing into colours. Because the main colours in my site were only two, blue and yellow, I used different materials: cardboards, pencils, water colours, and tissue paper.

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As icing on the cake, the last work we have been asked to do was an installation. Before starting, we had to take a look at the works of some artists like Kurt Schwitters, Rudolf Stingel, Mike Nelson, Katharina Grosse, Jessica stockholder, Max Frisinger, Damien Ortega, Sarah Sze.

We were divided into groups, each one with a different place inside the university building. The task was trying to make a connection between our own site ( Aldagte Subway ) and the usage of the colour.

We all agreed about making something which has to do with green. Unfortunately after few days I had to get back home for some families health problems so I tried to catch up doing researches, thinking about my own site. For me was just a matter of mixing colours. As previously said in my site there are a lot of blue and yellow panels that cover the walls. They give a quite bright effect throughout the tunnel. So it’s easy to think that if you mix them the result will be the green colour.

At the end we created a “veil” with green stripes attached on strings which fall down from the top of the window. This well rapresents the shape of the panels and also the quality of the material in the site ( homeless people, cardboard ). Then the window gives the brightness to the whole thing, recreating the scenario.

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Drawing Workshop

In this part of the semester new drawings techniques have been introduced:

the usage of joints, the movement, creation of drawings

through shading, explosion and drawings as

models.

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Drawing Workshop

In this part of the semester new drawings techniques have been introduced:

the usage of joints, the movement, creation of drawings

through shading, explosion and drawings as

models.

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JOINTSThis session started with a presentation on screen about the types of joints:

Adjustable pivot Extending pivot Double pivot Rotating/wheel Hinge/fold Sliding

We were asked to create a small model using cardboard and paper fasteners to implement what we have been taught. They told us to show the movement creating anything without much planning and this was the result.

During the second week we learnt how to create movements.

According to the dictionary definition movement is the act, process or result of moving. The exercise we were asked to do, aimed to highlight all this process.

I decided to represent the movement of the hand while writing a word. We were supposed to take photos of the actual movement and than trace them on the same paper.I couldn’t do that because there was to many layers at the end so it was impossible to see the movement. I decided to do something else.In the following pages there are a sequence of drawings that freeze every single movement on the process. This technique was initially used to make cartoon and animated storyboard and still remains the foundation in the digital era. Flipping through the pages it is possible to recreate the original action and see the movement taking shape.I then decided to develop this exercise with some personal projects that show the actual fluency of the moving. In fact, if the drawing sequence is seen separately and without a quick turn over the pages there is no movement but only a frozen action.26

Flip Through

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I researched how the sense of moving could have been represented in a single frame and I did some experiments through the photography. The most fun and interesting one was light painting, a photographic technique in which the exposures are made by moving a light source with your hand.Unfortunately I didn’t have much time to do other trials but I thought it was interesting to include them and study different techniques to achieve a similar result.

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During the third week we learnt how to apply this technique. Tone varies from the bright white of a light source through shades of gray to the deepest black shadows. How we perceive the tone of an object depends also on its actual surface, lightness or darkness, color and texture, the background and lighting.

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We have been asked to work with our site and take part of the shelter making it 3D.It could have been done through the overlap of paper, the usage of pins, threads and niddles.I chose to focus on the panels in the site. I used cardboard with the intention to imitate the wood patter of the shelter’s material.

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DRAWINGS AS MODELS

The explosion technique shows how the different pieces of an object work together.It is usually used to rapresents mechanic parts but it exists since the time of Leonardo Da Vinci.In architecture for istance it’s very useful when you need to present how a floor is organized or when you need to enphasise some details.

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EXPLODED DRAWING

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SHOWCASE PROJECT

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SHOWCASE PROJECT

This project involves the people

working as a group. We had to

revisit a part of the university

building and create a proposal

for an exhibition.

The group who recieved more

votes will have a budget to

actually make what was planned.

Once we spotted the right location, we were initially asked to draw the plan and the section of the area. The second step was creating a model of the whole part in scale 1:20.

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The moodboard represents part of first of the researches we did, artists who insipirared us and gallery set ups. We also included the different pieces of models we have been doing from the firts to the latests.

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THE FIRST ATTEMPT: The original idea about creating the right scenario for the exhibition, aimed to cover the whole space with boxes where we simply wanted to hang all the works. Maybe as I said it was too simple and rough so we change the theme.

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THE SECOND ATTEMPT: After some group discussions we all agreed on something. The idea was to copy the movement and the shape of a snake trying to render it through stripes, maybe made out of wood. It should have been a sort of -continuous line that cut through walls and stairs from the dark room till the top. The idea almost failed again since there was too much in the space. The only thing we kept on doing was the concept of the shape, that started to be something organic.

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THE FINAL IDEA: After a lot of work in the workshop we made the model again, just using wood. In particular I was the one in the group responsible to create these things. The concept of the organic shape needed to be presented through something real, so I made a piece in scale 1:10 of one of the shapes.

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I kept on making other small models of the organic shapes so we could place them into the building model. We were been told to pay attention at not put too many things together or in the same place. So the idea was to combine these organic shapes with very simple panels, maybe blue. So from one side we have a very organized view with drawings stuck and framed on these panels; on the other, we have this interesting shape where we could place our works such as models, diaries, housings, shelters

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