FINE ART STUDIO VISA1151_115
STUDIO ART 1-2
SEMESTER 1/2008
Unit Coordinator - Paul Trinidad

FALVA - University of Western Australia
in conjunction with
WA School of Art Design & Media, Central TAFE

Project 23

process is panacea

INVITATION:

.....................RSVP:......... click here to respond by e-mail

All participants - please click here to download word doc form to be filled in and returned to me via email by Friday 20th October.
Anyone wishing to help out with exhibition on Sunday 22 October please contact me.

Kendra Manzoni - Together - charcoal/acrylic on board 1150 x 800mm 2006

|Project Brief|

Introduction Project 23 process is panacea

We are calling for expressions of interest for participants for a three hour drawing workshop with follow up exhibition of works. If you are interested please read on.

This is a project hosted by the WA School of Art Design & Media, Central TAFE,
in conjunction with Paul Trinidad and the Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Visual Arts at the UWA. In the first instance the project is simply a workshop in drawing which will be conducted on the 12th of October 2006 for TAFE staff at WASADM and 13th October at UWA for staff at FALVA.

The objectives will be, to take the notion of 'what is a drawing', to the threshold and perhaps beyond, of 'where does painting begin'.

Materials and methods covered will be, charcoal and acrylic paint on board, paper and collage. The processes will be experimental and process oriented, rather than focussed on conceptualization or drafting. This is not to say process and conceptualization or drafting are mutually exclusive to process.

Subject will be feet as self portrait. This can be dealt with at the individual’s discretion, literal, conceptual, psychological or partial. Image transfer methods will be discussed.

The style of the workshop will be informal tutorial - workshop - please come with your preconceived ideas (photographs - photocopies of artworks etc). Warning: know-alls and intellectuals will be drawn and quartered and trouble makers note: there may be several random 'swaps' of work along the way.

The outcomes will be to follow thru at the end of the workshop and complete the 'drawing' for exhibition at the Cullity Gallery on 23 - 27 October 2006.

The exhibition, though brief, will be formally catalogued and published electronically, works can be made for sale with a 30% comission.

Any one available to assist with the follow thru - hanging of the exhibition and opening event?
Please contact me on this link.

Paul Trinidad
Lecturer
FALVA
ph: 041 0699 037

Interested: then this is what you need to do:

All participants should come with imagery they are ready to work with – interpret or simply use for inspiration. (Any one have the sound track for Chariots of Fire?)
Foot jokes, stories, anecdotes all appreciated but please – no football!

If you wish to remain entirely privy to your inspirational ideas and reference material please bring some extra’s for the fray – the intention is to work a range of ideas thru on the one surface – erasing, adjusting, scratching back etc – this session is not aimed at transcribing the image, rather we hope to transcend it, along with ideas of composition, and any other great things that come up in the process.

It is expected that some of the drawings will go beyond the threshold of drawing and into painting – so please bring materials to work wet – brushes, sponges, and rags.

|Web Links and additional information|

...............................................Foot, resin and mdf on board, 600 x 1200 - Paul Trinidad 2006

Want some Ideas?

Are you Totally Stuck?? Click here for ideas.

Julia's Foot

Hirshorn's Daughter

Sock with Arrow

Michael Kane Taylor (UWA)

Michael Kane Taylor Home

Can you help me?? - how about finding some more interesting sites and emailing the url's to me - I will post them here!!!
If you are game there is much ado in erotic feet out there - ?
a truly fascinating subject area?

What is a self portrait? Find out here?

contemporary ideas on self portrait

Escher - eat your heart out

post structuralists??

Mine Own Executioner

The links below are taken fromthe FALVA Drawing Site
- please browse as much as you can and send interesting links to me for publishing here

please note: - many of these sites contain advertizements - I do not endorse any products.

Artists to check out:

Giorgio de Chirico and other amazing works - please search for yourself

William Kentridge

to see a quicktime clip of Kentridges work click here and follow the link
from 6 Soho Eckstein by William Kentridge. 975 K. © William Kentridge.

another here from DV Blog

useful link for Kentridge at Artthrob great interior perspectives with human presence.

Georges Seurat to Seurat.other fascinating drawings can be found on this site in addition

If you like Seurat then this site is worth a look too

Frank Auerbach

Käthe Kollwitz

Some sites to visit for Perspective Drawing:

A really good explanation © 2002 James T. Saw

All questions answered

from Blueprint

Some sites to visit for Life Drawing:

A very comprehensive site for your information Figure Drawing and Portraits

Basic overview © JR Dunster 2002 - 2005 All Rights Reserved

Loads of good tips on Helen South's website

also see her site for thumbnail drawings