Drawing In Space - Illumination

For this project I began with the idea of intellectual illumination. I wanted my piece to inspire or educate. The lightbulb has always been symbol of having an idea. I decided to add a social component to my project and educate the viewer about social or environmental causes. I wrote the fact on the lightbulb first and then covered it with gesso until the words could not be seen. When the light is turned on though the words appear through the gesso. The point of having the viewer turn on the light is that a person has to be willing to learn the truth even though it may not be easy to hear. 

Shadow Drawing

For the shadow drawing I chose to use a venetian cat mask as my object. I hung the mask in 15 different ways overlapping and connecting each shadow to create a unified piece. I chose the mask because of the negative space the eye holes created and the curvature of the mask's outline. The eyes gave me a lot of room to play with.

Shadow Drawing Progress

Maps/Diagrams

I selected different organs and parts of my body and drew diagrams describing what they do in a humorous way. I outlined them in colors to make it pop, but kept the overall look simplistic. 

I am very interested in origami so I created a grid and drew the different points of the origami shape of a bird. 

I highlighted the states I had been too, states I wanted to visit, and states that are too cold for me to ever want to go to. I chose a color scheme that fit well together. 

Wax

I wrote down Beethoven's love letter and put it in an envelope. The wax seeped through the paper and made the words visible below. 

I carved an ear outline into wax, playing on the word earwax. 

I put a shell into the liquid form of wax and let it cool so only the top part showed. 

I made a wax cupcake. 

I poured the wax onto the coins and the imprint was left behind. It's hard to see in the pictures, but you have to turn the wax the right way in the light. 

Drawing In Space

Utensils/Tools

I outlined the tools/utensils and cut them out, then placed them over things that they would be used for or with.

Newspaper

I transferred newspaper onto my fingernails.

I drew a school of fish in pen.

I thought to myself, what if a newspaper was more fun looking? I added multiple design elements and highlighted/connected words that are important to me. 

I have lately had an interest in origami so I made an origami fish to go along with the school of fish I drew.

This is an origami warbler bird. 

I made a box that contains smaller newspapers that I made.

I rolled up newspaper strips into separate rolls and then tied them together to look like a bundle of wood logs. 

I thought how one of the rolls looked like a time capsule so I cut it open and stuck a scroll inside.