Final Abstracted Drawing with Color
Un-abstracted Drawing
Manifesto:
How to draw when you don’t know how —
Suspend intention, like so:
Open walls like windows,
Unfold, behold.
Corners stay constant,
Glueing together disparate content.
Do with the rest as you wish
Split, splice,
Unify, Entice
My hand extends with a will of its own,
Each mistake is a new feature to trace.
Imprecisions create shape and character;
Mining their randomness
I let the forms come
Like snapshots of water or fire or clouds.
Description:
For this project, I chose to observe NYU’s Silver School of Social Work (the address: 1 Washington Square N, New York, NY 10003). My sister recently started taking grad classes here, and I really enjoyed the older, converted house-feel of the building compared to the other more vertical stone buildings in the area. In particular, I was a fan of the buildings windows and multi-layered facade.
For my project, I chose to push the “sliding” look of the facade and abstract the windows farther. I treated the space like a 2d breakaway puzzle, and wanted each piece to have distinct character. I mostly observed the way my lines were forming and kind of “rolled with it”; I drew larger shapes as my eyes saw them. In this sense, my experience creating this piece was kind of like cloud watching (particularly the ape/dog and half-whale windows at the center-top of the piece). Color wise, I tried to segregate sections and keep things relatively simple. I enjoyed working with the opposites (to me at least) of red and blue.
