THEME: Freedom,
Feel Your Feelings
MEDIUM: Discharge Through Lines
Freedom, Feeling Your Feelings
Explore Art as a therapeutic medium to manifest your internal world. Find new meanings in your healing journey through Art.
CHECK THIS: For more context in how we arrived to this theme, check out ...
Discharge Through Lines
In the process, imagine an emotional discharge creating with spontaneous and automatic responses. We will explore how lines can give us a visual language of a wide range of emotions.
Minimum materials required:
Acrylic paint or watercolours or Oil Pastels; paper or canvas; brushes in various sizes.
Mural Process
Week 6 Sketches for overall image.
Week 7: Writing Exercises about the Themes.
Week 8: Feedback Review of the First Draft (coming soon).
2nd Draft Sketch
Instructions to Create Your Final Art Piece:
Goals for the week:
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Choose your sections
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Begin creating your final art piece..
Activities:
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1. Choose your section, 2. take note of the colour palette, and 3. download your section.
This document will guide you STEP by STEP. There is lots of super useful information in there.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G06NyoMFkLZSsrkvZ1SDwlh-Evryxs2rOZwwtAPgWD4/edit
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Shape your ‘canvas’ to the shape of your section.
Your art piece is going live inside the shape you chose. How do you create your art following this shape? There are two different ways you can approach this. 1. You can transfer the outline of the shape onto the surface, and then make your art inside this outline. Or 2. You can make your art on a rectangular surface; and once your art is finished, Alejandro and Melanie can take a photo, and crop the art in the shape of your final art piece. Choose one of these two methods:
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Transferring the digital shape onto a large physical surface
Transfer the image using the Grid Method. Since Egyptian times, artists have been using the Grid Method as a drawing tool for more accuracy. The Grid Method is super fun, and it can be pretty easy. For detailed steps to the Grid Method, go HERE (grid link).
2. Or, cropping after we take photos of your final piece. At the end of the project, participants will drop off their art to a determined location. In September, Alejandro and Melanie will take high resolution photos of all the art work. Once the art work lives digitally, your artwork is cropped out to fit the shape of your section..
The risks of this method is that sections of your artwork will be cropped out. This becomes a problem when there are essential elements in your story. For example, if a character, a letter, or a symbol, gets cropped out, the meaning of your story may change. But if your image is an ongoing pattern, free-form shapes, or abstract, cropping parts of it may not be a problem.
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CREATE YOUR FINAL ART PIECE!!!
This is a very exciting stage. You’ve been learning many things in the past nine weeks. From creating concepts and themes, to using metaphors, and sketching stories.
Some important things to consider when you are making your final piece:
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You are creating at least three pieces. Each piece is exploring three different emotions. One piece is inside the caterpillar, the other is in the chrysalis, and the other is the butterfly.
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The caterpillar is getting ready for some major transformation. There is fear of anticipation, fear of the unknown and uncertainty. After eating a whole bunch, the caterpillar needs to fit into this tiny chrysalis, and we imagine this step as a moment of frustration and anger. In the area of the caterpillar you could explore feelings of fear and anger.
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The chrysalis is the space of transformation. We imagine the caterpillar rolling into a fetus position. Here, we need to Feel Our Feelings. If we do not feel all those feelings of sadness and sorrow, we may not be able to free from them. In this area you can explore feelings of sadness.
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The butterfly is a metaphor of the resolution in a process of change. Here, there is freedom. After making space to feel fear, anger and sadness, now we are free and we can feel joy and compassion. In this area you could explore lines of joy and compassion.
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We suggest that you create lines from impulse rather than planning. Let the emotions take over the hands and surprise yourself with the creation.
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Music can assist you a lot. We suggest that you create a playlist for the caterpillar piece, another one for the chrysalis piece, and another one for the butterfly.
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Supporting Materials:
Line-making tools: Check our Jane Davis exploring what is possible with Crayola crayons and other line-making tools. Works: http://janedavies-collagejourneys.blogspot.com/2015/06/crayons-and-oil-pastels.html
Check out Jane Davis (above) showing what is possible with crayola crayons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=VlBI005FJyE&feature=emb_logo
Line-making artist: Check out the beautiful work of Peggy Ligg and her line-making art using oil pastels. https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/peggy-trigg
Step-by-Step Tutorial: Thristy for Art creates a great tutorial on how to paint your feelings with oil pastels or watercolours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0dgjSG4CpA
DROP OFF INFORMATION
UPDATE:
Drop off your art
any day between
August 24 - August 27th
9am to 4pm
at:
Innovation Works
London, ON.
Last day to drop off your art work is AUGUST 28TH ( between 9-12 Noon) BEFORE 12 NOON
To drop-off your Art at Innovation Works follow these Instructions:
At the very front area of the main entrance, you will find a few tables and chairs as part of a coffee shop. There, you will find a Big Box Saying RUCAP. Drop-off your art here. You will also find a hand sanitizer in case you have to touch the box or someone else's work. That's it!
Note: Your Art will Be Returned to You. We had a couple of people asking about what happens to the Art. The Art will be returned to you later on, we may return your Art at the Painting Parties, or at the Unveiling events. We will make announcements when this will be taking place, most likely, late September and October.
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT YOUR ART IS FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 BEFORE 12 Noon at Innovation Works
WEEK 13!
Aug 26th - Sept 2nd
Titles, like names, give meaning
and spark a first impression.
The Title mirrors the face of the Project.
What is RUCAP's Title saying?
Goals for this week:
1. Submit Your Art-Work by Friday Noon
2. Vote for a Title for RUCAP´s 13 Panels
3. Write/record a description of your Art
Activities:
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I. RUCA´s Installation Tittle/Name
Last week we had 39 entries proposed for the naming of our 13 Panels Installation.
This Week we get to Vote on The title for this installation!
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II. Create a Quote or an Audio Description of your Art Piece
This Week You will be writing one Quote (your quote of course), or making a sound recording of 30 seconds where you describe, complement or enhance your Art piece.
This can be a statement, or something about you, or a poem, or a song... anything that describes the intention and the feelings of your process, your Art, your life, the theme of the panel, etc.
In order to Complete your quote or audio description keep in mind the following:
1. Keep it short, record an audio of 30 Seconds max, or write 5 lines Max .
2. Keep in mind the Theme in your panel when you create your description.
3. Be Creative
Deadline for this Quote or Audio Recording is Next Wednesday September 2nd
Important Note: This quote/audio will be part of the website where the panels will live. Visitors to the site can click on parts of the panels and see your description of your Art and a bit of who you are. The panels will be printed with links for visitors of the Richmond Underpass to access the context on the site. Send your Art descriptions/audios to this email
or via WhatsApp to 226.503.7188.
To have an idea of what this final piece may potentially feel like check out the following link from a previous project, once you are on the site, click on any parts within the mural:
TIMELINE for July and August
W #6
July 8th - 13th
Participants create sketches for possible ideas of an overall image.
W #9
July 29th - August 3rd
Participants learn about the medium through workshops and tutorials, and sketch ideas on how to turn their story into art.
W #12
August 19th - 24th
Participants take a photo of their art and submit their final piece.
W #7
July 15th - 20th
Participants share written stories related to the theme.
W #10
PHASE 3
August 5th - 10th
Participants choose the section of the mural, and begin working on their art piece.
W #13
August 26th - 31st
Participant record on audio, video or written form, a description of their art.
W #8
July 22nd - 27th
Melanie presents a final sketch for the mural, and participants suggests edits.
W #11
August 12th - 17th
Participants continue to work on their art. Melanie provides support and feedback.
Fall
PHASE 4
In September, Melanie weaves all the submissions to create 13 murals. In October, Mural gets installed in.