Harrison County Ambition Magazine

Harrison County Ambition Magazine

HC Ambition does not only have useful articles and information for our students, but also photos of events scattered throughout the publication. The magazine is FREE and you can pick up your copy all month from local businesses and common areas in your high school. Our web site will have digital copies of our magazine to view if you happened to miss picking one up or if you want to share it with family and friends who live out of our area!

Drawing; Negative Space

"Nothing
is so real
as nothing."
~Samuel Beckett

Drawing; the basic unit & negative space

I went and Googled "Negative Space," in order to come up with some ways to help explain it to you, or maybe find some exercises other than the ones in Dr. Edward's book and I came across this person's blog. This is a great entry to help you really SEE examples of basic units. Look for the blue shapes.

The Spaces In-Between
Drawing Basics from mydesignselfstudy.com

Chapter 7 of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain focuses on drawing the negative spaces of an image. Don’t draw the leaves. Instead draw only the edges of the spaces between the leaves. This takes the brain even farther away from its memorized symbols for images.

To aid with this exercise, Edwards introduces the “basic unit.” This basic unit is a shape, line, or unit within your scene against which every other line, shape, or unit is measured and compared.

Below is my first negative space drawing: I placed pheledendron leaves on the table and drew only the spaces between the leaves. I’ve highlighted one of the spaces in purple to help illustrate what I mean by “spaces”:

Below is my second negative space drawing: Here, I drew the negative spaces that exist around the positive forms of a chair. I chose the space in the middle (highlighted in purple) to be my basic unit. I compared all lines, shapes, and shape relationships against this basic unit. I didn’t quite get the drawing right. Drawing negative spaces is more difficult than it looks!

Computer Humor

Or, you could just cough up the money for a Mac.

Don't forget, your personal FrontPage sites are due tomorrow (10/3).

Yearbook; Vocab, Assignments & Responsibilities

Here are some vocabulary terms to look up either in your book or the glossary to study and have in your notes for a quiz on Friday;

• Gutter
• Columns
• Margins
• Bleed
• Point
• Pica
• Eye-line

Here, finally are some page assignments. Blank ones are still unassigned, so you may want to volunteer.
Due Date is November 2:

• 026 MS Football-
• 027 MS Volleyball-
• 055 Sports Division-
• 056 Baseball/Softball- Jamie
• 057 Fall Cheerleading- Cody
• 058-059 Volleyball- Bonnie
• 060-061 Football- Chris
• 062 Cross Country- Holli
• 080-081 Homecoming-

Here are some upcoming events and organizations that we need to get pictures of:

• Tues 10/2 JrHi VB- MacKenzie H
• Thr 10/4 Volleyball-
• Mon 10/8 JrHi VB-
• Thr 10/4 YrBk Staff - Have a good hair day and plan to smile!
  
• Thr 10/4 Band Group Pic- 3rd per. MecKensie J
• Fri 11/2 NHS Induction/Group Pic-
• JrHI VB Team Pic-
• JrHi FB Team Pic-
• JrHi Student Council-
• Choir Group-
• FFA Group-
• Voice Staff- (ask Mrs. Hanigan)
• Lots of 'PRNDL' pictures!!!
  

Ceramics; Coil Pots

Ceramics students are working on week-long coil pots. There are four things to set as goals for yourselves; How tall can you make it and maintain it's structural integrity? How wide (how much volume? Introduce non-horizontal coils and/or some non coils elements like spheres and wedges. This week try to use the banding-wheel so you can turn your pot as you work on it.

Pinch pots are being fired ans should be ready to glaze by Friday.

Drawing; Modified Contours

Here are some pages from the Drawing Class's sketchbooks..

Kassi did this beautiful rendering of the aloe plant in the art room when they weer assigned to pick anyview they wanted through a viewfinder.

Here are hands that we drew for an assignment. Above, Ryan is a surfer so he wanted to wave the peace sign at everybody. I thought both he and Ethan (below) had an awesome sense of composition.
Modified Contour Hand Drawing is in Chapter 6, pp. 105-110 in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence by Betty Edwards, © 1999 Tharcher/Putnam