Perspective Lesson
For our drawing lesson today, we learned about perspective! Yay my favorite!
Our homework assignment was to draw our dorm room.
Photo quality, eh? It was fun to experiment with my new pencils and shading.
Wonder what we’ll be doing tomorrow…
Cube
Our second assignment was to make a cube.
We talked about cubeness, the parts and characteristics of a cube, and then went to our studios.
We were given a template and I colored the extra paper to accentuate the faces, edges, and vertices of the cube. (My geometry teacher would be so proud!!)
Tuesday morning we reviewed our cubes and then got our next assignment: to make more cubes!! Using two colors and focusing on space and opposition, we set out to work!
Here are my cubes before the glue finished drying:
The one on the left is very square and textural, opposed by the one on the left which is rounded and springy.
Tomorrow morning we’ll review the double cubes and then get our next assignment!
Towels
Mark gave us our first assignment Sunday night: to draw a towel.
I went for a simple approach, drawing the outline of the towel and adding the detail of the fabric stitching.
In Studio the next morning, we were divided into two groups to arrange our towels into a wall presentation.
We organized the drawings by how neatly folded or crumpled the towels were. At the last minute I had the idea to write TOWEL with the string they had given us.
We finished just in time and then sat down while Mark and the TAs evaluated our work.
Monday night we were assigned to draw another towel using what we had learned in our drawing lesson. Here’s my second towel:
Honestly, I was surprised by how realistic my towel looked. Something about the beachy air and architectural surroundings is bringing out the artist in me!
Motivation Monday: Fearless Creativity
Good morning everyone!
We made it through an eventful first night in the dorms complete with a power outage and a massive game of Apples to Apples. We’ve all drawn our towels and collected our special things for our first morning in the studio and I’m kick-the-covers-off excited!
For the next four weeks, I’ll be sharing both the projects I do in the workshop and the experience I have living and learning at Cal Poly.
But for those of you who still have dim eyes and shaggy tails, here’s some Monday motivation:
Aside from our excitement, I’m sure we’re all feeling a little bit nervous about making good first impressions, being away from home, and impressing the professors. So let’s start out this week with some fearless creativity to launch us into our mutual dream of becoming architects!
This post is part of a series nicknamed My SLO Summer. It’s about my time at Cal Poly’s Summer Architecture Career Workshop, a four week hands-on experience about what it’s like to study architecture. You can see the entire series here.
My SLO Summer: my experience at Cal Poly’s Summer Architecture Career Workshop
Hello everyone!
I have very exciting news to share today!! Over the next four weeks I’ll be participating in Cal Poly’s Summer Architecture Career Workshop. I’ll be blogging about the projects I do and my experience here in San Luis Obispo (or SLO as the locals often call it). These posts will all be in a series right here on If Walls Could Dream called “My SLO Summer“. You can access it at any time by simply clicking the “My SLO Summer” button at the top of the page or by clicking the “My SLO Summer” logo at the right.
I’m so excited for this amazing opportunity to grow in my architectural abilities and find out if studying architecture is truly the best fit for me. And I’m so glad that you all can share this journey with me!
This post is part of a series nicknamed My SLO Summer. It’s about my time at Cal Poly’s Summer Architecture Career Workshop, a four week hands-on experience about what it’s like to study architecture. You can see the entire series here.