Month 11: History of Visual Communications

Lab 2: Watercolor

In this particular lab, I believe the goal was trying to get students to open up. What I really enjoy about this class is that you really do have creative freedom, for the most part. The exercise, I believe, helped to get students to understand abstraction of art. The process started with students closing their eyes and scribbling on the paper with permanent marker. Each scribble was collected and then distributed again. I have no idea whose scribble I got. Instead of coloring inside the lines, I just experimented. Strangely enough, I got a lot of compliments on it. I think it's because instead of trying to color inside the lines, I just tried to do something fun...