Title: Instructions - Project #3
Course: TAACCCT - Found. of Design - ART 126 > Section: Course Content

YCCC_ART 126FoundDesign_AdditionalInstructions_Resources_Project 3.docx

This is the most hypnotic and engaging of all our projects. Try to enjoy the designing process as you work, you are getting a therapeutic side effect! Carl Jung (one of the fathers of modern-day psychology) actually used mandalas in his work with patients as an aid to accessing the unconscious (a century ago).

Check out his famous "Red Book" here:

http://fractalenlightenment.com/14683/life/carl-jungs-psychological-diagnosis-using-mandalas

Historically, the spiritual significance of mandalas to ancient cultures is thousands of years old.

Wikipedia Intro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala

Inexpensive book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Mandalas-Insight-Healing-Self-Expression/dp/1590308050 If you click the LOOK INSIDE button, you can read a few pages from the beginning of the book for free, and that alone is worth spending the few minutes it will take you to do this! (NOTE: No need to purchase this book, I put it here for you as supplemental information that some of you may find interesting, but if you did purchase it I am sure you would be very pleased!)

Watch the YouTube video “Mixing Gray Values”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTPwkJI1I9g

Paint Mixing:

1. The gouache paint dries differently than it appears when wet. That means when making tests of grays for your gray scale, you will want to see how the shades dry before applying to your seven shades. Your end shades (pure black and pure white) will be what the shades are straight out of the tube, which means you will be mixing a total of FIVE different grays. I think this will be the hardest part of the project as it means you need to be patient with your results and trial and error will rule the day. Your guide for the exact shades will be the gray scale in your book (refer back to your original project assignment info).

2. Always change your working water. Putting a bit of tinged water into white paint will turn it gray. You need to be super vigilant with your materials.

3. Keep all your working pencil guidelines very light (in this video demo, the lines are very dark) because when you go over any lines with the gouache paint (even if the paint was diluted) you will never be able to erase those lines, the paint makes those lines beneath it permanent.

There will be two parts of the artwork, the mandala and the gray scale (value study). The value study can be at the bottom of the piece of Bristol Board.

You will reproduce the value study from page 244 in your textbook. You do not need to include the little mid-gray dot in the center of each square.

Your shapes can be approximately 1 x 2 inches for each rectangle. You could make 1 inch squares if you prefer, but it will be easier to see and do if it is about 1 x 2 inches. When you lay out your page with ruled lines, you can make your boxes for the value study.

DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR FINISHED PROJECT TO THIS ASSIGNMENT PAGE- ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE MADE TO THE CRITIQUE GROUP DISCUSSION FORUM.

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