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MARCUS ROSS, COMIC ARTIST @ EVERGREEN . marcossart.tumblr.com + instagram.com/marcrossart

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Assignments
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Week 1
2 blind contour portraits
3 color field/blind contour landscapes (intentional/accidental compositions)
Soundscapes (no pics of shared soundscape)
Dusk and dawn sky watercolors (from panoramas)

2 gridded color fields



Week 2
Still life value painting & drawing (bottles)
2 examples from Monday drawing/painting workshop
Week 3
Creative copy #1 (landscape, 2 paintings)
Still life painting of gourds (1 painting with glazing)
Week 4
Creative copy #2 (still life, 2 paintings)
2 examples from Monday workshop: Figure (skeleton) drawing & painting

Week 5
Creative copy #3 (figure, 2 paintings on alternative surfaces)
Photograph copy from the neck up (incomplete)
2 examples from Monday workshop: painting the figure




Week 6
Painting of a warm/cold object from imagination
Misc.
2 Wednesday life drawing sessions (dates of sessions, 2 examples from each session)

Final Project
3 images of process work
, stages of experimentation and where you took risk, weeks 7, 8, 9
1-3 images of final work
(one image of the final body of work installed in the exhibition is

required and more detail images are optional



Week 9 Final Update + Final Images

On Tuesday I greatly edited my large painting and made slight edits to all of my other paintings.  I completely redid the large painting pretty much.  I hadn’t done much for it yet but was dissatisfied with what I did have, so I painted over it completely with shades of blue.  The painting at this point was very muddled and chaotic, completely covered with unique shapes.  So I kept flipping the canvas over and over again until I saw a potential painting amongst the random shapes.  This is how I did most of my paintings this quarter.  Especially with the toothbrush plate painting, where I loosely globbed gesso on it and came up with a painting based on a composition I saw in the random gesso shapes.  The gesso shapes are still visible beneath the paint.

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forgot to update. ill update tomorrow!!!!

WEEK 7 Project Reflection

I covered a lot of project stuff in my Week 7 reflection, I’ll keep them seperate from now on.
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WEEK 7

MONDAY – Project Presentation

The night before when I was doing the week 6 reflection is when I actually came up with a better idea for what I wanted to do with my project.  I chose existentialism because it seemed like a fun topic to explore and paint about, although, I do think I’m being pretty generic.  Shout out to Petra for loaning me these books and helping me figure out a direction to go for the written side.  Do Androids Deam of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick) Existentialism is  a Humanism, and No Exit (Sartre)

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Week 6 paintings

  1. Week 6 – abstract portrait and childhood object painting

Fieldtrip Ekphrasis

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Week 6

A fully packed week for me with Halloween + weekend events in addition to class/field trip.  I’d say that I’ve fallen behind a bit in class this week with readings and project development.

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Week 5 Reflection


THEORY

The figure/ground and form/facture/ “Post-Feminism”/the photographic/ abstraction and more creative copying
Reading: Painting Today: ch’s on Abstraction, Photographic, and  Post-Feminism; PDF:Shutz-Sillman interviewPreview the document
Podcast/Video: 
 TJ Clark on Rembrandt  (Links to an external site.for Thursday’s studio workshop) Continue reading

Week 4 Reflection

THEORY
The figure/ground and form/atmospheric perspective/paint as skin/a la prima/the work of art in the age of mechanical reproducibility and the naked and the nude and more creative copying
Reading: Painting Today:  ch’s on The Global Scene,  Western Traditions, and The Figure; PDF: The Creative CopyPreview the document (for Wednesday)
Podcast/Video: John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1972,  episode 1 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and episode 2 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.  (30 min each); ALS Hanneline Rogeberg (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (1.5 hrs) Continue reading

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