Week 5: Friday, February 7

Grid of watercolor pencils. Top is dark, center is wet.

In our sketchbooks, we made a grid of the watercolor pencils. We will select 3 or 4 colors to draw the next 3 or 4 ASL hands.

We looked at Carmen Lomas Garza images and discussed the guest artist presentation by Ofelia Esparza. After looking at the public art project by Lomas Garza, we had a discussion of paper picado and stencil art.

This week, we are making stencils for the sketchbook cover and blogging about our stencils. We are describing our stencils (and hopefully including a photo) and discussing why we are selecting this image for the cover of our sketchbooks.

We ended class with a presentation of possible visual iconography sometimes found in the visual work of Chicana/Latina artists.