Charette 1 step one, two and three

For this project, our class was given a piece of the painting "School of Athens", to give it our own modern twist. Patrick, our professor, gave us permission to use any type of paper and any kind of material. While having an Associates degree in fine arts, I thought this would be a great opportunity to use the techniques and tools I had learned from the fine arts department at Rockingham Community College. For my "modern creation" from the specific piece of the painting, I decided to use colored pencils, colored markers, colored pastels, chalk, and foam for 3d formation for the media. After we as individuals created our own piece, we came together as a whole class and created our new "modern School of Athens". Our class did this by piecing each piece together making a whole new painting with the old painting still visible through our new creation. We then made a section of our own building, Gatewood Studio Arts Center building, and overlayed it on the modern creation. This assignment was very fun, but also made us realize as a class that we work well together and get things together.


The picture to the left is a picture of our classes section of the Maud Gatewood Arts building. The picture to the right (top) is a picture our modernized school of athens. The picture at the bottom is my 4x6 card that describes IARC to me.

These pictures represent the School of Athens original painting with my section beside it (left side of picture) and my explorations with the sections before creating the final piece of work.