Welcome back and I hope you are all ready to start making fabulous art! I have a really good feeling about all my classes this year. I am excited to be doing some new projects with both my beginning and advanced students. We will be doing more drawing this year as a way to help us "see" better when we start shooting. I hope that all beginning students are diligently searching for a camera. It is essential to have a 35mm SLR film camera. I only have a very limited amount to rent out, so don't stop looking for one of your own. We are going to be making cyanotypes, lumen prints, chemigrams, and photograms starting next week. Here is a Lumen print that was then gold toned by Marek Matusz
We will also be starting to make pinhole cameras. In the past, students have used everything from an altoid tin to an aluminum bat to make their cameras. This is always a very fun time in the photo room. Here is a pinhole image taken with a tiny camera inside the photographer's mouth.
Here is the slideshow about the photogram assignment for those who were absent.
