SKETCH
Mariela Hernandez Spring 2014
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies� -LeCorbusier
The instruction was to look at it for what you see rather than for what you know it is. The task was made easier when we were put in a new environment each time. Looking at things for the first time with the eyes of a child. This helps us to look at the familiar as if it were unfamiliar. In order to get and accurate sketch and capture the essence of a thing, we learned to put on our alien goggles and look at the basilica, the human face or the top of roofs as if they were strange things that we had never seen before. Sketching has become an important tool. With each line or shade or eraser mark, our brain is making connections with reality and imagination at the same time. The truths that we learned to sketch this semester will help us manipulate the lies that are in our heads. We have to lie well. We will construct the lie so that no one knows that it is a lie, and then it will become a reality. I mean that our proposals will become realized trough our imagination of conditions, materials, and experiences that may not exist and are composed in our heads but need to be sketched, thrown onto paper as the first step to becoming tangible. Recently one of our critics said something that holds a lot of weight in this subject. He said that the project that is being described with words is being visualized in a certain way in his mind but that if it is not there, through lines and shades and color and contours to shape it, or whatever sketching technique we choose to employ, then it is just not there. And this is what sketching has taught me. Draw what is there. Don’t expect it to be there without putting it there. Eventually, we learn to put there, on paper or in site, what is there in the image of our minds.
DEVYN
Vicenza February 3rd, 2014 Pencil
FACETS
Vicenza February 8th, 2014 Pencil
WINDOW
Vicenza February 10th, 2014 Bamboo + Ink
SPANISH STAIRS
Rome February 18th, 2014 Charcoal
MAXXI MUSEUM
Rome February 19th, 2014 Pencil
SAN ANDREA
Rome February 21st, 2014 Charcoal
SUNLIGHT
Rome February 21st, 2014 Charcoal
THERME VALS
Vals, Switzerland March 13th, 2014 Watercolor
FOGGY
Vicenza March 18th, 2014 Charcoal
GIARDINO SALVI
Vicenza March 18th, 2014 Charcoal
COLOR
Vicenza March 25th, 2014 Watercolor
HORIZONS
Vicenza April 4th, 2014 Watercolor