IFINE 5365 Mixed Media Journal
Learn to use a sketchbook/journal as a valuable place to think and communicate visually. Simple bookbinding techniques will be used to create your own personal journals. Using a variety of media (graphite, charcoal, pastel, watercolor, ink, and acrylic) learn to apply basic design principles such as unity, variety, rhythm and pattern to your pages as you also learn the properties of each medium and ways they might be used in combination. Writing exercises and visual brainstorming techniques will be used to generate and discover relationships between words and images.