1. Emotions: Stories of Places
By Carly Seyferth

2. Places
Places are a part of our every day life. It is
critical for people to understand how
places..
• Can have an emotional tie to human life
• Can influence our emotional behavior

3. PART 1 DAY 1
Stories of Places
How can a place influence our
emotional behavior?
How do you behave in different
places?

4. Through Color!

5. Through
Space!
The way things are placed or
arranged can make us feel
relaxed, anxious or empty.
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How do these places make you
feel, how do you respond to
them?

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Space Continued
How would your mother
react to these rooms?
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7. Through Decoration
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8. PART 1 DAY 1
ACTIVITY1
• We just learned a lot about interior design and
how decorations and space can effect our feelings
when we are in a certain place
• Lets make our own versions of the art room!
• How would you want the art room to be
decorated?
• How will your decorations make people feel, what
will be your goal?
– Scary?
– Welcoming?
– Nervous?
– Excited?

9. PART 1
“How can a place influence our
emotional behavior?”
Cultural Places
How can places make you feel?
How do you behave in different places?

10. Stories of Places
Part 2 Day 2
Everyday Places

11. Cultural Places Continued
Cultural places are places that are popular and you see
them almost everyday
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12. Cultural Places Continued
How do you react to these places?
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13. Cultural Places
What does this place remind you of?
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14. Cultural Places: Camp Grounds
Places have emotional histories and memories, what
memories do you recall of a certain place?
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15. Cultural Places
• How can places make you feel lonely?
• How can places inspire you?
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16. Cultural Places Continued
• Places have memories and history, what place have you
witnessed or made memories?
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17. PART 2 DAY 2 CONTINUED
“How can a place influence our
emotional behavior?”
Historical Places
How can places make you feel?
How do you behave in different places?

18. Historical Places
• How would you behave if you lived in one of these
places?
• How would you react to our modern world?
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19. Historical Places
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20. PART 2 DAY 2 CONTINUED
“How can a place influence our
emotional behavior?”
Natural Places
How can places make you feel?
How do you behave in different places?

21. Natural Places Cont
•What attracts us to natural places?
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22. Natural Places
Continued
•How do natural places bring
people together?
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23. Natural Places Continued
•How can natural places make us feel trapped or overwhelmed?
•How can places inspire you?
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24. PART 2 DAY 2
Activity 1
• Think about all the places we talked about
• Choose at least two different places that you
would like to depict
• Draw them
• Explain on the back of your paper why you
choose this place what emotional tie you
have to it

25. PART 2 : Artist Sally Mann

26. TERMS TO KNOW
Negative Shapes
• What is a negative shape?
– Negative Space
(aka negative shape)
Empty space around an object
– Is empty space between an object
– This space is not part of the object
– this helps create a sense of form
or volume, making the object look
more real
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27. TERMS TO KNOW
Positive Shapes
• What is a positive
shape?
– Is the exact opposite of
negative space, it is the
space that is filled in with
detail or shading
– It is called the figure, it is
the focus of the picture
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28. Sally Mann’s Valentine Windsor

29. Examples of Sally Mann
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30. Deep South Sally Mann
• What spaces are negative?
• What spaces are positive?

31. Deep South Sally Mann

32. Series At Twelve
Sally Mann
• Leaves scratches & imperfections in
her work
• A lot of her work deals with her
family and intimate places
• “The things you are closest to you
photograph the best. If you are not
loving what you are making you are
not going to make good art”
• She welcomes uncertainty

33. “Immediate Family” Sally Mann

34. Sally Mann
• What spaces are negative?
• What spaces are positive?

35. Final Activity
• Choose one of the places you want to depict from
the first activity
• Find a copy of a photo that portrays that place and
bring it to class
• We will be creating monotypes of our favorite
places
• We will be using a similar palette to Sally Mann’s,
meaning only gray, white and black will be used

36. Printmaking
Printmaking:
1. is an image on a surface plate it’s either cut
or painted on a plate
- the plate can be wood, metal, Styrofoam etc
1. then ink is applied
2. paper is pressed onto the plate through a
press, spoon or hand

37. TYPES OF PRINTMAKING
Woodcut Intaligo Monotype
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38. Monotypes
• What is a monotype?
– Is a drawing or painting on a
smooth non absorbent surface
• Methods
– Additive:
• You can paint your image onto a
plate
– Subtractive:
• when you take the ink away by
rubbing with rags or drawing with
q tips
Subtractive Example • http://craftvideos.blogspot.com/2009/01/su
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39. FINAL PROJECT
SUBTRACTIVE & ADDITIVE MONOTYPES
• In our final project we will be using
subtractive additive methods
monotype
• SUBTRACTIVE
– We will create negative and positive
shapes by leaving dark spots and
creating light spots
• ADDITIVE
– You can draw the place you choose
on the back of the plexiglass with
sharpie
– With the black, grey and white ink
Additive Camilla Taylor Subtractive
you can add colors and create
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