Documentations of Artworks

1. Studio Research Project
-WORKSHEET-
Fill out this worksheet and discuss it with your professor. Need to include this form on your website.
READ THIS PART
In upper level studio courses, students should be self-directed in their scholarly and creative
production. Each student must develop a plan for completing one or more projects within the semester.
These projects should result in gallery-ready, finished pieces.
Because this is an upper-level course, you should be thinking about developing a cohesive body of
work. The work made in this course should have some formal, technical or conceptual connection with
other work you have created, including work in other media. You may want to address this idea in your
statement.
Use the appropriate forms to plan and document projects completed in upper level studio art courses
(300 and 400 level courses). First, fill out the worksheet to help you plan what you’re going to do.
Then complete the work. Then fill out the Documentation Sheet to record what you did. Each student
may complete a number of projects in each course, depending on the complexity and scope of the
projects.
Definitions: there is a fair amount of debate over how to define various terms in art. The University of
Rio Grande Art Department is using these definitions:
Technique: How a piece of artwork is made (cyanotype, digital photo,
drawing, woodcarving, scraffito, etc.)
Form: What a piece of art looks like (describes color, light, texture,
shape, composition, balance, rhythm, etc.)
Content (or concept): What a piece of art means (emotional or
psychological content, narrative, allegory, satire, irony, commentary, etc)
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Student Name: Ledesma, John Dominic E.
Course: BFA-3B
Description of Proposed Project (include the following information: Number of Pieces, Size of
Finished Work, Materials Used, Color, Surface, Imagery, etc)
INSERT A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PROJECT HERE.
The Sculpture contains 57 pieces of wood and wire in total, the size from head to tail is 2 feet, and
measures roughly the same from each tip of the claws. The materials used for said project are two sets
of dinosaur building sets and wires. The colors are pretty simple with the wire acquiring a light steel
vive and natural colored wood mainly light brown.

2. Technical Skills (describe what technical skills you will need to learn to complete this project. Do you
need to learn to do a sugar life aquatint, to make a screen frame, or expose liquid light? Do you need to
learn how to use PHP includes or HDR photography?):
INSERT TECHNICAL SKILLS OF YOUR PROJECT HERE.
The skills used here are pretty basic, just simple special reasoning and a bit of imagination and proper
wiring of the joints.
Formal Skills (describe formal skills necessary for completion of this project. Do you need to learn
more about how three-point perspective works, or foreshortening of the human form? Do you need to
learn how to balance patterns and textures in a painting, or to make a ceramic mug more “elegant”).
INSERT FORMAL SKILLS OF YOUR PROJECT HERE.
Elegance and form are seldomly shown in the sculpture for it better represents a kid’s brewing
imagination and a will to create something that he once did when he was of a younger age.
Conceptual Content (What does this project mean? Are you trying to reference a political event, or a
philosophical concept? Are you relating to a personal memory, and trying to evoke certain feelings in
the viewer? Is the piece supposed to be funny and ironic, or menacing and somber?)
INSERT CONCEPTUAL CONTENT OF YOUR PROJECT HERE.
My concept in all its plainness is my take on a child’s creativity. When I was a boy my father seldomly
had the money for toys, all I had were scrap trash and bonding materials such as tape and glue to my
disposal at the time. I would create toys out of it and at times pick up broken toys and assemble them
in a way that I could play with them afterwards. Much like the sculpture I built today. In the end once
it’s returned I will display it along with my collection of toys. Due to the source material I used it is a
bit hollow and light.
Think about how these three elements (form, content and technique) overlap and influence one
another. If your content is whimsical and light, think about how technical and formal elements
contradict or support that content. For instance, making your artwork out of concrete and painting it
black will probably not make the viewer think “whimsical and light”. Certain techniques carry formal
and conceptual connotations. Woodcuts almost always look a little “chunky”, with heavy patterning,
and (especially when printed in black) a strong, heavy feel. Quilts are usually seen as feminine, bronze
casting typically feels more masculine, and photography is fairly neutral. Etchings are “old-fashioned”
and web animation is contemporary. Think about how all of these interact when working on your
project proposal.
How should the success of this project be evaluated?
INSERT CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS OF YOUR PROJECT HERE.
The success would be graded on only a few things.
1.) Creativity and Spacial Reasoning (How did the artist combine the materials in a way that the

3. parts coincide with each other even if they were from different parts from different toys that
make its final look and appeal good) 30%
2.) Playability (Its movement and the overall play factor of the sculpture) 10%
3.) Visual Impact (The overall look of the model) 30%
4.) Solidity (How does the thing hold up, can it stand and will the parts fall?) 30%
What resources will you need to complete this project (books, faculty lessons, outside lessons,
materials, tools, etc)?
Epoxy clay, wire and adhesive along with broken toy pieces.
All teachings and methods were gained through the experiences of the student during his time as a fine
arts student here at TUP.
This project will be completed on: 3-21-17
Include several images of sketches involved with this project here:
NOW DISCUSS THIS WITH YOUR PROFESSOR!!
When you have completed the project, fill out the Studio Research Project Documentation Form
and include it on your softcopy.
Ref: http://www.rio.edu/fine-arts/Studio-Research-Projects.cfm