EXPLORING THE DIPTYCH:
As a continuation of the in-class studies we did with the irregular format, this week’s assignment is to make a diptych (a two-paneled piece) that challenges the notion of the conventional picture rectangle. Begin by cutting one of your sheets of sketch vellum into two pieces. Use a straight edge and blade, and cut the sheet one time only so that you end up with either two long, skinny rectangles, two conventional picture rectangles, or two dissimilar rectangles (i.e., cut down the center lengthwise, down the center widthwise, or off-center in either direction). You will use both sheets in this drawing, which means that you’ll be working on a diptych, but it’s up to you how you want to arrange the sheets in relation to each other.
Select some aspect of your room (with or without people) to draw. In selecting what to draw, think a lot about what might be intriguing when “broken up” into two rectangles. In your drawing, concentrate on two things: (1) How you crop your objects, and (2) How the two parts of your diptych relate to each other. Remember that when it comes to cropping, what you leave out of the picture (what happens “off the page”) can be just as important as what you include in your drawing. With the diptych format, you can really exploit the suggestion of off-page activity by how you choose to arrange the panels in relation to each other (for example, leaving a space on the wall in between two side-by-side panels automatically piques the viewer’s curiosity about what’s going on in the space not depicted in the drawing).
Note: However you choose to approach this assignment, you should think of your diptych as one drawing (not two separate drawings that are going to be hung together).
IMPORTANT: You must cut your paper BEFORE you begin your drawing. If you cut it afterward, it will simply be considered a drawing cut into two pieces rather than a true diptych.
Materials: You may use any of the drawing materials we have used so far this semester.
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