Intro
Hello again. How are you going with your reading of the Edwards text? Interesting stuff, isn’t it? Let’s hope that you have at least been able to pre-read Chapter 4 which is where this week’s exercises come from.
Exercise 2.1: Vase and faces
Please refer to the prescribed text (Edwards, 2012) pages 46-50.
Objectives
A self-observation exercise where, in the process of completing a copy of one half of the vase/face optical illusion, you put your own visual and cognitive processes under scrutiny. Be sure to also read Edwards’ analysis of the exercise on pages 47-50.
Scan or photograph the drawing for Assessment 1, Exercise 2.1.
Exercise 2.2: Upside-down drawing
Please refer to the prescribed text (Edwards, 2012) pages 51-61.
Objectives
This is an exercise in copying the work of a ‘master’ – but with a twist. Edwards claims that the dissociation from your normal mode of viewing will help you to see the constituent parts of a Picasso drawing for what they are lines, shapes and spaces in-between.
Be sure to retain this drawing. A copy of it should be submitted for Assessment 1, Exercise 2.2.
If you finish the Picasso copy early there are more line drawings that may be copied using the upside-down technique on pages 60-61 of the Edwards text.