Portfolio Review 1: Drawing I and Drawing II: Keepin it in Perspective!

Drawing I and Drawing II started the semester studying perspective.  We took it slow and really focused on the basics... and got some pretty fantastic results!  We worked with gridded ground planes and focused on a true understanding of the meaning of the picture plane, eye level, station point, cone of vision, and scale. 

Sarah Jenkins, Drawing I

Christina Edwards, Drawing I

Cristina Edwards, Drawing I

Andrea Stanely, Drawing I

Krysta Johnson, Drawing II

Talya Schillinger, Drawing II

Show your Artwork!

Students!  Here is a great opportunity to show your work!  Peninsula Fine Arts Center is hosting a juried exhibition called "Genesis 2012".

• Limit of 2 entries per student
• Works in all media are eligible
• max length, width or height is 42"
• All work must be 2011-2012 
• Must be ready to exhibit (frame it!)
• Drop off work for entry in contest FRIDAY MARCH 30 12-4pm

• $1500 in cash prizes! 
•  Reception  2:30-4:30 pm.

Get an entry form from me or you can get it here:
http://www.pfac-va.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=154:genesis-2011-prospectus

Check out the Pennisula Fine Arts Center!
http://www.pfac-va.org/

3D Wire Projects

Here are some images of our first project in 3D Design at Thomas Nelson Community College. Students were asked to bring in a household item to use as a subject for a wire sculpture.  We started the project by investigating different ways of making joints with wire.  Students were asked to carefully consider positive and negative space and multiple viewpoints.  Another important consideration was to create contrast through areas of high density to areas of low density.

 Mike Henry

Antares Martin

Cristina Edwards

 

 Christine Brown

Cordero Mason

Jennifer Jacobsen

Cynthia Privott

Tangelo : Open studio figure drawing at the College of William and Mary

Every Thursday evening, from 8-10, William and Mary students, some members of the art faculty, and community members meet in the Matoka painting studio to draw from a live model.  The sessions are open to the public and it only costs $3/hr... a GREAT deal!  The atmosphere is casual and friendly... this is great opportunity for anyone who loves to draw/paint to work from a model without breaking their budget!  

Here are a few pics of what everyone was working on this week!  Thanks to the Tangelo members for letting me post these!  

 Alex Bendickson

Alex organizes the Tangelo sessions.  If you would like to learn more about Tangelo, please contact her here
alix.bendicksen@gmail.com

Brian Kreydatus

This one is mine.... I've been trying to get a better understanding of portraiture.  His eyes are WAY to far apart... back to the drawing board!

Zach Kata

Sorry, Zach that the image is out of focus.  

So... what does Tangelo MEAN, anyway?  I looked around on the web, and according to dictionary.com and wikipedia, it is a cross between a tangerine and pomelo.  Can anyone clear this up for me?

Richard Diebenkorn- American Abstract Expressionist

Richard Diebenkorn was one of the first artists to really inspire me.  I was in my second year of grad school when another grad student suggested I check out his work.  I went to the campus library, and picked up a few books on him and spent the next few days studying his paintings and works on paper.  It took awhile for me to grow to appreciate his Ocean Park series for which he is most known, but I was immediately taken by his still life work.  I loved the paint quality, and light/reflected light in his paintings of scissors and knives.

Richard Diebenkorn was an American Abstract Expressionist Painter.  He was born in 1922 in Portland, Oregon (near where I grew up) and died in 1993 (just a year before I graduated high school).  By 1976 (the year I was born) Diebenkorn was generally regarded as a well established American Master.

His body of work is enormous and covers a range of themes including abstract works, nonrepresentational works, figurative works, still life and landscape.  His work can be understood as a series of periods including his "wartime work", Sausalito Period, Albuquerque Period, Urbana Period,and the Berkeley Period.  

In 1966, he and his wife Phyllis moved to Santa Monica, where Diebenkorn accepted a teaching position at UCLA.  His studio was located in a neighborhood near the beach known as Ocean Park, and it was here he embarked on the series of paintings and drawings known as the Ocean Park works.

Images:

Cityscape I (Landscape No. 1)

1963

Oil on canvas

60 1/4 x 50 1/2 in

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

image URL http://www.artchive.com/artchive/d/diebenkorn/thumb/cityscape_i.jpg

Ocean Park No. 115

1979

Oil on canvas

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/d/diebenkorn/thumb/ocean_park_115.jpg

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"Cigarette butts and Glasses", 1967


Information and images from:
Richard Diebenkorn Catalogue Raisonne
Paintana
Artchive