Art History connections to Art Lessons

 

Student work drawn on canvas art bags

 and inspired by the work of:

Jim Dine

Art History connections to Art Lessons

 

Student work in watercolor inspired by:

Wayne Thiebaud

Floral Drawing: Adding More

I work with color and charcoal at the same time, 

switching from one to the other as needed. 

 

Inspiration for a Drawing

First I take pictures of my subject that I am planning to draw.
Especially flowers that sometimes do not last very long!

I take them from many different viewpoints: closeups, birds eye views, side views, among many others.

I also take pictures of my subject at different times of the day and in different light conditions. You can see the difference in color, size, and shadows.  

Starting the drawing on paper, I pencil in where I will place the first flowers. In this way the composition is established more or less intuitively. Balance is achieved by size, color and shape. 

 

Art show and Opening!

This show will be up for 2 weeks 

so please stop by

 for a visit 

to check out all

 the amazing student work! 

Painting Pastries!

After Wayne Thiebaud

Acrylic and Pastel

The class was inspired by the American artist Wayne Thiebaud this week. We worked with live "models" of cupcakes and cookies to express his use of vibrant colors and greyed down shadows and backgrounds. A lot of fun!

"I try to find things to paint which I feel have bren overlooked."
                                                                 ---- Wayne Thiebaud