Elizabeth Reed - Trouvaille (Something lovely found by chance)

IT'S AN ASTRID KIND OF MORNING TOMORROW! All of my thursday students made incredible lost edge drawings Remember the edges can disappear for higher drama Look for the core shadow this model is absolutely stunning! Amazing painter  Look at her drawings These seem like copies of old masters Look closely for the "Twist!" Kathleen Gilje http://kathleengilje.com/home.html Yvonne Jeanette Carlson Norwegian painter http://www.artyvonne.no/index.shtml David Shelvino Just fabulous handing of the images no outlines - just luscious sensitive handling of values and color http://mysite.verizon.net/davidshevlino/index.html REMEMBER! Due to July 4th weekend No class thursday or next monday

Vesna will be our model today. See you then!

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Manipulating Edges Understanding Values and Edges Charcoal will be a very appropriate medium for this lesson. Bring decent paper, charcoal paper and your white chalk Borden and Reilly make a great medium grey Available at Pearl or Utrecht Bring stumps and erasers. Look at this man's figure drawings He is an incredibly talented illustrator and has mastered many mediums http://www.roberttbarrett.com/ Ryan Wurmser http://www.luxuryportraits.com/main/artists/63-wurmser A great article on Ingres http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artistdaily.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.SiteFiles/Images%2Bfrom%2BTypePad/photos/uncategorized/0701ingr5_341x600.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/drawing/archive/2008/02/08/ingres-miraculous-lines.aspx&usg=__jQy4jCjZ7uoXFe6nYd8Ff1TwiFk=&h=600&w=341&sz=98&hl=en&start=19&itbs=1&tbnid=IXaSsAsBMLmJfM:&tbnh=135&t

"Hush" will be showing at Michael Joseph's Artists Haven Gallery. If you are in town, please come by for the opening July 10th from 7 until 9 He has published a coffee table book of our work check it out! http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1423135

PARENTHESIS (oil) I think it will be 32 x 96" when framed and mounted together. A few more details and I will have it scanned. Can't wait to start the next one!

We have a new model Astrid See you tomorrow 9:30 AM :-)

Drawing on the Dark Side and HANDS! (102) We will be drawing on black. Bring your colored pencils, chalks, etc. Just plain white is good for this too. Those of you who have silverpoint, bring it. I will bring some samples of black gessoed paper You can see what happens with the metal point Black is a great experiment for value studies (negative) It is also interesting with color (the light is absorbed, not reflected) I will also have a hands demo again. I will bring info on hand anatomy Please bring black paper if you have it. See you thursday! fun links Graphite on black http://cravendogs.com/agora/agora.cgi?cart_id=5301807.8577*lL3MH35301807.8577 Kara Walker silhouettes Art 21 on PBS Great series! http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/walker/index.html# Michelle Grabner Silver and metal point on black Chicago artist who started "The Suburban" http://www.michellegrabner.com/ And NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! Sai Hua Kuan Space Drawing What do you think, try it in the p

The lovely Noelle will be our model To start Gestures. In pen. No Outlines! check out these great sites Steven Grant LaRose Look how he developed the form interior then iced it with contour line http://stevenlarose.blogspot.com/2010/06/r-gesture-drawings.html Dale Chihuly gestures for chandeliers the ultimate in gestures http://www.chihuly.com/drawings/drbyseries.html Bill Shelley Landscape and figure paintings http://bshelley.com/ Just because they are beautiful William Wittaker http://www.williamwhitaker.com A HUGE thank you to Jackie Lyles and once again Connie Folz for supporting this class....even when they are traveling This is a very special group of students See you Monday!

Shadows 102 Messing around on Frosted Mylar! Thursday will start with a review of the anatomy of shadows I will have a handout for you with vocab and a diagram Please purchase some Duralar for experimentation Utrecht, Jerrys, Pearl in pads or sheets If you don't have any, I will have some If you wish to use paper, fine Bring all your fun drawing tools Charcoal Graphite Inks Check out these really cool artists Some are experimental Look what they have done! Mary Borgman http://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/portfolios/faculty/mary_borgman Linnea Gabriella Look through the site for the older drawings She hangs them as installations http://www.linneagabriella.com/ Alice McMahon White Realism and Magic Realism OK, any children of the 60's ENJOY! http://www.amwhitestudio.com/home Cory Wagner Oil spills? http://www.corywagnerstudios.com/ See you Thursday!