Elizabeth Reed's Drawing and Painting Classes

Cool Artists of the Week

Patrick McGrath Muniz
http://www.mindysolomon.com/artists/index.php?artist=Patrick%20McGrath%20Muniz

Hiroshi Senju
I saw this work at Art Basel
Huge florescent paintings
http://www.hiroshisenju.com/

Peter Doig
http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/_30/

Linda Stojak
http://www.stephenhallergallery.com/artists/stojak/index.html

El Anatsui
Very cool
http://www.jackshainman.com/artist-image62.html

ArtServe Thursday Class

Goodbye my dear friends!
We will draw conflicting elements and discuss the power in their placement.
Then - off to lunch!
It has been my pleasure to have you in my class.
Thank you for all of your support.

I have decided that this will be the last of these classes
My schedule has eaten me up - drained my studio time.

We will keep in touch.

Here is the link I promised about the high school golden mean art.
Very interesting.

http://www.goldenmeanart.com/

I went to see "The Kings Speech" this weekend
Each scene followed the golden mean.
Notice how the screen has been composed-
someone sketches each shot!

See you next week!

Comments

"If someone says, "can't," that shows you what to do" John Cage

Peggy Probably the hardest part of making art is to show your soul. It has been said that the first 20 seconds of a drawing or painting set the mood for the next 20 hours. Gesture is everything. It is not so much how long a piece might take but when you made it. Last weekend I went to Art Wynwood and saw a lot of very marketable artwork. After leaving, my friend, Susan Megur asked me what piece stuck in my mind. I could not answer that question. What a shame. Make your art like it is part of your soul. Find what it is about something that you make that moves you. Make it about emotion, politics, color or just plain beauty. Anything that makes you and your viewer move from their comfort zone of visual boredom . Cool artists of the week: Sybelle Peretti works with transparent glass images. Stops me in my tracks! Lalla Essaydi Anne Marie Busschers from Art Wynwood last weekend Charles Pfahl Susan grossman New sessio...

Cone of Chaos Graphite on Museum Board 40 x 60"

Monday, April 26 Figures at ArtServe

Vesna will be our model. I concentrated on tonal drawings in my Thursday class. I would like to stress tonal patterns in this class. Check out the figure drawings of Mark Tennant. http://www.marktennantart.com/drawings_n.html If you look closely, you will see beautiful action gesture lines. Notice how the edges disappear. His drawings are painterly because he identifies bold shape patterns. Check out Jean Marcellino. Here are her roman staue drawings http://www.naje.com/rome/ And beautiful figures. Notice how she incorporates the background to describe the figure. http://www.barebrush.com/gallery.php?artwork_id=2309 John Singer Seargent He saw light so perfectly and depicted it so simply I will reference him forever He draws and paints to perfection Notice how simply he states details with blocks of value Sometimes what seems to be so detailed is the flick of the corner of a square brushhttp://www.johnsingersargent.org/ See you tomorrow morn at about 9:30! It always seems to be raining...

Elizabeth Reed - Trouvaille (Something lovely found by chance)

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