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"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad," Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali what gesture!!! Value drawings.  The old masters called the use of value to show form, "Chiaorscuro." Usually low key compositions with intense lighting. (pretty hard to pull off with candles!) Rembrandt Self portrait in a window Kathe Kollwitz Picasso Self Portrait Georges Seurat Georges Seurat Gesture and the use of line as a scaffold Emanuela de Musis at the Academy of Realist Art This gorgeous work is done in the classical method. To my life drawing students, see how they build the "scaffolding." This method of teaching involves one year of intensive drawing from casts. Look how emotional these paintings and drawings have become by not "reporting" all of the facts. They are creating an illusion of reality, not reporting all of the details. Jake Muirhead, Printmaker Most drawing enthusiasts love to make prints, especially etchings or Intaglio. Jake Muirhead's prints ar...

Figure Drawing ArtServe Dance Studio May 24

Our model will be the lovely Vesna I will work with you all individually as usual Here are some interesting links. Aditya Shirke Indian. Look how he keeps his drawings and paintings fresh. The gesture shines through the finished drawings. http://adityashirke.blogspot.com/ Jefferey Hein http://braingiants.com/jeffreyhein/gallery.html http://jeffhein.wordpress.com/ Bettina Sellman http://www.bettinasellmann.com/work/ Chris Faust http://www.bettinasellmann.com/work/ See you tomorrow. Special Thank You to Connie Folz for supporting this group. I am blessed with the best students!

Monday, May 3, Figures at ArtServe

Our model will be the lovely Noel. She is incredible. Angular, flexible and professional. Continue our discipline of pegging proportions of the body Everyone works at their own pace. Instruction tailored to you. If you want to try new media, look at this web site Shay Bredimus http://www.shaybredimus.com/iWeb/ART/Rescue.html (Don't hit home, you can't access the images from the thumbnails, just hit the arrows) Featured in the "New and Notable" section of Drawing magazine He uses tattoo ink and wax crayon on frosted mylar. POWERFUL! Anna Wakitsch http://www.annawakitsch.com/index.html Kevin Wueste Look how he progressed from gesture to finished drawing to painting. Yummy! http://kevinwuesteart.blogspot.com/ SEE YOU TOMORROW!