Walk Shop Rose and Tess!

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This kind of drawing feels so intuitive to me. I think it's beautiful that he could make such interesting and lovely compositions with this sort of sloppy mind map. I find it sinscere, comforting, and real. for me this style addresses current issues with candor and energy which relieves my desire for something or someone to scream out.

Walk Shop

More images of Maude and Jeremy's Walk Shop can be found here.

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Inauguration Mind Maps

Speech on top, benediction on bottom.

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Realistic and Abstract Drawings

Witnessing Obama's Inaugration will be something I'll never forget...

Walk Shop Katie and Perry!

Inauguration Mind Map

The Inauguration was so moving!! I am so thankful, that I got to be apart of it and see it. (on t.v) It was such a great time to share, with my friends and family.

Euclidian vs Cartesian space

I'm still confused see what you think!
See what you think!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidian_space
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system

Walk Shop James and Phil!

Camilla's figurative and abstracted flowers

I used pencils to do my flowers for the first drawing, then used curled up paper, cut outs and watercolor to print my abstracted image on my copy machine. This printing technique is inspired by David Hockney and its very fun and very expensive to use all your ink in your cheap printer at home...

Kelly and Jason's Walk Shop

LINK TO PHOTOS

Great Work!

walk shop Kelly and Jason!

Great work guys!
Picassa

this is my mind map and i admit it is a little tongue in cheek. I'm exploring my tickish nature... I will post my pictures soon. By the way everyones work here is really beautiful!

Representational/Abstract

I chose graphite to draw a representational sketch of a glass of water. I tend to focus on the shapes the light makes when it passes through the glass rather than sketching the shape precisely. I tend to go abstract and comic-like when I use my micro pens (ink), and I was inspired by the shapes in my representational drawing. The shapes ended up looking like little pieces of wood.
Sorry they arent rotated...I'm off to work and will fix it later!

Mind Map

I started drawing out little squares to remember key moments when watching the Presidential Inauguration...

Representational vs. Abstract

Representational:

I chose graphite to do my representational piece because it is the medium with which I am most familiar, and therefore that witch which I could produce the most "believable" image.















Abstract:

For my abstract, I chose woodless colored pencils. I have not done too much abstract work in the recent past, so I was unsure about how to go about it (as you might tell from my marks). In the end, I decided to make it simple and remove my subject from any recognizable setting.

"Representation/Abstraction"

On the left is my Representation Image and on the right is my Abstract image.

I chose to replicate an image of A photograph that I had taken in Mexico. For the representational image, I lightly painted and chalked what I saw and in the Abstract image, I pulled the colors from the representational image and put them together in the forms and colors that followed in the photograph. The materials used in this project, were simply canvas, Gesso and for the colors, I used ink pen, chalk and water.

what i would have done

For the presentation today I wanted to show you guys a fun exercise I do with pencil. I'm totes in love with this artist Jhonen Vasquez. He is the creator of Invador Zim, and before that he did some hilarious dark comics my fave being Jhonny The Homicidal Maniac.

So I draw Jhonny a few times quick and scratchy. Pencil is nice beacause it's easy to vary the weight and quality of the line and it is soft, making it easy to fill in big areas with black without making a lot of mess, and of course it erases in case i want to tweek something or detract from an area that's too heavy. Then I draw the same pose, action with my own character and drawing style. I find myself wanting to draw the same things over and over again so this is a good way for me to loosen up my brain.

I'll post some pictures maybe later.

hey everyone

Sorry i missed seeing the demonstrations today i feel a little piece of my soul is missing.

Tuesday Jan 13th

Hello all, I realize that only those of you who have signed up for the blog will get this message, but I want to remind you that I will be in the room early, by 8:30. I will not be able to stay after class to answer questions, so if you have anything you want to ask or talk about please feel free to come early.

Great job on your first exercise by the way!

Thanks,
Sandy

A drawing.......

Drawing with Light

Using light to create imagery and drawings isn't original or new by any means.  There are a lot of artists that have played with this medium.  Here are some links:

• Picasso's Bull

• Lichfaktor

• Sprint Commercial

• Radiohead's Like Spinning Plates

(This is a much more sophisticated adaptation and must have been done with computer graphics in the style of light trails.)

What am I?

Chuck Close.

Poetry post by Angelina!

Poetry
by Marianne Moore

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a

high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. When they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand: the bat
holding on upside down or in quest of something to

eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless
wolf under
a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse
that feels a flea, the base-
ball fan, the statistician--
nor is it valid
to discriminate against "business documents and

school-books"; all these phenomena are important. One must make
a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
"literalists of
the imagination"--above
insolence and triviality and can present

for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them,"
shall we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.

Now We Know!

art

1   /ɑrt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ahrt] Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun

1.	the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

2.	the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.

3.	a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.

4.	the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.

5.	any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.

6.	(in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?

7.	the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling.

8.	the craft or trade using these principles or methods.

9.	skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.

10.	a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.

11.	arts, a. (used with a singular verb) the humanities: a college of arts and sciences. b. (used with a plural verb) liberal arts.

12.	skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.

13.	trickery; cunning: glib and devious art.

14.	studied action; artificiality in behavior.

15.	an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics.

16.	Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship.

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