This is My Friend David's Artwork

Its a good example of what our current project is all about.

M.C. Esher

By: Ashley Hurd

Samantha Solomon

Homework Due 10/31

In your small sketchbook. Draw an interior space, somewhere that you feel comfortable. Include your hands or feet somewhere in the picture frame.

Blog: Find a drawing of imaginary space with value. Upload it and Comment on one other post.

This image of President Obama was created by my favorite artist Sam Pratt and he is 24 years old. I am drawn to his work because of the great amount of detail he includes and because I find him to be very admirable through his work.

10/24 HW

Leoind Afremov born 12 July 1955 in Vitebisk, Belarus
He uses vibrant colors and bold strokes to create abstract color images that the mind completes on its own.

Vincent Van Gogh

                                                                   Vincent Van Gogh

                                                                                   Born on March, 30th 1853 

Van Gogh spent his young adult life working for art dealers. In the beginning of his art career, he limited his color pallet to very dark colors. When he came across Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris his style changed, and he began to use brighter colors and developed a style that was uniquely recognizable. Van Gogh was a hard worker, and produced more than 2,000 paintings, drawings and sketches in the last ten years of his life.

I am drawn to Van Gogh's artwork because of the bright colors he uses in his paintings and how he incorporates impressionism into his artwork. 

Akiane Kramarik

Drawing she did when she was just 5 years old.

Painting she did when she was 17.

Akiane Kramarik

18 years old. 

Akiane is mostly a self taught painter and paints mostly religious pictures of god or different things that are happening in the world that she wants to bring awareness to. SHe started drawing when she was just 4 years old. What is weird is that he parents were both atheists when she first started painting and drawing. Her first self-portrait sold for $10,000. 

I am drawn to her work because of how professional it is and how much she has grown from when she was 4 to now. Her Work astonishes me that she could be that good at the age of 4. Her hand drawing that she did when she was five is much better than the one I had to do for this class. 

Club de Jazz

1. Sean Hagan, 32 maybe (I dont know his exact age)
2. Head of the Fine Arts Department at Lexington High School (where I attended), graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, received a BFA in illustration in 1998, and a Masters Degree in Educational Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 2008, he also studied multimedia design at Harvard University.In 2003 Mr. Hagan started his own visual art consulting business, working with clients such as PBS, Sesame Street, Nickelodeon etc. He has also written and illustrated the children’s book, Jonah and the Junkyard Sled.
3. I am drawn to his work because he is the reason I love art. I've taken art classes since I was little and when I was in his class, there was just something about it that made me realize that art is one of my passions. It might be because I can really relate to his artwork and/or he uses a lot of vibrant colors that attract the viewers attention; and for me, when i think about his work, I get touched/inspired.

Alexey Brodovitch

He lived from 1898 until 1971

He was a very sucessful magazine designer for Bazaar. He was from russia, and moved to america. He used photographs in magazines which shaped the basis for how magazines are designed today  

I actually studied him for graphic design history class, and became very interested in him because I eventually want to be a magazine designer in the future. I really love the simplicity of his designs, and the photohraphs he uses. I also envy how he took a risk to design something totally different from the previous norm of magazine design in his time.

Erin O'Sullivan
 

Inspiring Artist

Kayla Souza

18

We went to the same high school. I was close enough to her to see how she did all her artwork. She usually focused on animals, photography and pottery and stuff like that.

I like animal based stuff, that's' chill, and that's what she usually focused on, so i'm pretty sure that's what drew me in. And she always used a lot of color, that caught my eye too.

 

Artist: Alex Turner, 20

• Alex and I went to the same high school (Dartmouth High) and he's currently a student here at Lasell.
• He was an AP art student in DHS, which has a stellar art program, and he's continued to develop his skills now in college. 
• He's only done a few silk paintings, but he's already shown a great aptitude for the medium and has developed his own style. All of his paintings are one of a kind and some can be found on Etsy for sale (He also does commissions, if anyone's interested.)
• I'm drawn to his work because the unique medium and the amount of skill and knowledge and patience it takes to make even one piece. It's a really impressive and difficult job.

-Vanessa

Andy Warhol

• He is deceased, he lived form 1928-1987
• He was a leading figure in the visual art movement also known as Pop Art. He studied commercial art at the school of fine arts. 
• Fun fact: he was banned from the art club at his high school because he was substantially better than all the others that were in the group.
• I love his work because he didn't just stick with one form of expression he did films, music, as well as screen printing. His work was unique and very interesting.

Samantha Solomon

Due 10/24

Draw:

• Set up an interesting composition with an object and cloth/sheets/drapery, etc. Be creative, create something unexpected/ mysterious.
• 3 loose thumbnails, choose 1 composition
• 1 large drawing (Spend at least 3 hours on this drawing)

Blog:
Introduce us to an artist that inspires you now.

• Post an example of their work.
• Artist's name
• Age
• Bit of background information
• Why are you drawn to their work?
• Look at what others post and Make at least one COMMENT on someone else's post.

Pat Perry

This is the Picture i was going to use for an earlier post, but i couldn't figure it out. I think it fits better for this post since pat perry uses a wide range of value to add some abstract depth tho this picture.

David

Still life with coffee pot

                 This is a piece done by Giorgio Morandi. It's a still life drawing that has some elements of cross hatching and shading.

10/17/12 homework

Igor Lukyanov.

Cross hatching to create value.

Rendering and Shading

The artist uses the cross hatching technique in this image. The little "hatched" lines display the shadows on the face well.

Casets

This artist not only uses cross hatching but clearly demonstrates the use of shading as well.

Cross-Hatching

Erin O'Sullivan

This artist used cross-hatching to capture the volume of each shape.
Drawn by Carissa Lee

By: Tornwing

Shows cross-contour value in a pair of good looking converses'. Shows how the surface dips and rises.
    -Nicole Stafford

By : Igor Lukyanov

This use of cross hatching in this piece to show the darkness of the crevices of the skull and the creases  in the banner is really good. It is a really good piece. I enjoy the use of line in this piece.

-Jenna Mucci

By: David Kassan

The artist used some really clean crosshatching here to show the value in the hair, and hatching (with a bit of basic shading, it looks like) to depict value in and around the ear.

-Vanessa

by Paul Lung

This artist used shading as well as hatched lines to create this pencil drawing. You can really see the hatched lines in the fur.

Samantha Solomon

Gesture of the safety net

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Due 10/17

For class on 10/17.

• Finish value scales of Shading, hatching and Crosshatching
• 3 Value drawings of VOLUMES. (each drawing should use a different technique for achieving value, see above)
• Blog: Find an image of a drawing with excellent value and describe the technique the artist used to arrive at the VALUE. (i.e. shading, hatching, crosshatching, some combination of the above)

Jim Dine

Erin O'Sullivan

This picture was taken from a tree in my backyard. The leaves have a lot of curves widths throughout. It shows great gesture very noticably.

As long as everyone's posting pictures of trees... The trees by the Wolfe building look to be a good example of gesture.

-Vanessa P.

Gesture

I found these leaves and found them to be a good example of gesture. The curves of the leaves would be interesting to draw. They are bent in a natural way.

~Jenna Mucci

Gesturing Trees

Trees bending over a road in Lexington portraying gesture.

Gesture

This is a picture of trees at my house. I think this represents gesture because of the way some of the branches lead down.

This is a picture of a tree I saw on campus. It bends very naturally and describes what I think gesture means and I think it would make an interesting competition because of it's angles.

-Carleigh Gaudreau

This picture of a tree that I took on campus shows gesture because it emphasizes and embodies the energetic and tactical approach that gesture drawings use or showcase. 

Samantha Solomon

Francis Bacon - Innocent

Due 10/10

Find an example of gesture in nature or the urban landscape. Take a picture. Upload it and describe it in words.

Make sure you use your name, so I can give you credit.

The art thief - Stik

This was great street art, I mean just look at it. It's such a simple design, but its still cool to look at too. Plus it gets it's point across too, it looks like an art thief.

Leonardo da Vinci

This is a female face, drawn by Leonardo da Vinci. He's one of the greatest artists to ever live, so picking one of his pictures may have been cheating? But regardless of who drew it, you can see how carefully the details on the face have been done. His shading really gives the picture great depth and realism. He has an amazing grasp of the use of line; you can see along the curve of the woman's face how the lines take into into account the bone structure of her cheeks.

Stephen Wiltshire

Erin O'Sullivan

This Drawing is made by Stephen Wiltshire. What I like most about this drawing is the way he used line. Especcially in the sky how you can see the cross-hatching, and it creates a lot of depth, and texture. Also the reflection on the water makes the image beautiful and realistic.

This piece of art is by Alex Pardee who is one of my favorite artists. I think it's successful because it uses detailed and angled lines to bring you into the piece. I think it is an interesting take on an average skill because it's not how many people would typically look at one. It's mostly successful because it has a good sense of depth without using shading.

Carleigh Gaudreau

Awaiting the Cue

 In drawing by Degas, I really like his use of line to show the texture in the tutu. I really connect to this piece because I used to dance and so the drawing of ballerinas and their beauty is just something I really love. Like his use of line to show the light reflecting off of the girls hair to show the shininess. I like the way that this drawing doesn't really look like it is all composed of line but it is if you really look close.

Jenna Mucci

Successful because of the realistic feel and original idea. The shading and contrast make it feel 3 dimensional and give the illusion of depth as the man seems to actually crawl through the paper towards us.

The use of Van Gogh's line's are just magnificent. I love how everything flows in not just this piece of art work but in all of his pieces. I have always been interested in Vincent Van Gogh's art work. His work just grabs your eyes and draws you in to one point in the painting and brings you through the painting with all of the line use.

Samantha Solomon