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The semester project is to illustrate 9 labors of Hercules.  This week featured the battle with the hydra with the emphasis on gesture of the human and gesture of the beast.

Students really go into it!  There were many great drawings.  Here are just a few to show the variety...Now that's what I call Homework!  What fun.

These 2 classes in gesture drawing are showing drawings with layers based on the content of Chapter 2 of Exploring Drawing for Animation.  The first layer is the gesture from the model in a light medium, the second layer is the contour drawing also from the model in a bolder art supply.  Then from imagination and memory we added more layers ::  the space of the drawing so that students get involved in composition and background even in fast poses.  This will really help with drawing storyboards:-) and the final layer was fun - add a hydra head for one, or add any background - artist's choice.

TEAM CHAPTER PRESENTATIONS

I've developed a few new approaches to the course.  One approach is that students present the textbook material.  A  team of 2  students create a short presentation each week on the content of the current chapter reading.  The results of the students doing the lecturing means that they start to work more as a team with shifting leadership roles.  I reinforce the contents of the chapter by dovetailing the studio drawing assignments with content from the chapter.  So far this student teacher strategy is paying off in attention to the material and students shouldering responsibility for their own learning.  I also ask them to come up with 3 questions from the material that will serve as a mid-term review and some of those questions will be on the exam.


Finally, the photography studio threw away more background paper so we played the draw yourself out of a vicious model valkyrie attack.  I really want to get a recording of Ride of the Valkyries to play during these group gesture drawing exercises.

Nice dinner with Sandy and Cynbe and then this sign.
It even has vermilion!

From Last Night's Full Monty.

It was great to see Steve again.  And he left his new book Factory Made - what a great read!

Crystal, Andrew, Colleen, Steve, George

Here is my new hair:-)

Here is one of my buffalo postcards. Charcoal on watercolor paper postcard.

Mail Art Call:
Please make Buffalo themed mail art. Any size, any materials. Please write on your artwork anywhere an unambiguous message such as PROTECT THE YELLOWSTONE WILD BUFFALO

No deadline
No documentation

Send mail art to:

Yellowstone National Park

Superintendent Suzanne Lewis

PO Box 168

Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190
USA

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
Department of the Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington DC 20240
USA

Drawing at night from the front porch.  Sunflowers from a distance.

More limited palette experiments in charcoal and neoart aquarelle.

These are illustrations from the down side of student success discussion.
Notes from today's faculty meeting. Professional development fun!

The 0 is called dismissal.  The Non-doers term was interpreted by the math professor as "inert learners" and the Bell Curve was turned upside down in a discussion of grades in our system working with creatives. And we are rolling along on the quarter system.

Abstract doodle with art quote.
...don't bother looking for the goldfish...