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- Happy Sexy Day Fall 2009
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honoriartist- November 25th, 19:24
Happy sexy day
Fall volunteer nasturtium
thanksgivingly blooms
- Full Monty Book Marks
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- honoriartist
- November 25th, 12:39
Three bookmarks, original life drawings by honoria from Full Monty on Sunday.
2.75 x 7.5 inches. Gouache, charcoal, pastel on 300 lb. Arches cold pressed watercolor paper.
Price $11.00 each.
Full Monty is a life drawing group that meets on Sundays in Austin Texas. Full Monty sessions always have male models.
- Life Drawing Model Prompts
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- honoriartist
- November 24th, 11:25
Building the story-telling chops of students in life drawing is one of our objectives (gestural narrative). Recently I read about using headlines to stimulate the mood for a pose. A professor in Rhetoric and Composition suggested that Onion Headlines were quite concise stories so I collected a list of Onion headlines and gave them to the model.
Here are a few that the model selected to set the mood of the poses.- Insane Clown Posse Gets Ride to Concert From Mom
- Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race of Skeleton People
- North Dakota Not Heard from in 48 Hours
- And also a real headline: Glamorous rogues, Charming gangsters
Using these prompts the model and the class were more relaxed in the approach to the pose and more adventurous in their drawings. The unpredictable theme is almost like a game added to the classroom. Here are some of the drawings.
These are all done with the same model, poses, and theme prompt of North Dakota not heard from in 48 hours. I am proud of the range of interpretations and look forward to more adventures in life drawing and creative writing.
I told the creative writing instructor about the change this technique had on the class and she said she would assign 6 word stories to her writing class. I will use the prompts from her class in my class and hope to create a great installation of the collaboration for a hall exhibition.
Stay tuned for 6 word stories.
- Mystery Art Envelopes 2009 - Still only $5
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- honoriartist
- November 22nd, 15:02
How to buy original art from the 2009 Mystery Art Envelope Sale.
Get 5 Honoria Original drawings/paintings in an envelope delivered to your door.
Limited supply of work available.
Go to Pay Pal
Pay $5 into account of Madelyn Starbuck
Be sure to include your address with your payment or email me your address separately.
You will receive a large brown envelope with 5 original art works inside.
I will send you an envelope with 5 ORIGINAL artworks that I have culled from my studio. These will be hand painted or hand drawn original artworks. Yes, that is $1 per drawing or painting! Warning may contain nudity from life drawing sessions.
Buyers outside USA please add $2.00 for extra postage.
- Hippy joint angles
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- honoriartist
- November 21st, 11:05
This x-ray shows the angle of the femur as it comes from the hip joint.
Image source http://www.connecticutvalleybiological.com/images/ch2200.jpg
Thankfully used to teach human anatomy for artists.
- SMA
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- honoriartist
- November 18th, 13:47
JDFC celebrates
- landscape happy hour plan
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- honoriartist
- November 15th, 19:34
This plan includes a lot of mulch and bamboo muhly.
- Bottom Layers
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- honoriartist
- November 6th, 11:55
I love vermilion. These windows will get garden or Dr. Sketchy drawings in them.
- Zilker Botanical Gardens 5 November 2009
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- honoriartist
- November 5th, 22:58
Only a few minutes in the gardens between meetings.
Fast gouache on prepared paper.
When I was leaving a monk in saffron robes arrived
I drew him with leftover paint on the palette my fingers and bamboo stick.
- Anatomy Mid-Term Student Interests
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- honoriartist
- November 4th, 21:58
The anatomy students are interested in these categories:
Anatomy and Life Drawing 2nd half Student Interests Fall 2009
Based on data collected from Mid-Term – Honoria Starbuck
VALUES
Try new things more drastic with black and white
Accurate values with less focus on detail
Value and contrast
Apply light logic to life drawing
MEDIA
Experience with different media
Concentrate on using color
BODY PARTS
Hands & Feet
Focus on parts of the nudes rather than the whole figure
Muscles
Facial Expressions
Refine details
Drawing people in clothes
EFFICIENCY
Do more with 2-minute gesture poses
Quicker more professional looking drawings
The anatomy videos are quicker than reading a book
PERSONAL
Build more confidence in drawing ability
- Mid-term learning directions
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- honoriartist
- November 4th, 20:59
In the mid-term in Observational Drawing I asked what students want to concentrate on in the 2nd half of the term. From the answers I pull the key phrases and write them all down in a list. Then like a good grounded theory researcher I look for trends. Then I clump the phrases together under a trend heading and send it out to the class. Students can then add or modify the directions they wish to go in the second half. In the next class we develop a learning plan so that each team, such as the people team, can reach their stated goals. This involves finding mentors in art history, drawing from people, and looking into anatomy.
Here's my letter to the students and the list of this semester's student interests:
Congratulations on your success at mid-term. The grades are looking good! I am working on them now and they should be in the electronic grade book by Friday or Saturday.
I pulled key phrases from the mid-term question about what you would like to concentrate on in the second half of the course. The topics seemed to group themselves into the following categories. If I've missed something that is important to you please let me know and we'll add it to the list.
On Tuesday we will discuss how we will reorganize the class in order to focus on your key interests and develop a learning plan based on the direction you wish to take in observational drawing and beyond.
Onward,
Honoria
Observational Drawing 2nd half Student Interests Fall 2009
Based on data collected from Mid-Term – Honoria Starbuck, Ph.D.
PERSONAL – CONFIDENCE AND COMMUNICATIONS
Ask more questions
Not be embarrassed about my work in relation to other students
Let the right side take over and leave out the left side of my brain
Not to fight against my eye
Have more time for my drawings
LIGHT LOGIC
Take current drawing abilities to the next level in light logic
Light and shadow
Different shading and blending techniques in different media
Make drawings more complete
To become better because I love to draw
More confident in light logic
Improve my ability to see the value sandwich in real-life settings
PEOPLE
Draw faces
More accurately portray the human form
Draw people’s faces, hands, and feet in a fast-paced right-brained manner.
More about people and portrait drawing
Create realistic drawings of people using a light source
TECHNIQUES
Learn drawing with a pencil
More line drawing
Use markers in professional stylized renderings
Effects of color (emotions and happiness)
Faster better drawings
Learn more about proportion
Learn to make detail to make a drawing interesting
Successful 3-dimensional drawings
How to use my tools better
EXPRESSIVENESS
Find my expressiveness to make my art unique
Take a simple idea and make it abstract/take my level of creativity up
Be more inventive in the positioning of my subjects
TEXTURE
Find secret to drawing realistic textures
Better at proportions and textures
Proportion, light logic, and texture
- Sleepy is the winning color
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- honoriartist
- October 31st, 22:48
Color samples and the Knutser. The winning color is a light gray blue on the far right closest to the white wall.
The bamboo second flooring is done & stairs are covered in bamboo too.
Here with pencil signs for NO SHOES // sin zapatos warnings.
- Color Question
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- honoriartist
- October 22nd, 15:40
Color swatches for exterior paint.
Which one do you think?
- Naked Lunch October 17th
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- honoriartist
- October 21st, 15:21
My drawings from October 17, 2009 Naked Lunch poses by Chris Strong - great model.
- bamboo floor installation
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- honoriartist
- October 20th, 23:01
Bamboo floor happens!
- Marfa Blue and more
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- honoriartist
- October 16th, 18:48
Yesterday our new house was to be painted a light blue gray.
Today our architect added some surprise color ideas.
Marfa Blue and more . . .
I put daubs of paint on watercolor paper as I painted the square samples on hardi planks.
The abstract is taking shape as a prototype for a painting.
Tomorrow will procure a large primed panel to make a big abstract painting of all the colors the house could have been as we put the 2nd coat on the samples. As Cynbe would say -- Wheeeeee!
- Are pencils normal?
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- honoriartist
- October 15th, 10:57
Students use pencils almost as default even referring to pencils as the normal drawing medium.
I encourage students to branch away from the default pencil tool early in the class. I even banned HB and 2B pencils in my on-ground class. Online I just encourage it. Here's an example in the online discussion.A suggests that he is moving away from the Normal Pencil to draw with. Yay!
Did you know that some of the earliest drawings were charcoal on cave walls and ochre on bodies?
Graphite and particularly graphite wrapped in wood is a relatively modern invention.
In the 20th and now 21st century we grew up in a school system in which we drew with a limited number of art supplies, pencils being the most common. You probably also used crayons, chalk, tempera paint, finger paint, and as teenagers ball point pens.
But now you are training to be professionals and it is important for you to start to use professional tools.
Try out all the art supplies that interest you.
One experiment is to look at all the Photoshop filters and see the kinds of techniques that are actually coded into your graphic programs! Wow! Lots of exciting things to try.
So leave your "normal pencil" in the pencil box and try out new tools and techniques.
You will get good grades for trying even if the experiment seems to fail in your eyes in terms of the quality of the drawing.
I respect and add points for learning, not being too safe.
When you are experimenting, write a paragraph about your experience drawing with new tools and you will also earn participation points.
Off to the art supply store!
- Talking Stick Questions for Observational Drawing
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- honoriartist
- October 13th, 10:39
In order to create more interesting and practical critiques for my students I create pages of talking stick questions for students to pass around when they talk about each others homework.
The assignment was to draw a favorite object at home using 2 different drawing media. This evening this set of talking stick questions will jump start the conversation. Most students will say "I like that one", and then stop.
To increase this flat one sentence thinking into more of a paragraph supported by observation and analysis, the set of questions starts with 2 fact analysis questions and ends with an open ended interpretation question. This system helps students to go deeper into their observation of visual products and to increase their vocabulary.Observational Drawing
Talking Stick Questions Pass this around the class as you are finished.
Select one of the drawings to discuss. Observe the drawing closely.- What drawing media is the drawing created with? For example: charcoal and ink, pastel and graphite?
- What techniques did the artist use? For example: a line drawing, a value drawing, a combination of techniques?
- What is the story or overall feeling of this drawing? For example: if this drawing was in a storyboard or game design sketch what may have happened before this panel or after?
OR
What is the mood of the drawing?
What specifically about the drawing causes your impression of story or mood?
- Abe came back
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- honoriartist
- October 7th, 22:16
Abe was missing and now he isn't. Whew.
- Using images charting complex shifting topics
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- honoriartist
- October 6th, 8:45
Guy Kawasaki points to Kotler for the Single Slide Marketing 3.0. Kawasaki believes in the 10-slide pitch and I totally agree with his argument that clean and clear high-level introduction to the team and it's magic is the best first step to get to the second meeting. Kawasaki's pitch theory goes with the Presentation Zen and Beyond Bullet Points philosophy too. I love to teach these methods when remaking text-heavy PPTs for training.
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