| Meeting notes: Graphic Recording |
[May. 8th, 2008|12:48 pm] |
Pizza and building
Wine and design
Graphic recording practice |
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| Return to hand gesture drawings |
[Apr. 16th, 2008|12:17 pm] |
 In life drawing Monday night I experienced a hand drawing failure. Every hand I drew looked horrible even though I tried all the techniques I know about drawing hands. Some bad hands I just covered up with gesso (white opaque paint stuff used to prime canvas) and I even collaged some paper over a hand in the drawing. I told students that they can do this for their long final drawing. Glue fresh paper to parts of the drawing, let dry, draw over.
One of the mental techniques about hands is to think of them as a whole other body. Hands are expressive. They have their own gestures and can be used to express very strong sentiments: praying hands by Durer, punching hands in a comic book, or flowing hands in a hula dance.
I am going to go back to the drawings with a fresh mind and some warm up sketches and draw what I know about the structures of the hand.
Filling a sketchbook with just hands is a great way to understand the many forms they take. |
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| Hunka hunka graphite |
[Apr. 10th, 2008|09:23 pm] |
 
I've been telling my students to experiment with drawing supplies. My students are very pencil-centric. Several students actually stated that they are afraid of charcoal. To be a good role model when I went into the art supply store and found this hunk of soft graphite. So drinking my own Koolaid I bought it and some liquid graphite too - new to me - did you know there was such a thing as a bottle of liquid graphite? I took the new stuff to life drawing on Monday and had some messy fun. Different papers and drawing techniques still to come. |
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| Inked in New Space |
[Jan. 26th, 2008|12:10 pm] |
The first drawing from the newly organized studio.
Love my subscription to W for funky headline collage items. |
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| Feedback on an online drawing |
[Jan. 4th, 2008|10:24 am] |
A fellow artist just wrote a response to one of my gesture drawings.
You have a way of making just a few strokes count. Nicely done. - Loren
Artists like my work for its freedom and speed, whereas non-artist folks tend to see it as unfinished or sloppy.
Two sides of the same creativity. |
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| Imagination cubed |
[Dec. 3rd, 2007|07:52 am] |
GE's tag line is "imagination at work." To underscore their offering of "imagination" GE provides a free tool for collaborative drawing called Imagination Cubed http://www.imaginationcubed.com/
Imagination Cubed is an application in which three people can draw on the same whiteboard at the same time. This tool can be used for business or it can be used for fun, or both. I'd like to see if we can use it in a Social Web Associates meeting and blog about it. |
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| archer and bow |
[Sep. 21st, 2007|11:14 am] |
archer and the bow
Size: A4 maximum. All techniques accepted.
info: penthesilee@aliceadsl.fr
A virtual catalog will be on line on this website: http://www.windowswords.canalblog.com
Deadline to be received: October 15, 2007
Windows on the Words
6, rue Edouard Manet
92600 Asnières
FRANCE |
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| Mail Art |
[Sep. 20th, 2007|10:46 pm] |
 to Russia |
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| Take a walk in the future mail art call |
[Sep. 20th, 2007|06:09 pm] |
3007: take a walk in the future.
Add & come back
Instructions and backgrounds at: http://www.impostedart.net
Deadline: September 30, 2007
Doc & show!
info: 3007@impostedart.net
impos(t)ed art
francesca+gabriele+maria+guido
via Spinola 1/6A
17100 Savona
Italy |
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| Mail Art Philosophy Day |
[Sep. 20th, 2007|02:20 pm] |
Happy Philosophy Day
Mail art bound for Greece
Philosophy Day - 21st November
1st International A4-A5 Mail Art Thessaloniki
Please send any medium any technique. Size: from A5 to A4.
One work per Artist.
Exhibition will open on November 21, 2007
info: goteetotum@yahoo.gr
Deadline to be received: September 30, 2007
Teetotum
Ioanninon 44
Thessaloniki 54639
Greece |
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| sun on the porch plants |
[Sep. 19th, 2007|11:14 am] |
a quiet morning
the cherry tomatoes grow
green to ripe - hot porch
Asheville, North Carolina |
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| Wendell Wallach |
[Sep. 13th, 2007|05:12 am] |
Wendell wandered by
the Palace of Fine Arts pond
the duck quack echoed
I met Wendell Wallach by accident the morning of the Singularity Summit at the back of the theatre before the doors opened. We had a little chat, then later in the day he spoke about ethical issues swarming around and arising from the creation of general artificial intelligence (AGI). These are the live art blogging notes that I took of his lecture. |
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| Matisse |
[Sep. 12th, 2007|09:33 pm] |
busy in OK
uploading SFMOMA
matisse in pencil |
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| new company fun |
[Aug. 24th, 2007|01:51 am] |
austin music scene
and its high tech corridor:
business develops |
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| Brancusi and love flying |
[Aug. 22nd, 2007|11:46 am] |
Little did I know
in the Hampton Inn, there were
Brancusis ahead
The Dallas art museum has a great DaDa show!
Brancusi presence:
endorphins dance eyes to brain
spaceformflights and love |
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| New Berlin Sandbox |
[Aug. 15th, 2007|10:49 pm] |
New Berlin Sandbox,
a second life place to make
virtualized art
I delivered 10 Dr. Sketchy drawings to my Second Life Gallery, the Ginsberg Art Center with curator Tommy Parrott. I'm working on the next 10 now. Making the SL drawing involves resizing a prim, adding a texture to both sides. One side has the drawing and the back side has a signature and brief artist statement. |
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| SL art start |
[Jul. 27th, 2007|09:25 am] |
I created my first prim and made the default box into a flat panel and placed my jpg texture painting of a Dr. Sketchy model on one of the flat surfaces. Tommy Parrott provided good directions, plus I printed some how to build tutorials to follow. I submitted my prototype painting to Tommy, my vitural curator who said I did it correctly. In fact, he said, "perfect;_)" Pretty good compared to statements by other curators I have known. I am concerned a bit about the drawings' relative size to walls, to avatars, etc. Most of the Ginsberg Art Center paintings are pretty much 3/4 average avatar size. I'm thinking of making some of my drawings smaller and arranging a few in groups on the wall. Still a lot of avatar work to do. I think my SL show will look just fine on my RL CV. Today the sun came back out, so the next step is to shoot photos of more Dr. Sketchy drawings. |
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| Of Physiology |
[Jul. 1st, 2007|12:58 am] |
Of Physiology from top to toe I sing
Line from Whitman's Leaves of Grass is collaged on top of this head.
The painting started out as a blue sky and the side of a wall with a light fixture. I turned it 90 degrees and made the head with oil pastel and white gouache. |
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