Teaching the fundamentals of Drawing
Here’s Abstract Art! (Literally…) Honestly, I hated abstract art back when I was an art student. Of course, at times it seems the art world expects people to instinctively understand the “brilliance” of particular pieces of art, and if they don’t…well, then, there’s no help for you. As I’ve learned more […]
Sorry about the delay-I wish I could say my computer ate my visuals for this module but the truth is…I forgot where I saved them, and had to start all over! The actual tutorial is virtually unchanged, outside of page numbers and drawing exercises at the end. I liked how […]
Here we are, Jim Davis! This one was fun. I knew about the Renaissance cartoons from my art history classes, but wasn’t sure what the connection was to “cartooning” as we know it today. Turned out be really fascinating. And Jim Davis seemed like a really neat person one could […]
Sorry for the absence. We had two deaths on two sides of the family, and an interstate travel for one of the funerals. That threw a wrench in a lot of things, DD included. Here is Lichtenstein, and I hope to post Davis tomorrow. I’m so sorry these are behind. […]
Andrew Wyeth is the middle of a father-son-grandson generations of painters. his own father, N.C. Wyeth, was one of the kings of the “Golden Age of Illustrators”. Andrew, whose health was fragile as a boy, was homeschooled by his parents, and his father, quickly realizing Andrew’s skillful adaptation to drawing, […]
I’m working on Andrew Wyeth, which is a “resist” project, but in the meantime, my director did something really cool for our kids, which I wanted to share, and what I designed for my Abecedarians had some requests on facebook, so here it is. My director’s idea worked great for […]
Flat out, Georgia O’Keefe is my favorite artist among this cycle’s pics. Her colors are so vibrant, she makes you really SEE the beauty of a blossom (which was her point!), and she did so many types of work, landscapes, flowers, bones, abstracts, that you can usually find something among […]
My computer came back! Yay! I have Sooooo much to catch up on. Norman Rockwell is one of those artists most people love…unless you’re in art. I’m not sure why. Despite having a degree in art, I always had a soft spot for Rockwell’s work, but many “critics” really don’t […]
So…its amazing what you can-and can’t-do with a broken computer. Slows things down quite a lot when I can only borrow a laptop for an hour or two a couple nights a week! Here is Grandma Moses, and hopefully, I can get Rockwell up in another day or two, followed […]
Good morning! Here are weeks five and six for Cycle 3. Sorry things are so haphazard in regards to timing, but moving has not been as streamlined as I remembered (I’ve done this five times before, you’d think I’d know how to do this. Of course, this is the […]