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In the Spring 2009 issue of Drawing magazine, we featured an article on Fred Hatt, an artist whose dynamic and powerful drawings can be classified as performances almost as much as objects. Here, we present
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During the past 2 months, I've been spending more time developing prelim studies. Focusing on mostly larger formats, I needed to eliminate any unforseen composition problems, really clarify the value relationships, and play some with the color. Thoroughly enjoyable. The first painting, "Valley Afternoon," was developed after a photo shoot in Sequim, WA during the annual lavender festival. I created an ink sketch, blocked in values with some warm and cool gray markers, and finally scribbling over the values with some colored pencil odds and ends. The placements of intersections, masses, and important lines were keyed to Golden Mean measurements which are visable as red lines. As the painting progressed, I chose to open up the background trees/land mass as it was feeling too closed in. I fought to keep the mowed contours of the mid-ground pasture, but found them to be a bit too powerful in this painting. "Valley Afternoon." 30 x 24" The other painting is based on some sketches I made while at Antietam National Battleground in Maryland a couple of years ago. I was so interested in the relationship between the old farm house and the gigantic tree in the front yard, that I did a couple of smaller scenes of the large barn at the back of the house, as well as a strong vertical of the tree and house alone. This time I wanted to put more of the existing scene into the composition, and play with the shapes. Since the vantage point condenses everything into a somewhat flat plane, I thought it might be interesting to go with it, using the hay bales as a way to move the viewer up the hill to the homestead. The process of placing the shapes, horizon line, strong verticals, and hay bales, is absolutely determined by the G.M. You'll notice a bale at a major intersection in front of the house, and another on the same vertical in the extreme foreground. This helps make the amount of foreground pasture less obvious, and helps guide you (with mostly open space!) to the farmhouse. As the painting unfolded, I made some changes to the area behind the house--again I felt the need to open the area up. (Do I have claustrophobia issues?) This felt better to me, and brought a stronger connection between the house and another structure. "Big Shade." 30 x 40." Until next time....
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Oil pastels and ink pen.
This is a page in my sketchbook (Aquarius II paper) comparing three triads. When I use a triad to do a painting, I am just using three colors which are a variation of the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. For the top sketch, I used cobalt violet (as my red), hansa yellow, and manganese blue. These are light pigments and will never give you gutsy color. I like to use this combo for shadows sometimes, but they make a pretty wimpy painting. The middle sketch is done with a stronger, more "serious" triad. The "red" is quinacridone burnt orange, the yellow is quinacridone gold, and for the third color I used prussian blue. This is a rather somber color combination, but I really like how it worked out for this subject. If you notice the color wheels on the right, this combination will never give you purple, so if you need a nice purple, don't use this triad. The bottom sketch was done using quinacridone rose, new gamboge, and ultramarine blue. This is a good mix for anything - pretty much all purpose. It mixes great purples, nice greens, bright oranges, and mixes into a nice neutral. Every once in awhile I will paint with triads, just to get back to basics, think about color mixing, and just plain simplify things. Now if I could just figure out how to "triad" the rest of my life - could that be a verb?
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Can it be another performance so soon after last year at South London Gallery? Yes, as part of the celebrations of the Scratch Orchestra's fiftieth birthday…….The Vocal Constructivists will no doubt have their own take on the piece…….I look forward to seeing what it is. Join me there. Irma Monday June 17th 2019 7.30 - 9.30pm Lumen Church88 Tavistock PlaceLondon WC1H 9RS Buy tickets here
Back in June I began thinking about my journey into middle school art. I also knew that I wanted my students to have a sketchbook for their time in my studio. My 5 reasons to have a sketchbook in the middle school art studio: 1. It keeps everything in one place. Not only can you take notes, but students can practice techniques without having to say to you "I messed up and need a new paper." It's also a good place for practicing writing about art, critiques and making observations. 2. It helps with the creative process. Sometimes you wake up and just create. Other times, you need time to think, find multiple solutions to a problem(divergent thinking) and then choose the solution that is best for the situation(convergent thinking). Planning is apart of being an artist, from start to finish thinking about the best medium or color choice, the size and how to display the piece, it can all go into the sketchbook and students can revisit later if they need to. 3. It helps conserve paper. In elementary I rarely had kids practicing before beginning on their artwork. The artwork WAS the practice and the final. When I did have them sketch on a small piece of paper, I had to keep track of it and honestly it was a lot of work. With a sketchbook students have an opportunity to practice the techniques, explore different types of medium, and respond to questions and prompts creatively as well. 4. It's easy to check their work. All I have to do is say "Open your sketchbook to your (insert page you need to check) page!" And I walk around checking and commenting and encouraging students. It's great! 5. It encourages the students to be creative outside of class and gives them a place to do it. Even before I had students "set up" their sketchbooks, kids were bringing them to class with drawings already inside. This makes me so happy as a teacher! They aren't waiting for me to tell them what to do, they are already making creative decisions without prompting and that is AWESOME! For my two classes ART I and ADV. ART I created two sketchbooks so that when we add something in the kids have an example of sorts. This also helps when students are absent they can check the sketchbook to see if they've missed an exercise. I was inspired by this amazing website The Lost Sock and her post about Art Journaling. I used some of her ideas, and will add my own as the year progresses. Since we all know I'm a collage addict, I had to give each sketchbook a cover, which as an added bonus helped me relax after the first two weeks of school. Here I go again relaxing with my hot chocolate and collage insanity! ART I sketchbook cover complete! ADV. Art sketchbook cover complete! Side by side! On the inside I have the first 5-6 pages planned out using some inspiration from the blog mentioned above and added in a page for the Quick Draw Challenge which is what I use as bell work when the students come in. Here are some examples from the kids so far: In class we just outlined the sketchbook, but the kids took them home over the weekend and some amazing things came back on Tuesday. (Monday was a holiday after all.) A creative way to write their purpose and procedures page! This student took an idea from a magazine, but is making it her own. In her words "The magazine is about age, but I want my piece to show that every part of you is beautiful." Truer words never spoken. Inspiration comes from everywhere, so for a "homework" assignment, the kids were asked to find magazine images that the liked or inspired them and put them in their sketchbook. After showing them a sketchbook I use for my home improvements, some of the students even did fold out clippings. Instead of gluing in the magazine, she drew it! The quick draw page for a few students. I encourage them to make their sketchbook their own and color is definitely one way they show it! So far these are the pages we have inside: Inside cover: Name, Weekly Schedule(basic overview of what they should expect each day of the week) Pages: 1. My Sketchbook Cover page (or My Art Book, or My Art Journal) 2. Purpose & Procedure 3. Topics 4. Art Supply Rules 5. Quick Draw Challenge (this will pop up in the sketchbook many times I'm sure) You've seen my previous worksheet for QDC, but here I let the students draw four boxes however they want. 6. I am... I can... I will... (a declaration of who they are, which was used for the negative space in their self portrait assignment. I love seeing the vocabulary used in their statements. 7. Magazine Inspiration Not sure if I'll make this a weekly assignment, but I love to see what inspires the kids and what they are interested in. From here on out my Art I and Adv. Art class sketchbooks will start to look very different because the assignments will change, but these are just the beginning pages to get us started. I will also have the kids add in some handouts for certain things. I have a pinterest board just for collecting ideas for our sketchbooks, check it out here. It's small now, but I'm sure it will grow! One coming up soon is called 10 ways to improve your sketchbook(follow the link to my live binder where you can download the handout for FREE!) which was inspired by this pin here. So I typed it up and made a little handout for the students to keep with their sketchbook. Anyway I think I've run out of things to say about our sketchbooks right now, but stay tuned for updates through out the year! Do your students keep a sketchbook? How do you organize them? What do you use them for mostly? Share your thoughts and ideas here!
Journal entries from May 2008 since relocating to Brisbane - missing the coastal habitat I was accustomed to in my previous location - I turned instead to walking the streets near my home and photographing the very different sub-tropical vegetation, picking up seedpods and leaves and taking in the details of this particular environment. I turned to borrowing books from the Botanical Gardens to identify some of the Rainforest species and learn more of what I was seeing. Moving from a city where gardening and the natural environment had not been such a passion for locals I relished being somewhere where trees evidently were important even if only for the respite from the heat they offer. Gardens in my neighbourhood, whilst not traditional for the most part, do have an abundance of plants , bushes and trees to admire. The impact of this abundant vegetation was significant due to my already keen interest in pods of every kind added to the present day story of seeds - with their vulnerability to market forces and climate shifts - and the fact of the list of endangered species climbing along with that of birds and creatures of every kind.
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