The point is not to insist that Marx is right or wrong. || Tom Syverson

The photos are part of a series called 'Farm Boys and Farm Girls'

I promised to do a new one of Little Richard so here it is.

I have had several emails about how to do the One point perspective paintings from this post, http://www.elementaryartfun.blogspot.com/search/label/One%20Point%20Perspective so I have written the steps for this drawing. I would suggest, the bigger paper, the better. Before you begin, be sure to show students many images to get them excited and print a variety of photos to inspire creativity! 1. Begin with the horizon line in the middle (please excuse my very crooked lines!!! pencil did not photograph well, so I had to redraw some lines with my computer mouse) 2. Draw a dot in the middle (vanishing point) and make an “X” from corner to corner (or close enough) passing through the dot 3.draw the sidewalks first from the vanishing point 4. Draw the trees starting on the bottom on the “X” all the way to the vanishing point, descending towards the middle. Tell them to draw organic shaped trees, not round Que-tip lollypop trees! Make sure the trees are straight and parallel to the side of the paper. Watch students for this before they spend 20 minutes drawing 8 beautiful but very leaning trees and have to erase all of them! 5. This is the lingo I use to teach the buildings, We all say, “One, straight out, two diagonal down, three, straight down to the ground, four straight down again, and five, bring it in along the side!” 6. When I show them the windows we start with the side with the door facing the street. The lines on the tops and bottoms of the windows ABOVE the horizon line are parallel to the top part of the “X”…….below that, when you PASS the Horizon line, the lines on the tops and bottoms of the windows are parallel to the BOTTOM part of the “X” which is now the sidewalk. The top of the door is also parallel to the sidewalk. below: RED parallel to RED and BLUE parallel to BLUE The windows on the OTHER side of the house are normal right angle squares or rectangles. 7. Now erase the “X” and the parts of the horizon line that overlap the trees and buildings 8. finish windows and add details. Some students made it into a river instead of a road. Now that the basic foundation is drawn, the possibilities for creativity are ENDLESS!! Cars, trucks, planes, restaurants, people, bridges, parades, parks, pedestrians, lights, etc, etc

When you sit down to think of life in general, you will come up with one theory and that is what goes around, comes around. That is why as we grow up in life

1951; caricature by Al Hirschfeld.

caricature et illustration

Basil Wolverton (July 9, 1909 December 31, 1978) was an American cartoonist and illustrator, and Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet. His many publishers included Marvel Comics and Mad magazine. His drawings have elicited a wide range of reaction

I’m back to deadlines after my workshop in Austin this past weekend, so this week’s Sketch o’the Week is one of the “Workshop Warmups” we did… screen legend Bette Davis! For these warmups, I ask the class to suggest a subject, then I do an image search for a good picture of that subject and project that on the wall. We all do a 10-15 minute warm up sketch from the pic. I work on a Wacom Cintiq Mobilestudio Pro so they can watch me draw along with them. We usually do 3-4 of these on Saturday morning. I’ll post a few more tomorrow.

Je reviens d'un fantastique voyage en Inde, dans l'état du Rajasthan, où les personnages inspirants sont à chaque coin de rue (et même dans le désert !). Ceux qui me suivent sur les réseaux sociaux ont déjà vu quelques coulisses de mes rencontres dessinées. Pour les autres, voici un petit récap ! Arjun, un amour de modèle (et excellent danseur !) dans le désert du Thar Photo : Kares Le Roy Série de peintures de moustachus dans le désert du Thar Photo : Kares Le Roy Dessin de la muse de jeunesse, Papu, une fameuse Gypsie aux yeux verts, rencontrée par hasard dans la rue ! Photo : Kares Le Roy ... Et sa fille Mamta, aux yeux verts non moins hypnotisants... Photo : Kares Le Roy Papu nous a guidés dans un village Banjara où j'ai pu dessiner l'impressionnant Pemaram Il n'a pas fallu flancher sous son regard impressionnant... Non vous ne rêvez pas, ce sadhu est bel et bien accompagné d'une vache naine vêtue d'un sari rose et d'une coiffe verte. Elle a en outre, comme autres particularités, 2 pattes malformées et une oreille qui lui sortent du dos, ce qui fait d'elle une vache encore plus sacrée que la norme ! Bien sûr, le vernis à ongle bleu et les pigments roses sont là pour rehausser l'ensemble. Invités à un mariage Bishnoï... Agoraphobes s'abstenir ! Photo : Kares Le Roy Dessin dans le calme du temple, avec pour seules spectatrices les vaches sacrées Photo : Kares Le Roy Aquarelle de Santos, de la caste Kalbelia. Inspirée d'avoir ajouté un godet rose vif à ma palette habituelle avant de partir ! Photo : Kares Le Roy C'est le temps du retour - en plein printemps... et le temps de travailler à mon prochain livre à paraître en octobre chez Elytis !

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