Saturday, May 2, 2009

Art Centre: April 27 - May 1, 2009

Art Centre: April 27-May 1, 2009
Central Technical School Art Centre:
Year Two: Week Twenty-nine

Monday – Art History


Work being done for ongoing projects plus two more culture posters presented. One on Reggae and Rastafarians featured oil drum lid art – wow! I looked around the Web but couldn’t find any examples.

Wednesday Painting Class

Critique of still life of paintbrushes, etc.
Drawing of set up with shape states.

Paintings so far – both unfinished…



Wednesday Photography Class

Presentations on photographers – Photographers presented today:


Man Ray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray
http://www.manraytrust.com/

Thursday Sculpting Class

Glazes on plaster pieces demonstrated.

Working on musculature - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle
http://www.innerbody.com/image/musfov.html

Presentation: African Tribal Art


Kuossi fetish

http://www.vub.ac.be/BIBLIO/nieuwenhuysen/african-art/

Contemporary Artists whose work reflects African sculptural style

Constantin Brancusi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Brâncuşi

Elizabeth Catlett - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Catlett

Friday Life Drawing Class

We had a model but only two of us in class – 10 2-minute gesture drawings, 2 10-minute drawings and 2 20-minute drawings. Below is one of my 20 minute drawings.



Classmates went to Buffalo to enjoy ART!

The Albright Knox Art Gallery featuring Abstract Impressionism - http://www.albrightknox.org/


Jackson Pollock

The Burchfield-Penney Art Centre –
http://www.yournewburchfieldpenney.com/


Anthony J. Sisti – Frozen Assets

(Images from http://images.google.ca/)

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