Art Centre: February 27, 2009

Art Centre: February 23-27, 2009
Central Technical School Art Centre:
Year Two: Week Twenty-two

Tuesday – Art History

Annunciation – Leonardo da Vinci

High Renaissance Resources
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/renaissance/highren.htm

Web Gallery of Art: Northern Renaissance – Directory of Artists
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/r/raphael/biograph.html

Web Museum, Paris: The Italian Renaissance
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/it-ren/

ThinkQuest: Famous Artists of the Italian Renaissance
http://library.thinkquest.org/2838/artgal.htm

Italian Renaissance Architecture
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/italren/renarch/

Spark Notes on the Renaissance – numerous topics
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/renaissance1/summary.html

Wednesday – Painting in the morning

No teacher today so classmates took turns acting the model for drawing.

Wednesday - Photography in the afternoon

Schedule given for Photographer presentations
Tutorial for using Power Point given in the computer lab.

Power Point Tutorials online
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/CR100654571033.aspx

Thursday – Sculpting

Mounting the cast head on a stand – demonstration
Hopefully notes and photos of the demo to come.

Friday - Life Drawing

Drawing with a model.

Advice on being an artist’s model
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A593138

Wikipedia on Models
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_(art)


(Art Images from http://images.google.ca/
Original Graphic by S. Karsten)

Art Centre: February 16-20

Art Centre: February 16-20, 2009
Central Technical School Art Centre:
Year Two: Week Twenty-one

Tuesday – Art History/Drawing

We were shown a slide show on Early Renaissance as well as a few online video clips.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

Wednesday – Painting in the morning

This week the focus was on drawing shapes and using values

http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Drawing-Shapes-and-Forms

Wednesday - Photography in the afternoon


I got help from a classmate on my dodging and burning assignment.

Taking better photos in black and white:
http://www.betterphoto.com/exploring/bnw.asp

Thursday – Sculpting

We were given an introduction to anatomy and the skeletal system of humans in preparation for the semester’s projects. There was also a brief demonstration of repairing hydracal models after their removal from the waste mold.

Excellent drawing of bones and muscles taken from artists’ books on anatomy –
http://blog.glimbit.com/2007/07/09/bones-and-muscles/

Friday – Life Drawing

We had a model today and the focus was on construction lines, ellipses to build the shape of the body and contour lines as we did gesture drawings and blind contours.

http://drawsketch.about.com/od/figuredrawing/ss/figurecontour.htm
http://drawsketch.about.com/cs/figuredrawing/a/fig_proportion.htm



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

Art Centre: February 9-13, 2009

Art Centre: February 9-13, 2009
Central Technical School Art Centre:
Year Two: Week Twenty

Tuesday – Art History/Drawing

We were shown a video on the Gothic period, “Light in the Darkness” part of a well-done series on art history – not sure of the name of the series. There was time after that to talk with the teacher (and classmates) about the numerous projects in progress.

Wednesday – Painting in the morning

I was impressed with the instruction and guidance given in the class this week. We were drawing simple shapes set up on a platform. We were shown how to place the easel, how to hold the charcoal or conte, and an effective way to move quickly from one object to another capturing spatial relationships.

http://www.learn-to-draw-and-paint.com/drawing-basic-forms.html

Wednesday - Photography in the afternoon

After last week’s long session in the dark room, I didn’t feel inspired to get going on my dodging and burning assignment. I did get suggestions from the teacher as to which shots would likely work well and I was shown some excellent examples.

Thursday – Sculpting

No demonstrations this week allowed everyone time to work on their waste molds. I unwrapped both my classmate head and fusion head and placed them so that when dry, they can be broken up and the clay recycled. I worked on a very small head of my cat. I also had an opportunity to ask questions related to my research on Tribal North American West Coast sculptural art.

I’ve been spending a lot of time looking for 20th Century sculptors. In the process I have discovered a few sites that may be helpful to others working on their research.

PBS series on 72 featured American artists - http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/index.html
Wikipedia American Sculptors - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_sculptors
21st C. Briitish Sculptors - http://www.sculpture.org.uk/
9th and 20th C. European sculptors - http://www.sculpture.org.uk/
Masters of 20th Century Figure Sculpture - http://www.ilovefiguresculpture.com/masters/masters20.html

Friday – PD day for teachers – no class

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

Art Centre: February 2-6, 2009

Art Centre: February 2-6, 2009
Central Technical School Art Centre:
Year Two: Week Nineteen

Tuesday – Art History/Drawing

We were loaded with assignments and projects for the semester ahead. A power point on Gothic period was shown. The first due date is for the Gothic Aesthetic Project. Here are some links to get started. Our teacher is on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/people/Dustin-Garnet/506195725

Wikipedia: Gothic Art –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_art
Metropolitan Museum Timeline - http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mgot/hd_mgot.htm
Gothic Art and Architecture –
http://history-world.org/gothic_art_and_architecture.htm
Art History Resources on the Web: Gothic Art –
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHgothic.html
OK Arts: Gothic Painting –
http://ok-arts.blogspot.com/2006/10/gothic-painting.html

Wednesday – Painting in the morning

A short class as there was a lecture given to all art students mid-morning. Our teacher covered supplies needed for drawing which will be the main part of the course and for painting which we will get to now and then. Our teacher has a website gallery - http://www.michaelgerry.ca/

Wednesday - Photography in the afternoon

Happily one of my classmates kindly offered to guide me through the contrast assignment. It took us about two hours to produce an original 4x5 print then three prints with magenta filters and three with yellow filters, matching a section of the original photo in the mid-tone area.

Thursday – Sculpting

A new presentation project was outlined and dates were set for each of these. We were given a demonstration for retrieving the hydracal version of the sculpted head from the mold. Notes are here: http://astralsite.com/Art/breakmold.pdf
Accompanying pictures of the process are here:
http://astralsite.com/Art/waste-mold3.html
Our sculpting teacher has a brief biography online - http://www.cansculpt.org/memberDetails.php?id=92&fn=Richard&ln=McNeill

Friday – Life Drawing

A very challenging setup today – a model of a horse in white plastic was perched on the body of a cello that was placed on an old carpet. Pink fabric was draped around one end of the cello. Our drawing teacher has a website gallery - http://www.lanny.ntcreate.com/