Google Art Project is Wonderful!

What a great place to see and explore examples of GREAT ART!!!!

Here is the link @ http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/the-cliff-of-aval-etr%C3%A9tat/7AFALGbV2i_P5w?projectId=art-project

I'm Out of School Thursday-

Hello guys,

Sorry, I'm out of school this morning- Here are some choices of what you could work on:

1. Complete the posting of three "color schemes" you discovered in Hockney, or Monet paintings. The directions are at the post below this one.....

2. Complete your design of a "focal point" for the big class drawing hanging in the hallway...

3. Start work on your "Paper Bag drawing". Use the bags off my desk, create THREE planning sketches first, then start the final drawing. Use pencil and graphite drawing tools- work any size you want. The Goal is to describe the Volume (how full is it?) and Weght of your bag....

Here are some examples:

What's That color Scheme?

Explore and discover how artists use color schemes, by reducing their images to a grid of colors. Then organize the colors into their position on the color wheel.

Last, post the colors and write a description of the color scheme on your blog...

Select and post TWO images from both Hockney and Monet's artwork..... this works best on large size images.... do you notice a constant color scheme that they use?

Here's my example....

I used Hockney's painting...... Winter Timber, 2009 oil on 15 canvases 108 x 240inches

Here is the "Mosaic" filter I used to create a grid of colors....

 I experimented with the size of the mozaic pieces to get the best results...

Here is what happened to the painting..... makes it easier to see the source colors..

Use the rectangular selection tool to copy and paste colors from the grid to a new layer....

 

I organized the colors to describe where they fit on to the color wheel...

Looks like Hockney is using a SPLIT COMPLEMENT color scheme of orange and blue- splitting the blue all the way to green and purples, and using shades of orange for contrast.

P.S. Check out this nice article about Hockney I just found.... what a great example of a creative artist!!

See it here @ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/arts/design/18kino.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Artists Working With Color

DAVID HOCKNEY

A British artist, always exploring and pushing the ideas of how art is made and what it means. He was one of the first to us the iphone and ipad as a painting and drawing tool.

Please collect at least three examples of his artwork, post the images and the names of the artwork, to your blog.

See more about him here @http://wadigitaldrawing.blogspot.com/2011/09/david-hockney.html




MONET

French painter, he is credited with being one of the first of the "IMPRESSIONISTS". He developed a new painting technique and an idea about painting what  camera could not see...

See more about him here @http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/

Working with COLOR

Here are copies of the vocabulary sheets, and information about color schemes....

Virtual Desktop INFO for you...

Try these directions from the Technology Office....

Virtual desktops now work from home.  Here are some instructions for getting in:

On a computer (mac or pc), go to view.woodstockacademy.org and download the client that matches your operating system
 

• The download page looks like this for a Mac....






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• For all devices, the connection is view.woodstockacademy.org and your username and password are the same as what you would always use. 

Building A Language of Marks

Sorry I'm out today,

Let's explore another area of drawing- How artists use MARK -MAKING to describe FORM and VALUE.

Collect three examples of each artist's drawings and post it to your blog. Be sure to post the name of the artwork and the date....

The two artists are Albrecht Durer and Van Gogh.... Both are renowned for their drawings.....

First is Durer- Here are some links to info and images of his drawings and prints.... look how precise his drawings are!! 

About Durer... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer

About engraving here @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engraving

AND some examples of his work.... This is an engraving called "Melencolia", from 1514

Some details.... see the variety of marks?

Now look at Van Gogh's drawings to see how he uses MARK-MAKING to describe TEXTURE and VALUE….. These are INK drawings created with a carved baboo pen.


Here are some examples and links….

http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=98&lang=en

and more here at

http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/kids-zone/art-trek/how-van-gogh-made-his-mark

 And this is the best @ 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawings,_water-colours_and_prints_by_Vincent_van_Gogh

Some Van Gogh examples are:

This is "Garden of the Hospital in Arles", 1889.... ink on paper.

This one is "Fountain in the garden of the Hospital Saint-Paul", Black chalk, reed pen and ink, May, 1889,



Look at the variety of marks in these details!!! WOW!

DRAWING CLOTH

Here are some great examples of cloth studies....

from http://blessedwildapplegirl.tumblr.com/post/17271457093/durer

And here @ https://www.pinterest.com/joannalmann/artwork-fabric-study/

Wayne Thiebaud's "Yellow Dress" 1974

More by Durer...

and this from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/17873729743296861/

GOYA for Halloween

Happy Halloween.

Goya is a wonderful artist for this holiday, as his artwork ranges from beautiful and lavish portraits of royalty to scary, grotesque images of witches and giants.

Quick Notes on Goya: 
          BORN 1746 in Spain
       He is famous for creating paintings and prints that were "modern" in their composition and subject- breaking the "rules" of art at that time.
        

Here are several famous examples of his work:

Work done while the court painter to the Royal Family....

Charles IV of Spain and His Family, 1800.

 Portrait of the Duchess of Alba, 1797

Between 1792-93 Goya goes DEAF as the result of illness... he creates Los Caprichos, a series of experimental etchings used to comment on the problems in Spanish Society.

El amor y la muerte (Love and death)

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, c. 1797

"The Disasters Of War" A series of prints describing the horrible events that happened during the Spain's war with France (the Peninsular War of 1808–1814).

Y son fieras (And they are fierce or And they fight like wild beasts)

After the restoration of the Spanish to power, Goya offered to create paintings about the heroic event so the revolution. He created The Third of May 1808, painted in 1814

At the age of 75, living alone and increasingly concerned that he was going mad,  Goya created "The Black Paintings"
A series of paintings created directly on the walls of his home. They are dark comments on the national and political events happening around Goya. They also depict visions and nightmare images from his imagination.

 Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819-1823

The Colossus, 1808 (not on the walls, but on canvas)

Detail from The Colossus.

Here is his self portrait in the famous "hat of candles"....

In this remarkable self-portrait that he painted in the early 1790s, Goya is at work on a large upright canvas, presumably a portrait, his eyes turned away from it towards his subject, which contemporary viewers might well have recognized as themselves. Bright sunshine floods from a large window behind the painter, and he wears a curious hat with candle holders on the brim.
It was undoubtedly as a portrait painter that Goya won fame and advancement and the special praise of Carderera, who observed his 'astonishing facility for portrait painting. He customarily painted portraits in a single session and these were the most life-like.' To this Goya's son added a detail that explains the unusual hat, with metal candlesticks around the crown, that he wears in the self-portrait in his studio: 'He painted only in one session, sometimes of ten hours, but never in the late afternoon. The last touches for the better effect of a picture he gave at night, by artificial light.' Goya's biographer, Matheron, also commented on this practice: 'He was so jealous of the effect that - like our Girodet who painted at night, his head crowned with candles - he gave the last touches to his canvases by candlelight.' 
 * from: http://www.wga.hu/html_m/g/goya/3/301goya.html

FOLIO WORK- Grow a Drawing 2

Here's the handout......

Here are some photos of the sample I was starting last night..... I created shapes that "grow" out of one magazine image and attach to another image. The shapes must match VALUE and TEXTURE of the magazines....