Thursday, February 3, 2011

Robert Henri: inspired line


"You should not draw a line, but an inspired line."

Robert Henri: Drawing




"Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing."

Robert Henri: On Bad Drawings

"Keep a bad drawing until, by study, you have found out why it is bad."

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Pos neg shapes

Sketchbooks-DUE Feb 8th!!

Feb 15th--Artist Essay-Assigned Artists

Turn in 3 things
1)Draft
2) reverse outline that you buid from your draft (this will expose gaps and flaws in your writing).
3)final paper

see pages 31-32 in drawing workbook for details

Contemporary Artist



Donna W.-Carrie Mae Weems

AG.-Layla Ali

TJ.-Trenton Doyle Hancock

RC.-Mark Bradford

Kelsey K
ML.-Andrea Zittell

BL.-Ellen Gallagher

AP.-Kerry James Marshall

JR.-Kara Walker

DB.-Julie Mehretu

CR.-Paul Pfeiffer

KS.-Martin Puryear

SS.-Do Ho Suh