#8 Figure Drawing Visual Library

Negative Shape Figures

with Wet Media

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Finding the Chi

The premise of Chi meditation technique is simple.

i. Many practitioners of it recommend that when inhaling, you think of taking life energy into your body.

ii. When you exhale, release that energy.

This breathing technique can be applied to almost all chi meditations and movements.

iii. When engaged in drawing gestural figures, think that you are recording a thread of energy moving around your body. Similar to one's breathe, this line appears alive, organic and reacts to your sensitive touch and pressure of your tool.

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R E F E R E N C E images

Richard Diebenkorn

Bay Area Artist

1922 - 1993

David Park

Bay Area Artist

1911 - 1960 (49 yo)

#3 Sighting Strategies & Establishing Pictorial Space

The Materials VINE CHARCOAL Vine charcoal is a piece of charred willow. It comes in different softness/hardness varieties. Soft vine charcoal will produce dark gray value, Medium will be lighter, Hard produces the lightest value range. It moves very easily on paper. Its easy to manipulate, almost like clay. It's easy to blend with and remove with a kneaded or plastic eraser. COMPRESSED CHARCOAL Compressed charcoal is much darker. There is a bit of oil in it, and thus the values you can produce will get much darker than vine. The blackness you can produce is very rick and dark. Compressed charcoal also comes in pencil form. Compressed charcoal works best for fine details and for when you want to produce a rich shadow. Sighting & Measurement in Still Life Drawings Make use of a pencil, chop stick or other straight hand held tool that you can use to lay against the still life forms you see. This will help yo...

Guidelines for Multi Media Research Presentations

FALL 2019 Guidelines for Research project and multi media presentation Each student will deliver a 8 - 10 minute multi media research presentation to the class. The purpose of the assignement is to educate the class of the contributions the artist/designer has made, and puts each student in the role of educator. The lectures will include strong visuals and informative facts about the artist/designer Following there will will be a short Q&A with the class as a whole. Prior to student presentations, the digital file needs to be sent to me electronically one day prior to the student presentation. Presentation Checklist > 8 items: _________ Presentations are informative including brief bio, slides of works and how the work fits into the “cultural moment,” including how it is appropriate to our class. It is not a report on the artist. _________ ...

Visual Lecture # Cezanne, Scheile, Dumas -> H20 Media

Paul Cezanne French 1839 - 1906 Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work was the foundation for transitioning from a 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different way of looking at subject matter towards the 20th century. His work eventually leads the way towards the beginning of breaking up space into smaller parts and cubes. Egon Scheile Austrian 1980 - 1918 Schiele was a protégé of Gustav Klimt. Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionist art. He died at the age of 28 of the flu. ...

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