A couple of sketchbook images to inspire your Homework assignment for this week!
Also check out the Fun ways to start the sketchbook habit over there in the LINKS menu——>>>
Sketchbook Home Work
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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Meadows Museum at SMU
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Sho, a monumental sculpture by contemporary Spanish artist Jaume Plensa (b. 1955). Completed in 2007, the work represents a female head and is formed by white-painted stainless steel openwork mesh. It stands approximately 13 feet tall and 10 feet wide (157 ½ x 157 ½ x 118 -1/8 inches) and weighs 660 lbs. Plensa uses line in this sculpture to delicately render the contours of a young girls face. I highly recommend the new exhibit The Stewart Album…beautifully illustrated letters with incredible pen and ink drawings!
Home Work
Vincent Van Gogh Pair of Wooden Shoes, Arles, March 1888
For your homework this week please draw a pair of footwear. I want you to draw them from life and not an image. Shoes, boots, skates, snow shoes….be creative, have fun and do your best. Any media that you choose! Be ready to show me when you come to class the week of Sept. 3rd and 5th. If your class has not received a sketchbook yet, you may do this assignment on any plain white printer paper if you like. I hope to have all the new sketchbooks in by next week.
An online lesson in drawing a shoe….if you want to go deeper and try again!
The Right Brain
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Here is a link to an article on why unleashing the potential of the Right Brain could help kids succeed in life.Thanks to CKS mom Diane Feffer for sharing this!
Judy Phaff
The artist Judy Phaff uses LINE in interesting ways in her installation and sculpture work…here is a link to more of her whimsical art.
http://www.judypfaffstudio.com/
Santiago Calatrava
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Check out the interesting use of line in these two buildings designed by Santiago Calatrava…he is the same architect that designed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas…have you driven over it yet?
There is a link to more of Calatrava’s impressive Architecture over in the links on the side bar–>
Dale Chihuly
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The glass artist Chihuly uses line expressively in his blown glass sculptures. This one hangs in the Spencer Theater in Ruidoso New Mexico. Maybe some of you saw his work at the Dallas Arboretum last year….I hope so! There is a link to more of his art at his web-site in the Links section in the menu bar over there—->
Art at the beach
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I really like this photograph of surfers walking across the circular lines of this earth art piece. It is a compelling image to me!
David Smith Australia
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The sculptor David Smith said making his sculpture was like drawing in space.
Here is a link to his work in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
Line as the subject
Check out this slideshow of the work of Cy Twombly…he often reduced his imagery to pure expressive lines!
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/07/06/arts/cy-twombly-art-5.html?_r=0
Mr. McK.'s Art Page 