I’m sending this stuff because I’m watching this stuff, and I’m watching this stuff because I want to do this stuff. I’m gonna make some heads in clay! Sounds like fun, and if they work, they’ll be good subjects for drawings and paintings when live models aren’t available.
The wonderful secondary benefit is that studying sculpture will make my paintings better. Physically working information into a 3 dimensional form will help me develop my 2 dimensional paintings. It’s a complementary level of knowledge. https://youtu.be/m17DFYI0GLc” el_aspect=”43https://youtu.be/F8Y797g_Jg4
Creative Challenge: Think of a person. They can be someone from any time in history – someone you know, someone famous, or a character in a story. Then, based on their personality, design a hat for them. Go all out on this! They don’t actually need to wear it. Materials for this creative challenge are …
Because Chinese Emperors wore yellow. What??? Pencils are yellow because the emperor wore yellow. Long long ago in China, a complicated system of social rank began to develop, and it developed with color codes. As early as the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC), social hierarchy emerged to be graded by costume color. Over generations, this system …
I’d like to tell you about the most unusual art class I’ve ever been a part of, a class called “Figure in Interior.” “Figure in Interior” sounds normal enough, but this class was anything but normal. I specially designed this Thursday series of Intermediate Studio to shift the artist’s focus away from illustrating the scene …
This challenge was from Catherine Lepp, our newest instructor from the New York Studio School: draw the head of a classical sculpture using only circles and straight lines.
Sculpting a head in clay
I’m sending this stuff because I’m watching this stuff, and I’m watching this stuff because I want to do this stuff. I’m gonna make some heads in clay! Sounds like fun, and if they work, they’ll be good subjects for drawings and paintings when live models aren’t available.
The wonderful secondary benefit is that studying sculpture will make my paintings better. Physically working information into a 3 dimensional form will help me develop my 2 dimensional paintings. It’s a complementary level of knowledge. https://youtu.be/m17DFYI0GLc” el_aspect=”43https://youtu.be/F8Y797g_Jg4
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