As an art student, my niece Allyson is asked to do projects that require her to learn new tools and techniques. For a recent project in her technical drawing class, the instructor demonstrated how to use french curves to achieve perfect curves. After several disastrous attempts to work with the french curves, Allyson finally reverted [...]
I drew this charcoal still life many years ago for my Drawing & Perspective class at the Art Institute. The original artwork is about 24″ x 36″. We were studying positive and negative space while sketching from real life objects. It was one of my first attempts at drawing with charcoal…I found it to be [...]
I’ve always admired public art and American artist Jeff Koons’ “Puppy” is one of my favorites. The “Puppy” topiary sculpture is a steel structure covered in beautiful flowers. Modeled after a West Highland White Terrier, the statue is 43 feet tall and includes an internal irrigation system. After traveling the world (Germany, Australia and New [...]
In art school, we explored the idea of the golden rectangle, a fascinating concept. In this piece of art I created as a student, I incorporated several design principles we had studied including repetition, texture, triadic color scheme, and contrast. The backgrounds and cutouts are all colorized photographs/scans. Digital art that is a combination of [...]