4v: 2011

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

City Motifs in Paintings

Edward Hopper

Manet

Renior

Pissarro

Chagall

Van Gogh

Seurat

Degas

Manet

Kirchner

Van Gogh

? (American)

Van Gogh

Klee

El Greco

Childe Hassum

Raoul Dufy

Friday, October 14, 2011

How to Make a Cinemagraph

Two links on how the make a cinemagraph.

http://anaestheticdiscourse.com/?p=1011

http://fernandojbaez.com/cinemagraph-tutorial/

Also see Vicsmuse at http://victorpaul-vicsmuse.blogspot.com/2011/09/cinemagraphs.html for more examples of cinemagraphs.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

More Native American Design Examples

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Party for Rousseau Project - Part One

First sketch

An early failed attempt

Preparing to paint over an early painting

More composition sketches done on grocery bag paper
Using charcoal and acrylic

Wood panel
" Shows the back side of wood unfortunately.

Panel after two coats of gesso
size 4' x 5'

Adding thin acrylic underlay tone over the gesso. My hope is this will give the overall painting more warmth and a little more body. We'll see...

Video - applying acrylic tone underlay

A light mix of yellow oxide and titanium white thinly applied, thinned just slightly with water when needed.

No attempt to make it even or smooth. The look is rough with uneven shading. I used a medium size inexpensive house paint brush for this (and to apply the gesso too). *Important to note that the gesso paint was applied with smoother, more even strokes and applied not quite as thinly.

One nice thing about using board is that your brush strokes can be hard against the consistently firm wood. It doesn't have any give. Some people like the give and bounce of canvas better. I like both surfaces, but they do each have a different feel. More on wood vs canvas later.

Ready for light charcoal drawing

Friday, July 1, 2011

Designing Fabric

Screen print

Fabrics by Grotto & Co.
More at: http://www.grottaco.com/
You would learn a lot by working with this woman.

Digital printing

Textiles by Serizawa

More at: http://www.studio-international.co.uk/reports/Serizawa09.asp

& http://www.japansociety.org/event_detail?eid=41b9f5c

Screen printing

Simple fabric design

High tech fabric

Runway TV show

Textile design by Christina Neferis

Monday, June 27, 2011

Native American Clothing - For Fashion Project

*** IN PROGRESS - KEEP CHECKING BACK ***

Putting all related info here for you to check out:

Links and videos:
Dorothy Grant
http://www.dorothygrant.com/

Cherokee Tear Dress (Part 2)

http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/Cherokee/WendellCochran/WCochran-TearDress-Eyewitness.htm

Cherokee Tear Dress (Part 1)

http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/Cherokee/WendellCochran/WCochran0102TearDressFacts.htm

Patricia Michaels of Taos Pueblo
http://www.pmwaterlily.com/index.html

http://www.fashionfoiegras.com/2010/03/american-indian-is-back-in-style-rock.html
http://www.nativetech.org/clothing/regions/regions.html

http://www.themexicandress.com/native-american-triad-dress-pattern.shtml
http://www.fireflybooks.com/bookdetail&ean=9781554074334
http://www.nativeamericanvisions.com/clothing/clothing.htm
http://woodcocompany.com/pro1276298.html

Penny Singer

Friday, June 10, 2011

Favorite Music - Part II: Pop/Rock Music

Here are some of my favorite artists playing some of my favorite songs. This is the music I grew up with and it was a big influence on me.

Again, there's a lot here, so take your time and listen over time, as you get the time and you feel like it's something you want to do. I'll probably add even more as I remember things I've left out.

Some of my earliest music influences when I was growing up were artists like Ricky Nelson, The Everly Brothers, and Buddy Holly.

Ricky Nelson (There was a TV show he was on called The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet that I used to watch. The show was on from 1952-1966.)

The Everly Brothers

Buddy Holly

Next came the Beatles and the "British Invasion" including bands like The Animals, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Zombies and many more. This is the time when I got interested in playing music in bands. I didn't realize it at the time but these British groups were strongly influenced by American music, particularly black blues musicians, and also artists like Buddy Holly.

The Beatles

The Animals

The Rolling Stones

The Zombies

The Kinks

Procol Harum

It wasn't too long before American groups starting gaining popularity, especially a group called The Byrds. They had a different sound and they used folk music which they played with electric instruments and drums.

As I grew older I became more interested in singer/songwriters and folk artists like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Tim Harding, Joan Baez, and Leonard Cohen. And I started writing my own songs.

Bob Dylan

Joni Mitchell

Leonard Cohen

Tim Hardin

Things sort of took off from there. Recording quality started getting a lot better and my interest started to expand more. There were a number of artists/groups that I followed as they began to grow as musicians and songwriters. Also I started to appreciate black soul music and blues music more.

Soul Music

Sam Cook