Start of the semester quote

"I love the quality of a pencil. It helps me to get to the core of a thing." - Andrew Wyeth, American artist

 

With a return to in-person classes, this blog is returning from sleep mode. Again, I have the pleasure of revisiting past student work.

Start of the semester quote

In times of dread artists must never choose to remain silent.

- Toni Morrison, writer

Student work

 

Student work

Student work

start of the semester quote

"A drawing can better convey my feelings than any words can." 

- Yoshitomo Nara, contemporary Japanese artist

start of the semester quote

"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh."

-John Singer Sargent

Student sketch

Student sketch

Student sketch

Student sketch

figure drawing | drawing f'18

"Art is not what you see but what you make others see." - Edgar Degas

Jinjing

Taryn

Louise

Michael

Kohdai

start of the semester quote

"To imagine a composition is to combine elements of objects, that one knows, that one has seen, with others held inside, in the soul of the artist." - Eugene Delacroix, French artist, 1793-1863

Chloe, SIS II '18

Chloe, SIS II '18

Neal, SIS II '18

Freya, SIS II '18

Emily, SIS II '18

Emily, SIS II '18

start of the semester quote

"The dripping...well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work." - Keith Haring

Student work

Student work

start of the semester quote

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.  

-Leonardo da Vinci

Student work

Student work

Student work

start of the semester quote

"Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'it can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me." 

- Damien Hirst, British artist

Student work

Student work

Student work

start of the semester quote

"It is often said that Leonardo (da Vinci) drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well." 

- Kenneth Clark, Art Historian 

Student work, SIS II '16

Student work, Drawing Sp'13

Student work, Life Drawing f'16

start of the semester quote | drawing f'16

"Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper."  -Pablo Picasso

start of the semester quote | life drawing F'16

In the following excerpt, from a TED talk by the Korean writer, Young-ha Kim, switch the word "writing" for drawing and you have one indisputable explanation for importance of gestures.

"...The reason I make them write like crazy is because when you write slowly and lots of thoughts cross your mind, the artistic devil creeps in. This devil will tell you hundreds of reasons why you can't write: "People will laugh at you. This is not good writing! What kind of sentence is this? Look at your handwriting!" It will say a lot of things. You have to run fast so the devil can't catch up..."

Mika

Yoomee

Mansueta

start of the semester quote

"Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper." 

 - Pablo Picasso

When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you

Pablo Picasso

Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1249901

gestures | drawing f'15

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.    - Robert Henri, American painter and teacher, from The Art Spirit (1923)

Cristina

Teige 

start of the semester quote

"It is often said that Leonardo (da Vinci) drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well." 

- Kenneth Clark, art historian, 1903-1983