"What Kind Of Student Are You"?

Click HERE to check out this really funny blog post by illustrator Chuck Dillon.  It gave me a chuckle.  If you are just beginning your education as an art student, you may not have yet come into contact with all of these various "types" of student....but you will!

P.S.:  I don't believe Chuck Dillon is being mean-spirited here.  This is meant all in good fun.  If you recognize yourself amongst these categories (and there's one in there that totally describes me as an art student), please don't be offended.  Just enjoy the humor for what it is: humor.

Project Sketchbook!

Any of you ladies interested in a very simple and easy way to get some of your work into a show?  The Memphis artist group "Rozelle Artists Guild" has a yearly event called "Project Sketchbook".  Essentially, the members of the guild hand-craft hundreds of small-scale sketchbooks that they will then send out to anyone who requests one.  When you receive it in the mail, fill it up however you see fit and mail it back.  All of the sketchbooks will be displayed in an exhibition in Memphis, with the guild members choosing their favorite pages to reproduce in a book that is then sold in area bookstores.

It's a resume builder, and I would encourage all three of you to give it a try.

HERE is the website that will tell you about the project.

Click HERE to request a sketchbook.

P.S. - I've already ordered mine!

THE ART SUPPLIES HAVE ARRIVED!!!

They didn't quite order enough paint, and I have her fixing that.  BUT, there are some canvases of various sizes.  Let me know if there aren't enough.  I'll pass that along to Dawn, as well.  See you Friday!

For Kara: Some More Appropriated Images

Click HERE for the Wikipedia page that covers Appropriation in art.

I don't know who did this one, but it's pretty damn funny!

I'm also not sure who is responsible for this one, but it's also amusing.

Ai Kijima

Here are a couple of mixed media pieces by Ai Kijima in which she's incorporating imagery from such diverse sources as "Thomas the Tank Engine" to "Strawberry Shortcake" to "Bratz" to retro newspaper clip art to brothel imagery.

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For Hannah: Info on "The Grid" and "Postmodern Portraiture"

THE GRID

Click HERE for a brief lesson on how to transfer images from a gridded photograph onto a gridded canvas/paper.  You, yourself, may make more inventive choices when transferring the information than the way it's done in this demo, but it will give you a very simple method.

The Grid System is a website were people get REALLY crazy in-depth about ways of using the grid in art and math.

Click HERE for a gallery of images by an artist I know named Lance Turner.  He works VERY extensively with the grid.  His website is a little buggy, but if you're patient with it, you'll be able to check out quite a few of his grid-based paintings.

POSTMODERN PORTRAITURE

Click HERE for the website of artist Gottfried Helnwein.  He is a postmodern portraitist whose work is very photo-realistic while also VERY sarcastic and sometimes dark.

Click HERE for a thesis on the history of portraiture (it's not too long).  The last few paragraphs are specifically about Postmodern portraiture.

While doing some contemporary portraiture research, I just found this painter that I had never heard of, ANDREA KOWCH.  Check out her painting, especially the "new" and "recent" works.  She's totally appropriating Andrew Wyeth.

For Kara: A Slideshow That Educates You About Appropriation

Check this out.  It's pretty informative and may give you some ideas for your own work:Cut&Paste: Appropriation Art

View more presentations from Deborah Jackson

For Heather: Some Resources For "Lowbrow" Art

Click HERE for the Lowbrow Movement's Wikipedia page.

Click HERE for a list of Pop Surrealist artists on Wikipedia.

The Roq La Rue Gallery is a gallery in Seattle, WA, that exhibits Lowbrow art.

You can read and view a few pages from Weirdo Deluxe, the definitive book of Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow, HERE.

Course Syllabus

Just in case you misplace your syllabus, here is a copy: