For Hanah: Lance Turner

I know I mentioned him to you before, but I still figured I'd post some stuff here from Lance Turner.  In fact, I found this fun little animation he did that takes you from the original photo through the process to one of his finished paintings:

He works very systematically with the grid, sometime changing up the direction of the information within the grid squares.  The point is to keep the underlying grid visible; to use it as a means of compositional organization rather than trying to hide it.  Think about what you plan to do with the grid.

For Kara: Gary Panter

Gary Panter was one of the founding members of the Lowbrow movement and much of the work done by Lowbrow artist since has been VERY influenced by him.  He was particularly influenced by skater culture imagery, comic books and Saturday morning cartoons from the 60s, and bad B-movies from the 60s and 70s.  These may not be your particular set of lowbrow influences, but look at how he incorporates these things into his work.  Here are a few of his works:

Also, he was hired to design the set (with some help from Rob Zombie!) and some of the puppet characters for Pee Wee's playhouse back in the 1980s.  He got called back again to design the set for the new Pee Wee show on Broadway.

For Kayla: Creighton Gann

Creighton Gann is the artist I was telling you about when we met.  Here is the image I specifically mentioned to you:

This is how Creighton chose to illustrate Christ in Hell.  It is not a literal interpretation.  He could very easily have chosen to give us the very traditional image of Christ (long hair, beard, and all) and surrounded him with flames, demons, whatever.  Instead, look how much this simple, but powerful illustration works.

Click HERE for a slideshow of some of his other work.  Mixed in with the more colorful paintings that you'll see will be more drawings he did at the same time as this one.  The ones from this series are all on large pieces of white paper with charcoal drawings and sometimes little splashes of color.  All of them illustrate biblical or Greek Orthodox traditional stories.  Check them out!

"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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