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May8
Art 1 – Wolf Kahn Landscapes – Due 5/20
Wolf Kahn, Receding Towpath II, 1986
Read the article and watch the two videos within the site linked below. Note especially, in the second video, the path of Wolf Kahn’s career and his comments about painting.
In your sketchbook comments, include the following:
1. What do you find as the most interesting art historical fact in the interviews?
2. What insights about drawing/painting your own landscapes do you gain from listening to, looking at, and reading about Kahn’s personal history and his paintings?
Look at Kahn’s 22 pastel landscapes, found under “Artworks”: Wolf Kahn – Paintings and Pastels
For your sketchbook drawing, do a 30+ minute hand-drawn landscape (or series of landscapes), observed from real life in nature, inspired by Kahn’s work. Try to convey the facts, essence, and spirit of the place that you find outdoors. Color is optional.
If time allows, this homework sketch can be the preparatory drawing for a small soft pastel landscape completed in class.
Watch this painting progression from local pastel artist Sandra Cherk :
May6
Art 3 – Figure in a Setting – due 5/20
Martin Lewis (Australian, 1881-1962) Little Penthouse, 1931
Look at and read about each of these five links before you start your project. Take notes on salient points from each of the sites.
Hopper at MOMA and East Side Interior
http://oldprintshop.com/exhibition/martin-lewis/read-more
Thoroughly sketch ideas for creating an ink drawing with contour, cross contour, and cross-hatching with influence by Hopper, film noir and/or cinema. Draw at least 3 thumbnails to plan out your composition with attention to dramatic or atmospheric light and shadow. How will you create a “cinematic” view in your drawing?
May6
Art 2 – Retold Fairy Tale Engravings – due 5/20
John Tenniel’s illustration for Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1865), “You’re Nothing But a Pack of Cards”
Investigate and read carefully the information at the following sites. In your sketchbook, write comments and respond to items you find interesting in each of the selections below.
1. For this first link, work with a partner and when you come to the part “Mistakes in the Illustrations,” one partner opens up the first and the other the second link so you can compare them side by side.
2. In the link below, take notes on your five favorite illustrations and their surprising sources. (You will translate source imagery like this into your own illustration.)
Look at more information from the menu bar on the left, to learn more.
3. Watch the following video featuring illustrations of Gustave Doré (French illustrator and printmaker, 1832-1883).
4. Note some of the selections in the articles below on the genre of retold tales.
8 YA Authors on the Fairytales and Myths They Want to See Adapted
5. Maurice Sendak (of Where the Wild Things Are) reimagines the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Pay special attention to the line work as you sketch aspects of your favorite illustrations.
6. Make thumbnails of your favorite Tenniel, Doré, and Sendak fairy tale illustrations and note what you like about them.
In your sketchbook, brainstorm a list of possible stories, sources, and ideas for narrative art you will make in your illustrated retelling of a fairy tale.
Lightly pencil before using fine point black pen on 11 x 14″ bristol paper with 1″ margin.
As a narrative, your illustration will indicate actors (human, animal, or hybrid), a setting/location, hints about previous action, and indications of future action.
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