Many Sides

A portrait example from class. It's a former student who didn't use the picture I took of him for his self portrait project several years ago so this year I finally decided to use it. He kind of looks like a skinhead, but as far as I remember him he basically hated everyone equally. 

Helper Skeleton

An example painting for class on color. Based off an old publicity still of Sharon Tate. I wanted to go for a look that was somewhere on the border between psychedelic sixties and deep few days old bruising.
(The blog post title was supposed to be "Helter Skelter" but autocorrect had other ideas)

Safe

We took a field trip downtown the other day for the Education for the Arts Peace Forum where our students along with students from other area schools met and participated in an assortment of arts workshops. I made this in a workshop on using the language and techniques of street art to cover the topic of community.
It's maybe a little pretentious, but hey, I whipped it off in 20 minutes with markers glue and index cards, so I don't think it turned out too badly.

Rapt Attention

I doodled up a dinosaur to do a quick Photoshop coloring demo for my EFA class.

Pucker Up

Attendance was really low today (it's hard for school to compete with a sunny Friday) so with fewer things I had to take care of I decided to Photoshop up my pencil drawing from the other day with some mid tone and highlights type monochromatic values. Since that's what we're working on in my EFA class I'll use it as an example.

Pucker

My class is small and was quietly working independently, so I decided to draw. I think I'll probably play around with this in Photoshop and use it as an example for another class, but for now I kind of like it as just a pencil drawing.

 

The Dye is Cast

This painting is supposed to be an example for class for a creative way to do a color wheel.  

Looking at it now though I realize it looks like I made a poster for lesbian pride.

Flying Leap

Another example for that EFA project.

Model Sheet

For my EFA class we did an assignment where they came up with a character, created a model sheet for the character, then swapped and drew each other's characters. It was pretty fun.
This was the example I made just in case we wound up with an odd number for pairing off. It's a revised version of a character from the comic strip I had in my college's newspaper as an undergrad.

Pugly

An example for Art Class. The assignment was to pick a breed of dog and three colors and is essentially a paint mixing assessment.

Mean Cuisine

We did a color theory assignment in class examining the way marketing and advertising uses color to manipulate consumers and cater to specific demographics. The idea was to take a product targeted to one demographic, for example women, and alter its color scheme to appeal to another demographic, for example men.
For my example I tried to give Lean Cuisine a makeover to sell it to dudes, complete with douchy Ed Hardy tribal designs to replace the cutesy curly q vectors.

Coney Dog

An unorthodox color wheel example for art class.
Sadly this cute lil  guy's bichromatic vision lacks the third cone necessary to see the colors of his own rainbow wig.

Blue Shadows on the Trail

Another Art Class example, this one of using silhouettes, positive and negative space, and layers of space, all with cut colored paper. 

The inspiration for this project was seeing the Multiplane Camera Walt Disney developed for "The Old Mill" and then later used in features like "Snow White" on display at Disney World a couple of years ago. The idea was that animation lacked depth because the camera could on pan and tilt but not move through the scene along the z axis. The Multiplane Camera broke the background down into multiple layers of space which were then physically separated into racks whose proximity to the camera could be adjusted to give a moving camera effect because though each element was flat they now had genuine physical space on a z axis that could be adjusted.

In the project we create a z axis by separating the layers with pieces of foam board and hot glue (which I haven't done here actually- I just left it as layers of colored paper).

I've done this project for two years now but this is the first time I tried making one myself.

Metro

Another Art Class demo.

This one is the robot lady from Metropolis- part of my machinations to make sure that whatever we use as source material in class is safely within public domain.

2 Kool 4 Skool

Count Day was this week, so I thought I'd draw a student who was too cool for school (in that they no longer attend school).

(I used an old picture I took for a self portrait project she never finished to make a regular portrait rather than a self one)

Another Word for Pirate Treasure

We're using grids to scale images in art class, and what better extension of that than map making? So we're going to make treasure maps. This is my example.

Night’s Plutonian shore

I took an old drawing and the text of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" and turned it into a Word Cloud piece as an example for an upcoming assignment on positive and negative space. I thought the students would have fun doing them and that it might help get the idea across.

As close as a star to the moon

More from ArtWorks and more from me doing examples to hash things out as far as figuring out timetable, potential challenges, fixes, ect, this time with the trifold mailer layout. 

It also gave me the opportunity to take elements we didn't go with as a group and see what they would have been like taken to conclusion.

Backhand

A redo for an assignment example. The idea is that students get to do the Thanksgiving turkey style hand tracing, but then have to add every detail inside from careful observation.

Of course it helps to have older hands with some details to draw.

Planet of the Shapes

Another redo.