The Shadow Knows

1.       The shape and outline of the object.

2.       It is the fundamental aspect of seeing an object. It also interacts with all our other perceptual responses in helping us make sense of our subjects.

3.       By seeing the color and volume of the object.

4.       You incorporate the different elements, such as color and volume, of the subject to give it the qualities of what it is.

5.       It gives the subject the different kinds of energy that it possesses.

6.       It allows you to define the object more and provide more of a dimension to it. You can use different strokes and texture to convey the different emotions of each material.

Vincent Van Gogh

A Pair of Shoes

Van Gogh's Chair

Shoes

Mother Nature Decoded

1. We can take a single stem from that bouquet and choose single trees from that forest to look at and find a way to draw. Looking at the flower will help us draw the proportions of the plant much more easily than concentrating on each part of the plant as we come to it.

2. Looking at the flower will help us draw the proportions of the plant much more easily than concentrating on each part of the plant as we come to it.

3. The basic growing directions will help show the essence of the object and how they affect the painting and plant as a whole. If you start each observation of a subject by deciding what is most important to its character, you will know where to begin your drawing and how to proceed.

Henri Fantin-Latour

Stll Life with Flower

Summer Flowers

Roses in a Bowl

Anne Vallayer-Coster

Bouquet of Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, with Peaches and Grapes

Flowers in a blue vase

Study Of A Bouquet Of Gilly Flowers

The Beagle Vanishes

De Chirico

Gare Montparnasse

De Chirico

The Disquieting Muses

De Chirico

Piazza d'Italia

Concentration Idea

1.   What is the central idea of your concentration?

My central idea is to make a story of "first love" with my artwork. This would be mostly at high school ages even though at that age they are still naive about what the true meaning of love is, but it is because of the naivety that they would represent first love well. They would bring love to its purest. First love is a very beautiful thing to come across and everyone will come across this feeling someday in their life. I find it able to relate to many people.

2.   How will the work in your concentration demonstrate the exploration of your idea?

I'd have different drawings of the beginning, middle, and end of the love. At first they won't know each other, but later on in my drawings, I'd show their developments in their love and then it'd end sadly with their separation.

Hatching the Pot

1. Lines are enormously useful in describing all kinds of bulging, rolling, bumpy subjects.
2. Since the light is coming from the right and slightly in front of the pot, the shadow on the outside of the pot falls on the left, but the shadow on the inside of the pot is on the right.
3. Curved lines help us feel out the pot’s roundness and because the subtlety of making those lines is a way for us to engage the sensuousness of our reflexes.

                                                                    Giorgio Morandi

Conor Walton

Rachel Ruysch

Harmen Steenwyck

Paul Cezanne

Jan Davidsz de Heem

Frisbee Of Art

1. The red circle was what Giotta painted for Pope Boniface VIII when he was looking for an artist. It's often referred as the ultimate test of drawing.
2. The ellipse is seen everywhere in the world. It's is usually unseen. It represents an imagined space.

Line by Line: Phantom Skill

1. He calls drawing a phantom skill because it's something that we remember having in elementary school where they enjoyed it and drew with great abandon.
2. Seeing the structural logic of the object or figure you are drawing helps improve your drawing skills.
3. Strengthening the link between your eyes and hand helps you make the intended drawing marks. You can do this by practicing your hand-eye coordination

Art & Fear

Introduction

1. Some of my personal fears is that my artwork won't be like-able to the audience or it will never be good enough for anything. When I try new mediums, I feel scared to use them because it might mess up my drawing.

Part I

Chapter I

1. The face of uncertainty means that we'd be making our artwork with the lies of our feelings. Our artwork would not hold things true, but with only what the viewers would like to see.
2. It makes me feel like my artwork would feel unworthy for the people's eyes, but it would represent me much better than trying to impress them.
3. Art is made by ordinary people: Every single day, art is being created by the normal people of the world. They may not know it or their art may not seem like art, but it is still art. I'm not really special in anything. If art is made by ordinary people, like me, then I feel like art made by me is really special because I'd be putting 100% more effort in it than the other people.
4. Labeling myself as an artist makes me feel like I am my own person. However, when labeling myself, I also feel like I am just an artist that has yet to soar.
5. I think labeling myself makes people think I'm special in that field. They might think I'm very skilled as an artist.
6. "My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all." "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." "An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision." "An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it." "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." 

Conte Artists

Nelson Mandela by Louis le Brocquy

Au Concert Europeen by Georges Seurat

The Sheepfold, Moonlight by Jean-Francois Millet

The Lady Clown by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec 

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