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Coffee. Pen & Ink. Made up of all words associated with a cup of coffee. Word Art Inspiration. Use with any still life object and setting for something different. Good value exercise.

Mark Making Worksheet made by Miss Allen

My drawing 1 kids finished a stippling drawing today. We first worked on turning 2-D shapes into 3-D forms by adding dots. The closer the dots are together, the darker the value, the farther apart,…

Today I felt like drawing, so I thought I'd try cross-hatching. The last—and I think only—time I tried this was for a sad-looking mountain landscape in a first-year studio class, so I had no idea how well a cross-hatched elephant would work. Hatching is a drawing technique used to create shading by drawing (or even engraving or painting) parallel lines. When the lines are placed at right angles to one another, it becomes cross-hatching. The idea is that the number, thickness and spacing of…

The first assignment! Graphite shading, Sharpie hatching, pattern, and themed patterns (the theme being Vampires) If you're going from left to right, # 4 & 5 in that last row need to be switched.

Studying the light through the trees in Working in a Series ©2011 Lena Ohlen Ink on Canvas Technique and Design As I’m developing the content for my new online workshop Abstraction I am continually asking myself what I want my […]

Students learned about the work of Brice Marden by looking at and discussing the meaning of gestural abstraction in his art. Brice Marden traveled in Thailand in the 1980s, where he became interested in Far Eastern calligraphy and the art of the brush stroke. Brice Marden Students used four different color pencils to create the overlapping lines in their work. Students learned how to use overlapping in their artwork to show that something is in front or behind another object. Brice Marden at…

Lesson 2: Rhythm and Balance So basically, design is in a realm of expression all its own. It's neither black or white, night or day, science or art. In design, (haha, no pun intended), designers...

These value scales were done by my 2nd year 2-D kids as a warm-up exercise at the beginning of the school year. Yeah, I know I'm very late in posting them. See if you can find the scale in this first piece by junior Belinda Wu. This is her first year with me and she is coming to me with exceptional skills. She has cleverly hidden the scale in her table tops. Her attention to detail and her shading abilities are remarkable. This next piece by senior Halah Elsahhar is lovely. Her craftsmanship…

Dear Auntie Moonbeam, Ahh the paint chip. Deceptively simple and often overlooked. I’m obsessed with paint chips. I love the little buggers. I should mention I’m a designer and my place…

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Artist page for Brice Marden. Includes Biography, Selected Works, Books, Posters and associated Exhibitions.

It was snowing heavily as we made our way from Highbury Corner to the Estorick Collection Gallery. London looked different, with colours drained to monochrome whites, blacks and greys. We were ab…

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Frank Auerbach was born in 1931, a remarkable figure of German-British Expressionism and Excessivism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.