SA 300 Amsterdam Paris Spring 2013

Study Abroad Poster 2013

Hello potential travelers here is a link to the course and to EF College Study Tours Trip

FA 104 Figure Drawing 2 Week 6

Inside Outside Figure in Space Demo

Week 6 Recap - This week students focused on dynamic gesture poses on Tuesday and adding a landscape background to their figure in space drawing on Thursday.  Students will begin their Mid-term Figure in Space drawing on Tues Oct 2.

FA 209 Painting 1 Week 6

Limited Earth Palette finished Demo

Week 6 Recap - This week students worked on project 5 Limited Earth Palette.  Students using only the 4 colors (IB, RS, AC, TW) created a still life painting of simple subjects.  Next week students will begin project 6 Color Box.

FA 106 Color Theory Week 6

Face Fall 12' - Stage 3 Demo

Week 6 Recap - This week students began the Faces of the Mohawk Valley Pixel Portrait Project.  In collaboration with other courses in the Arts and Humanities Center students will create portraits of fellow MVCC cohorts while telling the models cultural background and celebrating diversity. Demonstration video HERE.

FA 202 Intermediate Drawing Week 6

Samantha Smith - Faces of MV Fall 12

Week 6 Recap - On Monday students continued preparing final drawings for Mid-term critique Oct 10th.  During this time a demonstration video by Bob Kato was shown on Adult Male Portrait in color Gouache. Wednesday students began the Faces of the Mohawk Valley (Artist Portion) by drawing and interviewing fellow student Samantha Smith.  The next Face drawing day will be in mid October.

Fa 104 homework week 5

 

Robert Liberace Website

Figure Drawing 2 and Painting 1

Looking at our homework assignments this video can help to explain how to see the shading and edges of the forms you choose to create. Scott Video 

Scott Waddell Demonstration Videos

Norman Rockwell Museum Trip

On Thursday September 20 MVCC art department made a field trip with students to the Norman Rockwell Museum to view the Howard Pyle show.

FA 104 Figure Drawing 2 Week 5

Week 5 Recap - This week students made a long pose figure drawing focused on showing the 6 parts of light (High Light {HL}, Light {L}, Half Tone {1/2T}, Reflected Light {RL}, Core Shadow {CS}, Cast Shadow {CA})  This lighting concept was then applied to homework, of 2 drawings (simple object and invented object)

FA 209 Painting 1 Week 5

Limited Earth Palette Demo Week 5

Week 5 Recap - This week the Limited Earth or Dead Palette project was introduced.  By using only Ivory Black, Raw Sienna, Alizarin Crimson and Titanium White students will create a color wheel to find all colors and values of this limited palette.

 

FA 106 Color Theory Week 5

Week 5 Recap - This week students met on Tues to continue working on the Double Face/Ink Blot project.  This project will be due Tues Sept 25th for final critique.  Students should have all face and ink designs as well as all color tests finished.  Thurs was a field trip to the Norman Rockwell Museum

FA 202 Intermediate Drawing Week 5

Week 5 Recap - This week student began focusing on both finished drawings for Mid-term (3) and scheduling for Faces of the Mohawk Valley project.  Demonstration for this week was a Charcoal Wipe out drawing of my Raccoon skull object.  Next week students will work on Faces project on Wednesday.

FA 104 Figure Drawing 2 Homework

Two drawings one from life one from imagination

FA 104 Figure Drawing 2 Week 4

Figure in Space Demonstration #4

Week 4 Recap - This week students learned about the principles of creating a Figure in Space composition while acquiring more practice and mastery in technique.  By drawing a reference figure at the beginning of a drawing students can use principles of vanishing perspective to create a mulch-figural composition.

FA 209 Painting 1 Week 4

Warm Cool still life demo part 2

Week 4 Recap - This week students worked on painting two small still life set ups, one warm version one cool version of the same color.  The starting approach for this fourth project of the semester is drawing on canvas before applying paint. See the demo video here.

FA 106 Color Theory Week 4

Double Face/Ink Blot Color Field Theory Project

Week 4 Recap - This week students began work on the Double Face/Ink Blot Project.  Students will create sketch designs of 4 blots and 4 faces, then select two of each to be placed in small fields of color to examine the properties of color interaction.  Before painting the final face/blots students will also test color combinations to discover the correct relationships for examples A-D.

FA 202 Intermediate Drawing Week 4

Object Ink Wash Drawing (skull)

Week 4 Recap - Monday students worked on constructing finished drawing for midterm critique.  Students are tasked with creating 3 finished drawings (2 of their selected object) for a critique discussion.  Also the Growth Drawing project was introduced.  Students in this exercise will create a drawing that spans at least 3 separate sheets of paper and measure a minimum of 4 ft in any one direction.  Wednesday students began work on the Faces of the Mohawk Valley Project.  In collaboration with other art disciplines and courses students have been tasked with creating a series of works that showcase the diverse backgrounds of the Mohawk Valley culture.

FA 209 Painting 1 week 3

Wet in wet oil demo

FA 104 Figure Drawing 2 Week 3

Figure in Space exercise

Week 3 Recap - this week students finished working on drawing the foreshortened figure and began making figure in space exercise drawings. Next week students will continue with the figure in space exercise.

FA 209 Painting 1 Week 3

Week 3 Recap - This week students worked on two exercises, wet in wet (burnt umber and white) and monochromatic warm cool painting.  Students will continue to work on these still life pieces the following week as well. 

FA 106 Color Theory Week 3

Warm Cool Hue Tint Demo

Week 3 Recap - This week students finished up the first project exercises and held critique at the end of class on Thursday.  All projects should be submitted for grading on Tues.

FA 202 Intermediate Drawing Week 3

Landscape ink drawing demo

Week 3 Recap - This short week students met only on Wed.  A cause of the nice weather, the class made nature drawings outside with ink and brush.  Students should be working on their textbook homework (3 composition drawings, 3 negative space drawings) and the photocopy object overlay drawings.

FA 104 Figure Drawing 2 Week 2

Foreshortening Figure Drawing Exercise

Week 2 Recap - students this week strove to capture a figure drawing in foreshortened perspective.  Beginning with gestures and ending with long poses students were asked to use demonstrated techniques like: envelope shape drawing, peaks and valley mapping, and vertical/horizontal guide lines to create a realistic figure.

FA 209 Painting 1 Week 2

Grisaille Demo stage 2

 Week 2 Recap - On Tues students continued working on the grisaille painting exercise.  Focusing primarily on fading out the initial paint drawing and paying more attention to edges and values.  On Thurs students made a Burnt Umber Imprimatura wipe out painting.  Students strove to recreate a full value picture using only the various shades of umber.

Wipe Out Imprimatura Demo

FA 106 Color Theory Week 2

Color Space Exploration (compliment/harmony)

Week 2 Recap - This week students worked on the three exercises of the first project.
10 color matches, Color Space, Color Triad and Warm/Cool Tint.  Students should hopefully being feeling more confident about working with acrylic paint and its color properties.  The first project will be due on Thursday Sept 6 for critique. 

FA 202 Intermediate Drawing Week 2

Stick Draw Demo

Week 2 Recap - This week students explored a variety of approaches to creating a piece based on their chosen object.  Each exercise is meant to give students a fresh approach to possible solutions for final pieces.

3 tool multi draw demo

FA 104 Figure Drawing 2 week 2

Homework example week 2 cross-contour sphere, cylinder, cube