Unstuck....Get.

http://makesomething365.blogspot.com/

Fabulous artist, writer and blogger.  Check out his book, "Unstuck".

Negative is not always bad...

September 13-16 Negative Space! Negative space is the area around the main design. This week we explored relationships between positive and negative shapes, starting with drawings of the space around a chair. Then we switched to paper cutout designs. Check out some of the artwork.
Click here for the lesson.

September 1, 2011-
 We are strengthening our observational drawing skills by looking at and using Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of  the Brain.  We are drawing upside down, making vases out of faces, and drawing blind!  All this relies on the fact that our dominant, verbal, logical, sequential brain is dirrerent from the visual , intuitive, creative  brain.  Lets unlock its potential!
click on the link to be taken to her website.
http://www.drawright.com/

LETS GET STARTED!!

Power Point presentation on OP ART

After a summer of working for victims in Joplin, its time to get back to school!  First project, make a sketchbook!  Lets get creative and make some cool designs for the cover.  Lets see..... How about OP ART!  Check out these awesome op art websites while you are at it!

Artists focus, Bridget Riley,
Victor Vasarley

http://www.123opticalillusions.com/

http://www.op-art.co.uk/