Portrait Project for Foundations of Art

White Colored Pencil on Black Paper

We will be drawing portraits with white colored pencils starting Monday October 12. Here are some pieces that might give you a boost.

Advanced art collage

The Advanced Art class is working on a project based around collage.
Specifically collage based on community.

Here are several examples.








http://www.pasteandpixels.com/artists.htm

Check out Romare Bearden, he was a master of collage.

Drawing Faces

Here are some tools to help you draw human faces. Remember you can learn much from books and videos but the most important thing is to draw what you see, not what you know!


Check this website out
http://www.portrait-artist.org/face/




Here are a couple drawing tutorials that might help. There are tons more on youtube. Some of them are very helpfull some are more for cartooning.

Visually striking music videos

Day 'n' Nite - Kid Cudi from DP on Vimeo.

Coldplay - Strawberry Swing (Official HD Video) from swashbuckley on Vimeo.

Radiohead - Pyramid Song from Wes Dorris on Vimeo.

Thom Yorke, "Harrowdown Hill" from Bent Image Lab on Vimeo.

Art Magazines

Juxtapoz Magazine is a fun website to go to for illustrative art, graffiti style art and cartoony urban art.
Artforum Magazine is good for contemporary fine art. This is the kind of art you might see on Art:21 the program we watch in class that is on PBS. This is also the kind of art you might see in fancy pants art galleries in New York and Milan

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Aperture Magazine is a fine art photography magazine.



Here is a list of some other art magazines...

• American Art Review
• Aperture- quarterly on photography; based in New York, USA
• Apollo - monthly
• Art and Antiques
• Art+Auction
• Art & Project - leading Dutch art magazine, 1968-1989
• Artforum - est. 1962 in San Francisco, now based in New York, USA
• Artlink
• Artibus et Historiae - semi-annual journal of art historical research
• Art in America est. 1913; covers US and international art but concentrated on New York
• ARTINFO
• ArtAsiaPacific- covers contemporary art in Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East; was based in Sydney, Australia, now based in New York, USA
• Art of England
• Art on paper - coverage of artists working in a range of paper-based media
• Art Monthly - est. 1976, UK-based coverage of contemporary art and the issues that surround it
• ART PAPERS, based in Atlanta, USA
• ARTnews - founded in 1902
• Bedeutung - a quarterly publication of philosophy, current affairs, art and literature
• Blueprint - A London based magazine on design and architecture
• The Blue Review, a London-based arts magazine published in 1913
• BOMB Magazine
• The Burlington Magazine est. 1903, based in London, England
• Circa - journal for contemporary art in Ireland
• Constance - est. 2006, based in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Contemporary
• Culture Lounge
• Daruma Magazine
• Dialogue
• Die Insel - 1899-1901, Munich, Germany
• The Drama
• Esopus
• Fillip
• frieze - a London-based contemporary art magazine
• ImagineFX est 2006; based in Bath, UK
• Juxtapoz
• KIOSK - art, design and architecture magazine, est. 2007, based in London, UK
• Kunstkompass
• Kunstzeitung
• Lacadalet Magazine - international cultural bridge
• Lens Culture - International art of photography, est. 2004
• L'ŒIL - French, est. 1955
• Locus Suspectus
• Metronome - founded in the 1996 by the Metronome Press in Paris, France
• Minotaure - (1933-1939) surrealist-oriented; founded by Albert Skira in Paris, France
• Mir iskusstva - est. 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia
• Modern Painters
• New Art Examiner (1973-2002) based in Chicago, USA
• Nictoglobe - Since 1986, founded by A. Andreas in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Percolator - International Online Contemporary Art Reviews
• Photosho - Showcase of Canadian Photographers
• PLAZM
• Portfolio, The Magazine of the Visual Arts
• Print Connoisseur - 1920 to 1924
• Sculpture - published by the International Sculpture Center
• TradeArt - underground art magazine, est. 1999, published by TradeArt Incorporated, Maryland, USA
• White Fungus Magazine
• Zingmagazine

John Paul Doguin

Here is some photography work from one of my best friends John Paul. He lives in Boston now. He shoots at night time with a view camera which is one of those big cameras with the bellows and fabric that you put over your head. I love his work and I hope you check it out.


http://johnpauldoguin.com/home.html

Artprize in Grand Rapids

Check out Artprize, a large scale art competition in Grand Rapids Michigan.

All My Friends Can Catch Good

This is a video done by my friend Tyson Schwertner. You might see someone familiar while watching it.

Weekend Art Events

Flint Institute of Arts

The F.I.A. has an amazing exhibit going on all about poster design, specifically rock and roll posters. Everyone should check it out. There is also an artist showing from Chicago that I have met named Jay Ryan, you can check out his stuff at http://www.thebirdmachine.com/















http://www.flintarts.org/

Flashback: Posters from the Golden Age of Rock & Roll
















Graphic Beauty: Contemporary Rock & Roll Posters