Random Notes and Sketches

Sketch of Mimi

After reading the art 2: blog, Teaching with Rochelle Feinstein by Joe Fusaro, http://blog.art21.org/2011/04/20/teaching-with-rochelle-feinstein, I searched through some of my very old sketchbooks and came across from notes, and sketches. While I don't think I will use the abandoned art as suggested in the art 2: blog – I found some notes and a few insignificant thumbnails sketches I thought I'd share.

​Although I wrote these notes down, they are not my words but the words of various art professors who will remain nameless, because I cannot recall who said what during various art classes from years ago.  Neither can I remember what I might have thought at the time that these words were being spoken, but I did indeed write them down perhaps because I thought them valid, or because I thought them odd. Who knows? What I do know is that as I looked through them today, I found some to be rather narrow-minded, but amusing nevertheless.

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ART: It's passionate quality lies in the subject matter as well as the very dramatic use of light and dark.

REALISM: Historically, abstract and realism do not work together. All realism deals with random, an extension of random is everyday. Realists (most) must understand what they're drawing. They know their range and are not inventive. They accept the world that they live in, often homebodies. Realists give people something they can draw from, something tangible.

MARKS & COLOR: Consider consistency in your marks, i.e, soft marks, fluid marks, hard marks. White does not bridge, it separates. Consider using red – it stops. Or yellow, it slows down. Black does not represent "real".

DRAWING & SKETCHING: Don't throw away your sketches. Consider using elements of drawings that worked in other drawings. The faster you work, the more likely you are to capture expression. Perspective does not exist in reality – it was created to give illusion. One point perspective in less dynamic than two point perspective. When drawing a room, never use the edge of paper to divide a room. Renaissance – worm's eye, Impressionism – eye level, Contemporary – bird's eye.

ARTISTS:
Baldessari: conceptual artist - deals with everyday phenomena https://artsy.net/artist/john-baldessari
Caravaggio: realist painter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio
Claudio Bravo: hyper-realist painter http://www.claudiobravo.com/en_biography_1.html
Martin Puryear: sculptor http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/28
Diego Velázquez: painter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez
John Singer Sargent: painter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent
Joseph Cornell: sculptor http://www.josephcornellbox.com
Hieronymous Bosch: painter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch
Alice Neel: painter http://www.aliceneel.com/gallery
Hollis Sigler: Chicago http://www.hammergallery.com/artists/Sigler/sigler.htm
Lucien Freud: English http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/freud
Seymour Rosofsky: Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Rosofsky

Thumbnails from An Old Sketchbook.