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Our "Figure Fridays" were a huge success again this year! For 8 weeks we had dance students come into the art room to pose for about 10 minutes. Each Friday, our AP students did gesture drawings of the dancers using a different medium each day, so that they ended up with a large piece of paper with layers of figure studies done in graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, pen and ink, acrylic, watercolor, chalk, crayon and colored pencil. When the 8 weeks were over, my art students had 4 days to deconstruct their figure works and create a new piece! The work is OUTSTANDING!
Beautiful paintings that look a bit like topographical maps. Greek Artist Nikos Gyftakis, makes an analogy in order to explain his paintings. If you were to stand still in front of the mirror, your entire body would be fixed, with the exception of the flow of energy within you, which he symbolises with arcs and circles in his paintings. Colors and shapes, swirl around the face of his models in a continuous way, rather than the sharp lines that constitute our features. As you will see below, his self-portraits include contortions and distortions of his face, that only add to this surreal motion of color. Edwige. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Helena next to her portrait. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Kakia next to her portrait. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Father. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Aunt Georgia. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Eleftheria. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Lars. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Harris. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Self Portrait. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Self Portrait. Press the Image to Enlarge it. Self Portrait. Press the Image to Enlarge it.
The people in Carl Beazley's portraits seem to be fighting internal battles to hold back their grimaces and make straight faces. His oil paintings feature young people wearing multiple expressions at once. Several small faces inhabit their full-sized heads, each one sending a conflicting signal. Some of Beazley's portraits look like a time lapse of a single gesture, while others are meant to confuse and amuse viewers with their incongruities.
“Dream times”, compressed charcoal,conte, chalk and collage on packaging, 40 x 29 cm, 2015
The senior portrait class represents the culmination of the Waldorf painting curriculum, making use of all the years that come before it.
Well, I had one of my usual thoughts at 3am, but instead of writing a note at that early time, I did a voice recording of my thought. Much easier than trying to decipher my chicken scratch when I g…
14″ x 11″ – Oil on Linen I really like the immediacy and spontaneity of this painting. It’s a two layer alla prima portrait without
