I have been digging Barry McGee's work for some time. He started out as a graffiti artist (aka Twist), gained some San Francisco recognition, then went to college, and continued to travel and develop his mix of line, characters, and assemblages. He has been able to bring his "street style" to museums and galleries around the world. I love the way he assembles many drawings and/or patterns to create one of a kind installations. I also enjoy the often sad sack looking dudes that inhabit many of his paintings and drawings. I find the juxtaposition between those guys and his repetition of line, color, and shape quite enjoyable and dare I say, intriguing. So, the 5th graders got one more dose of street art in their art curriculum this year:) The students thought those dudes were pretty interesting. And pretty weird. I showed them a number of his more current pieces and emphasized how Barry creates a lot of unity in his work through repetition. I did this project with two of my 5th grade classes. Each of the classes created a large collaborative drawing based on Barry's use of pattern and portraits. Each of the students was responsible for at least a pattern in the final design. If they wanted to include a portrait into their drawing I encouraged them to do so. One class did their drawings on all white paper. The other did their patterns on black paper and portraits on white. I wanted the 2 final pieces to contrast in terms of base value. As students finished up with their drawings they brushed multi-media varnish on the back and then placed them on a large canvas. Once the assembled drawings were totally dry I went in with scissors and and an x-acto blade and removed the extra canvas around and in between the pieces. I brushed a clear varnish over them as well. The clear varnish removed some of the color intensity on the black paper one. I should have tested it on a small piece before jumping in. Lesson learned... Overall though, I think they came out pretty interesting. We are hanging our big student show this week and next, so I will have to post a couple pics of these in "exhibition context".
Went to the opening night a couple of weeks ago, craziness, lots of folks of course. Barry's work was much of the same, but, still always amazes me.
How to master the infinitely rewarding art of “being present and seeing what’s there.”
I've been a fan of cartoonist, novelist and memoirist Lynda Barry for decades, long before she was declared a certified genius; Barry's latest book, Making Comics is an intensely practical, incredibly inspiring curriculum for finding, honing and realizing your creativity through drawing and writing.
Inspired by a previous post dedicated to the artist Barry McGee, the art teacher Marcella Manco with her students of Arezzo Middle School “Piero della Francesca” , created these amazing…
Making Comics is both stylish and engaging, a graphic manual for artists. Lynda Barry balances reprints of her lovingly hand-drawn homework assignments with illustrated examples she’s gathered from teaching students of all ages and skill levels, from toddlers to college kids, beginners to experts.
Professor Lynda Barry has been on a roll of late. First, she published her astonishing and inspired writing-workshop-in-a-book, What It Is. She followed that up with Picture This: The Near-sighted…
R ewatched recently while under the weather. Beautiful Losers , 2008. Dir. x Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard. A longtime favorite of Secret...
Cartoonist turned educator Lynda Barry is again permitting the world at large to freely audit one of her fascinating University of Wisconsin-Madison classes via her Tumblr.
At the Carnegie International's Life on Mars show. blog.cmoa.org/CI08
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In the first file you find 20 details of a bicycle, in pdf file, ready to be colored in an individually activity, with texture, zentangle or solid colors. In the second file you find 28 numer…
By Barry McGee / TWIST at the Carnegie International's Life on Mars show. blog.cmoa.org/CI08
I have been digging Barry McGee's work for some time. He started out as a graffiti artist (aka Twist), gained some San Francisco recognition, then went to college, and continued to travel and develop his mix of line, characters, and assemblages. He has been able to bring his "street style" to museums and galleries around the world. I love the way he assembles many drawings and/or patterns to create one of a kind installations. I also enjoy the often sad sack looking dudes that inhabit many of his paintings and drawings. I find the juxtaposition between those guys and his repetition of line, color, and shape quite enjoyable and dare I say, intriguing. So, the 5th graders got one more dose of street art in their art curriculum this year:) The students thought those dudes were pretty interesting. And pretty weird. I showed them a number of his more current pieces and emphasized how Barry creates a lot of unity in his work through repetition. I did this project with two of my 5th grade classes. Each of the classes created a large collaborative drawing based on Barry's use of pattern and portraits. Each of the students was responsible for at least a pattern in the final design. If they wanted to include a portrait into their drawing I encouraged them to do so. One class did their drawings on all white paper. The other did their patterns on black paper and portraits on white. I wanted the 2 final pieces to contrast in terms of base value. As students finished up with their drawings they brushed multi-media varnish on the back and then placed them on a large canvas. Once the assembled drawings were totally dry I went in with scissors and and an x-acto blade and removed the extra canvas around and in between the pieces. I brushed a clear varnish over them as well. The clear varnish removed some of the color intensity on the black paper one. I should have tested it on a small piece before jumping in. Lesson learned... Overall though, I think they came out pretty interesting. We are hanging our big student show this week and next, so I will have to post a couple pics of these in "exhibition context".
On a recent painting trip to Montenegro, I was driven up into the Gluhi Do Mountains. The lighting on this day was very flat and I wasn’t sure I could make a painting out of it. Design strategy To help me find a good composition, I created a notan design in my sketchbook, to work […]
Inspired by the works of Barry McGee, we have made some portraits and we have combined them with surfaces made at collage in style “optical art”. We used colored card and we drawn the…
Making Comics is both stylish and engaging, a graphic manual for artists. Lynda Barry balances reprints of her lovingly hand-drawn homework assignments with illustrated examples she’s gathered from teaching students of all ages and skill levels, from toddlers to college kids, beginners to experts.
Our reverence for cartoonist Lynda Barry, aka Professor Chewbacca, aka The Near Sighted Monkey is no secret.
Like most of her work, cartoonist Lynda Barry's course at the University of Wisconsin is unorthodox: No artistic skill is required. In class, and in her own work, the cartoonist aims to strip away the stiffness of adulthood and plug people into their innate creativity.
On the occasion of her first New York solo show, Lynda Barry offers tips on keeping students engaged, tackling taboos, and learning to laugh at yourself
A friend recently alerted us to Lynda Barry's book What It Is: ' It is a book about writing that provides guidance on how you can re-discover skills you likely possessed before getting caught up in the notions of 'good and bad'. It's more than a book. It's a public service. Barry is trying to help everyone reconnect with lost creative capability and provides a path for doing it. The book was published in 2008 and is a wonderful work of art in itself.' We love it, and how daring, non-linear and honest Barry lets herself be... ...which makes for her being very wise...
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Inspired by the works of Barry McGee, we have made some portraits and we have combined them with surfaces made at collage in style “optical art”. We used colored card and we drawn the…
Cartoonist Lynda Barry, who has helped legions of adults grope their way back to the unselfconscious creativity of childhood, is teaching at the university level.
How to master the infinitely rewarding art of “being present and seeing what’s there.”
This @alienvsrobbins bit reminds me of how Lynda Barry talks about "the image" in art — the living thing https://t.co/D9Mb2N7Nn4
