WEEK EIGHT: Value, Charcoal, 2/28-3/5

Images: Light over form

Charles White, Study for Wall, 1968

Images: Charcoal

Learn more about Charles White
PS love this blog by Julia Sverchuk!!

MID TERM LIST OF WORK 3/10-19, regular class happens too
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OTHER......

• CCSF FOCUS magazine, send in jpgs of your artwork!!! deadline Fri 2/28
• Arc 48 Pillars reception Sat Feb 29 7-9pm (I have 3 figure drawings and you need to see ---Sarah newton's ink work!)
• Elmer Bischoff opens Sat 2/29, talk 4-5pm, exhibition 5-7pm Marin MOCA
• Gesture show, Analog Space, Fri. 3/6 closing party 
• NINA KATZ, Figure show, Sat 3/7 talk 3-4pm, reception 5-7pm
• Tito Patri, landscapes, Museo Italo Americano til 3/8
• Pen and Ink demo day at Arch Sat. 3/21
• ONGOING exhibition opportunity at the English Lab

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Over the weekend: Get value into your sketchbooks. Get work ready for your portfolio review. Come  ARC show
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Tue March 3 NO CLASS, FACULTY MEETINGS - go work in your sketchbooks!!!

Thur March 5 Value with Charcoals

Materials: newsprint, white paper, all charcoals, erasers, chamois cloth

Sketchbook due

Mid term portfolio review (regular class too)

WEEK SEVEN: Value, Ink, 2/21-27

Kim Frohsin

Ink: Wash and Line

Ink: Crosshatching

Ink: Dry Brush

Ink: Wax resist

Check out this video by Agnes Cecile of a gestural head

Look: at Suhita Shirodkar and her drawings of SJ homeless

MID TERM LIST OF WORK 3/5,10,12
Be sure to sign up for a critique time slot in class (regular class will be happening while I have critiques with signed up individuals)
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Over the Weekend: Lots of images this week, please take the time to look at them. Get some value happening in your sketchbooks! Play with black and gray ink markers. Next week add pens (bamboo, dip).  

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Tue Feb 25 Value with ink, line/wash 

Materials: Ink, pens, brushes, white paper

Sketchbook due

Thur Feb 27 Value with Ink, open
Materials: same

WEEK SIX: Value Ink, 2/14-20

Student work

Notes: Value

Images:  2 Value Ink
Images: 4 Value Ink Washes

Video by KQED on our model Bob
Video: Hank Vergona

Dr. Sketchys, 2/19, DNA Lounge, 7-10pm, $17
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Over the weekend: Next week starts ink. Nice (but not required) to work on inexpensive bristol or watercolor paper, get some this weekend. Make sure you have other supplies.

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Tue Feb 18:   2 Value Ink shapes

Materials: ink, brush, white paper

Thur Feb 20  4 Value Ink shapes

Materials: same

WEEK FIVE: Shape 2/7-13

Romare Bearden

Shape Notes

Shape Images

Lovely little video of Romare Bearden
And this one on Kara Walker
See local Fernando Reyes figure cut outs

Video about a sketch booker Eduardo Salvisa

Figure drawing marathon 2/9

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OVER THE WEEKEND: Prepare for your work with shape next week. Purchase or, even better,  make color paper! You'll need black on Tue, color and prints are good for Thur. Don't forget your scissors and glue stick and some white paper. And make time to watch the videos!!!! 

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Tue Feb 11 Shape, Cut & Paste
Materials: Black paper 9x12, glue stick, scissors  

Sketchbooks due 

Thur Feb 13 Shape, Cut out
Materials: same plus color paper