Today the 3 drawings were passed back to the students and their favorite single drawing was selected out of the personal coat of arms, avatar, and caricature.
The selected drawings were then posted on the wall, and a semi-circle was formed facing the work. Each student was encouraged to select a drawing from the group and talk about its formal issues, content, and rendering.
Vocabulary:
formal, line-weight, expressive, tight, loose, realistic, abstract, placement, confluence, horizon, perspective, foreground, middleground, background, symbolism, balance.
To close the class, avatar discussions were made public, and we talked about browsing habits and favorites.
Published by Pete Ippel
Pete Ippel, the son of a dancer and a musician, was born in Oak Park, Illinois and has been surrounded by the arts since birth. He moved to Morris, Illinois in 1989 and started to participate in athletics rather than dance. After high school, Pete attended Cornell University where he received a BA in psychology and a BFA in photo / digital art making. He continued to follow his sporting dreams in the high jump, which culminated in a school record leap of 7 feet 1/2 inch in 2001.
In May 2004 he attained an MFA degree in the New Genres department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Presently Pete is a practicing artist whose work is in numerous private collections and has been exhibited in New York, California, and internationally.
Mr. Ippel resides in Working Artists Ventura, a sustainable artist community in southern California. In addition, he teaches art, is a web developer, an active blogger, and still high jumps from time to time.
As a passionate problem solver and a pragmatic optimist, Pete’s art and his life are full of exciting challenges.
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