Quarter 1
Still Life & Observational Work
Learning How to Draw What We See!
Learning How to Draw What We See!
- Gestural Drawing
- Continuous line
- Blind Contour
- Non-dominant Hand
- Reductive Drawing
Step 1: Thumbnails
The most important place to start! Create a minimum of 3 thumbnail sketches in your sketchbook on one page. This is purely about composition.
Once complete, decided what materials you plan to use. You can choose: charcoal, paint, pencil, pen or marker. We will be focusing on black and white for this drawing/painting.
Once complete, decided what materials you plan to use. You can choose: charcoal, paint, pencil, pen or marker. We will be focusing on black and white for this drawing/painting.
How to use Vine Charcoal - Video by RISD Adjunct Professor Clara Lieu
Still-Life Observational Work
Inspired by:
Working artist & JFK Alumna Robyn Cooper
&
Andrei Rabodzeenko
Inspired by:
Working artist & JFK Alumna Robyn Cooper
&
Andrei Rabodzeenko
FOOD IS LOVE:
To me, every object possesses a personality. I am interested in exploring: family, relationships, the idea of home, community, love, loneliness, isolation, humor, sadness, happiness, food, and gathering around the table. I make work about family. Each family member is a character. Each object I paint has a character. Common products I find in my mother’s cabinets are vehicles for my exploration of family dynamics. - Robyn Cooper
To me, every object possesses a personality. I am interested in exploring: family, relationships, the idea of home, community, love, loneliness, isolation, humor, sadness, happiness, food, and gathering around the table. I make work about family. Each family member is a character. Each object I paint has a character. Common products I find in my mother’s cabinets are vehicles for my exploration of family dynamics. - Robyn Cooper
REMEMBRANCES:
In the Jewish faith, we place a stone on a loved ones grave to show that we have been there, and that the individual’s memory continues to live on through us. To me, and many others, rocks represent the permanence of memory. I started collecting rocks in January 2015. Some I found near my house, others while traveling to visit friends, some were given to me as gifts; each are tokens of love.
In my continuous quest to search and collect I came across a beach in Maine filled with thousands of stacked stones. These stacks, or cairns (kârn), are typically used to mark trails but are historically used as memorials, grave markers, or to mark a sacred space. Each totem is built and left as a tribute just as each painting I make solidifies a moment, time, place, and person in my mind and heart forever.
In the Jewish faith, we place a stone on a loved ones grave to show that we have been there, and that the individual’s memory continues to live on through us. To me, and many others, rocks represent the permanence of memory. I started collecting rocks in January 2015. Some I found near my house, others while traveling to visit friends, some were given to me as gifts; each are tokens of love.
In my continuous quest to search and collect I came across a beach in Maine filled with thousands of stacked stones. These stacks, or cairns (kârn), are typically used to mark trails but are historically used as memorials, grave markers, or to mark a sacred space. Each totem is built and left as a tribute just as each painting I make solidifies a moment, time, place, and person in my mind and heart forever.
Andrei Rabodzeenko
Background
Chicago-based artist Andrei Rabodzeenko was born in 1961 in Kyrgyzstan, Soviet Union to a family of artists. From 1976-1980 he studied painting and drawing at the Benkov School of Art in Tashkent. From 1980-1985 he completed his studies in interior design and architecture at Mukhina School of Design in Leningrad. Since 1991 Andrei lives and works in Chicago. Many of his paintings, drawings, handmade books, and sculptures are in private and public collections in the US and abroad. Multiple media and styles are characteristic of Andrei’s artistic expression.
Statement
My paintings are an act of love. I express my hope for a spiritually awakened humanity, for a humanity that doesn't give in to the pressures of technological domination. I address my paintings to those who seek answers in their quest for spiritual development. My goal, my mission is to evoke human qualities in people. I ask my viewers to look inside themselves and see what it is to be human.
Chicago-based artist Andrei Rabodzeenko was born in 1961 in Kyrgyzstan, Soviet Union to a family of artists. From 1976-1980 he studied painting and drawing at the Benkov School of Art in Tashkent. From 1980-1985 he completed his studies in interior design and architecture at Mukhina School of Design in Leningrad. Since 1991 Andrei lives and works in Chicago. Many of his paintings, drawings, handmade books, and sculptures are in private and public collections in the US and abroad. Multiple media and styles are characteristic of Andrei’s artistic expression.
Statement
My paintings are an act of love. I express my hope for a spiritually awakened humanity, for a humanity that doesn't give in to the pressures of technological domination. I address my paintings to those who seek answers in their quest for spiritual development. My goal, my mission is to evoke human qualities in people. I ask my viewers to look inside themselves and see what it is to be human.