Fall 2010 WEEK 10:—11/18: Wed, 9:00am—12:00pm &—11/20 Fri, 12:25pm—3:25pm

Hi everybody,

This week in class, we had a bit of a rest from drawing. We did do some drawing, but most of the class was taken up playing around with Photoshop. Photoshop is a tool that I daresay all computer designers and artists use. It is so widespread that even ordinary people (like my parents) use, even though they know little about computers. It is a gigantic program and so it does many, many things. Please try to make a habit of using it. I am no expert at Photoshop, but I also use it regularly in my work.

We will continue using Photoshop next week for homework, so please give yourself time to work with it if you find yourself struggling. Also, regarding the 10 images that you collected this week, please retain those as we will be using ALL of them in subsequent exercises.

Last week for homework I introduced something that is new in a couple of ways. First, I put a few videos on my blog, something I'd never used before, that you should watch and follow by drawing along. It is new in a second way as well, and that is that it is explaining one method of creating a human head/face in profile. So this series of videos is a way to introduce the topic of the face as an object to draw. There will not only be more videos for you to watch over the next few weeks, but also a whole series of drawings that involve the face. If you follow along in earnest, I believe you'll be happy with the results that you produce by the end of the term.
Carter-

Some drawing exhibitions around NYC
1. The Drawing Center
2. Queens Museum of Art: waterLINE: Porto Alegre - New York, 2010 by Claudia Vieira
3. Metropolitan Museum: Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection
4. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA): On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century (STARTS NOVEMBER 21)
5. Morgan Library: Degas: Drawings and Sketchbooks
6. Morgan Library: Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968
7. Marianne Boesky Gallery: Un’idea Brillante: Alighiero e Boetti


The Exhibition is not a drawing exhibition, but it is pertinent to design & technology students:
8. Lehmann Maupin Gallery: Tony Oursler: Peak

Some drawing exhibitions around NYC
1. The Drawing Center
2. Defining Beauty: Albrecht Dürer at the Morgan
3. Metropolitan Museum: An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo
4. Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting, Caligraphy & Drawing: Xie Zhiliu (1910–1997)
5. MoMA: The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times

Current:

Week 10:

1. CLASSWORK
1. Intro Exercise:
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2. Exercise 1:
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