Work of My Students - Otis College of Art - Fall 2008

Above is an example of the work of one of my students from my Fall 2008 Life Drawing Class at Otis College of Art in LA. I've linked more examples >>>here<<<. I had a great group of students, and I'm really proud of their progress.

Recommended Camera *Sigh* *Drool*

$246.95 on Amazon.com. Just letting Santa know.

405 Accident = Smoke Reference

Fortunately no one was injured in this accident on the 405 freeway during my morning commute. We were stopped for about half an hour, waiting for the fire truck to arrive. There was a giant fireball which was pretty impressive. The white smoke resulted from the firefighters' dousing of the car that had caught on fire. Cool smoke + no injuries = win.

Leo Carillo Landscape Painting

Melissa, we will definitely have to go back here, it's a beautiful painting spot and we missed you.

<3

Homework

Because teachers love homework... (I'm lookin at YOU, Rebecca!) we've decided to try to follow a weekly topic. Well, two to be exact... a figurative topic and an environmental one. In honor of heading to LACMA this weekend, we're basing them both on the Vanity Fair exhibit. Wish us luck!

Aaaaaand GO!

Warning!!

*** WARNING*** crappy environment sketch coming...... :p Man, I better put up some more figurative stuff just to save face! Don't say I didn't warn you....

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Just a bit more experimentation. I like that the top one looks like a monkey warrior.

Edit - just some more gestures from imagination.

I am totally up for movie night! ^^

Movie Night!

Ok so your post about the Rape of Europa reminded me... I have that on my instant viewing queue in Netflix and now we can watch it through the XBox 360 on a nice big screen ;) Sooo we should have movie night! There are several cool art documentaries we can check out too.....

Yeah, yeah I'll post my crappy sketch... you're right ... it's all about the process! But I ... uh... have to go home to get it.... yeah.. that's it!

Oh and thank you, thank you.... I'm now a famous Nobel Prize winning author. Well, thanks to Rebecca's mad Photoshop skillz ;)

A Gift for the Buffaloe ^^

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Miscellany Variations

Some miscellaneous variations - go nuts with the Rorschach interpretations.

The Rape of Europa - Art Documentary on PBS

I caught this documentary out of the corner of my eye last night on PBS - really fascinating stuff, I wish I had been watching more closely. Here is the website for the award winning documentary about the stolen artwork of WWII:

>>>http://www.rapeofeuropa.com/<<<

"The Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War.

In a journey through seven countries, the film takes the audience into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. But young art professionals as well as ordinary heroes, from truck drivers to department store clerks, fought back with an extraordinary effort to safeguard, rescue and return the millions of lost, hidden and stolen treasures.

The Rape of Europa begins and ends with the story of artist Gustav Klimt’s famed Gold Portrait, stolen from Viennese Jews in 1938 and now the most expensive painting ever sold.

Today, more than sixty years later, the legacy of this tragic history continues to play out as families of looted collectors recover major works of art, conservators repair battle damage, and nations fight over the fate of ill-gotten spoils of war.

Joan Allen narrates this breathtaking chronicle about the battle over the very survival of centuries of western culture."

Sketch from Imagination

Edit - some photoshopping just to generate some ideas.

I have a weird confession for someone who's an artist: I've always hated sketchbooks. I know. It's bizarre. But for some reason, I've just always hated them, preferring to work large on the standard 18" x 24" format for a drawing pad. Vilppu though has said that the masters never worked very large for their initial sketches, and this sentiment has been running through my mind for ages. It's true that when I work large for initial ideas, I just run out of steam, or the idea gets lost in the details. So I decided to try to ideate some figurative works by working small in an 8" x 10" sketchbook. I must be the weirdest artist in the world to hate sketchbooks, but there you go.

Anyway - this is not much, just something from imagination. I spent part of the day at Otis drawing (students were having their finals today, so I just sat in the back and attempted to get back into the groove). I've got a few ideas about where to go with this...I think the next step will be hiring models for some sessions once I know exactly what I want.

I'll post up some of the drawings from this semester at Otis once I get proper pictures taken.

All San Francisco Pictures

There are a ton more San Francisco photos here:

>>>http://rebeccakimmel.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=90<<<

By subject, they are (the link takes you to the starting page of the album, the pictures carry forward sequentially):

• Sausalito / San Rafael / Marin
• Alcatraz
• Dinner along the Great Highway
• Great Highway Oceanfront and Land's End
• Legion of Honor Art Museum
• Pixar
• Pier / Sea Lions / Aquarium
• ILM (Industrial Light & Magic)
• San Rafael / Marin / ILM Ranch and Big Rock
• Sausalito / Thanksgiving Day and Dinner Location