My steelwork explores the automobile’s impact on nature and its imprint on our collective and individual lives. Through archetypical silhouettes of cars, birds, city skylines, ants, and vines, I present these forms as enduring artifacts. Each piece narrates the...
Color harmony is the result of grouping colors together to create a mood or theme within the work. For example, an artist may use mostly blues and purples to create a cold or calming feeling within the design; blues, purples, and greens, especially bluish greens are...
Chuck Close creates large realistic portraits using small squares of color to show the features of the face. His techniques led him to a great deal of fame in the 1960s and by the 1970s, Close’s work was shown in the world’s finest galleries, and he was...
Stuart Davis was born in Philadelphia in 1892. At the age of 16 his family moved to New Jersey and Stuart studied art in NYC. He became inspired by the excitement of the city; the tall skyscrapers, bright colors, and electric signs, began to motivate him to paint...
Henri Matisse was a French painter and sculptor who lived from 1869 – 1954. He is most known for his brightly colored paintings from the early 1900 pioneering what’s known as the fauvist style. Fauvism emphasized strong color and unique brush strokes instead of...
By shading with different values of gray artists can create the illusion of space and form in their drawings. Properly positioning the highlight, mid-tone, and shadow areas artists can make a basic shape can look like is has real three-dimensional form....
Architectural plans are what architects use to enable builders to construct their designs. An architect needs to design the floor-plan of the space as well as render the 3-dimensional perspective drawings so that the client can visualize their design. Frank Lloyd...
Eric Carle was an artist and children’s book writer who is most famous for his book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? He created his work by collaging colored paper that he created from painting large pieces of paper with different patterns and textures....
Few stories in art history are more heart wrenching than Frida Kahlo’s, as a child she was disabled with polio for some time, later in 1925 when Frida was only eighteen years old she was seriously injured in a bus crash which left her in severe pain for most...
Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887. She longed to be an artist from an early age. When she was 18 she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and a year later went to study at the Art Students League of New York. MountainsTreeDetailPatternColorPaint I can...
Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887. She longed to be an artist from an early age. When she was 18 she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and a year later went to study at the Art Students League of New York. She worked briefly as a commercial artist in...
https://eos.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpdQA6V1zeXv0vr Named from the ancient Roman sun deity Sol, the solar system consisted of seven visible moving objects in the sky. Like many ancient cultures, the ancient Greeks observed how certain lights moved differently...
Faith Ringgold is an artist, author, and activist. She was born and raised in Harlem, New York in the 1930s. Her artistic career began in the turbulent times of the late 1960s and early 70s. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts, art that combines...
William Henry Johnson was an African American expressionist painter. He was born on March 18, 1901 in Florence, South Carolina to mother Alice Smoot Johnson (known as “Mom Alice” or “Aunt Alice”) and father Henry Johnson. William H....
Artists develop sketching and drawing skills often using universal objects from nature, Leonardo da Vinci infamously exhumed corpses for examination and study. A variety of sketching, drawing, and shading techniques can be honed using the quintessential human subject...
