http://www.joshua-meyer.com/home-f.html

Read an interview with him on his website.  Go there to see what you are seeing.

Sarah modeled for us for portrait drawing (thanks Sarah).  Portraits by Ashley and Faith, and a finished graphite/chalk portrait by Ashley. Faith and Ashley also gave their presentations this evening on Klimt, Fini, Degas and Lichtenstein.  We missed all of you who were unable to make class this evening.  For those who came, thanks for your work.

Layer one.  Acrylic on canvas (8×10″)  The knife adds a bit of depth, but needs more work, as does the foreground light.

Acrylic on canvas, 8 x 10″, painted with permanent rose, a touch of cadmium red, indian yellow, yellow ochre and ultramarine blue (and a very small amount of titanium white.)  This is the second layer of paint.  One more will probably finish this up.

Some very interesting and surprising images resulted from last night’s work.  Thanks to all who participated and for the sustained creative effort.  Next week we will be working from Tufte’s book on Visual Explanations, the chapter on disinformation design and visual explanations of Magic. I think  you’ll enjoy that.

Below is a 1728 Chardin still life, and under it the beginning underpainting (value study)  of a composition using a fragment of the Chardin.  The color scheme will be quite different in the final painting (acrylic, 8 x 10 inches on canvas.)