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Draw yourself as a cartoon. Using a word bubble, write down how you are feeling today.

Compare/Contrast

What is going on in this image?
What do you see that makes you say that?
What more can you find?

Update: New Exhibitions and New Learning!

As we begin the spring semester, all of our team members at the CVA are very excited about the new exhibitions that will be going up in the next few months. The current exhibition that is on display is titled Under the Guillotine, comprised of an impressive collections of James Gilray’s political cartoons as well as fellow contemporary counterparts, Chris Dacre, Molly Crabapple and Deb Sokolow.

For more information on the artists as well the exhibition, please visit the links below.

http://www.msudenver.edu/cva/exhibitions/onview/

http://msudenver.edu/newsroom/news/2016/january/14-jenna-miles-cva.shtml?emc=lm&m=1040151&l=2&v=788672

http://www.westword.com/event/under-the-guillotine-james-gillray-and-contemporary-counterparts-7396326

The Young Apprentices will be focusing on how to convey a message through art, particularly focusing on cartoons and the creative devices used by cartoonists, satirists, and illustrators in general. We will be developing technical skills with various media such as collage, painting, and printmaking. The technical skills with the various media will develop in conjunction with teaching the apprentices how to analyze art, how to critique art and how they can convey their personal message through an array of artistic styles.

We are very excited to have everyone back and will keep our Weebly updated as we further our exploration of art at the CVA!

Below are some images of Ben’s time spent traveling in Israel over the winter of 2015.

Draw something or someone in the room without looking at your paper or lifting your pencil.

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Draw your “go to” thing. What do you draw when you have time to doodle?

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your character just found out his/her favorite rock star just passed away.

please draw your character expressing sadness.

Studio

Please complete your character study.

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Let’s say your character won the 900 Million Jackpot!
What!?!?
Yeah.

Please draw your character right after finding out that he/she won $900,000,000.00!!!

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Please sketch something in the room.

Let’s take a walk through the gallery

Quick notes about our gallery…
Please do bring conversation into the space.
Please don’t bring food, drinks or pens in the space.
Please do not touch the art work or the walls or pedestals.
Thanks

While you are moving through the gallery with your sketchbook please:

Find one interesting piece
Write down the title and artist’s name
List the objects and people in the illustration
Record any dates or places you see in the illustration
Describe any emotions that you see
Describe relationships between the objects or people that you see
Write down things you are wondering about
Write down one thing you know for sure

So good to see you 🙂

Ben will be back in a week but for today you have Brandon and I!

In your sketchbook, please draw a 3 panel comic of the best part of your winter break. Thank you!

1. Issue
2. Character
3. Setting
4. Plot – Storyline
5. Storyboard
6. Draft
7. Final

NYT Article

Lalo Alcaraz

Welcome to the Center for Visual Art!

We will be working with dynamic tools to create a graphic novel. Our inspiration will come from many sources but in particular we will look at the political satire in the exhibition in the gallery.

Each day will begin with work in your sketchbook. Today, please use the tools on the table to customize the back cover of your sketchbook. Your illustration should include your name written clearly so that I can read it. Thank you! Talya

Before you leave today be sure that:
1. you have a sketchbook with your name on it
2. you have a drawer with your name on it
3. you understand the rules for walking back to GALS

We will be exploring narrative work, cartoons and satire!

Creative (,,•﹏•,,)~ Tokyo Ghoul √A Source https://twitter.com/shin___geki/

Posted by Goku & Naruto Taught Me To Never Lose Hope on Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Learn more about our spring exhibition: Under the Guillotine

Pick one object off the table.
Set it in front of your sketchbook.
Turn it around a couple of times.
Take a good look at it.
Make a simple gesture drawing of the object.
Begin adding details.
Draw your entire object.

Welcome!

Sketchbook Prompt:

Grab your sketchbooks and draw something in the room!

Welcome!

Sketchbook Prompt:

Grab your sketchbooks and draw something in the room!

Examine the different ways in which these covers are designed, thinking about how the different iterations affect our understanding of the novel based solely on the cover art.

Jaime Molina

Bill Fick

Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer

Rupprecht Matthies

Rupprecht Matthies

Who would you be if you were a hero?

When did this

become this?

Cynthia

And how did this

Jasmine

become this?

Inksploration

Aaron Elvis Jupin

Tim Lahan

Joe Butcher

Draw your own Superhero!

Think about.

1. Their superpower

2. Their name

3. A Logo

In the three images that are included below, examine the role that color plays in helping us to decode or understand what is being conveyed in each.
In the first image the bright, high chroma colors are contrasted with the glowing black background. Think of other artists that have employed this technique. What sort of response does this elicit form the viewer?

In Simkins’ image of warrior birtds, the colors are softer and warmer. How does this color treatment affect our understanding of this image?
In Gannis’ recreation of “The garden of Earthly Delights” colors are sharp and flat. What else treats color this way? Does the use of cartoony colors add or subtract from the seriousness of the image, especially compared to Simkins’ image?

Left: Rex Van Minnen
Above: Greg “Craola” Simkins
Below: Carla Gannis

This week we will begin our large watercolor paintings. I am super-stoked to see what you guys are going to do. We’ll have this week and next week to complete these paintings, so come ready to paint!

Helpful links:
Interactive Color Wheel

Li Xiaoke’s Homeland In Ink.

Qin Feng’s Desire, Landscape 007.

Gu Wenda’s Gu’s Phrase – Study from Nature Series #5, Wind & Rain.

Cai Xiaosong, Echoes of Civilization: After Wu Bin’s Rock and Bryce Canyon (2012).

We had a busy afternoon at the Young Artist’s Studio. First, Bridge Project students made pockets for their sketchbooks! Pockets are great for collecting objects and ideas for later. Then, we watched a video of a Gongbi painting demonstration. We also looked at and analyzed traditional and contemporary Gongbi images. Then, Ben demonstrated painting with ink, and we all got to experiment!

We had a busy afternoon at the Young Artist’s Studio. First, Bridge Project students made pockets for their sketchbooks! Pockets are great for collecting objects and ideas for later. Then, we watched a video of a Gongbi painting demonstration. We also looked at and analyzed traditional and contemporary Gongbi images. Then, Ben demonstrated painting with ink, and we all got to experiment!

Jin Sha, “Salute to Masters: Conversation with Grant Wood” (2014), ink and color pigment on silk

The Young Artists Studio Bridge Program has been up and running for about 5 weeks now! Our team consists of Erica Gonzalez and Ben Rabinoff. We are two Art Education students at Metropolitan State University of Denver. We have been crafting lessons for each session which meets once a week on Thursday at the Center for Visual Arts. These lessons have been built on building skills, teaching about new materials and studio practice. The apprentices have been working in their sketchbooks to develop skills that are centered around the current exhibition at the CVA (Center for Visual Arts), A New Fine Line. Our goal is to introduce our young apprentices to the work on display at CVA and to foster their experience with this artwork through the development of their own artwork.

A New Fine Line is a collection of artists who are employing what is called the Gongbi style of ink painting. This style dates back to early Chinese dynasty’s but the contemporary artists who are a part of The New Fine Line are using this style to create contemporary and dynamic work.

We have chosen to build our lesson’s around the idea of using watercolor, ink, drawings, and various techniques with all of the materials to allow students to create their own contemporary work.

Here are some images of the work we have done so far!

Erica and I meet to plan each lesson and review what we did last time in the studio. Here we are examining print outs of Gongbi Paintings and working to craft a lesson that engages the apprentices with this artwork.

Here is one of our apprentices learning to draw a lion’s head with colored pencil and painting it with watercolor. We were exploring how to use colored pencils as resists when used with watercolor.

Here is another apprentice drawing a dolphin and coloring it in with colored pencil. This apprentice eventually created an amazing background underwater using watercolor techniques.

This apprentice decided to take a similar approach to his peer, drawing a dolphin and painting the environment around it.

This apprentice was given two challenges which were to use a wet on wet technique when painting his dinosaur and to give the dinosaur an environment or background.

You can also see the templates that apprentices used to draw from. These templates help to build confidence in ability as well as serving as great practice for learning their own style and approach to drawing and painting.

Check back in soon to get an update on what we are working on!

Jin Sha, “Salute to Masters: Conversation with Grant Wood” (2014), ink and color pigment on silk

The Young Artists Studio Bridge Program has been up and running for about 5 weeks now! Our team consists of Erica Gonzalez and Ben Rabinoff. We are two Art Education students at Metropolitan State University of Denver. We have been crafting lessons for each session which meets once a week on Thursday at the Center for Visual Arts. These lessons have been built on building skills, teaching about new materials and studio practice. The apprentices have been working in their sketchbooks to develop skills that are centered around the current exhibition at the CVA (Center for Visual Arts), A New Fine Line. Our goal is to introduce our young apprentices to the work on display at CVA and to foster their experience with this artwork through the development of their own artwork.

A New Fine Line is a collection of artists who are employing what is called the Gongbi style of ink painting. This style dates back to early Chinese dynasty’s but the contemporary artists who are a part of The New Fine Line are using this style to create contemporary and dynamic work.

We have chosen to build our lesson’s around the idea of using watercolor, ink, drawings, and various techniques with all of the materials to allow students to create their own contemporary work.

Here are some images of the work we have done so far!

Erica and I meet to plan each lesson and review what we did last time in the studio. Here we are examining print outs of Gongbi Paintings and working to craft a lesson that engages the apprentices with this artwork.

Here is one of our apprentices learning to draw a lion’s head with colored pencil and painting it with watercolor. We were exploring how to use colored pencils as resists when used with watercolor.

Here is another apprentice drawing a dolphin and coloring it in with colored pencil. This apprentice eventually created an amazing background underwater using watercolor techniques.

This apprentice decided to take a similar approach to his peer, drawing a dolphin and painting the environment around it.

This apprentice was given two challenges which were to use a wet on wet technique when painting his dinosaur and to give the dinosaur an environment or background.

You can also see the templates that apprentices used to draw from. These templates help to build confidence in ability as well as serving as great practice for learning their own style and approach to drawing and painting.

Check back in soon to get an update on what we are working on!

Sketchbook Prompt:

Grab your sketchbooks and take a seat

We will be learning how to make pockets for our sketchbooks!

What do you remember from last time?

We are gong to spend the next two weeks completing a large[r] watercolor painting.

Here are a couple of things to think about for planning your watercolor:
Composition: how the elements of your painting are laid out on the page
Color: color affects how the viewer perceives space on the page
Color: color affects the emotional response elicited by the work
Subject Matter: expressing your personal narrative and time spent with A New Fine Line

Here are 3 painted etchings by MSUD alumnus Jaime Molina. How do his choices change the way the artwork is interpreted?

Meet Ben and Erika!

Grab a Sketch Book and a Name Tag!

Write your name and draw on the back of your Sketch Book!

Sketch Books:

Write your names on the name tag stickers

What did we do last time???

Find a new piece of paper in your sketchbook and a pencil and wait for directions. thanks 🙂

In what ways does your world influence you? In what ways do you influence your world?

Sketchbook:
Write three words you might use in defining your identity.

Plan:
Taiye Selasi
Drawing plan

Meet Ben and Erica!

Here is your very own super special sketchbook!

Write you name and draw on the back!

Sketchbook
Write down three things you are wondering about Gongbi ink painting and a A New Fine Line.
___________________________________________________________________________________?
___________________________________________________________________________________?
___________________________________________________________________________________?

Plan:
Sketchbook
Short gallery walk
Gongbi painting technique video: https://vimeo.com/78149082
Studio time
Clean-up

Friday!
What are you hoping for the weekend?
In your sketchbook please make a drawing of your weekend hopes!

SKETCHBOOK: CREATIVE WRITING

Take a few moments to write before we start today. You may use the following story starter or do a little free-writing in your sketchbook.

The creature appeared…

PLAN

Sketchbook
Ink demo
Creature creation
Clean-up

SKETCHBOOK: Personalize

Develop a unique cover for your sketchbook that includes your name written clearly and large.

POWER

FLEXIBILITY

FOCUS

BALANCE

CURIOSITY

CREATIVITY

DETERMINATION

WHOLENESS

PLAN

Sketchbook
Intros
Gallery Walk

Seeing the interns dressed as the professionals they will undoubtedly become, feeling the nervous excitement in the room as they put last-minute touches on their presentations while the judges made small talk, made me think back over the past three weeks. This was the culminating event of our intensive internship that bound together a group of strangers into friends, into teammates, into collaborators.
Watching these high school students present their game concepts to Brian, Justin, and Talya, I was amazed to see the final design concepts each team had artfully crafted. Each game concept was tailored to the specs laid out by OhHeckYeah in their Request for Proposal. The games, Fly Pig, Otter Space, Ready to Rock, and Desert Dash showcased all of the design work that we’d done, all of the effort and skill of the interns, and all of the fun that we’d had on our collective journey. It was inspiring to say the least.
This group of amazing high school interns, with their professional work ethic and adolescent fervor for fun, outdid themselves and are certainly bound to do great things. It was truly a pleasure getting to know Courtney, Shemsu, Honor, Sophia, Zef, Adonis, Adrian, Sarah, Minah, Claudia, and Akil!

We began the day unlike the other days and ventured off to the Colorado History Museum to see behind-the-scenes expeditions and explore what the museum had to offer. We met with Abbie, Ginni and Todd and they talked to us about what they do at the museum and how different career paths led them to the same location. Todd for example, is actually paid to be on social media all day. He’s basically a professional teenager. After their speeches, Scott led us back upstairs and we climbed up four stories to reach the toys exhibit. Our inner five year-old came out and we panned out the exhibit seeking different toys such as the Slinky, Twister, Trouble, and Hula Hoops. The simplicity of toys like Hula Hoops and Slinkies show how even something as simple as a circle can be something that is timeless and people of all generations can enjoy– much like the games that we are currently attempting to develop.
After the museum, we came back to the CVA where we ate our lunch and went back to studio work and pushed forward on trying to finish our game developments. Suddenly we erupted into multiple choruses of “When I’m Gone” and we all attempted to learn the cup song together. We sang and clapped, tapped, and danced and as the day came to a close, we had to say goodbye to one of our interns who will be going away to backpack for 22 days. Our goodbye group hug was meaningful and summed up a lovely Monday.

-Minah

Compare/Contrast

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Sketchbook

Studio

Sketchbook

Sketchbook

Let’s take a walk through the gallery

So good to see you 🙂

1. Issue2. Character3. Setting4. Plot – Storyline5. Storyboard6. Draft7. Final

Learn more about our spring exhibition: Under the Guillotine

Inksploration

Here is one of our apprentices learning to draw a lion’s head with colored pencil and painting it with watercolor. We were exploring how to use colored pencils as resists when used with watercolor.

Here is one of our apprentices learning to draw a lion’s head with colored pencil and painting it with watercolor. We were exploring how to use colored pencils as resists when used with watercolor.

Sketch Books: Write your names on the name tag stickers

In what ways does your world influence you? In what ways do you influence your world?

1. Issue
2. Character
3. Setting
4. Plot – Storyline
5. Storyboard
6. Draft
7. Final

Sketch Books:

Write your names on the name tag stickers