Arm Study with Steven Perkins
At the end of our ecorche class with Perkins, he was able to focus on certain muscles and parts of the body on a larger scale. Here’s Steve lecturing about the arm, sculpted at life size.
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Making Life Masks
Today we learned how to make life masks! Seth Baldwin came up from Philadelphia and generously walked us through the process step-by-step. By the end of the day we were mixing, layering and making our own molds!
Tracy Banaszynski was our first victim – er, brave volunteer.
With Seth’s help, we ambitiously tried making an open-mouthed expression of Chad Fisher, including his neck and part of his shoulders and upper chest.
Sarah Lamb’s still life workshop
Sarah Lamb’s workshop was phenomenal. It’s amazing how much one can learn in just three days! Sarah guided our workshop students through an intense three-day still life painting workshop covering concepts such as the color poster, block-in, composition and color mixing with such clarity. Not only were the structured demos packed with generous information, but the critiques were invaluable.
Despite the snowstorm last Wednesday, the third and final day of the workshop, Sarah trekked through the slush along with a handful of students to finish their paintings. Here are some images from the workshop.
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Due to the intensity of the workshop, combined with the snowstorm, we weren’t able to take shots of many other beautiful paintings. Join us next time (as Sarah Lamb will be back at Janus sooner than you think) and stay tuned for an announcement for another stint this summer! Thanks for a great workshop, everyone.
Through rain, sleet or blizzards…
As long as our awesome models make the trek uptown and we shovel the snow off our skylights every 5 minute break, we continue plowing (pun intended) on through this blizzard. Stay warm!
Reverse Engineering Painting
Practitioners of contemporary realism have limited the possibilities of their language by placing their greatest emphasis on technical issues. We will explore further possibilities of visual language as utilized in the past through the breakdown and examination of various successful paintings and plot a path beyond pure technical execution. Along this path, each individual artist may thrive in his or her specific manner of expression.
Tony Mastromatteo gave a great lecture and discussion about the importance of subject matter last night. It complemented the curriculum and discussions we have been having during the day program, both formally and informally. The founding instructors at Janus have always supported the exploration of personal subject matter and how things like composition play a role in making pictures. It was nice to meet like-minded artists. It’s too bad I only remembered to grab my camera after the discussion was over.
Student Work on Drapery
Here are some of our in-progress student works (compositional studies, posters, drawings, paintings, etc) of the drapery set-ups from this year. We’ll have more drapery studies and other student work up on the Janus website soon.
Drapery with Michael Grimaldi
Here are some images of the drapery class we had with Michael Grimaldi.
Drapery Study Demo, Michael Grimaldi
Drapery Study Demo, close-up
Portrait Drawing Demo, Dan Thompson
To follow-up Dan’s structural discussions on the skull and to complement the portraits we have been working on during our sculpture weeks with Steve Perkins, Dan did a drawing demo of Sesame’s portrait today!
Portrait Demo of Sesame, Dan Thompson
On Starts…
Fridays are portrait days with Kate where we focus on color via an oil sketch after a quick block-in. Kate shows us how it’s done…
Portrait Sketch, Kate Lehman
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A public forum for JCSA students, instructors, and guests to post views and pose questions on approaches to art education/training and contemporary art; and to discuss applying the knowledge of the past as a means towards understanding and expressing life as an artist today.