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Trip to the Morgan Library

Today the Janus Collaborative School of Art took a trip to the Morgan Library, located on 225 Madison Avenue.  With the assistance of Dan Thompson we set out on a mission to recreate, and in so doing, learn from Old Master Drawings.  The trip was an inspiration to us all.  It was a great learning experience to see and analyze how artists of the past handled different mediums and applied each stroke to build the masterpieces that were before us.

Here are just a few of the drawings that we came across:

Student Work – drawings

In addition to this blog, we now have student work up on our website. The page is still being updated slowly, so check back frequently as we post more work up over the next two weeks. Thanks for viewing. In the meantime, here are some drawings.

Student Work









Dan Thompson and Color/Light

3 hour studies and seeing Truth in Color

Dan Thompson and Color/Light

Utilizing a full-color palette

Ecorche Class

Steve’s Ecorche

Steve's Ecorche Class

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.

Arm study in 3D with Steve Perkins

Anatomy for artists

Here are some of the drawings from the anatomy/dissection lab through our exciting collaboration with the Drexel University School of Medicine in Philadelphia this past fall.

Anatomical Cadaver Drawings, Marshal Jones

Life drawing, overlays, anatomy drawings - Liz Adams-Jones

Life drawings, overlays, anatomical drawings - Christopher LoPresti, Jayme del Rosario

Anatomical cadaver drawings, arm studies - Gus Storms

Figure drawing, overlays, anatomical studies - Whittnie Daniels, Geraldine Gilligan

Anatomical chart drawing, skull and anatomical cadaver drawings, arm study - Anatomy Instructor, Michael Grimaldi

Figure drawing and studies - Michael Grimaldi

The studies above analyze and cover not only anatomy but structural, tonal/compositional, surface topography and morphology as well as perspectival analyses.

To complement the work in the anatomy lab, we started our ecorché class this year with Stephen Perkins.

Ecorché - Sculpture Instructor, Stephen Perkins

Can’t wait until this following fall to continue our collaboration with the wonderful folks at Drexel School of Medicine! We’ll post more work in the fall concurrently with the class.

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.

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.