Student, instructor, and guest comments on current exhibitions, studying at JCSA, and contemporary art.

Unfortunately, we didn’t get a chance to take pictures during Steven Polson’s intensive 2-day workshop but the paintings looked wonderful! Time flies…and the workshop came and went. Students were able to work on two portrait paintings, practicing their starts and learning about value organization, while working from general to specific.

Here’s Steven lecturing to a few students:

Thanks for a great workshop and we’ll let you know when he returns to Janus for another workshop some time later in 2010.

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.

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.