One of our featured inspiring living artist is artist Gary Reef. We’ve written a post on him and continued to be inspired by him! So as art educators we thought… oh ho hum with the ol’ self-portrait that is (and should be) in every portfolio…lets spice it up. So thanks to Gary one of Studio [...]
Inspiring Living Artist – CapricornArtist 73
Name: Gary Reef I am… an Australian contempory mixed media artist. I moved to Norway in 2005 and live in the forest. I am using Youtube in order to share my journey and help others learn from my experience. I also want to get the message across that art can be fun and that everyone no [...]
The RISD Bicycle
So as a portfolio development class, you must tackle classic, traditional portfolio requirements such as the RISD bike! The Rhode Island School Design is one of the most prestigious, competetive art schools in the country. One of there tried and true portfolio requirements are drawing assignements that are called home tests. They read as follows: ”Three drawing [...]
Charcoal Erasure Drawings
When learning art techniques, there is nothing to make understand light and shadow clearer than drawing with an eraser. Furthermore it really establishes the powerful tool the eraser can be. If you have never used charcoal before this can seem daunting – but the results you yield will be worth the effort as they tend to [...]
