Thursday, November 15, 2012

Stephen Deffet: Self Portrait from Mirror

This is my self portrait i drew using a mirror to study my face and features.  I am only about 3 to 3.5 hours into this drawing but i do plan on finishing it since i was planning to do a realistic self portrait on my own anyway.  I only used a Bic .07 mechanical pencil on this drawing.

Stephen Deffet: Self Portrait from Picture

This was done with A fine point sharpie marker. The reference I used was a picture taken of me the night before ( I was not aware a picture was being taken of me at the time.).  I plan on giving the drawing 3 values,  black, one mid tone and white.  When i am done blocking in value i am going to watercolor all the white.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Reminder - Drop off work Nov. 5th and 6th 12-5pm in Seigfred Gallery

The Juried Undergraduate Student Awards Exhibition
Exhibition dates: November 13th - December 7th
About:
The Undergraduate Student Art Awards Exhibition is a highly competitive juried exhibition featuring artwork created by School of Art undergraduate students.
This year's exhibition will be juried by Brooklyn based artist Rosanna Bruno and Iowa based artist Laurel Farrin.
Information about submitting your work:
$5 fee (cash or check made out to Ohio University) to enter up to three works. All money collected will go to jurors awards.
To enter you must be enrolled in an art class or an art major. All disciplines are encouraged to enter including performance, video, sculpture, printmaking, graphic design, drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, interior architecture, animation, sound, installation etc…
All work should be ready to hang. For video, audio, animation or performance documentation please put quicktime file on disc or USB drive not as a burned/authored dvd/cd. Installations, large artwork, media or work needing special care must be installed and de-installed by the artist.
**Artist should provide all equipment necessary to display their work. If submitting performance or installation please provide both photographic documentation and a written description of the work.**
Entries Drop off: November 5th and 6th from 12 - 5PM in Seigfred gallery
Jurors Lecture: November 7th at 7PM in Mitchell Auditorium
Announcement of selections: November 8th
Installation: November 8th & 9th
Pick up of unaccepted work: November 8th -12th
Exhibition Opening and Reception: November 13th 6 - 9PM, Awards Ceremony 6:30PM
De-installation and pickup of work: December 7th & 8th
About the Jurors:
Rosanna Bruno lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
She received a B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art in Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in galleries internationally, including Edward Thorp Gallery, John Davis Gallery, and Shroeder Romero & Shredder, among others. Most recently she presented her exhibition: Pink, Small and Punctual in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2012, she was in residence at Yaddo artist colony in Saratoga Springs, NY. Bruno received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in painting in 2012.
Laurel Farrin is an Associate Professor and the head of Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa.
She received a B.F.A. from Ohio University-Athens and an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland. She was an artist-in-residence at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM; Yaddo, and the Millay Colony for the Arts, both in New York; and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Farrin received an individual artist grant from the Washington, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Exhibitions include Lesley Heller Gallery; NY, NY; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; The Bronx River Art Center; The Albany International Airport; Carroll Square Gallery, Wash. DC; Roswell Museum and Art Center; the Des Moines (Iowa) Art Center; the Florida Center for Contemporary Art in Tampa; Spaces in Cleveland, Ohio; Anton Gallery; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Washington Project for the Arts, in Washington, D.C.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Tsasia's Drawing Instructions

1. Draw 3 circles.
2. In those circles, make 5 squares.
3. Outside of the circles, draw two lines.
4. Make 50 dots.
5. Connect 20 of them.
6. Close your eyes, and draw a square around the entire paper.

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1. Draw a small circle in the center of the paper.
2. Make 2 dots in the center of that circle.
3. Draw a larger circle around the small circle.
4. Draw 2 triangles, one on the top left, and one on the top right of the big circle.
5. Draw an upward semi-circle directly under the smaller circle.
6. Draw 2 circles smaller than the smaller circle above it.
7. And draw even smaller ones inside those.

Stephen's Drawing Instructions

1. Draw a + to divide your paper into 4 separate equal sections.
2. In the top left, bottom left, and bottom right sections, divide them by drawing a line going from the bottom left corner to the top right corner.
3. In the top right section go the opposite direction.
4. From the top left corner of the page divide it with a line to the bottom right.
5. Shade in the two triangles with vertical bases in the top left, 1/4 of the paper.
6. Now in the bottom right 1/4 of the paper color in the 2 triangles whose bases are horizontal.
7. Now in the top right and bottom left 1/4 section, draw a dot in the center of each triangle and draw a line to each triangle corner.

Melissa's Drawing Instructions

1. Start with a large sheet of paper.
2. Make a dot in the center.
3. Use a colored writing/mark making utensil and some sort of straight edge and make 4 lines, approx. 4 inches each radiating from N,S,W,E - all with same color.
5. In between 4 inch lines make 6 inch lines with new color.
6. Get new color.
7. In between all 4 inch and 6 inch lines make 5 inch lines.

Savannah's Drawing Instructions

1. Before you start make sure each person isn't using the same color drawing utensil.
2. Step away from your easel and stand up.
3. Put your hands in the raising the roof position, but don't raise the roof.
4. Look to your right.  Now your left.
5. Proceed to raise the roof.  Let's get this drawing instruction party started!
6. Have a seat.
7. Draw one big square on your paper.
8. Divide it into 4 squares.
9. Continue dividing each square into four squares until you can't no moe.
10. It doesn't have to be neat.

suyang chen want you to do

1.use your left hand to draw a straight line.

2. use 5 lines,  3 rounds,  2 triangles to drawing a picture.

3. use different style lines to describe your happy, sad, anger, worry, exciting mood.

4. drawing one things that imagine you will see after you dead.

5. use only one line to draw a person.

6. in the 4 seconds, you need to draw something about dinosaur( you can draw dinosaur or anythings you want to drawing), must let others people guess right which animal for your drawing.

7. use you body except your hands to draw one thing.

8. use blue color to write "yellow", use red color to write " blue", red color to write "blue", yellow color to write"red".  

drawing instructions: Zach Smith

1. draw a curvy line from the bottom page to the middle of the page
2. draw the same line 2 inches to the right of the first line
3. draw 7 circles on the inside of the left line each spaced 4 cm away from each other
4. starting at the bottom circle, draw a straight horizontal line directly across to the other side
5. at the same circle, draw a line that is going at a 45* angle to the other side
6. at the same circle draw a line 45* below the horizontal line to the other side
7. repeat steps 4-6 for each circle on the left.
8. draw a large circle around the drawing which is connected to the top of the lines drawn in steps 1 and 2
9. draw another circle slightly smaller than the last. connect it to the top of the first circle
10. at the middle of the circle on each side, draw two lines about 3 inches long
11. draw another circle ontop of the second circle slightly smaller than the last
12. draw a triangle in the middle of the top circle
13. above the triangle and slightly to the left draw a small circle and color it in
14. above the triangle and slightly to the right draw a small circle and color it in
15. below the triangle, draw 7 dots curving upward in a line
16. not sure why i did this but here it is!

Drawing Instruction: Ashley Cook

Start out with a square larger than 8"x8". Draw in pencils, markers or paint. Draw a line from the bottom right corner to the top left corner. In the middle of the paper, draw a 4" by 4" square. Inside that square, draw a circle that touches the square on 4 of its sides. On the top right corner, draw a line halfway down the right side to halfway on the top line. Inside the shape in the top right corner, draw a square, with one of its lines on the diagonal line, with two of its corners on two different sides of the origional square. In the bottom left half of the circle, divide it up into equal thirds. Shade in the middle little triangle that was just divided. Draw a centimeter circle in the top left area inside the circle. Draw three random ovals about an inch tall in the bottom left side of the origional square. Erase the bottoms of all three ovals and connect one side of the oval to the the side with little squiggles, do for each of the ovals. Shade in the squiggled ovals. You are done.

Drawing Instructions- Matt Sheahan

Start with drawing two long skinny parallel wavy lines that oscillate twice.
Divide the empty space between the lines into 18 parts like a ladder.
draw a short line on either side on the outside of each sectioned part.
at the top and bottom of the long lines, close the open ends and at the top, draw two lines going out in a v formation.
dooonnne good work

Drawing Instructions: Sara Hunt

1. Draw a circle in one corner
2. Draw another circle in a different corner
3. Draw a third circle in one of the two empty corners
4. Draw one more circle in the final corner
5. Draw a line from the center of the paper to one of the circles
6. Draw another line from the center of the paper to a circle opposite of the first
7. Draw a square within each of the circles connected to the lines
8. Draw a triangle within each of the circles without the squares
9. Draw a line connecting the two lines connecting the circles
10. Draw a square between the three lines
11. Draw a circle within the recently drawn square

Elijah Justice - Sol Loweitt drawing instructions

On a canvas of any size, use your favorite color to draw a triangle in its center.  Using three different colors, draw triangles of various sizes touching the center triangle.  Using this method, fill your canvas completely with triangles.  In the largest triangle, draw a picture of something you ate today.  Color the inside of your shapes.