Laurel Lake

I've been experimenting with some old sketches to see how far I can take them digitally. Then I plan to make paintings from them. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Back to the Drawing Board

Hey everyone, we had a great model session last week. It was a nice mix of students from the 2007's class to 2010's. And that's just counting Stu! (Just seeing who is reading this.)

A special thank you to Melanie for making the arrangements and to Vicki for getting us our traveling papers. The papers worked like a charm. Of course we could not have done it without our two models, Vanessa and Marilyn. They made us work our tails off.

Keep on the lookout for details about our holiday get together. After all, Thanksgiving is only two weeks away. (Are those Jingle Bells or my 401k crashing to the floor?)

If anyone would like to give a lecture for the society, or knows someone who might, please drop me an email. Please keep checking the blog and post your thoughts, ideas, and comments.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing. —Vincent Van Gogh

MODEL SESSION

Just a reminder November 7th is our next model night. We plan on having two models. Melanie is making the arrangements and FIT is covering the cost. It will be held in the new building where we had our Alumni meeting (236 W 27). Maybe we can start plans for a holiday gathering that night as well? Hope to see many of you there.

SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS
Vicki G. at FIT is working on having papers for us. This will make visiting the campus easier and will not entail a visit to the guard station or frantic calls to Melanie. Hopefully we will have them on the 7th.

David Levine: American Presidents Exhibit

David Levine has a show at the Forum Gallery in midtown until Nov 8th GO SEE IT!!! There are presidential caricatures dating back from the 1960s through today as well as over 30 of his watercolors. There is also two new illustrations one done in pencil of Barack Obama. The artist has begun using pencil instead of ink now that the artist is 81 and suffers from macular degeneration, a diseases that is slowly making him blind. The show makes me think of another political artist that had two very different visual lives that also went blind at the end of his life. Goya anyone?

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[FYI] Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors

I saw the exhibition of Jean de Brunhoff and his son, Laurent de Brunhoff, and it was really nice.

Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors
September 19, 2008, through January 4, 2009
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street
Hours
Tuesday through Thursday: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission is free on Fridays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Click here to see about the exhibition

Creative Quarterly Winners!

Congratulations to all the Creative Quarterly winners from our Alumni!

In the Professional Illustration category Chad Wallace received a Silver while Monika Maniecki and Bri Hermanson received Merit Awards.

In the Student category Heekyung Hur and Stu Suchit both won Merit Awards.

Keep up the great work!

Models and Artists

We are having our model drawing session on Friday, Nov. 7th. The idea for this is is having two models in two different rooms. One will most likely be for portraits and the other for figure drawing. The session is planned to run from 6:30-10 pm in room SF107. Melanie and Vicky are working hard to make access to the buildings easier. Hopefully something will be in place for us that night.

Please post news of your own, ie: shows of your own, shows we should see, books, etc. Let's hear from you quiet ones out there!