The Artistic Biker

Sketches and Musings

  • A Brief Note 12FEB2012

    Hello Peoples!

    Very little has been accomplished at the studio for the last couple of weeks.  First, I went out of town with the Day Job only to come back to a mountain of end of the month paperwork.  THEN my bride has her gall bladder thingy, and since she’s down, I’m staying home to help with the kiddos.  This past week, I did make it down to do the drawing class, The Artistic Biker Live!, and Midnight at Oasis.  By Saturday, we had decided she could pretty much handle anything except picking Boy2 up.  That freed me up to take Girl2 dancing Saturday afternoon.  So, Sunday, I rewired the bathroom and the outlet for the refrigerator in the studio.  That SHOULD stop all the circuit breakers… breaking…  during the streams.  I bought quite a few other nifty items to clean up the wiring a bit, as well as some tools to finish out some of the trim work in the gallery. Things should start rolling pretty quickly now.  It’s really quite exciting!

    This time of year we are ALL severely limited on fundage so we may be building with used pallets.  If you would like to help with that, you can go to artisticbiker.com and look for the DONATE button on the right side column and donate what you can.  If you can’t do that, please share this newsletter with everyone you know to help get the word out.  That helps more than you know.  Or better yet, Click Here to Join! artisticbiker.com/membership and help promote the arts in rural Oklahoma.

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    The Classroom site is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oasisgalleryok

    Drawing Class: Negative spaces.  Drawing what’s not there to emphasize what is.

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  • Tips & Tricks 12FEB2012

    I have not tried this one yet.  I believe we will try this and the marble trick Thursday night during The Artistic Biker Live!  Jerry’s Artarama has a tip listed for painting with bubbles.  You make colored soapy water with dish soap, water and food coloring.  Then you blow through a straw to make bubbles and capture them on your page.  When it dries, BUBBLES!  Definitely have to try that one.  If any of you try it, send me pictures!

  • Daddy-Daughter Breakfast 04FEB2012

    Daddy Daughter Breakfast Sketches 11FEB2012 After being at the studio for Midnight at Oasis until 3 am, I was NOT in the mood to be awake.  However, I am always in the mood to spend time with my little girl, especially for Daddy/Daughter breakfast.  It was more of a brunch this week as we didn’t get there until after 10. Girl2 was starving and ate all of her biscuits and gravy, her toast with jelly, one of my eggs, half of my hash browns, and half of the bacon! If you look carefully, you will notice that we were situated directly in front of the cinnamon roll tray. Le Wild Cinnamon Bun As we sat there staring at it, I just kept wondering if anyone would notice me scraping the “goodie” off the tray with my fork.  Yum!

  • Midnight At Oasis 4: Developing Creativity

    MaO title shot

    This week Ivan Zhidov joins me for a discussion on teaching creativity in the classroom. Originally from the Ukraine, Ivan is a computer programmer, painter, mixed martial arts champion, a father, and an all around good guy.  The discussion centers around whether or not it’s possible to teach creativity in a classroom.

    The You Tube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG1ADwwRGqU

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  • The Classroom 07FEB2012

    This week in the classroom we talked about foreshortening.  Foreshortening is a perspective tool where you show closer shapes of an object overlapping shapes that are further away.  For instance, in the foot drawing above, the toes are bigger and bolder than the arch of the foot. The arch is bigger and bolder than the ankle and calf. That foot is bigger and darker than the foot on the right, giving the illusion of one foot in front of the other.  @EvelineTimeless  accurately pointed out in the chat that it looks like these feet are actually walking towards you.

    We spent about twenty minutes going over the basics of single point and multi-point perspective and then another thirty minutes discussing how that applies to the figure.  Interestingly enough, while foreshortening applies to any kind of overlapping and atmospheric perspective, I rarely find  the term used in other than life drawings.

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