All About .... Michael Godard

I did a power-point presentation a couple of weeks ago about Michael Godard. Michael Godard is known as the "Rockstar of the Art World" and is currently the #1 best selling artist in the United States. He attended the University of Nevada for Fine Arts in Las Vegas and after he also attended The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He is an artist that is in the media a lot he has been featured in several magazines and has been on television shows such as Inked, American Casino, and Chris Angel's Mind Freak. He wrote a book called "Don't Drink and Draw" which is about his life and art, it was awarded The Art Book of the Year. Godard really wants his art to include his lighthearted perspective on life through his animated olives, and dancing strawberries. His medium is mostly oil on canvas but he does also work with other mediums such as ink and sharpies. Godard is a modern take on surrealism but he also takes famous people in history and replaces them with his olives. "Godard's unique portrayal of fun is an exciting combination of imagination and often subtle humor which evoke and engage the creative side in "Olive" us." You can view more of his art at:

http://www.michaelgodard.com/index.html Look him up!!! He is my fav!!!! Thanks!!! -love, Christen

Artist of the Week

For the second quarter, Art 3 and Art 4 students will each week present an artist of their choice. Each student has picked a week to make their presentation. They will present their artist to the class and post a short blog on that artist and why they chose that artist.

Trees. Always Trees.

The set of trees on the left are part of my watercolor tree project; I intend to combine them wth two other trees (also in watercolor) and mount them on black paper. The leftmost tree is River Birch which the others are Fir, I am pleased with the way they turned out and how their species is obvious from my painting. I tried to focus on the individuality of the kind of tree and capture it, and it worked well I think.

The set on the right is the weaker project, something i am still working on. It is meant to contrast colors amongst the same tree species (Maple.) Although the blue color sceme is unrealistic, I enjoy it and plan to pen two others...perhaps a green one and a purple; complementary colors fascinate me. I also intend to mount the finished four on black paper, and suggestions as to the color of the two I have yet to draw are welcome.

~Kate

weakness...

N is for Naive.

I'm not sure if the message is displayed very well in this picture, and I'm not happy with the colors... they do not fit in with the other cards I've made.

Mr. N,

... you are a lone wolf.

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Any suggestions are welcome and greatly appreciated.

I love the blog for this reason, don't get rid of it Please!

Help me keep the blog by helping me fix my art work :)

Much Love

Gretta

Weakness

Too simple of a line drawing.

Harry Potter ABC Cards

A- Albus Dumbledore
G- Golden Snitch
N- Nimbus 2000

About time . . .

Here you have it Mrs. G.

montains

These mountains look a little sketchy the color too me doesn’t match the rest of the cards but makes the mountains stand out a bit, the gray and brown is what I was going for so it can look a bit smoky, the rays of light seemed to have help, let me know what you guys think.

Weak

I began this piece before my style change. Originally I intended to do whole figurines but I quickly realized how impossible it would have been to complete by the deadline. I'm contemplating: finish the existing Captain America or redo him. The redone version would likely be a zoomed in view of his face and chest or possibly just face. He would be done in sharpies instead of pastels. Advice please.

Well...

So Mrs. Glenn told us to put one of our weaker pieces on the blog. It is a wonderful idea. Apparently we all need help. Although I find it amusing that we are asking for help on how to make something better that we cannot change. I bet she wants us to learn from our mistakes and get better from them. THIS IS A WONDERFUL IDEA. Anyway, so the problem with this piece was that I wanted to do it in pastels, so that the color would be brighter. However, the problem was that I have never sucessfully used pastels, and starting with something on this small a scale would probably would have resulted in a ruined card. Thankfully, I took the time before I started coloring to try to draw with the pastels just on some paper. I now have an amazing amount of respect for Rachael and Rachel and Eduardo for being able to use pastels so well. I'm definitely not that good yet. So anyway, I decided to just use colored pencils instead, because although they are not quite as bright, I was confident in my ablilty to manipulate them so that the shapes would look right. UUUURRRRGGGGG. I got the shapes right. The color is awful. It is not quite as lifeless as in the picture, but it is much less awesome then I hoped it would be. Comments on possible future alternatives with more satisfying results would be much appreciated.