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In honor of the books and movie version of "The Mortal Instruments" we learned how to make temporary Rune tattoos for our Shadowhunting skills!
Swimming lessons for the under-fives at an ungodly hour on a Saturday morning. These children do not stay still, but there is something about the identical swimming hats and armbands that makes me want to attempt the impossible and capture the scene. (Also, photographs are not allowed, so drawing is the only option).
They form a well synchronized pair, he loves to train and …
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Had a great experience yesterday. Exposure Detroit hosted a Natural Light oudoor portrait Educational Seminar. Tim White, Deana Barrett, and Ann Gordon were kind enough to take time to share their knowledge of portrait photography. I had the pleasure of following Ann around. I definitely learned a a lot and am very grateful to her for so graciously sharing her information, and I enjoyed her patient and energetic teaching style.
visit:
www.flickr.com/photos/thenytim/
www.flickr.com/photos/deanabarrettphotography/
www.flickr.com/photos/75976921@N00/
to see how its really done.
I think the best part of this is the cup, and you might notice that it is differently sized that the actual one on the lesson. The skull is way larger than the cup in this one, and also the thing under the skull I didn't draw. Please tell me what I could have done better.
Saturday, 8 June, 2013
8:30 – 9:20 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE AND VIEWPOINTS
VIEWPOINT: OPENING HEARTS AND WALLETS
In the past 30 years, we’ve seen the remarkable rise of China’s wealthy class and a massive accumulation of personal fortunes. The widening wealth gaps, enormous social needs, and recent natural disasters seemed to rekindle an interest in charity nationwide. However, charities and the philanthropic sector in China are still in the nascent stage. What are the catalysts to giving in China? What are the social, cultural, and institutional barriers for wider adoption? What lessons can Chinese business and philanthropic leaders learn from their Western counterparts, and vice versa?
Discussion leader:
Rupert Hoogewerf, Publisher, The Hurun Report and Hurun Philanthropy List
Wang Zhenyao, Dean, China Philanthropy Research Institute, Beijing Normal University
Yao Ming, Athlete, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
Moderator: Doug Guthrie, Dean, George Washington University School of Business; Vice President for University China Operations
Photograph by Stefen Chow/Fortune Global Forum
I've been thinking about the process of learning art. So I thought I'd go back to the very beginning and as a self imposed assignment paint a picture using only horizontal brush strokes. Somewhere I read a theory that people progress through developmental stages. First you have fun making marks on paper. Then you try various types of marks - horizontal, vertical, circular, diagonal. Then comes differentiation of shape - square, circle, triangle. Next is recognition of edge and volume, then size, and finally space and depth. So, by limiting myself to using just horizontal marks I thought I might trigger an early experience.
Additionally, I placed my iPad in a wire book stand so that it stood up by itself almost vertically on the table as if it were a canvas on an easel and I held my homemade stylus straight up and down between thumb and fingers palm facing me with the tip pointing up. Normally I hold my iPad in my lap and I paint with my finger or hold my stylus like a writing instrument.
It worked. The situation was odd enough that I became aware of the process and realized the many choices and decisions that must make it confusing and overwhelming to someone just starting. What brush size do you use? Where do you start and how do you proceed? What colors do you use and how do you pick them? How much paint thinner do you use? What happens when you work one color into another? How do you blend to a different value or another color? When do you stop? There's really a lot going on.
Much of this is tacit knowledge as opposed to explicit knowledge. It's the stuff you don't know you know; likely the stuff you learned early on and is so engrained that it no longer raises to a level of consciousness. It's stuff that's hard wired and when pointed out to you, you say, "Oh yeah, you do THAT, but it's so obvious I didn't think it was worth mentioning".
This must be what makes learning art so challenging and why it can only be done by doing through observation, imitation, and practice. You can't really learn by reading about it or by following a prescribed step-by-step process.
iPad, ArtRage app, homemade stylus.
We opted for the cheaper group lessons, and there was just this one other nice person taking lessons with us.