LACMA Trip

This is a piece by Edward Ruscha who had an exhibit at the LACMA when we went. What I found interesting about his piece is his unconventional medium and material. This, like many of his works is made with gunpowder and pastel which is a crazy combination to think of when you think of art. I just found this work very interesting because of his unorthodox material used.


--Rajiv Ramakabir

Design Fonts

Attached is a link to a good variety of fonts that can be used in many cases. If you are interested in types of font, you should check this link out and possibly apply some cool fonts to the poster of the exhibit for this project.

http://www.youthedesigner.com/2011/11/22/30-sleek-fonts-for-your-minimalist-design/

--Rajiv Ramakabir

Teetering Bulb: little fictions

Just discovered a fantastic illustration duo, Zelda Devon and Kurt Huggins, who call their team Teetering Bulb (http://www.teeteringbulb.com/). I love the way they use not only color, but value, really well in their pieces. One of Zelda's blog posts says that it is important to "understand color values. Don't wade around in a grey soup. Grab screen stills from powerful black and white movies, like Hitchcock stills. Compare your work in grayscale. Is you work as powerful as a Hitchcock movie still?"
Some of their fabulous creations are below:

"Sometimes, you gotta draw it 6 or 7 times. Or 13 times."

"Astronauts and Dinosaurs!"

"Borrowed Dreams"

for Reader's Digest Asia

"You learn only by doing. Be fearless." -Zelda

Dried Gouache

I left a bunch of red gouache on my palette while I was cutting out swatches for my color wheel and came back to find this. It was so beautiful and delicate and I just had to photograph it.

Monochromatic Scales

This is an image showing the monochromatic scales of the primary colors and a simple black and white one.

M. F. Husain

These are some paintings by M. F. Husain, a famous Indian artist who passed away last year. During his life, he won several high-standing awards, granted by the government of India. As an artist, he worked with many different themes from different religious backgrounds. Much of his work features deities of Catholicism, Buddhism and Hinduism.  I particularly appreciate his modern depictions of Hindu gods and goddesses (including the last image of the Hindu god, Ganesh).

Colored Gouache

As we are starting to work with colored Gouache, I wanted to investigate some paintings that were done with various colors. These are some of the colored gouache paintings that I thought were extremely good. Also attached is a color wheel, which we will be working on over next week or so.