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Ask the Art Prof Live #4: Oversaturation, Brainstorming, Beginning a Series

 

02:31

Balancing periods of absorption and periods of isolation.

04:55

Go to the library and look at art books!

Mentioned: Caravaggio, August Edouart’s Silhouettes of Eminent Americans

    

09:01

Non-art related influences

Mentioned:  Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto, Being Mortal, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, The Lost Art Of Healing by Bernard Lown

         

11:01

Brainstorming: keep “barfing”

17:01

Starting an art series:  striking a balance between consistency and variety

Mentioned: Quantum Leap, TV series

The next live video broadcast will be Thursday, May 5 at 9:30pm EST.  Like my Facebook page, and you’ll get notification when the live video begins.

Ask the Art Prof Live is a weekly live video broadcast on my Facebook page where I provide professional advice for art students and professional artists. Ask the Art Prof began as a written column in 2013 and was featured in the Huffington Post from 2013-2015.  See the full archive of columns here. Ask me your questions by commenting on the live video post as the video streams, and I’ll answer right away. I’ll discuss being an artist today, art technique & materials, work strategies for artists, career advice, teaching art, and more. Like my Facebook page and you’ll receive a notification when each live video begins.

Related Live Videos

#5:  Starting Art School, Avoiding Cliches

#3:  Personal Themes, Never Too Late to Start Drawing

#2:  Aches While Drawing, Professional Artwork vs. Student Artwork

#1:  Graduate MFA Programs

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Ask the Art Prof #4: Oversaturation of Images, Brainstorming, Beginning a Series

02:31

Balancing periods of absorption and periods of isolation.

04:55

Go to the library and look at art books!

Mentioned: Caravaggio, August Edouart’s Silhouettes of Eminent Americans

    

09:01

Non-art related influences

Mentioned:  Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto, Being Mortal, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, The Lost Art Of Healing by Bernard Lown

         

11:01

Brainstorming: keep “barfing”

17:01

Starting an art series:  striking a balance between consistency and variety

Mentioned: Quantum Leap, TV series

The next live video broadcast will be Thursday, May 5 at 9:30pm EST.  Like my Facebook page, and you’ll get notification when the live video begins.

Ask the Art Prof Live is a weekly live video broadcast on my Facebook page where I provide professional advice for art students and professional artists. Ask the Art Prof began as a written column in 2013 and was featured in the Huffington Post from 2013-2015.  See the full archive of columns here. Ask me your questions by commenting on the live video post as the video streams, and I’ll answer right away. I’ll discuss being an artist today, art technique & materials, work strategies for artists, career advice, teaching art, and more. Like my Facebook page and you’ll receive a notification when each live video begins.

Related Live Videos

#3: Exploring Personal Themes, Never Too Late to Start Drawing

#2: Aches While Drawing, Professional Artwork vs. Student Artwork

#1: Graduate MFA Programs

Subscribe to my email list! I send announcements only a few times a year. There’s a big announcement coming up in a few weeks that you won’t want to miss.

Ask the Art Prof #4: Oversaturation of Images, Brainstorming, Creating a Series of Artworks

02:31

Balancing periods of absorption and periods of isolation.

04:55

Go to the library and look at art books!

Mentioned: Caravaggio, August Edouart’s Silhouettes of Eminent Americans

    

09:01

Non-art related influences

Mentioned:  Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto, Being Mortal, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, The Lost Art Of Healing by Bernard Lown

         

11:01

Brainstorming: keep “barfing”

17:01

Starting an art series:  striking a balance between consistency and variety

Mentioned: Quantum Leap, TV series

The next live video broadcast will be Thursday, May 5 at 9:30pm EST.  Like my Facebook page, and you’ll get notification when the live video begins.

Subscribe to my email list! I send announcements only a few times a year. There’s a big announcement coming up in a few weeks that you won’t want to miss.

The Visual Arts Resource that Didn’t Exist, and that Still Doesn’t

My mother likes to tell me that I learned to draw before I learned to talk.  I drew voraciously as a child, and some of my favorite drawing books were by the children’s book author and illustrator Ed Emberley. His drawings are so quirky, playful, and incredibly expressive.  The instructions in his books are delightfully simple and easy to follow. There are so many god awful instructional drawing books out there for kids, and Ed Emberley’s books are unique, timeless classics that still resonate with me today as a professional artist.  I’ve been reliving moments from my childhood with his drawings with my own kids, who draw daily from his books. There’s something very special about seeing an image you haven’t seen in 30 years, but upon seeing it, feeling as though you drew it yesterday.

On the back page of Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book of Animals, is the above image. I found Emberley’s statement so remarkably poignant and moving.  So often I see long, pretentious explanations for why artists do what they do. Emberley’s statement is right to the point, and so incredibly honest and genuine.

I kept thinking about Emberley’s statement over the past few days.  His words relate to the motivation for my forthcoming project, which is going to be announced in a few weeks. Essentially, my project is for me, what Ed Emberley’s books were for him.   I desperately craved a rigorous, comprehensive visual arts resource in high school, but nothing like that existed.  Twenty years later, there is still nothing out there that measures up to what I wanted as a teenager.  Now I’m taking action to change that. Don’t miss the big release, subscribe to my email list today!

Sneak Peek

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Ask the Art Prof Live #3: Personal Themes, Never Too Late to Start Drawing

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Is it a bad idea to show deeply personal themes in your artwork?

Mentioned: Nan Goldin, Edgar Degas

     

Student drawing based on flashbacks of his mother’s death:

Student drawing based on Starbucks:

05:36

Artists have to be able to speak about their artwork.

Student drawing about her personal conflict about her religion:

12:52

Am I too old to start learning drawing?

Edgar Degas’ figure sculptures:

Henri Matisse’s cut out collages:

17:18

Experience can be a crutch for some students.

Ask the Art Prof Live is a weekly live video broadcast on my Facebook page where I provide professional advice for art students and professional artists. Ask the Art Prof began as a written column in 2013 and was featured in the Huffington Post from 2013-2015.  See the full archive of columns here. Ask me your questions by commenting on the live video post as the video streams, and I’ll answer right away. I’ll discuss being an artist today, art technique & materials, work strategies for artists, career advice, teaching art, and more. Like my Facebook page and you’ll receive a notification when each live video begins.

Related Live Videos

#5:  Starting Art School, Avoiding Cliches

#4:  Oversaturation, Brainstorming, Beginning a Series

#2:  Aches While Drawing, Professional Artwork vs. Student Artwork

#1:  Graduate MFA Programs

Subscribe to my email list! I send announcements only a few times a year.

Ask the Art Prof Live #3: Exploring Personal Themes, Never Too Late to Start Drawing

00:00

Is it a bad idea to show deeply personal themes in your artwork?

05:36

Artists have to be able to speak about their artwork.

12:52

Am I too old to start learning drawing?

17:18

Experience can be a crutch for some students.

The next live video broadcast will be Thursday, April 28 at 9:30pm EST.  Like my Facebook page, and you’ll get notification when the live video begins.

Subscribe to my email list! I send announcements only a few times a year.

Video Critiques for Professional Artists & Art Students

Since I expanded my video critique program to include professional artists a few weeks ago, I’ve critiqued many more portfolios. Above is a recent video critique I did for a professional artist.

Many of the artists who have contacted me for a video critique have commented about how difficult it is for them to find trusted feedback on their artwork. One artist said that since they are not enrolled in a degree program or art class, and don’t live in an area where there is a strong artist community, it was really tough for them to find someone who could provide a professional evaluation of their artwork. In this way, these video critiques are a good alternative to being in school and/or taking a class.

I also do video critiques for students working on a portfolio for college/art school admission, you can watch a sample below. If you are going to be applying for college/art school next year, now is the time to get feedback on your portfolio, while there’s still plenty of time to make changes.  Many students wait until a few weeks before their application deadline to get a video critique. Consequently, there’s no time left for them to improve their portfolio before their application deadlines, so start as soon as you can!

Video critiques are 30 minutes long for a review of portfolio of 8-20 artworks for a $60 USD fee. More info here. 

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Ask the Art Prof Live #2: Aches While Drawing, Professional Artwork vs. Student Artwork

 

The next live video broadcast will be Friday, April 22 at 9:30pm EST.  Like my Facebook page, and you’ll get notification when the live video begins.

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Aches while drawing

08:33

“The Artist’s Run”

10:52

“What distinguishes professional artwork from student artwork?”

17:43

permanent & archival art materials

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Ask the Art Prof Live #1: Graduate MFA Programs

You can watch the first broadcast of ASK THE ART PROF LIVE below. The next broadcast will be Thursday, April 14 at 9:30pm EST.  Like my Facebook page, and you’ll get notification when the live video begins.

 

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“Every year only a small portion of students go to graduate school. Why do you think it’s like that?

00:52

“What do you think are the most important values you can learn from graduate school?”

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“Do you think it’s better to go to graduate school right after a bachelor’s degree, or after working for a few years?”

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