Drawing

I’m seven years old, CEO of my very own company, Dixie Originals. Ran out of my house with my family on the hot glue gun, I produced greeting cards. But they weren’t your Hallmark run of the mill type of cards. It was more like me making fun of the adults I had spent my whole life around. Mind you, I may have been fairly young but I was worse than a sailor. I won’t elaborate on that, but you get the idea. I like to think Dixie Originals was the start of my career as a mediocre artist. When I…

During the 1990s, Gene Basset drew an untitled editorial cartoon to stress the importance of the controversy about economic development and preservation of the natural environment. Basset’s editorial cartoon depicts a man representing the Billboard Lobby holding a chainsaw and shouting “obstructionist” at a tree, Although Basset’s cartoon seems straightforward, it can be inferred that he was trying to stress the importance of the battle to limit or to expand billboards up and down highways. This…

There’s something about realistic art made by a human being’s hands that fascinates me. It can be the quality of the brush strokes versus a photograph, or the realization that an actual human being, just like you, could create something so authentic-looking, so great. The amount of work it takes before you can even start on pencil and paper is huge, especially if your work is basically in another world, underwater. Let’s start with what it is to be an illustrator. An illustrator is someone who…

After researching other works by the artist, Honoré Daumier, it has become apparent that he likes to produce art in a way that almost makes fun of the subjects portrayed in each piece. The two works that I chose to form my comparison were also created by Honoré Daumier, and they look similar to the original piece that was presented. It is obvious that the art is mainly illustrated in charcoal, which provided the color of the overall images to be a mix of black and white. Through our discussion…

Artist Bio Raquel Paladino began her journey with finger paints at Christmas time; the buttery feel of the paints, bright colors, let's say it was a sensual experience when she had no concept of what that was. As a teenager her first art champion was her father when he gave her a small box of oil pastels. From then on Raquel experimented with pencils, charcoal, watercolors on any kind of paper or art surface. That is when "being an artist" first became a conscious thought. That is when she…

How To Carve a Pumpkin What you will need: • A pumpkin • A marker • Candles (preferably tea light) • Matches or a lighter • A spoon • A sharp knife • Newspaper • A large bowl 1. Pick out a pumpkin - Visit a pumpkin patch or a grocery store that have a wide variety of healthy pumpkins, all shapes and sizes. 1.1. Purchase your pumpkin a week or less before Halloween as carved pumpkins tend to go rotten after delegated time 1.2. Make sure pumpkin if free of any bruising or damage 2. Decide…

Ever since I picked up my first marker as a child, I would draw until my countless markers ran dry. By the time I picked up my first sketching pencil, I started to feel more serious about creating artwork. It was an April afternoon, with my cup of tea that I realized being a professional artist is my path in life. Decisions came easily to me in grade nine, before most of my peers would even have the slightest clue about their futures. During my high school years, I had my full life planned ahead…

hobbies that better suit my introspective tendencies. Eventually, the fear of being weird wore off and I was open to trying new things, like theatre and dance. I started honing creative energy like I never had before when I won a guitar out of a drawing at the Tulsa Harmonica Festival in seventh grade that . It was challenging for me, and I felt that all the years I had spent studying classic rock ‘n roll, via long road trips with my dad, had finally paid off. By this time I had enough training…

etc., he finally decided that he was going to draw me a picture of a gift that he got for Christmas. After about 5 minutes of drawing, Kahmarion said that he was finished and I began asking him questions about what he drew. For the sake of time and the fact that Kahmarion gave some pretty lengthy responses to my questions, I only asked him four questions about his drawing. The first question that I asked was, “What is happening in this picture?” His response was, “This is a basketball rim My…

Pablo Picasso may have worked on this painting, Girl Before a Mirror, not ever thinking about the elements and principles of art. When he sat at his easel lovingly looking at his beloved Marie-Therese Walter, it was as if Picasso was having a religious experience painting Marie as if she was the Virgin Mary pondering her child’s fate. As Picasso worked on the 5’4” x 4’3” oil on canvas painting in 1932, he added the elements and principals of art, allowing the painting to flow with a master’s…