Scholastic

Scholastic is just around the corner.

Start preparing for January's due date by going to the following site and reading about what students are doing or have done in years past. Scholarship opportunities are available through the portfolio competition. Last year Over $30,000 in scholarship were awarded to ECS seniors through the scholarship contest.

http://www.artandwriting.org/

Register for Scholastic

http://www.artandwriting.org/registration

2009

Art is never finished, only abandoned.= Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo would say that.

The man who studied cadavers, engineering, warfare and dabbled in art enough to become immortal would leave us with a standard for relentless pursuit and constant angst for improvement. Its hard enough to cast a vision before the world that will intrigue it while aesthetically satisfying your soul, without the constant shadow of reevaluation and false closure looking over your shoulder. Thanks Leo. Making art is a struggle to find completion in both of the idea and the work. Sometimes you have to take it as far as it will let you and push the painting to its end, when adding another mark is too much.

is it abandoned? or finished?

Hmmmmm..

Chuck Close Interview

I watched this interview the other day with chuck close. I challenge you to do the same.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xyMdjqIshw

Bookmaking

More to come:
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw/gallery/bestofbest/

Journal Pages

Here is a useful website concerning idea pages.

http://www.artistsjournals.com/instruction.htm

What kind of Title is that

Being the Art III and AP class, i thought that an advance art class needed a title deserving such a prestigious group. After the fall, when Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden, God gave them covering made of fig leaves. My thought is to discover and discuss what has been and is being created in the art community, by our predecessors, contmporaries and ourselves after the fig leaf.