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Cross Contours and Hatching.

Hendrik Goltius [detail]

Drawing II folk,

In last class we moved on from the contour homework into taking line in greater detail into the interior of forms.  Remember- hatching is a series of parallel lines; Often an artist will "Cross-hatch" by intersecting the set of lines with another set at a 45 to 90 degree angle.  

This post shows several examples of these high detail stylistic marks.  The "cross contours" wrap around the form; Implying the underlying volume instead of running the risk of flattening an image the way unconsidered cross hatching can.

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville.
contemporary figurative painting/drawing.



Jenny Saville in conversation with Nicholas Cullinan 29/06/12 from Modern Art Oxford on Vimeo.

This video is long, no need to watch it or read the full article below; unless this artist really excites you.  Want to share a few examples of Saville's body of work for everyone to see a contemporary figurative artist.

Jenny Saville: 'I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies'

Jenny Saville's nudes are firmly in the vein of Lucian Freud, yet only now is she having her first major British solo show
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/09/jenny-saville-painter-modern-bodies

Hennessy Youngman

Hennessy Youngman and the self reflective satire of identity based performative art; and the contemporary art scene at large. . .




Hennessy Youngman is the adopted persona of Jayson Musson.  Musson has received a BFA in photography and his MFA in painting.   Musson was also a member of the Philly hip-hop group, Plastic Little, and is sampled in that 2013 "Harlem Shake" fad.




These videos which Musson started in 2010, became very popular with art students and the Youngman persona has been asked to curate exhibitions and give public lectures.

Athens Mural

http://onlineathens.com/marquee/2014-08-13/new-mural-celebrates-athens-creative-spirit

Athens has a new mural!  It was painted by recent Lamar Dodd alum Joel Rosenburg.  The mural is on the side of St. Udio- a metal fabrication business founded by former UGA art students. There will be a reception for the mural and I hope everyone makes the effort to attend.

Friday

August 29th, 7-9PM.

1321 Oconee St.

Athens, GA

Contour

Drawing II folk, 

Here are some examples of contour drawing to look over while you do your first contour portrait homework.  Many examples have other methods of rendering than pure contour, but these are some strong examples of linework.

[you should be able to click on the images to see them large]

Haruki Murakami & JM Coetzee on Discipline

The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/magazine/the-fierce-imagination-of-haruki-murakami.html?pagewanted=all
by Sam Anderson, Oct 21, 2011, The New York Times.

“Full time,” for Murakami, means something different from what it does for most people. For 30 years now, he has lived a monkishly regimented life, each facet of which has been precisely engineered to help him produce his work. He runs or swims long distances almost every day, eats a healthful diet, goes to bed around 9 p.m. and wakes up, without an alarm, around 4 a.m. — at which point he goes straight to his desk for five to six hours of concentrated writing. (Sometimes he wakes up as early as 2.) He thinks of his office, he told me, as a place of confinement — “but voluntary confinement, happy confinement.”

“Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life,” he said. “If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy. I’m not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don’t get bored. I’m kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I’m always hot.

I've never read the work of Murakami, but the journalist's description struck me as very similar to the way author JM Coetzee, who I would recommend to any reader, was described in 1999. . .

The New Statesman Profile - J M Coetzee

The ideal chronicler of the new South Africa, he deserves to make literary history as a double Booke

http://www.newstatesman.com/node/135933

Coetzee is a man of almost monkish self-discipline and dedication. He does not drink, smoke, or eat meat. He cycles vast distances to keep fit and spends at least an hour at his writing-desk each morning, seven days a week. A colleague who has worked with him for more than a decade claims to have seen him laugh just once. An acquaintance has attended several dinner parties where Coetzee has uttered not a single word.

I do not particularly believe a life without laughter is a necessity to the pursuit of great art, but I do want to draw attention to the focus, repetition, and discipline of professionals in the creative industries.

Read the full articles when/if you have the time. The important info has been cited here.