FULL CIRCLE - Old School to New School Drawing and Painting

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71376107220374001062011-09-19T15:09:35.969-04:00FULL CIRCLE - Old School to New School Drawing and PaintingA discussion of drawing and painting from old school to new school and how it travels in and out of film, music, architecture and writing. You will find tips, instruction, references and opinionated thoughts on all the above as well as related side bar trips.George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-55424751099255765512011-05-13T13:12:00.001-04:002011-05-13T16:59:49.120-04:00Simple lighting stage for still life setups

Here is a simple way to put up a very flexible portable stage you can use with inexpensive clamp lights. Ordinary PVC plumbing pipe, shower rings, clothes pins, rubber crutch tips, clamp lights and white Foam Core are the basic components of this setup. The only tools needed are a hacksaw and a miter box (optional). I have opted out of using PVC cement as I can easily disassemble it for

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-69667229733921270282011-05-09T22:03:00.000-04:002011-05-09T22:03:51.637-04:00Drawing makes you smart? If you can do this you can draw!

There has been a lot of buzz regarding the evaporating ability to write longhand (cursive)...big mistake! The eye-hand coordination that it develops is the entryway to many many skill sets. Its practice focuses the mind - no distractions - your brain will form new connections that will be permanent. All of the movements within the execution of longhand are the same as you need in learning to

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-91128910500793130012011-04-12T13:14:00.001-04:002011-05-13T20:29:55.700-04:00Inexpensive DIY light box - Laptop style for storyboards and animation

Here is a simple homemade light box made form a 11 x 14 clear plastic picture frame. Cut a pair of sides to fit from 3/4 plywood and paint them white. You will need a bottom cut to fit from hardboard also painted white. A small lamp available in home stores is useful to move around under your drawing or expanded to two lamps fixed to the sides for a more permanent job.

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-72961211164587410882010-12-22T17:50:00.003-05:002010-12-22T17:59:48.955-05:00Sundblom and Santa - Haddon Sundblom's great Christmas gifts.

Nothing pulls at nostalgia during the Christmas holiday more than Haddon Sundblom's incredible Santa renderings for the Coca Cola Co. For those painters and illustrators out there please really take a slow and careful look at the economy of style and brush-work that he employs on an iconic subject... This guy loved paint... lush and creamy with sure color..warm and cool... fire and ice. Here

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-3272816890723309692010-11-02T22:20:00.002-04:002011-01-06T14:47:35.125-05:00time on your hands

In time for the holidays is a custom timepiece based on orbiting planets. Other designs are at http://www.time.base24.com

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-84559143967469566242009-11-12T21:00:00.002-05:002010-12-21T14:36:50.200-05:00music in the studio - setting the mood

Setting the tone and mood for a work session can really enhance your effort... See if your most favorite sounds work for or against your focus. Fatigue and or distraction can be the result of poor choices in pairing music and hand (drawing - painting ). Experiment with the same project and find the right match for you with different genres of music. What does Beethoven do to your hand as

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-90479996520797010542009-10-02T14:07:00.001-04:002009-10-02T14:22:54.639-04:00Drawings at the Morgan Library

When ever I started a new drawing class the first thing I require the students to do is surround themselves with great drawings...now with the internet there is no excuse for lack of source.. The Morgan Library in NYC is one great drawing experience, not only for their collections but for the excellent environment it provides for the viewer. Today (October 2, 2009, through January 3, 2010) they

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-53526868667776545192009-09-30T10:20:00.004-04:002009-10-02T14:18:01.211-04:00Yellowstone Park - Transendent Experience

Ken Burns' inspiring series now on Public Television brought back with amazing clarity my first experience with the national park system. I drove across the country from New Jersey to California in a '50 Buick 4 door and slept in the back seat at truck stops serenaded by cattle carriers and revving Mack's and Peterbuilt's. Burns speaks of having a transcendent experience upon a first viewing..

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-7170599061801128972009-09-10T18:01:00.003-04:002009-10-02T14:19:03.603-04:00Homemade Slide Scanner That Works

Here is a very simple digital slide scanner that you can put together in a few hours that will get those old slides onto your PC or Mac... more than adequate for the web or use as reference to paint from. While not truly a scanner technically, it digitizes the slide with one click of your camera. You must have macro capability on your camera and experiment a little with the settings to

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-21164508343755529932009-09-10T15:35:00.007-04:002009-10-20T21:36:15.013-04:00Invite me in? Frank Gehry - Steven Holl - architecture that pulls and pushes.

When we first see a building for the first time at ground level (the only way most of us are able to) does it ask you inside to discover how the interior space is organized out of curiosity or seduction? If you see a rendering or photo of architecture from a POV that you never can personally physically encounter does it interest you as sculpture? An emotional pathway? In an age of Starchitects

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-24034281536815999162009-09-09T16:52:00.006-04:002009-10-22T20:48:59.483-04:00Improve your drawing - Part 1

Here is a method to improve your drawing that covers two subjects...type construction and warm up scales. The Warm Up..Who ever bothers to do this? Wrong.. No athlete ever goes into competition with out warming up – drawing is no different. You are using muscle groups, finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination. Everyone who has ever studied music or played an instrument knows how 'sticky'

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-19797418752316589172009-09-08T18:22:00.001-04:002009-09-08T18:32:10.557-04:00Haddon Sundblom - Home in America

Here is one of Sundblom's Home in America beer ads about 1955.His broad brush scrubs the light onto the fabric of the clothes and with a warm and cool light source. Painters like Sargent, Zorn, Sorolla all expressed the form with rich strokes in the right place and careful delineation when needed like in the hands pictured below. Lush and creamy - Another of the Home in America series. I

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-18966167542335259932009-09-08T14:43:00.001-04:002009-09-09T08:53:23.411-04:00Haddon Sundblom - Painter - Illustrator

Best known for his Coca-Cola Santa's from the '50's Sundblom had a solid stroke - economical and bravura. Sargent, Zorn, Sorolla are the lights on this path... more to come on this skilled painter-illustrator. Tell me a story... Below is one of the great Christmas Coke ads featuring Santa creamily painted with lush strokes. click on image to enlarge Follow the edges both lost and

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-51695229447794996162009-09-07T16:15:00.008-04:002009-12-13T15:54:50.667-05:00John LaGatta at the Art Center

Anyone who has studied with John LaGatta has at least one story. His method of instruction was strictly old school but wasn't that what you wanted at the time? The drawing at the right is an example of his 'fine Italian hand' as he liked to call it... John was the first illustrator to crack a million dollars as his sensual drawings of the female form were much in demand by both story and

George Ladashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17233970217467601619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137610722037400106.post-12817134309054715332009-09-06T16:25:00.005-04:002009-11-08T20:44:56.720-05:00John LaGatta Illustrator and Teacher

More of John LaGatta's drawing shows in the lovely hands and clinging folds of the models dress. The drawing again describes so well the material and form. John LaGatta

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