Sketching Ideas

from Emma's Emuse Japan Sketchbook

On Friday, I depart for Japan. Very exciting! I'm trying hard not to be too nervous about Typhoon Songda scheduled to land right about the same time as me. I packed everything I need for the whole week in a carry-on bag! Efficiency. So, in light of my journey:

• Imagine you're on an airplane. What do you see out the window?
• Ikebana is the art of flower arrangement. Create your own arrangement (get funky!) and photograph it/draw it/enjoy it!
  

Summer Series Artist: David

According to David, "My fave famous artist is the one and only Andrew Warhola (Andy Warhol). The reason I picked the can is because in one of his prints he had the Campbell’s Soup so I thought, why not replace it with a Pepi can and so I did. There you have it my birthday card will look like this."

Check out his super-rad blog for more of his creative musings.

Happy Summer Vacation, my beautiful, bright, creative people!

So, I'll be posting ideas (some of my own, some from others) intermittently to keep those creative brains working.

• First up, if you got a birthday card from your favorite famous artist, what would it look like?

• Or, maybe you'd like to design a travel poster for a fake country?

If you take a nice photo of your artworks and email them to me, I'd love to feature Summer Artists of the Week!

Important End-of-Year Dates

• 5/4 Final SAR emailed/on the blog
• 5/5 Sketchbooks due: TWO (2) Artworks of the Week (includes your Final Learning Objective sketches)
• 5/6 Studio Day (Anime mini lessons for those who chose this as their performance piece)
• 5/9 Review for Final Exam
• 5/10 Conferences Begin (studio time for those not conferencing)
• 5/11 Conferences/Studio Time
• 5/12 Conferences/Studio Time
• 5/13 Conferences/Studio Time
• 5/16 Required Classroom Clean-up (I recommend wearing grubby clothes) and Final Project due
• 5/17-18 Final Exams

All students must be prepared to conference, starting on the 10th.