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1). Get It Out Of Your Head And Into a Mind Map
Do you ever feel like you have some great ideas, but when you sit down to write them, they're not so great? Or even worse, you can't really get a sense of what the ideas were? In one of my graduate student coaching groups we have been discussing the difficulty of translating partly formed ideas into words on paper. One technique that makes use of a normally underutilized part of our brain is called "Mind Mapping.
Article tags: mind mapping, organize, create, write, ideas, sketch, map, symbols, right brain, associate, drawing, dissertation help, graduate students help, need help writing, note taking, teaching, classes
2). Drafting As An Art Of Technical Drawing
Drafting is also known as technical drawing, it is the method of creating drawing for architectures and engineering.
Article tags: drafting, drawing, cad, architectures, engineering, technical drawing, t-square, drafting table
3). Visionary Landscapes book review featuring the art of Justin Michael Jenkins
Visionary Landscapes, the long awaited coffee table style book featuring thirty-one hand selected master drawings by the artist Justin Michael Jenkins, has been in the works for quite sometime. We are now proud to offer the world this 160 page full color published book through the independent publishing source, Lulu. Our vision for this exclusive volume edition was to have a high end collector style book that features many drawings from the chess, anatomy, mind, spiritual, and abstract collections.
Article tags: art, world art news, drawing, chess, anatomy, justin jenkins, justin michael jenkins, pencil art, books, publishing, visionary landscapes, volume 1, coffee table book, surrealism, abstraction, surreal
4). The Geometric Structures of Chess as a Catalyst for Creative Composition
Ever since i was old enough to recognize the names of each piece, i have been naturally drawn to the game of chess for many reasons. This particular game, above all others, was exactly what i would gravitate to in a most curious way as a child living in upstate New York. Something about this game kept me searching for more as my mind raced with a curious fascination into the miriad of geometric structures and unique principles that, to me, seemed almost perfectly in harmony with life and the universe itself.
Article tags: chess, game of chess, art, drawing, pencil, composition, universe, life, creation, players, artist, justin jenkins
5). Keep A Sketchbook And Have Fun
A sketchbook is like diary for an artist, a place where you can just let out all your art without any worries. Any person who wants to get better at drawing should have a sketchbook, because it not only records your ideas, thoughts and experimentations, but a sketchbook also gets you drawing and drawing, building your skills with every moment. You will see that the quality of your sketchbooks will be better and better, and what at first was dull then will become almost a work of art for itself.
Article tags: drawing, sketchbook, pencil drawing
6). Great Gesture Drawing in Minutes, Breathe Life into Your Drawings
Copyright 2006 Todd Harris
So what is Gesture? Some people define gesture as action. I think that it is action and a little more. It is the energy or life force of the character or person you are drawing. Essentially, it is the personality and make-up of the subject you are drawing. This helps us get the definition life drawing. It is exactly that! Everything and everyone has a gesture.
Article tags: life drawing, figure drawing, how to draw, learn to draw, gesture drawing, how to draw faces, sketching, line variation, drawing, art, charcoal drawing, drawing eyes
7). Will you pay $135 million for a small piece of canvas?
Copyright 2006 Socrates Olympio
In many respects one could say that this question is almost like a misnomer on any given day. $135 million? For 99.9% of the world's population the question may not merit a decent response if any at all. Simply because most of the world’s population are either middle-class, working class, living hand-to-mouth or are in abject poverty.
Article tags: artist, art, art competition, sculpture, drawing, oil painting, oil canvas, contests, competitions
8). What Is A Still Life?
Still Life is an art term, that refers to a special kind of picture. It represents an arrange of inanimate objects (hence the name) such as a bowl, a cup or fruits. Usually the arrangement is made according to the artist's purpose. A Still life pencil drawing can be symbolic, with an underlying meaning, or aesthetic, in which case the purpose is to communicate beauty.
Article tags: still life, pencil drawing, drawing