UIC AD230 SP11

Sunday, March 27, 2011

fun day (information day)...

watercolor

gouache

rabbit skin glue

encaustic

egg tempera

watercolor on "absorbent ground"

http://www.ehow.com/how_2126271_make-egg-tempera-paint.html

http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=374303

Saturday, March 26, 2011

painting lecture 3

Lynda Benglis

Polly Apfelbaum

Gillian Wearing, Self Portrait as Three-year-old

Gillian Wearing, Self Portrait as My Mother

Richard Prince

Judith Linhares

Steve Lambert

Jeff Koons

Carl Ostendarp

Takashi Murakami

Lisa Yuskavage

Kerry James Marshall

Blinky Palermo

Laylah Ali

Robert Ryman

Alex Katz

Ellen Gallagher

Amy Sillman

Friday, March 25, 2011

Welcome back from your break, hope it was restful. Here's our schedule from now to the end of the term.
Week 11: T: papers and drawings due, start new painting in class.
Th: work day (throughout this couple of weeks, must be preparing painting surface for next-and final- painting)
Week 12: work days, fun day, and lecture 3
Week 13: T: Critique / start final painting Th: work day
Week 14: work days, lecture (and possible field trip ?)
Week 15: T: work day Th: Critique

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Painters I Mentioned Today

Monica Tap- paintings are based on images from Quicktime videos.
Ian Whitmore- paintings based on historical photographs.
Vija Celmins- paintings of space heaters, space, news.
Conrad Baker- Depression Glass, trickster painting.
Alex Katz- landscapes.
Sara MacCulloch- landscapes.
Rudy Burckhardt- urban landscapes.
Shane Neufeld- trucks.
Frank Bauer- paintings of airplanes, lots of sky, nice spacing.
Steven Coyle- trucks, traffic.
Paul Winstanley- out of focus, muted palette, atmospheric.
Paul Housley- jokey, loose painter.
Ann Craven- cats, flowers, outer space, check.out.her.website.please.
Wayne Thiebaud- cakes.
Marie-Louise Motesiczky- Rediscovered recently.
Otto Dix- Weimar, 1920's trauma portraits.
John Sloan- urban landscape, everyday working class life.