How to hold a pencil and why it is important. Homework.

 How to hold a pencil and why it is important:

http://www.themotorstory.com/The_Motor_Story/Fixing_That_Pencil_Grip.html


Just a nice description on how to hold a pencil:

http://www.drawyourworld.com/blog/hold-the-pencil.html

Art class for 7 years old student - drawing profile first time.

At the beginning we discussed Matisse freedom, line and rhithm and Picasso approaches to moods and lines.

 H.Matisse. Yvonne Landsberg. Drawing, pencil.1914. 20 1/2 x 16 3/4"

H.Matisse. The Plummed Hat. Drawing, pencil.1914. 20 1/2 x 14"

Dore Maar Seated. Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 25 5/8.

During one session 7 year student created many amazing characters:

Soft pastel - one of my favorite mediums. My still lifes.

 Anastasia Samson. Still life with white teapot and lemons. Soft pastel on paper. 9 x 9 inches.

Anastasia Samson. Three lemons on the red plate. Soft pastel on paper. 11 x 11 inches.

 Anastasia Samson. Conch. Soft pastel on paper. 10 x 8 inches.

Pay what you wish and free Admission days at New York City Museums

Suggested Contribution:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brooklyn Museum
The American Museum of Natural History

On Thursdays:
MAD Museun of Arts and Design Pay-What-You-Wish from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm:

On Fridays:
MoMA Free admission during Target Free Fridays from 4 - 8p.m.
Neue Galerie The museum is open to the public free from 6 to 8 p.m. on the first Friday of every month.
Rubin Museum of Art   Gallery admission is free for all every Friday from 6:00–10:00 p.m.
Whitney Museum of American Art Pay-what-you-wish 6 - 9 p.m.

On Saturdays:
Guggenheim Museum   from 5:45 -7:45 p.m. admission to the Guggenheim is "pay what you wish" by donation.
The Jewish Museum  Admission is free on Saturdays from 11 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.

On Sundays:
Frick Collection Pay-What-You-Wish on Sundays from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
children under ten are not admitted to the Collection.

Art Class - Georgia O'Keefe Inspired Paintings.

Usually I begin this class with an illustrated O'Keeffe 13 x 16 folio. We go through the book until we choose one painting, after we discuss color mixing and composition based on this artwork.

Art class for 2,5 years old.

 Oriental Poppies, 1927, Georgia O'Keeffe

Tempera on paper, 18 x 24.

Art class for 3,5 years old student. He chose to work with "White Birch" O'Keefe.

White birch, 1925. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30.

Tempera on paper, 16 x 22.

Angelika. Soft pastel and charcoal sketches

Angelika, thank you for having posed for me!

Anastasia Samson. Angelika. Soft pastel on paper. 2012

Anastasia Samson. Angelika. Carcoal on paper. 2012

Filipp Maliavin 1869-1940

Born Oct. 10 (22), 1869, in the village of Kazanka, in present-day Orenburg Oblast; died Dec. 23, 1940, in Brussels. Russian painter. Maliavin, the son of a peasant, studied at the monastery icon-painting workshop at Mount Athos in Greece from 1885 to 1891 and at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts under I. E. Repin from 1892 to 1899. He visited France in 1900, and after 1922 he lived abroad. Maliavin painted a number of portraits of peasants.

Russian women.