Student Work -

DEMO VIDEOS

The following links provide examples of demo videos created for classes that pivoted to an online format in 2020/2021.

DRAWING STUDENT WORK (Northwestern College)

This 16-week course lays a foundation in the fundamental and perceptual skills of drawing. Students explore such concepts as: gesture, continuous line, organizational line, composition, positive and negative space, planar analysis, value, contrast, chiaroscuro, line variation, perspective, and texture. They also pursue multi-media projects that encourage them to combine styles and materials toward work that is uniquely their own.

PAINTING STUDENT WORK (Northwestern College)

In this course, students have used oils, acrylics, and watercolors to create both illusory and abstract compositions. Students begin their semesters with observational painting in order to understand the impact of composition, light, texture, value, and color on the act of painting. They also do so to gain facility with materials. Then students take on challenges as varied as creating Cubist- or Surrealist-style paintings to “re-mastering” Old Master paintings – or even painting a skull from the local butcher shop.

PRINTMAKING STUDENT WORK (Northwestern College)

In this course, students explore the print techniques of: etching, aquatint, drypoint, aluminum plate lithography, screen-print, relief, and monotype. Given the limitations of time in a 16-week course, the processes covered vary from semester to semester. Using a modest budget, I added screen-printing to the line-up of techniques in 2018.

Etching + Aquatint (on zinc, includes chine-collé and a la poupée)

Drypoint

Lithography (aluminum plate)

Relief (linocut and woodcut)

Screen-print

Monotype

INTRO TO STUDIO STUDENT WORK (Northwestern College)

In this course designed for non-majors, students explore drawing, printmaking, painting, digital imaging, and sculpture. Projects help to expand students’ creative capacities and build observational acuity. In past classes, students have crafted abstract modular sculptures from paper, used Photoshop to build autobiographical or social just-themed digital collages, made Andy Goldsworthy-style earthworks, constructed selfie-style paintings, carved linocuts, and narrated their lives through comics. Students have also learned relevant vocabulary in color theory and design, and reflected on readings from leading cultural critics, such as art historians James Elkins and Daniel Siedell.