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Guernica Drawing Project

December 22, 2009

For our final in-class project, I had the students each take a section of Picasso’s great 1937 painting, Guernica, and draw it using charcoal. We then put them all together to form the large reproduction of the masterpiece. Throughout the quarter, we investigated many artists and styles, including DeKooning, Dali, and Chuck Close to gain [...]

Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

September 16, 2009

I asked my Advanced Typography students to visually “animate” this poem by Billy Collins, expecting to see 2D typographical layouts, but Nick Garcia produced this great start for a video animation of the poem.

American Gothic Project

February 28, 2009

With all due respect to Grant Wood and his iconic painting, American Gothic, we put together a number of variations on this theme for a Photoshop compositing project at the Art Institutes Int’l. Everybody in the class did a marvelous job with this project, demonstrating original thinking, humor and technical virtuosity. Here are a few [...]