Art by Giada Studio Issue 2, March
3rd, 2014
Hello everyone and welcome to Art by Giada Studio’s newsletter!!!!
Each issue will features some news, Arts events, featured artists, my weekly
art schedule and more. www.artbygiada.com
Special Arts events
Fort Mill YMCA:
One-Act
Workshop – beginning March 11, 4:00-5:30 pm) Grades 5-9 with Michele Talley
Explore Medieval History – March 28, 6pm-8pm & Saturday,
March 29, 9am-1pm; Grades 3-7 with Michele Talley
KL
Creative:
Visual Arts Camp-River Hill Marina in Lake Wylie- Summer
2014
KL Creative will offer full days of camp from 9:00am-3:00pm on the following highlighted weeks. June 9-13, June 16-20, June 23-27, July 7-11, July 14-18, July 21-25, July 28-Aug.1, August 4-8 and August 11-15.
Featured artist : CHASE MAIER
Chase truly lives his art! He has a high developed sensibility for architecture and design areas. He may start out drawing a simple building on paper and progress to building complex three -dimensional structures that exist only in his imagination. He wants to be an architect when he grows up. He truly loves music and geography.
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Tuesday 04
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Wednesday05
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Thursday 06
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Friday 07
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Saturday 08
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Private lessons are priced at the hourly rate of $50 per hour for one student.
Small groups (3-5 students) $15 per hour for one student --siblings $10
(The teacher does not organize or fill the group classes)
Arts around us : Brad Spencer sculpture in bricks
photo via Brad Spencer
North Carolina artist Brad Spencer creates stunning sculpture out of a most common material —bricks.
the first brick sculptures that we know are of the period of ancient Babylon. The Ishtar Gate for example was constructed around 575 BC by King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, and it is made of fired bricks and decorated with animals made in glazed bricks. You can find Brad Spencer 's Art in
downtown Gastonia, at the new South Street pedestrian plaza ,
in Black Creek Greenway, Cary, NC ,
Downtown Greenville, SC and Winston-Salem, NC
Photo : Detail of a lion found along the processional way from Ishtar Gate into the city of Babylon.
Mrs. G. 'S project of the week- GUMBALLS -drawing/painting tips
1- you need to choose a subject for your painting where the colors and geometric shapes are easily recognizable. For example a transparent container containing colored gumballs , which are round and easy to draw.
2- Preliminary drawing is done in charcoal or light purple pencil .Not in pencil because it hard to erase off canvas and can show through paint.
3- when you are ready to paint , take a clean cotton rag ( an old T-shirt) and remove excess charcoal . What is left is the basic outline of your drawing. A faint drawing that you can begin to paint onto.
4- cover the entire canvas with a light neutral color -- light yellow-light blue ....(your foundation of the work)
4- Paint your background first ( negative space/the space around your object)
5- Paint your object (positive space) with basic colors (the colors you see the most )
6- find your light source
7- add shadows and light to your basic colors using complementary colors ( ex. if the color of the gumball is red the shadow will be green-- green and red are complementary colors)
8-add details
9- it is ok to make mistakes! don't get frustrated because your painting doesn't look like the object before you! When we paint /draw we are not trying to reproduce the object before us but rather we are trying to understand it. We are trying to communicate what we see and feel on canvas.
10-I would love to see your amazing art work. Please send them at artbygiada@gmail.com and I will post them here and on my FB page.
