Marilyn Fenn Studio

Painting by Arshile Gorky The Artist’s Mother, 1926 or 1936 Charcoal on ivory laid paper 630 x 485 mm Class notes from Advanced drawing studio with Barbara Rossi, SAIC, 1991 Look at Gorky’s portrait of his mother in our collection. Focus on theme, medium or image of our work – substantial # of drawings – [...]

Class notes from Advanced drawing studio with Barbara Rossi, SAIC, 1991 Poem – Wallace Stevens: 13 ways of looking at a blackbird. There are at least 80 ways of painting an ice cream cone. Bring examples of artist who have used masks as part of their imagery.

Sketch of Sulka Mask, Melanesia, 1900-1910 Fiber structure covered with pith, feathers and pieces of wood Drawn at the Field Museum, Chicago Pencil on paper 7″ x 5″ © 1991 Marilyn Fenn Class notes, from Advanced Drawing with Barbara Rossi, SAIC, 1991 Basil, switzerland – Folk Museum – tradition of Carnival prior to Lent; also [...]

Copy after Chagall’s “Birth” The Art Institute of Chicago Pencil on paper 7″ x 5″ © 1991 Marilyn Fenn Class Notes from Advanced Studio Drawing, taught by Barbara Rossi, Fall 1991 Purpose of class: development of personal resources, more inventive with how you represent things; more significant to you. Look at modes of representation, both [...]

Sketch of anthropomorphized landscape form pencil ©1991 Marilyn Fenn Some random class notes from Advanced Drawing with Barbara Rossi, SAIC, 1991 “The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature—translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be [...]

Class note from Advanced Drawing by Barbara Rossi, SAIC, 1991. Check out the book, “James and the Giant Peach,” by Dahl – children’s book with lots of cloud-people.  This is related to a series of paintings and drawings I was doing at the time that involved cloud people.