Archive of Notes from Art School
Sketch of cells
Colored pencil
6″ x 6″
© c. 2004-5 Marilyn Fenn
I started this art blog* to put all of my notes from art school online in one place — mostly for my own convenience, but if anyone else benefits from my clumsily compiled notes (often with no real date), that’s good, too.
I’ve back-dated these posts, back to the beginning of when I started my first art blog, with a range (so far) from 3/20/05 – 4/20/05.
If I find more, I’ll add them on with back dates in 2005 as well.
*Note: referring to ArtNotes, which has been compiled in with my first ArtBlog, which together have now been combined with my website.
Aim for the Big Look
Art by Christian Rohlfs
Aim for the Big Look:
- tough
- brutal
- uncompromising articulation of imagery & idea
- extremes of technique, like most sensitive line ever, or thickest body of paint.
The need must find the idea & method.
These notes are from “Notes for a Young Painter”, by Hiram Williams, Prentice-Hall, 1963.
Read more notes online from Hiram Williams.
Thoughts Three Years After Art School
“Abstract #12″
oil on canvas
46″ x 56″
© 1994 Marilyn Fenn
(written in 1996)
It’s been 3 years since I left art school. I’ve been painting and drawing nightly for awhile — it’s amazing how I’m starting to really ‘get’ some of the things I heard in art school, but somehow didn’t make it all the way through from my ears and eyes to my brain to my hands and brushes.
Draw Abstracted Form Merging with Landscape
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 alive and every work of art should be alive.”
- Hans Hoffman
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