Four-Year College
As I had mentioned in my last
post I was accepted to Massachusetts College of Art and Design after graduating
from Holyoke Community College. My first year at MassArt consisted of taking foundation
courses, for example Visual Language, Studio for Drawing, Time, and Form Study.
Basically these classes allowed students to experiment with various types of media
(paint, charcoal, photography, video, Photoshop, etc.) before picking their college
major. I chose to major in animation. Interspersed with my required animation
courses were liberal art and studio electives. The structure of most classes at
MassArt was similar to HCC but the workload was heavier and grading more stringent
(but I expected these things from a four year art school). At the end of those four
years I graduated with a bachelors of fine arts degree in the field of
animation. Below you will find all of the physical artwork I made at MassArt.
Most of the animations I made
at MassArt can be found here:
Art produced in the course ‘Drawing I’
This was a sketch I made for
an art history class. The two objects shown here are ancient bookbinding tools from the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The purpose of this homework
was to take an image from a magazine and makeup a drawing around it. I think the
picture of George Harrison came from a Rolling Stone article.
One of our homework assignments was to go to the
Museum of Fine Arts and make two drawings; one of a painting and the other of a
three dimensional object. For the painting I chose ‘Portrait of a Man Playing a
Lute’ by Bartolomeo Passarotti and for the object I chose the dragon vase (I
don’t know the artist’s name) seen below.
Art produced in the course ‘Illustration’
An ink and watercolor
painting I made after a trip to the Harvard museum of natural history.
A study of hands (in watercolor paint).
A study (in watercolor paint) of Sir William Russell Flint’s painting Annabel at
Parame.
A study (in acrylic paint) of John Singer Sargent’s
oil painting ‘Egyptian Girl’.
Art produced in the course ‘Book Making’
A simple thaumatrope book made from luggage
tags. When the tags are flipped/spun the illustrations on both sides morph into
a single image.
For my first book project I wanted to make a
1960’s style travel brochure of my hometown. The pictures and information came
from both Google and Wikipedia.
For my second book project I decided to make a
simple accordion fold book based on the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. The tip
of the beanstalk was made with tissue paper and all of the illustrations were
painted with gouache paint.
For my final book project I had decided to make
an alphabet book based on movies. My teacher gave me the vintage film canister and
the woven film stock came from the MassArt film department.
Art produced in the course ‘Drawing II’
Various perspective drawings.
A dress hanging from a handcart. Drawn with a
black Prismacolor pencil.
A still life drawing consisting
of (from left to right) a toolbox, art box, jacket, lamp and artist portfolio.
Fancy Women’s
shoes. Charcoal on grey paper.
The subject of the three drawings you see below
is the Christian Science Center in Boston. Drawn with charcoal and conté crayons.
Art produced in the course ‘Figure Drawing’
The four drawings below were a part of a larger project that took about a month and a half to work on. Our professor had students use projectors to trace anatomical illustrations (from Google) on to large sheets of drawing paper. My guess is that our professor wanted students to focus on learning how all of the muscle groups connect rather than attempting to create a faithful reproduction of the original illustration. I used chalk pastels for the color and shading.
Art produced in various courses
during my time at MassArt
Several ceramic pieces
covered in high fire and low fire glazes.
Various character designs for my courses in
animation.
These eleven figures were a
part of a larger project in my freshmen year. Originally a flashlight would
move down a track in front of the row of figures in turn casting a shadow
animation on the back wall. Made from soda cans.
The following three pictures
are of props from the short film ‘Word and Image’ (which can be found on my YouTube
page).
A wire and balsa wood puppet I made for the 'Stop Motion' class. You can see it's performance in the video ‘Puppet’ on my YouTube
channel.
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