Professor Samaras

Thursday, March 18, 2021

My Kean University drawing 1 students emulate David Hockney drawings and make smaller sketches studying measurements and the axis points

Drawing 1 3/18/2021 Sketchbook exercises.

Enlarge these to fit you sketch book (One side should be roughly 12")

TRACE into your sketchbook FOUR times. (Trace only the contours)

Then create a drawing using one of these 4 elements of art: Shape. line, texture, value.

These sketches will give you a great review of these elements of art. Prof S

Friday, March 12, 2021

Some example of Works by David Hockney

Here are some drawing works by David Hockney

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/apr/18/david-hockney-yorkshire-spring-drawings

Here are some paintings by David Hockney

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/david-hockney-80th-birthday-1017002

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Some examples of: One Point Perspective Drawings in Charcoal and in Pencil

For My Drawing Students:

Looking at drawings can help inspire you to create your compositions and your drawing techniques. See some of the photos below for examples!

In addition you can of course do Google Searches of your own!
Prof Samaras

Friday, February 19, 2021

Kean University Students: Social/Cultural Issue Photomontage Created with Digital Media

FALL 2020

FA 1000 Sec 22

Social/Cultural Issue Photomontage

Created with Digital Media

I am sending you some of the best ones I got in case you need to say in Fine Arts 1000 professors were addressing the social/emotional/cultural issues of Fall 2020 in order to reach/retain students etc. These are pretty poignant works as you will see. Some have great text too.

"Mixed Emotions: Ethan Esposito" (Image Number 4)

"This collage represents the topic of Mental Health. Specifically, it represents the negative thoughts and feelings that run through us. The astronaut on the moon is supposed to symbolize how he's separated from the world, Earth (as you can see on the right side). I put the astronaut on the moon to represent the main idea of the piece to show that standing alone in a deep and empty space can bring forth negative emotions and thoughts. But despite how dark and scary things can be, there's always a light to come by through it all, as it is represented in the reflection of the astronaut (the sun). To sum it up, I feel like although people face different mental health issues every day whether it is anxiety, depression, etc. that there's always going to be something good that takes that away."

Works below by : Brandon Seda / Ethan Esposito / Milly Aczona / Xavian Rivas / Anon / ANthony Leone / Namar Winfrey