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The Secret City : Episode 62 : Wishing Well
I mentioned Mark Kistler in class the other day.
https://youtu.be/K90Lgd5BW8k
https://youtu.be/K90Lgd5BW8k
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
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Fwd: Alchemy Call for Submissions
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Hello! Please help your students celebrate their work by submitting their essays, poems, short stories, and/or art! Due by 3/22
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Writers and artists, we want to showcase your work! Alchemy is Sylvania's art and literary magazine. It's a perfect bound, full-color book published each spring. It includes PCC students and established writers, and our student editorial team would love to consider including your work. Please submit by 3/22. More details found at:
-nate
Monday, March 4, 2019
Scratchboard Links
03-04-2003, 07:40 PM
I have a recipe for making the clayboard not sure where I found it. Think it was Dianes recipe. Hope it helps.
PVA (white craft glue)
Whiting (fine chalk like powder, or plaster)
White Paint (cheap, water based)
Mix 2parts PVA, 2 parts Whiting, and 1 part White Paint. Paint thickly with a broad brush on
a piece of hard board (keep board flat). Make 4 to 6 coats letting it dry between coats. The glue prevents the penetration of the inks, the whiting gives body, and the paint makes it white. If you experiment you will find the combination that suits you. Sand it smooth and add inks.
PVA (white craft glue)
Whiting (fine chalk like powder, or plaster)
White Paint (cheap, water based)
Mix 2parts PVA, 2 parts Whiting, and 1 part White Paint. Paint thickly with a broad brush on
a piece of hard board (keep board flat). Make 4 to 6 coats letting it dry between coats. The glue prevents the penetration of the inks, the whiting gives body, and the paint makes it white. If you experiment you will find the combination that suits you. Sand it smooth and add inks.
https://www.scratchboard.org/russhowto/
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
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Listen to Lettering Artistry with Jessica Hische in Podcasts
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Terryl Whitlatch - FaerieCon Seattle 2018
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The Etherington Brothers: How to THINK when you draw Stranski COMPOSITION tu...
The Etherington Brothers: How to THINK when you draw Stranski COMPOSITION tu...: Here's the next of my special STRANSKI tutorials, this one looking at how to draw and plan COMPOSITION , useful for designi...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Stranski&safe=off&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS817US817&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=cJdCnzCZWTdapM%253A%252Ch4COY4EnXU3UiM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kTYuw8ZXqm0VofvPinQF_RZGgwIPw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjYsNma5OvdAhVKsFQKHeA3AdsQ9QEwAXoECAAQBA#imgdii=h3aQ2xlRCLoHRM:&imgrc=rPZbbdFeDR0q2M:
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Monday, October 1, 2018
October "inktober" challenges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoPphVOn18O/?taken-by=mabgraves
https://inktober.com/rules/
https://twitter.com/drawlloween
https://www.google.com/search?q=season+of+the+bad+guys+club+list&safe=off&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS817US817&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT1qm8xubdAhWFHDQIHcWjBs8QsAR6BAgBEAE&biw=1280&bih=658#imgrc=CzI3k2UgzMqUSM:
https://inktober.com/rules/
https://twitter.com/drawlloween
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Sunday, September 30, 2018
Check out this movie on Netflix
Check out "The 100 Years Show" on Netflix
https://www.netflix.com/title/80106609?s=i&trkid=13630398
https://www.netflix.com/title/80106609?s=i&trkid=13630398
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams! Check out this movie on Netflix
Check out "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" on Netflix
https://www.netflix.com/title/70145740?s=i&trkid=251922979
https://www.netflix.com/title/70145740?s=i&trkid=251922979
Saturday, August 11, 2018
Check out this TV show on Netflix
Check out "Abstract: The Art of Design" on Netflix
https://www.netflix.com/title/80057883?s=i&trkid=14751296
https://www.netflix.com/title/80057883?s=i&trkid=14751296
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Seven Ways to Become an Active Listener Using Classical Music
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Seven Ways to Become an Active Listener Using Classical Music
// Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement
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- Make a decision. The first step in active listening is to simply ask yourself: "Am I really listening?" This sounds ridiculously obvious, right? But we actually have a decision to make. We have to decide if we are we going to multi-task – which includes even just thinking about other things – or, are we going mono-focus and give the music our undivided attention.
- Embrace alone time. This may sound anti-social, but the truth is, even when 2,000 people are sitting in Carnegie Hall together, they are each in their own private listening world, taking in the sounds around them and having their own private reactions. So don't think twice about sitting in front of your computer or phone by yourself with your earbuds in.
- Use YouTube. It's not like the old days when the classical music-curious needed to sift through bins of LP vinyl records or CD cases with no direction on what to purchase. The entire history of classical is all there on YouTube, ready for your enjoyment – for free!
- Stick with the winners. You may be wondering where to start if you're not familiar with classical. Here are eight excellent options to get your feet wet:
- Mozart: Overture to the Marriage of Figaro (04:30)
- Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, Movement III (05:00)
- Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21, Movement II (06:30)
- Brahms: Symphony No. 4, Movement III (06:00)
- Fauré: Pavane (orchestral version without chorus) (06:30)
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Movement I (07:30)
- Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, Movement II (11:30)
- Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé – Suite No.2 (16:00)
- Find your focus. Having made a decision to listen with all of your faculties, you might be wondering: "What do I actually focus on?" Pay attention to the rhythms, the melodies, the harmonies, the contrast of loudness and softness, the different sounds each instrument or group of instruments makes and the form. Take notice of changes and similarities. Are some melodies repeated? Are they repeated identically or altered? What other changes do you notice?
- Keep your focus. It's quite normal for your mind to wander as you attempt to focus completely on the music. When that happens, simply bring your mind back to noticing the melody and the instruments that are playing. Enjoy the contrasts of loudness and softness as they occur in real time. Once you shift your attention back to the music, your internal monologue will quickly vanish.
- Seek out help! Still wondering what to listen for? Seek out friends of yours who listen to classical for their guidance. Don't have anyone you can ask? You can always visit The Discovery Orchestra's YouTube page and select from any of our short "Discovery Chats" to get started. Happy listening!
Maestro George Marriner Maull is the Artistic Director of The Discovery Orchestra, a nonprofit music education organization teaching the attentive listening skills that help people of all backgrounds better comprehend, experience and emotionally connect with classical music.
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You Don’t “Find” Your Passion in Life, You Actively Develop It, Explains Psychologist Carol Dweck, Theorist of the “Growth Mindset”
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You Don't "Find" Your Passion in Life, You Actively Develop It, Explains Psychologist Carol Dweck, Theorist of the "Growth Mindset"
// Open Culture
You might spend your whole life trying to find your life's passion, or passively hoping it comes to you. Many have done so and, tragically, have never discovered it. Were they looking for purpose in all the wrong places? Maybe. Or maybe the idea that our life's calling waits out there for us to find—like the fairy tale notion of a one true perfect love—is kind of crap. That's not how Stanford psychologists Carol Dweck and Gregory Walton put it, exactly, but their research suggests that "the adage so commonly advised by graduation speakers," as Stanford News reports, "might undermine how interests actually develop."
In other words, when people think of interests or talents as "fixed qualities that are inherently there," they are more likely to give up on pursuits when they encounter difficulty, believing they aren't destined for success. Working with data acquired by Stanford postdoctoral fellow Paul O'Keefe (now at Yale), Dweck and Walton explained some recent research findings in a paper titled "Implicit Theories of Interest: Finding Your Passion or Developing it?" The article is forthcoming in Psychological Science, and you can read a PDF version online.
The paper describes five studies on "implicit theories of interest" and contrasts a fixed theory with a "growth theory" of interest, an idea that comes out of Dweck's prior research on what she calls a "growth mindset." She has published a bestselling book on the subject and given very popular talks on what she calls in her TED appearance in Sweden above "the power of yet"—a phrase she derives from a high school in Chicago that gave students the grade of "not yet" when they hadn't successfully passed a course. This hopeful assessment encouraged them to keep trying rather than to think of themselves as failures.
Dweck tells her TED audience about giving a group of ten-year-olds' problems she knew would be too hard for them to solve. Those with a "growth mindset" responded with excitement, eager for a challenge and the opportunity to expand their capabilities. The kids who had a "fixed mindset" crumpled, feeling like they had been judged and come up wanting. "Instead of luxuriating in the power of yet," says Dweck, "they were gripped in the tyranny of now." Children thus "tyrannized" by feelings of failure might be more likely to cheat rather than study, make downward comparisons to boost feelings of self-worth, or become avoidant and "run from difficulty."
These strategies are even visible in images of brain activity. None of them, of course, will lead to progress. But Dweck claims that the problem is endemic to a generation of people who need constant validation and who fold when they meet challenges. So how can parents and teachers help kids become more growth-oriented or, in Dweck's lingo, build "the bridge to yet"? Her recommendations may not sound that revolutionary to those who have followed the backlash against the well-meaning but misguided "self-esteem movement" of the past few decades.
For one thing, praising effort, rather than intelligence or talent, will help kids develop more resilience and value ongoing process over instant results. Judicious applications of "good try!" go much farther than repetitions of "you're brilliant and amazing!" Dweck's other strategies involve a similar focus on process and progress. Unsurprisingly, when we believe we can change and improve, we are far more likely to work at developing talent, instead of assuming we've either got it or we don't, an unscientific and self-defeating way of thinking that has done a lot of people needless harm. Dweck and her colleagues show that our life's passion isn't a fully-formed thing out there waiting for us, or an inborn, immutable quality, but rather it comes as the result of patient and persistent efforts.
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Kahl Witches
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Kahl Witches
// Deja View
Heritage Auctions recently sold these design sketches by Milt Kahl from the movie The Black Cauldron. I believe that in the original books by Lloyd Alexander the three witches keep exchanging their outfits in order to confuse the group of lead characters.
This story concept isn't easy to get across in just a few drawings, but if anybody might have pulled it off in animation, it's Milt.
Great drawings, though in principle the characters borrow heavily from the designs of Madam Mim as well as Madame Medusa.
You can see a Tim Burton concept sketch of the three Witches here:
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Kley's Artistic Evolution
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Kley's Artistic Evolution
// Deja View
Here are three Heinrich Kley magazine illustrations that show how his art evolved over the years.
The first one is titled "Summer Solstice in Heidelberg". I would date this piece sometime during the 1890s, even though there seems to be a later date indicated on the upper left side.
The depiction of men, women and children is realistic and rigid. It is a pretty illustration, but undistinguishable to other artists of that era.
The next one is titled "the late Hour" from 1896. A lot more going on here in terms of dynamic composition, inventive poses and personality. Just beautiful!
The third sketch represents what Kley became famous for. Fantasy illustrations that show, what Walt Disney would call "The Plausible impossible". Surreal, caricatured situations, drawn in a believable manner. In this case a violinist fiddling away while being eaten by alligators. Luckily the drawing shows the process' early stage.
Kley's work at this time also included assignments for the German steel company Krupp. Some paintings show plane architectural (but beautiful) renderings of their factories. But even in those environments he would occasionally include oversized evil, satyr-type or other characters.
His imagination is sometime difficult to figure out, since we always look for the meaning behind such unusual work.
What is easily accessible though is his drawing virtuosity. Way ahead of his time he could depict the most absurd situation and make it look beautiful and believable.
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