Here is another short, but very captivating, video on N.C. Wyeth. It’s been ages since I last visited the Wyeth museum – I guess that’s the Brandywine Museum? Like I said, it’s been ages.
A short but insightful video featuring Jerry Pinkney speaking about his wordless picture book, The Lion and The Mouse, a fable of Aesop. In particular I appreciated his comments on how he determined the book would be wordless only after he had completed the thumbnail sketches. I would of course assumed he had set out to create such a book from the start.
My first class at MICA met last night. So far so good. The students were great at the very least for patiently awaiting my very long monologue to end. Oddly enough Labor Day wipes out next week’s class and so we won’t meet again for two weeks. Over those two weeks I’ve got them illustrating Aesop’s fable, The Fox and The Grapes. In the meantime I’ve got more sketches to do myself. I think I’ll go work on that now.
Here’s a preview of what I’m sure is another awesome DVD by Massive Black. Greg Manchess has been illustrating for nearly 30 years, I think. He’s primarily been a fantasy and sci-fi illustrator. Anyway, I wish the preview was longer.
It may be quite some time before I am able to post any new illustrations here on my site. For the next four months I will be busy teaching at MICA, working on contract at ADG Creative and creating illustrations for Tanglewood Press. I suppose I might create a thing or two as I teach Intro to Illustration, but the work I do for Tanglewood won’t be seen by the outside world until it is published in 2012. Of course if the movie is correct nothing will be published in 2012. And the work I create for ADG won’t be posted here, but instead I will be posting that on Cloverfish.com as it will all be web oriented – at least I think so.
Anyway, in the meantime I plan to post videos that encourage creativity and instruct in the art of illustration. So pretty soon I should have a good resource for myself if not for any visitors to the site.
Apart from the fact that Gary Kelley is an amazing illustrator, he also loves to use pastel – so do I. This video is a preview for the full-length video which I purchased and downloaded yesterday from Massive Black. It’s a two-part video and each part is over 45 minutes long. The two parts together cost $30. To say the least it was well worth the money.
When I was in college you could only hope and pray for such an opportunity. Even then you might only get a glimpse of the guy over the shoulders of people much taller than you. Watching this video was like hanging out with Mr. Kelley as he offers his personal commentary on each step of his process. Massive Black is a great resource for all sorts of demos like this.
This next one is a full-length interview. The intro is pretty cheesy as it was created for a local news show in Iowa, but the rest is great.
Maryland Institute College of Art
The Maryland Institute College of Art has invited me to teach Intro to Illustration next Fall 2010. Originally I was to teach two classes, but some departmental reorganization has taken place since I was first contacted and so I will now teach only one class – Intro to Illustration. I believe it will work out great. To say the least I am honored and excited. These last few weeks I’ve been popping in to observe classes with José Villarrubia and Warren Linn. They’re both great teachers and wonderful mentors.
