Artist-in-Residence: Alexander DeMaria

I really enjoy this peace of work because i find the details on the bee hive, and on the jacket of the animal to be really closely done. I enjoy looking at art work that has many small details because it makes you look and really think about the artist and the story or message there trying to tell. This picture reminds me a little bit about the cavemen. which is one thing i find interesting.

my question for Alexander is: how many try's does it take you to get to a finished project that you really like?

Studying Nighthawks

• Title: Nighthawks.
• The artist's name: Edward Hopper.
• Where is the artist form: Nyack, New York State
• The year it was made: 1942
• What medium was used to make the work: paint.
  

2. Write your first impressions of the painting. What do you see?

• I see a dinner a few people a street and stores on the other side of the street, i also see the way the light in the dinner and the street light hit the side walk. i see the writing on the top of the dinner, and the coffee cups in side on the counter.

3. Do a little research on this painting (there's lots of info on the web about it). Try clicking here or here if you need a little help. Who was Edward Hopper? Why did he make this painting? What is it really all about?

• The painting was inspired by a restaurant in New York on Greenwich avenue, the dinner was destroyed. this painting shows three lonely customers at a dinner late one night all lost in there own thoughts. Some believe that this painting shows the loneliness of a large city late one night.
  

4. Now...as we study the principles of design this week add your analysis of the painting to your post. Describe HOW the artist uses The Principles of Design to communicate his ideas. Be as specific as you can in your description.

• This artist uses the light to balance out the picture and the placing of the picture depends on the light. also he draws you in by using the lighting as a line to view the people and the street corner.
  

The work of Ingrid Calame

Who Ingrid Calame is

Ingird Calame is an artist that tried to make her own drawing out of there drawings that she had traced and adds her own thought and perception on it to make it her own.

HOW she makes her paintings

She makes her paintings by tracing, coping other peaces of art that are messed up of really cool graffiti tags. After she traces the different makings she goes back to the studio and places them over each other to see what they form. Then she colors them in with color pencil and then makes another drawing and paints it.

WHY she makes her paintings the way she does

She makes her paintings the way she does because she enjoys taking shapes from all forms and sizes and creating something new using those shapes. Also as a little girl she wanted to make drawings of what she thought the world looked like and know shes making similar paintings.