LeonardoVinci (1452-1519) is perhaps the artist most identified with science. The drawing above by Leonardo demonstrates his interest in proportion. Proportional study was critical to science during Leonardo’s lifetime because a standard system of measurement did not exist. Systems of measurements often varied from city to city (See Fritjof Capra’s excellent book The Science of […]
Lyonel Feininger (German/American 1871-1956), Volcano, 1918 This fall I am teaching relief printing as part of an introductory printmaking course. During the first class, I introduced examples of relief prints from art history. Many of these images are included in this post. After this presentation/lecture, students began to work on preparatory drawings that would lead […]
Currently, I am exhibiting artwork at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center in Michigan (August 6 – 27th). Included in the exhibit is a thirty-two foot long drawing of a scroll. In 2003 or 2004 I had bought a roll of paper. Having not used it by 2005, I thought about the possibility of making the […]
(The front entrance of Gwen Frostic’s print shop and store) This summer I visited two popular destinations in Northern Michigan. One of these sites is Gwen Frostic’s print shop and store in Benzonia, Michigan. The other destination is the Cherry Hut in near by Beulah, Michigan. (A portrait of Gwen Frostic) Gwen Frostic (1906 -2001)was […]
This summer I have traveled from Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia) to Michigan. I am teaching in the summer program at Interlochen Center for the arts. Interlochen is in Northwest Michigan, near Traverse City. On the way there, I stopped in Williamsport, Pennsylvania to visit the artist Chad Andrews. Chad has been an early tenant in the […]