Clay Figures |
| Regional Artist |
Joseph Bluesky and Donna
Webb, Akron |
| Museum |
Akron Art Museum |
| Featured Artwork |
Howling Figures, Antoine
Bourdelle |
| Featured Teacher |
Karl Martin, Kent City |
| Synopsis |
Joseph Bluesky collaborates
with his wife, Donna Webb, to create sculptures of human
forms holding pots. He "collaborates with the clay"
and incorporates happy accidents while creating his figures
from clay. He works with suggestive rather than definitive
shapes and textures. The school project shows students
creating similar clay figures. |
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Watercolor Techniques |
| Regional Artist |
Mary Kay D'Isa, Youngstown |
| Museum |
Canton Museum of Art |
| Featured Artwork |
Boy Fishing, Thomas
Hart Benton |
| Featured Teacher |
Nancy Hulea, Canfield
Local |
| Synopsis |
Mary Kay D'Isa does a
tour de force of the techniques and tools used in this
approach to painting landscapes. Her tools are a fan brush,
palette knife, sponge, plastic wrap, rigger brush, and
salt. Her techniques include wet-n-wet, color wash, splatter,
scratching, sponging, and bleeding. For ease of instruction,
the school project demonstrates many of the same techniques
at a slower pace. |
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Found Object Sculpture |
| Regional Artist |
Mark Soppeland, Akron |
| Museum |
Butler Institute of American
Art |
| Featured Artwork |
Ven Daval Baricua,
Rafael Ferrer |
| Featured Teacher |
Russ Bailey, Campbell
City |
| Synopsis |
Mark Soppeland shows an
eccentric love for transforming found objects into sculpture,
particularly 3-dimensional masks. He discusses the need
to visualize the possibilities in objects, symmetrical
and asymmetrical designs, and how he uses his skills as
a craftsman, designer, and conceptualist to create works
that portray contemporary culture and historical issues.
The school project uses papier-mâché, masking tape, cardboard,
foil, and other objects to make masks. |
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Pop Art |
| Regional Artist |
Chris Yambar, Youngstown |
| Museum |
Canton Museum of Art |
| Featured Artwork |
Liz, Andy Warhol |
| Featured Teacher |
Sue Griffin, Southington
Local |
| Synopsis |
Chris Yambar uses photographs,
copy machines, transparencies, glass, acrylic paints,
and spray paints for his tools. He uses reverse painting,
blotting and scratching techniques to produce his art.
The school project uses the computer lab and similar techniques
to make student portraits. |
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Mixed Media |
| Regional Artist |
Laurel Winters, Akron |
| Museum |
Canton Museum of Art |
| Featured Artwork |
T. S. Elliot, John Sokol |
| Featured Teacher |
Matt Beresh, Mogadore Local |
| Synopsis |
Laurel Winters creates collages with quotes.
She uses computer printing, acrylic paints, stamping,
oil pastels and symbols from different cultures in her
work. The school project follows her lead in using quotes
to suggest themes for student collages. |
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Slab Pottery |
| Regional Artist |
George Sacco, Kent |
| Museum |
Canton Museum of Art |
| Featured Artwork |
Platter, Don Reitz |
| Featured Teacher |
Jennifer Guest, Fairless Local |
| Synopsis |
George Sacco creates giant decorative bowls
using a slab pottery technique. Slabs of clay are placed
on a form with breakfast cereal and the unfinished seams
between slabs creating textures. Each piece is individually
fired in a low temperature outdoor brick enclosure creating
different color patterns. The school project shows students
creating slab bowls and adding glazes. |
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Illustration |
| Regional Artist |
Rhonda Mitchell, Ravenna |
| Museum |
Canton Museum of Art |
| Featured Artwork |
Mr. Bug Goes to Town, Max Fleischer
Studios |
| Featured Teacher |
Debbie Gottas, Woodridge Local |
| Synopsis |
Rhonda Mitchell does a wonderful job of
demonstrating sketching techniques. Each sketch is traced
and then transferred to canvas for the application of
oil paints. She shows how a dummy book is set up to give
the artist an idea of the space available for each illustration.
The school project shows students sketching out ideas
and then painting the final products using acrylics and
watercolor paints. |
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Ceramic Tiles |
| Regional Artist |
Bob Yost, Akron |
| Museum |
Butler Institute of American Art |
| Featured Artwork |
Raku Platter, Susan and Steve Kemenyffy |
| Featured Teacher |
Laura Donnelly, North Canton City |
| Synopsis |
Bob Yost explains how he does research to
find the patterns his customers want on handmade tiles.
He demonstrates how he determines the design, traces it,
and makes a plaster mold. The mold is then used to create
multiple tiles that are then fired to create glazed ceramic
tiles. The school project uses student-created cardboard
patterns to create glazed ceramic tiles. |
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Abstract Watercolor |
| Regional Artist |
Bette Elliot, North Canton |
| Museum |
Butler Institute of American Art |
| Featured Artwork |
Phenomena Heat of High, Paul Jenkins |
| Featured Teacher |
John Hoyt, Canton City |
| Synopsis |
Bette Elliot pours and squirts primary colors
then tips the paper, brushes, blots and uses her fingers
to manipulate the paint. She hopes for happy accidents
that inspire her to create a finished work. The school
project follows students as they experiment with several
watercolor techniques. |
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Caricature |
| Regional Artist |
William Burgess, Warren |
| Museum |
Butler Institute of American Art |
| Featured Artwork |
The Late George Apley, Al Hirshfeld |
| Featured Teacher |
William Burgess, Youngstown Diocese |
| Synopsis |
Bill Burgess demonstrates drawing eyes,
noses, the mouth, hair, and bodies. The caricature style
of using the minimum of strokes to accomplish the art
is apparent in this style. The school project follows
students as they draw faces, bodies, and then add color
to their caricatures. |
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Final Five Programs |
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final five programs in this series contain two artists
explaining their work, but no classroom projects. Lesson
plans have not been created for these videos; instead,
they are intended to give students ideas on how their
creativity may be utilized in other art forms. |
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Clay Sculpture and Pottery |
| Regional Artist |
Brinsley Tyrell, Ravenna |
| Synopsis |
Brinsley Tyrell sculpts a female face from
scratch. He starts by creating a wire armature on which
he puts his clay. He uses the additive process to complete
his sculpture and then discusses how plaster molds are
then used to create the final product — a painted plaster
bust. |
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| Regional Artist |
Donna Webb, Akron |
| Synopsis |
Donna Webb collaborates with her husband
Joseph Bluesky to create representational human figures
that hold clay pots. Donna creates the pots and applies
glazes to the figures. She demonstrates the wedging of
clay, centering the clay on the pottery wheel, and the
throwing off the hump technique of making pots. This video
can be used in conjunction with the clay figures video
featured earlier in this series. |
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Wood Sculpture |
| Regional Artist |
Sam Clow, Coshocton |
| Synopsis |
Sam Clow creates painted wood carvings of
birds. He is shown creating a bird from scratch by studying
pictures, making a pattern, then using a band saw to cut
the rough shape. He uses small handheld grinders to carve
the feathers, other features, and to add texture. Once
the carving is completed, he uses acrylic paints to complete
the birds. |
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| Regional Artist |
Bob Alexander, Akron |
| Synopsis |
Bob Alexander uses wood to create all kinds
of art objects. He demonstrates the steps in making an
outdoor wooden weather vane. He starts with sketches and
then makes full-size plans. The wood pieces are cut out,
glued together, textured using wood gouges, and painted. |
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Electrostatic Art and Weaving |
| Regional Artist |
Miller Horns, Akron |
| Synopsis |
Miller Horns uses the technology of a copy
machine to create his art. He copies images from real
life and then creates line drawings from the images. He
works with bold colors and patterns to create a dynamic
landscape that is then enlarged. |
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| Regional Artist |
Logan Fry, Richfield |
| Synopsis |
Logan Fry is a weaver that draws his visual
inspiration from technology. His designs look like printed
circuit boards and binary code. He explains how his art
takes a lot of planning because of the intricacy of the
weaving process. He uses his loom to weave modern-looking
tapestries. |
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Textiles |
| Regional Artist |
Margot Eiseman, Tallmadge |
| Synopsis |
Margot Eiseman creates gorgeous painted
silk scarves suitable for framing. She demonstrates the
technique of applying a kelp-based resist and then uses
dyes to fill in the colors she needs to create a beautiful
still life. |
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| Regional Artist |
Clare Murray, Canton |
| Synopsis |
After a brief explanation of art quilts,
Clare Murray constructs a memory box that represents four
generations of her family. She uses a wooden box with
Plexiglas windows and places layers of broken crockery
from her great grandmother, quilting materials from her
grandmother, buttons from her mother and some of her own
quilt batting to visualize her family history. The box
is topped off with a piece of her own quilting. |
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Metal Sculpture and Wood Turning |
| Regional Artist |
Ron Simon, Cuyahoga Falls |
| Synopsis |
Ron Simon creates welded steel sculpture.
He discusses how steel materials require a lot of planning.
All of his work is done from sketches. He uses an acetylene
torch to cut, weld and add texture to his steel sculptures.
The three elements of art, design, design, and design,
are encouraged in this video. |
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| Regional Artist |
Gary Lansinger, Barberton |
| Synopsis |
Gary Lansinger creates wooden objects of
art using workshop tools. He demonstrates the wood turning
process by using a lathe to create a wooden egg. The texture,
growth rings, and imperfections are all incorporated into
beautiful decorative and functional pieces. |
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