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a-visualthinkerThe faces of Holocaust victims and their memory is preserved through a series of mixed media collages created by Czech students. The collages include photos, pencil sketching, and paintings that are portraits of regular people living ordinary lives who were caught up in a world gone mad.
This itinerant exhibit is on display in Plainveiw, NY through May 1 at the Manetto Hill Jewish Center. The exhibit is titled "Neighbors Who Disappeared", and depicts the lives of Jews who disappeared from Czech towns during World War II. The exhibit was created by Czech children ages 12 to 21, where were encouraged to examine the lives of local residents who were deported form the children's own towns, and who were among the millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust. The panels recreate the student's artwork that combines text, paintings, photos and drawings, and also includes facsimiles of historical documents that have been translated into English.
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hydra artsGenerating drawing ideas isn't that difficult if you really think about. Our list of drawing ideas will assist you in creating your personal master pieces. All professional artists use references while drawing. In order to find inspiring references, in case one isn't drawing from real life objects or people, it's a good idea to go through old books, magazines or calendars. The end product may or may not resemble the reference used.
It is also a fine idea to create a unique reference file in which cut outs from various reference materials can be stored. You can also surf the net and create an e-folder as well. Such a data base can suit your different drawing styles and moods.
Another interesting drawing idea is to draw people you know very well in different ways. For example you can draw them having different hair-dos, having various facial expressions & wearing weird clothes.
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ales°moJoan Breckwoldt is an American artist who lives in Houston, Texas. She has posted work from her collection on her blog, which includes sketching that she did while on vacation in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her sketch of the Church of St. Nicholas in the giant Old Town Square is one of her favorite pieces. She chose to eat at an outdoor restaurant one evening that had the best view of the church, and she included some people in the sketch as well on her son's suggestion.
Several days later she sketched the same church again as they were waiting for a tour bus in the Square. They only had 30 minutes to spare, but that was long enough for Joan to capture the church on paper. This time she ended up leaning against a wall as she completed the sketch. Sketching on the tour bus proved difficult because the pretty villages and church steeples were whizzing by way too fast.
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