IMAGINACTION : IMAGINE A BETTER WORLD

A few months ago I was invited by my fellow painter and great friend Dave Zaboski to participate in a brilliant charity even for a special organization, ImaginAction located in Ocean Park. The chartity's director is Hector Aristizabal and his life story is fascinating. I could not believe the amount of talent on display that evening. Dave and I did a live painting session and then auctioned our paintings off for charity. 

IMAGINE A BETTER WORLD!

   

A Night of Beauty to 

support ImaginAction's local and 

global projects 

A celebration of life and transformation through art 
with music, theater, storytelling and life drawing...

The evening included performances by:

Singers & Musicians:

Angela Roa and Fernando Posada

Jami Lula 

Victory and Vanessa Mori 

Enzo Fina from Musicantica 

Andy Manoff

Christine Baniewicks 

Desire Adomo

Spoken Word  

Ricardo Acuna 

Fernando Castro

Dance

Sarah Swenson, Dance Box Company

Theatre

Hector Aristizabal

Alessia Cartoni

Live Painting

Dave Zaboski & Ryan Wurmser

HECTOR ARISTIZABAL, Director of ImaginAction

STUDENT WORK : CONCEPT & COMPOSITION CLASS : CAI

Below you will find student work form the Concept & Composition Figurative Intensive that I taught @ California Art Institute. I have been meaning to post this for some time. These are a selection of color poster studies and compositional sketches.

The poster study is a portrait of the light. It is the state of color relationship within the visual field. It is a small, abstract, color sketch that represents the major tonal relationships of the composition.

Compositional sketches are essentially tonal (value) studies. The exercises grow in complexity as I gradually introduce the Elements of Design (i.e. line, size, shape, direction, value, color, etc.). By asking students to isolate specific elements of design and to combine them in a sketch they begin to discover novel solutions to design problems.

Some of the pieces selected were done as homework.

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Here is a selection of charming studies done by my students:

COLLEEN JOHNS

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NANCY TAYLOR

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MICHAEL CHUNG

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LIZZ TUCKER

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INGRID SANCHEZ

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CRAIG  HARRIS

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Students painting in my new Traditional Painting & Drawing class @ CAI - 2012 Fall Semester

OPEN WORKSHOP SKETCHES : 2 - 25 MINUTES : EXPERIMENTAL

5-MIN SKETCHES

2-MIN SKETCHES

BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING

BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING

BLIND CONTOUR PASTEL DRAWING

BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING

BLIND CONTOUR PASTEL DRAWING

2-MIN SKETCHES

OPEN WORKSHOP SKETCHES: 2 - 25 MINUTES : EXPERIMENTAL