Art Prof

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Lauryn Welch talk about how to decide whether to do do an MFA program in studio art. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KEwgwfw6JAs/  Prof Lieu and Lauryn talk about how to figure out whether having an MFA program is worth the time and cost: do you want to get an MFA to teach at the college level? To get professional connections to enter the New York City art scene? Do you want to have concentrated time to engage critically with your artwork and create a series beyond your undergraduate studies?

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Deepti Menon and Alex Rowe discuss how to deal with deadlines as an artist. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t0APmHfyFo0. Whether you are in school or working as a freelance artist, deadlines are a reality of being an artist a lot of the time. Prof Lieu, Alex and Deepti provide tips for how to manage your time to make sure you don't miss those deadlines!

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Teaching Artists Cat Huang and Jordan McCracken-Foster lead a drawing demonstration of how to paint a landscape using a broad range of reference photos. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eZQr50YXKb8. Cat and Jordan talk about atmospheric perspective, texture, and lighting to create the illusion of space in their digital paintings.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates how to draw a chickens using oil pastel. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QcdqRaOrwco.  Prof Lieu explains various techniques that can be used to build up vibrant colors and three dimensional volume with oil pastels including layering, blending, creating a diverse range of textures and marks, and more.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Jordan McCracken-Foster explain color saturation, and how to create a balance of muted and saturated colors in fine art, illustration, film, character design, and more. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/D9cdq5Eunug.  Prof Lieu and Jordan break down how saturated colors can work together to create an effective color scheme.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu demonstrates a color mixing exercise based on complementary color pairs. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/I3jTmDEIqcw. This color chart is very effective in terms of training your eye to see subtle shifts of color, to develop a more sensitive color mixing technique, and mixing different levels of saturation with the opposite color instead of relying on straight white and black out of the tube.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Deepti Menon provide Part 1 of a basic curriculum for self-taught artists that cover the essential skills that are important to have as a foundation in visual arts. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KIEXU1tP8rI. Deepti and Prof Lieu explain why specific skills are important when you are just getting started, and give advice for what sequence is most effective for gaining these skills. 

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Alex Rowe and Lauryn Welch explain the basics of how complementary colors work and how they can be used effectively to create color contrast in color art media. This video focuses on blue and orange. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8ZitsglD_kw. They discuss the way the complementary colors are laid out in the color wheel, as well as how complementary colors can be implemented into paintings.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Jordan McCracken-Foster discuss what qualities are commonly seen in 2D compositions. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vHe6YWMwBGM. Using examples from fine art, comics, illustration, movies, and more, Prof Lieu and Jordan explain and break down the compositions to point out strategies that make for an engaging 2D composition.

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Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artist Cat Huang show and demonstrate the process of how thumbnail sketches work within the artistic process. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oTiR_dw7fqI. Cat and Prof explain what the benefits of thumbnail sketches are and how they can save you time when working on a final piece of artwork. They show simple strategies on how to crop or expand your thumbnail sketches and how to diversify your options.

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