PAM Drawing Workshop

me

2010-02-24T21:38:00.000-08:00

Hello this is Taylor and I have a blog called taylor taylor taylor taylor TAYLOR where I post my artwork and other things that I like. You can look at it out if you want http://www.checkthetable.blogspot.com/

Here is a free sample:

Thats all!

Teen Drawing Class Video

2010-01-06T16:52:00.000-08:00

Teen Drawing Class--Portland Art Museum from Stephanie Parrish on Vimeo.

Last Day of Class

2009-12-21T00:28:00.001-08:00

We ate cupcakes, had a final critique, and silk-screened our class shirts with lots of help from Brian.

Our shirt, featuring self-portraits by everyone in class. It came out awesome.

Andrea Vandermolen

2009-12-15T22:56:00.000-08:00

Hi, everybody! These are a few of the pieces I entered in the Scholastic Art Awards this year. All the drawings are either charcoal or graphite and the paintings are all in acrylic paint.

This is a self-portrait I did over the summer in acrylic paint. I glued down small pieces of lined paper on to a wooden board and then painted on top of it.

This drawing is pretty faint in the photo, but it's of a dancer of from the Oregon Ballet Theater. The Oregon Ballet Theater allows some high school art classes to sketch and photograph the dancers while they practice so my art class went last year.

This is a painting I did of my younger sister and our cat for my AP Studio Art class.

Courtney Carter

2009-12-13T10:15:00.000-08:00

Hello! I'm Courtney. My post is a little late because I am a notorious procrastinator. Sorry!

This is an artichoke flower that I did in my AP Studio Art class. It's drawn with Sharpie pens of varying thickness.

I know it doesn't really look like it, but this is a was once a paper bag. I burned the edges (note to self, matches and paper in the house don't mix well), and I ran it over with my car a couple of times in hopes of getting some tire marks. No dice. The assignment was to give our view on society or something of that nature. I was hoping to reference the chaos and destruction of society. I did this one with graphite drawing pencils.

This is a negative space study using the vines of roses. Also in Sharpie.

This is just a close-up detail shot of a drawing I did of three seashells. I used this part because the starfish is the only part of that piece that I liked.

This is a still life that I did on my first day of AP Studio. It is not finished which explains the lack of subject.

This is a piece that is also completely Sharpie. I entered it in the George Fox contest as well as the Scholastic Competition.

And finally, mostly just to add some color to my post, this is a pastel drawing that I did in my sophomore year.

Kyla Blomquist

2009-12-10T20:57:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone, I'm Kyla! My post is a little late, but luckily I saw Taylor's lovely drawings and got reminded that I hadn't done mine yet. Here it is! This is an acorn squash I drew for AP Studio Art. I also entered it in the Scholastic Art Awards....yikes. I named it Cinderella, because it pretty much resembles a pumpkin, and it has a fairy tale like quality to it.

This is my "paper bag" drawing. It started out as a KFC takeout bag that i tore, cut, twisted, and put a sharp stake through (to create a stand for it) and drew it. I made it to represent "Humanity" in that it looks like a man and a tree, both that are twisted and contorted.

This is a seashell drawing I did..

This is the first piece I did of the year. It's done from a miscellaneous still life.

The end!!

Taylor Bancroft

2009-12-03T18:55:00.000-08:00

My name is Taylor. These are three of my drawings that I have done over the last year.

The first one is of a man who was interviewed for a documentry about the font helvetica. the film was called Helvetica. I did the drawing on a sheet of computer paper with a ballpoint pen.

The second drawing is of Regina Spektor who is a musical artist. I used a ballpoint pen with this one too.

The last one was done with ballpoint pen. It is of a man in Asia. The original picture was in a 1977 copy of national geographic and this guy had just won a competition where you had to catch a duck. The hand he has extended over his head was actually holding the duck that he caught. That's all.

Emmalena Schulte

2009-11-11T20:03:00.000-08:00

Hi! I'm Emmalena.
I'm sorry this post is so late, my scanner wasn't working. :(

Both of these are pictures I did this week at home. I used nib pens and watercolor, and those really seem to be working out for me. :D

The first one is an experiment I did, that continued and became this. It was super fun to do, and only took me about 45 minutes. I did a bunch of other pictures too, but I deemed these the most fit for a blog entry. :)

This second picture is of my little sisters school, Richmond Elementary. I did it for an auction happening on saturday to raise money. I'm really excited about using pen and ink, it's really fun! I also used watercolor over this one. I did it really quick and free-style-ish, so I didn't measure any of the proportions, or even use a ruler.

Thanks!

Collin Bancroft

2009-11-10T13:23:00.000-08:00

Hello, it's Taylor! My brother is a photographer and I wanted to share some of his work.

You can check out his blog at http://thankyoucamera.blogspot.com/

Adrienne Hurst

2009-11-04T19:42:00.001-08:00

Hi everyone! I'm Adrienne. Here are some pieces I've been working on lately:

Figure drawing is my absolute favorite thing to do. I love working with charcoal; it's so versatile, and its boldness and blend-ability (I may have just invented a word) agree well with my tendency to draw on a large scale. This is a charcoal sketch I made of a friend.

Although I've been getting into drawing quite a bit more than photography lately, I'm a photographer at heart, and it definitely shows in my drawings. I think the two go together quite well. I'm inspired to draw by what I see around me; photography is just another way of capturing it. I plan to make a charcoal drawing from this photograph, which I took in Paris this past Spring.

A few months ago I discovered printmaking. It's a lot of fun-- this last piece is made from a photograph I took of a friend's dog. I cranked up the contrast, printed the photo, transferred it by pencil onto a sheet of linoleum and carved the image. I went a little crazy with the printing press and colored ink, so what you see is a combination of four different prints (I layered them in Photoshop just for fun). I don't usually work in color, but it was this endeavor that made me interested in starting to do so. I'm looking forward to exploring new drawing mediums in the next several weeks. :)

Inspiration

2009-10-30T19:50:00.000-07:00

Charlie Roberts represented by Richard Heller

Paul Klee
David Hockney

Jan Van Eyck Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife Giovanna Cenami, 1434

Experimenting

2009-10-30T00:31:00.000-07:00

This week we busted out pretty much every medium we could think of to use on paper and did a lot of experimenting.

Here's Kyla in the foreground with the beginnings of her tree drawing in ink. The end result was really intricate.

Andrea experimented with monoprint.

Emmalena drew this in ink with a nib pen and then moved on to gouache:

Oskar's typographic experiments in acrylic (I think).

Taylor's two-headed fish in gouache and ink.

Courtney's little robot. I think this is all done in colored inks.

Adrienne made this gouache painting using a charcoal drawing from last week as reference.

Oskar

2009-10-28T23:26:00.000-07:00

Hey, my name is Oskar.
These are some pieces I did last summer.
The first one is "Leo." I drew him from the obituaries, I seem to recall him being a football star in college. The next one is the first page of my sketchbook I made last summer, as part of the PNCA Pre-College program I took there. The third one is a photo transfer from an anatomy book that I drew over with a dip pen and then with a micron and finally painted on with watercolors.

In my spare time I usually draw with pencil, mechanical if I can get it, or a pen. In the IB Art class I'm taking at my school I am studying Pop Art, and Takashi Murakami in particular. Before that I got the book of the Beautiful Losers exhibition, and I drew my inspiration from that.

Figure Drawing

2009-10-22T22:30:00.000-07:00

So many nice drawings were made today. I wish the photos of them came out better - a few were too blurry to post...

By Emmalena

By Courtney

By Andrea

By Taylor

By Adrienne

Emily C!

2009-10-20T17:51:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody! I decided to post three of my pieces. The first one I call "The Kitchen Table." I made it as an assignment for my AP Studio Art class a couple of weeks ago.

We were talking about fan art last Thursday, so I posted a fake poster I made for the Shins. Wouldn't it be awesome if I actually knew the Shins? In the meantime, I will just make band art for them.

Finally, what would a blog posting be without a picture of my dog? Here is a sketch of Corey, my basset hound. He's easy to draw because he sleeps a lot.

Check out the website of Mia Nolting. She's a local artist who I met because she was a TA for an art class I took. I love her stuff. www.mianolting.com

See you all on Thursday. -Emily C

And Oskar's piece

2009-10-19T11:41:00.001-07:00

By Oskar Radon Kimball

Welcome

2009-10-12T17:56:00.000-07:00

Hi and welcome to our blog. The Drawing Portfolio Workshop for Teens meets once a week at the Portland Art Museum to draw and critique. Last week everyone worked in the museum galleries, making drawings inspired by artwork at the museum. Let me introduce you to our class:

By Andrea Vandermolen

By Kyla Blomquist

By Emmalena Schulte

By Emily Cronin

By Courtney Carter

By Adrienne Hurst

By Taylor Bancroft

Stayed tuned for a drawing from Oskar Radon-Kimball (the only person missing here) and for weekly posts from the students themselves, sharing their own work and talking about it.