And To Look At Some Current Practicing Illustrators...

Try these sites:

Folioplanet

Illustration Mundo

The i-Spot

PictureBook

The Best of The Best

Dr. Carl Sagan said: “You have to know the past to understand the present.”
This is very true of the visual arts. The following web sites are a treasure trove of classic illustration.
Look at the art to understand how to handle composition, render textures, use color, and learn who are the rock stars in illustration!

American Illustrators Gallery - Features image gallery of artists from the "Golden Age of Illustration".
http://www.americanillustrators.com/

Women Children's Book Illustrators- Women illustrators from the Victorian period up to World War II
http://www.ortakales.com/Illustrators/

A smattering of some of the most famous illustrators of the last 125 years
http://www.bpib.com/illustra.htm

SurLaLune Fairy Tale Illustration Gallery - Classic fairy tale illustrations
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/illustrations/index.html

Vintage Advertising Art:
http://grapefruitmoongallery.com/gallery/illustrationandcoverart.shtml

A vast selection of old adverts, nostalgic illustrations, classic posters and vintage magazines:
http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/gallery_indexpage.php

Charrette: Change

Hello, Young Changelings! Here you'll find the link to the blog/wiki that we are putting together that is designed to help us all stay informed during the Charrette. This will have information as well as inspiration and lots of avenues to explore, and ought to be ready by Tuesday the 20th. So, click away!

When you get there you need to:

• 1. Click on "Register" on the lower right hand side
  
• 2. In the next screen choose a username and enter your e-mail address
  
• 3. Click "Register"
  
• 4. Check your e-mail for your new password
  
• 5. Go back and contribute!
  

Bending Balloons into Giant Flowers

 Hmmmmmmm...

Common materials + uncommon ideas = VERY uncommon results = INTERESTING!!

What have you learned?

Change is all around us

With our new President, change and hope are in abundance. Corporations have caught this buzz, and they're riding this wave. It's being reflected in new ad campaigns and logo changes, read more here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99398676

You can also listen to the story as it was reported on NPR by clicking on "Listen Now" at the above web link.

MONEY! Lots Of It! For YOU! SURF Grant Opportunity

SURF Grants are here! What's that?! Simple, money from UConn to travel, buy equipment and supplies, and make art. We've had a lot of students succeed and get these grants, but you have to apply. Past winners have traveled Europe, China and parts of the US heretofore only rumored to exist! And they made great work. So, go here for application details:

SURF Grant Opportunity

So get off your lazy patootie and go here to get off the ground in time!:

SURF Workshop
Friday, January 23, 2009
CUE 134, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m

The maximum total amount awarded for SURF grants is $3,500.00 (not bad!!)

Happy New Year, and hello!

Hi Everyone!

My name is Patti Argoff, and I will be teaching an illustration class this semester for your beloved professor Cora Lynn Deibler. Click on the title of this posting to see my page at PictureBook.com.

I work primarily in children's publishing and educational materials. I've illustrated 24 books to date (with number 25 in the wings). My clients include: Highlights for Children, Apple Seeds Magazine, Cricket Magazine, McGraw Hill School Specialty Children's Publishing, Oxford University Press, and Hachai Publishing to name a few magazines and publishers I've worked with.

I look forward to meeting you soon!

Sites to upload your art

Here are a few FREE online portfolio sites you can upload your art to:

Coroflot.com - Online Portfolio, FREE, 5 images, brief summary of your skills and experience, plus your full resume
http://www.coroflot.com/

ArtAndDesignOnline.com- Online Portfolio, FREE, 4 images (& 3 Sample Images), About Us, Statement & Find Us

Voodoo Chilli - Your first 5 images are free, but after that you have to start paying.
http://www.voodoochilli.net/

Alpha Omega Digital - Online portfolios include samples of your work, professional information, resume, contact information, logo, personalized URL, guest book and more.
http://www.alphaomegadigital.com/


At Creative Hotlist, you can browse posted freelance jobs for free. A portfolio page at this site is $35 for 6 months, but it's free to create an individual listing which includes a link to your portfolio page elsewhere.
http://www.creativehotlist.com

The New Guy

So I get an email, click a couple of times, and find myself listed as a contributor, so I better contribute. Might as well introduce myself. I am Gregory Nemec, and I will teach a class at UCONN this semester. You can click on the title or my name to see my website, which shows my work, and which links to my blog, and to the site about my recently published book. A few clicks more once you are on my blog takes you here, to a twenty-two minute movie I directed and edited about illustrators who work while traveling, or live in unusual places, and generally have free-spirited relationships with geography and clients. I made it with illustrator James Yang, it has some of my hand-done animation at the end, and you can watch it during a lunch break. You can also see a few more pieces of art I have in this supplemental portfolio on facebook. Looking forward to the semester!

Hey Seniors!! Remember Senior Project for 2009?...

Don't forget to go to the wiki to check out some of the specs for the coming semester. Also, remember to get the textbook: Textbook available at Amazon

You can get this book used, just be sure you are getting the 12th Edition, not an earlier one.

Thinking caps! Thinking caps, people!

Pyrats!

Go ahead... click that link up there in the title. It's a movie you'll like.

Fits in with our current project- as so many things do!

Here is another animation you'll like in a lot of ways, and not just for the ships and the pirate-like name of the creative group that has made this absolute gem of wonder, either!:

The Tale of How

You guys need to DRAW more! We all do!  ;-)

Oh, yeah. That "Pyrats" film- made by STUDENTS. For real.

Grad Finals

Hey All,

Some of you have asked about observing graduate student critiques. The crits are open and you can attend a couple. The schedule is below. Faculty and grad students will be there all day but other interested parties come and go.

So, if you want to see what happens at a grad crit, stop in.

Final Critiques

for 1st & 2nd Year MFA Grads will take place on

Saturday December from 9am 6pm at the VARC

Crits last 35 minutes each, with 10 minutes in between for grading and
transition, and a lunch break between 2nd and 1st years' presentations.

Refreshments will be served.

The schedule of presentation is as follows:

Second Year Students:
1.Bruce
2.Mike
3.Erin
4.Liz
5.Jake

- Lunchbreak-

First Year Students:
1.Kaite
2.Lauren
3.Kasey
4.Owen
5.Frank