Meera Thompson’s students describe their artwork from her spring courses at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts: Introduction to Drawing, Collage: The Invention of Images, and Drawing at the Metropolitan Museum.
Links to courses below:
Introduction to Drawing (also running this summer)
Drawing at the Met (also running this summer)
Quotes: “This is a sketch of mine with charcoal from last week from Drawing at the Met. I chose to sketch this one in particular because I was drawn to the kindness of the study’s countenance and the relaxed, confident and peaceful nature of the portrait.” Heather MacClemmy
Quote: “This collage was constructed with origami paper and tissue paper. The idea was to “translate values into hues” by taking a black&white photo and “invoke the photo image” using various hues to represent the values.
The adhesive was acrylic gel medium, and the substrate is foam-core board.” Nancy Johnson
Quote: “The drawing is based on a work by Luca Cambiaso. The original drawing is titled “Group of Figures,” 16th Century. I created a narrative with 3 of the many figures in the original drawing. Are they dancing, fighting? Is one figure defending another?” Robyn Berland