The October Dinner Party exhibit is up and participating bartenders for Art on the Rocks have already started coming by to select their pieces which will inspire their creative cocktails. Have you bought your Art on the Rocks tickets yet?? Click here for more information and to download an order form!
Day: October 7, 2010
Fashion Illustration Class
This fun new class at The Art League School begins this Saturday, October 9, and runs for five weeks… and there’s still room! Click here for more info and to register.
This course introduces basic illustration styles and techniques to aspiring fashion illustrators and designers. Students will work on the drawing, sketching and textile rendering skills needed to create illustrations for sales presentation and production. Basic design proportion and composition are covered. Participants will also learn to accentuate their illustration through style-exaggeration and fabric rendering. Students illustrate poses from supplied fashion photos and render actual fabrics samples for drape, texture and pattern. A familiarity of drawing materials (pencil, ink, marker, gouache) is helpful.
About instructor Matthew Cuenca:
Hungry for artistic knowledge, Matthew moved to New York City and after four years he received his BFA with Honors from Parsons School of Design. For the next 15 years he worked as a Fashion Designer, Illustrator and Art Director for companies such as Harper Collins Trophy, Moody Publishing, Bill Blass, Avirex, Oleg Cassini, and Oxford Industries. He has also worked as associate professor of the Fashion Institute of Technology. In 2002 he moved with his family to Paris, France and rekindled his freelance career in illustration.
Since 2003 he has exhibited at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, where he won the 2003 Art Award. He has also freelanced for EMG (Alaska), Adept Press (Chicago) and Griffin Grove Games (Australia). In 2005 he moved to Phnom Penh, Cambodia where he started a lucrative career in jewelry, designing exclusive jewelry for members of the Cambodian royal family and local dignitaries.
In 2008 he returned to oil painting and prepared for his highly anticipated exhibition of locally inspired portraits. Following the success of his exhibition Mathew and his partner Jeff returned back to the US for a three year Washington, D.C. tour. Currently he’s a member of The Art League.
Alexandria Exhibition Opportunity
Alexandria Office of the Arts and Alexandria Commission for the Arts – Call for Entries 2010-2012
The Office of the Arts and Alexandria Commission for the Arts seek artist proposals to exhibit their works in one of 12 galleries in the City. Proposals will be accepted from individual artists, consortia of artists, and organizations who work and/or live within the city of Alexandria from October 5 through November 10, 2010.
Exhibitions will run for six months. All works must be original and only two-dimensional works will be accepted. No entry fee required.
Materials to be submitted include: application, resume, artist’s statement, and CD or DVD of images. Complete submissions must be received by Wednesday, November 10. Selected artists will be notified by November 22, 2010.
The Arts Commission and Office of the Arts, a division of the Department of Recreation, Parks & Cultural Activities, promote and cultivate the arts in the City of Alexandria. For more information about the “call for entries,” visit their web sites at www.alexandriacommissionforthearts.org and www.alexandriava.gov/arts. For information on the City Galleries program, please contact Cheryl Anne Colton at 703.746.5565.