Hutchings Art Room News

03/16/2025

Here's a simple explanation of composition for my students.

I talk about this in my classes, but here’s a great visual for you on composition examples ! 🎨

05/02/2023

This looks like fun! Might be my summer experiment!

12/31/2022

Adding colour to sketches through words? This is how Vincent described his imagination: ‘… a study of the Rhône, of the town under gaslight and reflected in the blue river. With the starry sky above – with the Great Bear – with a pink and green sparkle on the cobalt blue field of the night sky, while the light of the town and its harsh reflections are of a red gold and a green tinged with bronze. Painted at night’.

🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Sketch of Starry Night Over the Rhône, enclosed in a letter from Vincent van Gogh to Eugène Boch (1888)

12/31/2022

“I am trying here to say something about the dispirited, the defeated, the alienated…to show their pride, their strength, and their spirit.”

During her long, prolific, and groundbreaking career, the American photographer Dorothea Lange made some of the most iconic portraits of the 20th century. Her work revealed the innermost character and resilience of those she photographed, and provided nuance to economic disparity, migration, poverty, and racism.

Coming to the National Gallery on November 5, 2023: “Dorothea Lange: Seeing People” 📷

Plan your visit 🔎👉🏽 bit.ly/3Ga8eB9

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12/31/2022

Hmmm...seems like a lesson plan. Thinking of revamping our Art 1 classes. Students seem to be lacking in finding inspiration in being creative these days.

12/31/2022

Just some holiday cuteness...

07/23/2022

Might have to read more about this for Intro to Architecture.