ART 362 Explorations in Drawing: Home

Kinke Kooi. 2007. The Art of Picking. Drawings and Watercolors. http://library.artstor.org/asset/LARRY_QUALLS_10313741573.

An excellent place to find images is our database, ARTstor.  Log on to ARTstor and create a personal account to use all the features.  Use the Advanced Search to search ARTstor by the name of an art work or artist, by geography, by classification (for example, Drawings and watercolors), or by collection (for example, Beyond the Taj).  You can create an image group to view/use later . View information on how to Export to Power Point

Helpful videos on using ARTstor can be found on UTube

• Photographing Your Artwork

  The hardest part of creating a portfolio can be to take good pictures of your work. This site has some tips about shooting your work and then goes over some Photoshop methods of cleaning up the images.

• Documenting Your Work - Emerging Artist Guide
  Images of your work are what get people interested in what you are doing. Because of this, documenting your work properly is one of the most important investments you can make as an artist and entrepreneur.

• Tma portfolio preparation
  Slideshow on artist portfolio preparation

• National Portfolio Day

  Sometimes the biggest favor you can do for yourself is get a professional to look over your portfolio and tell you what they think. National Portfolio Day exists for this exact purpose--you can meet with representatives from colleges (there are days for undergraduate and graduate students in art and architecture).

• A Word to the Wise

  The format, size, and style of your portfolio will probably depend greatly on where you're planning to submit it. Don't send the same CD-ROM to every place you apply whether it's an art school or a gallery. Even art schools all have different requirements for portfolios, so do your homework beforehand.

You can search the catalog by the phrase drawing or sketching to find books on technique and then filter by checking ebook to find online books.  You can also find books on many well-known artists by searching their names and filtering by ebook.  Or, you can search directly in collections of online books such as these:

• Writing an Artist Statement - Writing Centre at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design
• Examples of Artist's Statements and Bios
  from the Writing Center at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design
• Artists Statement: Balancing Art, Work and Life!
• How to Write an Artist's CV in 10 Steps
  Posted by thepracticalartworld