As usual, more brains are better than one. Here is a quick outline of
the ideas everyone had for sports artists. I have made a new folder and
copied and pasted all the ideas. Here's a summary..
*Sherwood Art Prints catalogue ....Kandinsky: Lyric ( Man on a
Horse) #55, Kirchner: Hockey
Players #563, Lindner: Cyclist #1422, Rockwell: The Dugout #1813.
*George Bellows..... paintings and lithographs
about boxing and polo.
* Jim McNeil.... awesome tessellation of football players
*http://www.sportsartetc.com/saemisc/gallery/rush.html
*http://www.sportsartetc.com/saemisc/gallery.html
*Leroy Neiman
The Official LeRoy Neiman Website
www.leroyneiman.com/
Leory Neiman .. He was known for sports art and you could
explain how he painted while it was happening (like at the olympics) and
his style and wild colors.
*Norman Rockwell. He has several baseball paintings.
*Dega and his race horse paintings.
*Robert Riger.. a wonderful pencil artist in the 50's and 60's
who did stuff for sports illustrated.
also I love the idea of cards for artists.
..Maybe a good idea would to make "sports type" cards for artists.
Wouldn't it be nice if kids "heroized" artists the way the do athletes?
Wouldn't it be a nice thought that cards of artists were collected and
sought after the way sports cards are?...
...make up a simple set, pass them out here and there to the kids at
school and offer some sort of prize to who ever get a full set or a
certain prized card at the end of the year-...
I use a reward system (elementary k-5th)where I give the class a big
laminated paper crayon when they leave if things have gone
well(listened, cleaned up on time, etc..). Each teacher has a "big
crayon box" made from a large manila envelope, hanging in their
classroom and when the "crayon box" is full (9) the class earns a free
art day where they get to draw, do modeling clay, puzzles, etc..I give
out the crayons in primary colors first, then secondary, then black,
white, brown so it can be a color review. I keep the crayons by the door
with a little chart so I can mark what crayons each class has and who
got to carry it to the room. Its a big deal to the kids and to the
teachers believe it or not, the teachers are almost more upset if the
class misses their crayon than the kids. Anyway, maybe this year we'll
do artist trading cards. They would have to get a whole set. And I would
use the same artists who are my table artists for the set. or maybe a
different group so they would have more exposure to artists. So, now I
have lots of ideas and I'm anxious to get out the catalogs and start
ordering for next year! Thanks for all the input.
Jeryl
