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What's New

Check here for the latest news and updates from the DropZone, Clubs, Workshops, and Production Teams.

ArtLab will be CLOSED on Monday, May 28!!

The ArtLab will be closed on Monday, May 28.  We will resume our normal hours, weekdays 3pm - 7pm and Saturdays 12pm - 5pm, on Tuesday, May 29.  Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone!

ARTLAB+ Open Mic LIVE on Ustream!

Fashion Illustration Workshop

Saturday, April 21 proved to be an exceptional experience for all involved when Blue Logan, a fashion illustrator living in New York City, came to the ArtLab for a special one-day workshop!

Blue Logan, a native of London, England, creates exquisite fashion illustrations and artworks that have been printed in major magazines and shown to great reception in art galleries.  Using both analog and digital techniques, he effectively captures a moment or look on a runway with expressive detail.  

The workshop started off with drawing exercises that allowed students to experience the feeling of drawing in front of a runway.  They had less than a minute to capture Blue and one of our staff, Gabriel, walk down our homemade runway.  Blue encouraged teens to focus on the one aspect their eyes were drawn to, whether it be a scarf, hairstyle, or shoes.  Teens were excited and challenged to be drawing at such a face pace!

After some more drawing exercises took place, Blue introduced his digital process to the teens. Teens took photographs of their fashion drawings and under Blue’s guidance, manipulated the lines, colors, and shapes of their illustrations using PhotoShop software on MacBooks.  The completed works looked fabulous!

 

A teen's finished fashion illustration!

All in all, the workshop was a major success with the highest participant attendance to date for an ARTLAB+ Saturday workshop.  Teens who filled out surveys reported, “I learned so many things, I loved it” and another teen wrote, “I wish it were longer!”  ARTLAB+ looks forward to bringing Blue Logan back for more fashion illustration workshops to inspire the creativity and skill of our teens!

 

SounDMV Episode 5

The SounDMV Broadcast Club aired Episode 5 recently on Ustream containing more crazy skits.  Stay tuned to our channel (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/artlab1) for more live Broadcasts from SounDMV, or join Broadcast Club by coming in on Mondays from 4-6.