Drawing and the Chicago Art Scene

 I believe someone has already published the book "How to Draw What You See."  I would like to publish another with a very similar title.  It could be of any length.  At the top of each page would be printed "Draw What You See."  That is all.

Another book, following the present trend of bore while you pretend to teach, presented four hundred pages on how to use a wooden pencil.  Can you believe it?

In our Chicago gallery community we will hand out a pencil, paper, a sharpener and perhaps an eraser, tell the class to look, and move the pencil across the paper.

Tin our Chicago art community, play fast rhythmic music, begin life drawing poses at much less than a minute each and shred the completed drawings before they become precious.  After all, when Pablo Picasso was asked to choose his favorite work, he said, "The Next One."

A respected artist friend said often, I think her only criticism, "It's too literal."  Capture the essence.  Let the pencil get out of focus, swivel the shoulder, not the hand, elbow or fingers for movement. 

When a carpenter drives nails all day, he must look only at the head of the nail or his fingers will be impossibly damaged. 

Let the eyes flow from the model to the pencils point and the lines it makes. 

Don't correct.  Move on, be brave.  It really works, especially with practice.  Real estate agents have three rules; location, location, location.  You must get practice, practice, practice.

For the Chicago arts scene, get dynamic models with dynamic poses.  Dancers are often the best.  Don't slow down to deadly long poses.  Drawing is an art in itself, not a preliminary for a painting.  Don't let the painters or the detail freaks drag you down to safe, but boring slow poses.

A Chicago area critic some years ago warned of the democratization of art.  Entry levels have been dropped to where art instruction is often a social pastime.  Six weeks into an eight week summer session, a young man, a graduate student, with his bar feet on the table before him, stated he may begin building a fence across a field.  A young Cristo?  In my view, the only real art for Cristo was his preliminary drawings.

All children beginning school can draw.  The bean counter instruction in schools forces them between the lines and out of contact with their own pipeline to what is really fine.

My Chicago Art Scene would foster a proficiency in drawing before moving on.  We would encourage drawing as a terminal process.

I attended a prominent art studio in the Chicago Art Scene for over ten years.  When I asked the master of the studio if after his thirty years in the studio was the work always this bad, he replied in the affirmative.

Patrick Tanner is an Artist in Chicago. His working is currently being displayed at InteriorExpressOutlet art gallery. 

My house

I picked up this sofa from our Chicago furniture warehouse a few years ago. It was a returned item that had one foot broken off. I replaced the foot myself in about ten minutes and took it home. I think we got the red pillows from Pottery Barn.

There's a lot of cheap furniture sitting in our liquidation warehouse so please come out and take a look.

Office Chairs on Sale

We have a bunch of "end of the road" office furniture left that we are trying to move out of the warehouse.  These are in stock and ready to pick up.  We have task chairs and executive chairs available.  If you want, you can call us for availability at 630-238-6675 or just stop by during office hours.  We have some quantity available so if you are looking to furnish an office and want Chicago furniture we are going to be your place.

Here are some of the pictures of the chairs we have available

Bar Stool

We  have a bunch of new bar stools in this week in our Chicago Furniture warehouse.  The great thing about having furniture in Chicago is that we are such a big city that there are enough people for us to carry a wide variety and someone will always pick up something they like.

This barstool is one of those ones that is heavy, durable and pretty.  This is going to withstand some rough use and it is good enough to make it into a restaurant and last, so it should last in your home.  The price is a low low Chicago furniture stores price of $70 while they last.

From Drop Box

From Drop Box

Chicago Leather tray storage ottoman

Here's a deal on an ottoman, let me tell you the features and then you can look at it.

1)  It's a tray ottoman that is reversible between a tray and an ottoman
2)  It has storage inside
3)  It is leather
4)  It has two ottomans inside the storage compartment
5)  It is $112

What more could you possibly want?  This deal is only good in our Chicago Furniture warehouse!

From Drop Box

Acrylic Coffee Tables

We have a few returned acrylic coffee tables out in our warehouse.  These are see through, like our ghost chair but I don't know if I'd recommend putting all of the acrylic furniture in the same room.  The coffee tables have hooked up legs on the insides to put magazines in.  Pretty cool, very modern, very chicago furniture .  Please remember to visit our Chicago gallery for all of our new artwork, please support your local artists!