MassArt Illustration

Illustration Students Featured in Drawing Magazine

by Visiting Lecturer, John Roman

Several Illustration Department students are having their work featured in the Spring issue of Drawing magazine. The article,“Principles of Panoramic Drawing,” written by faculty member John Roman is based on one of his perspective drawing assignments. The students featured in the article include, Alexa Gustafson (class of 2017), Caitlin Mavilla (2016), Amanda Watkins (2015), Eileen McIntire (2016), Dylan McCusker (2016), and Kathleen Ohara (2017). The Spring issue will be in bookstores May 10th. The student’s work has also been posted on the Artist’s Network blog.

Drawing magazine publishes 40,000 copies which are distributed nationally. Each issue is also offered in a Digital Version which is in addition to the 40K printed copies. Drawing also has subscribers internationally and is available on newsstands throughout the country.

AbigailMcCoy

Abigail McCoy

A perfectly-executed panoramic drawing from observation completed on-site inside Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. With spontaneity of line and a self-assured handling of the marker medium, artist Abigail McCoy (MassArt: Class of 2015) powerfully crafted this wide-angle depiction and successfully conveys the broad expanse of the Gardner Museum’s interior courtyard.

See more student work after the break.

NicolleWhitten

Nicolle Whitten
Nicolle Whitten’s (MassArt: Class of 2017) “Padanaram Panorama” cleverly plays on the name of this art form and the name of the site she has illustrated. Nicolle masterfully depicts the visual scope Padanaram, a historic coastal village near South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Her stunning use of simple ink line and astute sense of three-dimensional space is exquisitely and professionally handled.

AmandaWatkins

Amanda Watkins
In this vertical panorama by artist Amanda Watkins (MassArt: Class of 2015), a total vertical expanse of a corridor and stairway inside the Boston Public Library is believably articulated. This graphite study is a powerful example of the energy panoramic drawings can contain as we, the viewers, are forced to look up and down the narrow expanse. In short, we become engaged in her art and participants in Amanda’s own experience at the site.

EileenMcIntire

Eileen McIntire
The highly-talented Eileen McIntire (MassArt: Class of 2016) captures the atmosphere of her apartment in this colored-marker rendering. Eileen takes liberties with the perspective of her setting while captivating us with her superb sense of depth, breadth and convincing atmosphere of the room.

DylanMcCusker

Dylan McCusker
The upper half of the human visual cone makes up Dylan McCusker’s (MassArt: Class of 2016) extraordinary fish-eye, curvilinear depiction of a haunted castle on a hill. Dylan limits his composition to the central line of sight and the aerial point above the viewer’s head in this creative, imaginary panoramic view. His use of curvilinear perspective is an apt tool for conveying the drama and eeriness of the setting.

JuliaEmiliani

Julia Emiliani
A distinctive and original use of ink line highlight the work of Julia Emiliani (MassArt: Class of 2015). In this interior view of her college-years dorm room, Julia shows us the left and right walls correctly fanning out in one, continuous panoramic expanse. The further we get from the drawing’s eye-level line, the more obvious the curve/distortion of the room’s horizontals (note the bottom edge of the carpet).

KathleenO'Hara

Kathleen O’Hara
This on-site drawing of Horseshoe Dam in Scituate, Rhode Island, the hometown of artist Kathleen O’Hara (MassArt: Class of 2017), marvelously encompasses two joining roadways in the same composition. The design hierarchy of Kathleen’s drawing dictates the direction of our eyes as we span the location’s 180 degrees, and the effect arrests our attention on the environment’s intricacies and expanse.


CaitlinMavilia

Caitlin Mavilia
Caitlin Mavilia (MassArt: Class of 2016) bravely takes on a vertical panorama inside the Boston Public Library’s dramatic Bates Hall. Caitlin cleverly limits her view to the central point of vision and the point directly above her head to give us a successful vertical slice of the room’s dynamic presence. Her artful use of clean, simple lines force the room’s details to be more pronounced.

AlexaGustafson

Alexa Gustafson
Alexa Gustafson (MassArt: Class of 2017) structured this view inside of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to grasp the scale of the museum’s corridor outside the Art of Europe room. A compelling use of free-formed and natural linear rendering gives the drawing a spontaneous appearance, yet close observation shows that Alexa has finely crafted this depiction with patient blend of care, accuracy and artistic license. This piece was selected to be featured in the spring issue’s Table of Contents page.

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