1. With Lane Twitchell

2.  Positive Space is your figure… it is what you are focusing on  Negative Space is the area around your figure  Negative Space is NOT a bad thing  You should find a comfortable balance between the two

4.  Draw what is NOT there. See the object, image it disappears and draw the space that was left behind.  Use your plexiglass to trace the negative shapes, transfer to your sketchbook.  Try now only doing one shape on your picture plane (plexi) and then work off of that to do the rest from sight

5.  Basic 4 Step/Paragraph Critique ▪ Describe based on sensory and technical properties ▪ Analyze based on formal properties ▪ Interpret based on expressive properties ▪ Evaluate based on craft, reflective properties, and personal preferences… BUT YOU MUST BACK ALL OPINIONS UP!

6. Lane Twitchell Self Centered 2007 36 x 36" / 91.4 x 91.4 cm

7. Downwinders 2007 12 x 21" / 30.5 x 53.3 cm ed. of 15 Peaceable Kingdom (Evening Land)2007-2008 60 x 60 Urethane on cut paper mounted to acrylic on plexi over acrylic on panel

8. Suburban Showdown (Santa Cruz) 2008 36 x 36" / 91.4 x 91.4 cm

9.  Lane Twitchell was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1967  Received an M.F.A. degree from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1995.  Early works addressed his Mormon upbringing, drawing from the American religion's history, mythology and iconography. This aspect of the artist's work has expanded as he has sought to address the larger realm of American religious fundamentalism.Mormon American religion's  His paintings draw from a dizzying range of art-historical and social antecedents, including the Hudson River School painters, American politics, the theology of Mormonism, the West as frontier, technological history, and traditional forms of American handicraft.

10.  Works typically depict the contemporary American landscape as if rendered through a kaleidoscopic, wide-angle lens.  The basis of work is folded and cut paper and occasionally spun Olifin, also known as Tyvek. Originally selected to reproduce the repetitive nature of the modern suburb.  He cuts paper and tissue into symmetrical or concentric forms,often emphasizing a balance of space.  The decorative nature of the work can seem simple-minded at first; however, the seductive nature of decorative strategies becomes part the content the artist is exploring.

11. Cheer Up (New York Blues) 2008 48 x 48" / 121.9 x 121.9 cm Oil on cut film mounted on plexi over pigment on panel