Background-Learn about the work of both artists.（1mins）

Jessie Edelman

Jessie Edelman was born in 1986 in Milwaukee, USA. She graduated from the Yale School of Art in 2013. Jessie currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Jessie’s works are full of lush joy. She is good at using warm colorful colors and large patterns to create space in the flat, extending the viewer’s vision and imagination in the space. Earlier this year, Jessie created a new series called “Getaway,” which depicts the places she goes in her fantasies. She frames the picture with flat flowers, allowing the viewer to focus on the small square space planned by the artist: tables and chairs, candlesticks, flowers and fruits, the stairway of the swimming pool, and more importantly, a whole wall of floor-to-ceiling Windows extending into the distance, offering a panoramic view of the blue sky, white clouds, coastal greenery, and even Van Gogh’s starry night. Outside the window, inside the window, inside the canvas, Jessie gives the viewer an infinite extension of multi-level visual experience, pure and beautiful.  

images from Jessie Edelman https://dennygallery.com/artists/jessie-edelman/

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an American realist painter known for his solitary landscapes of contemporary American life. He captured the most familiar and disturbing scenes of Wanwon city in modern society, empty streets, quiet restaurants, sun-lit rooms, lonely men and women, and idle waiting. Cold and quiet, introspective poetry, like a “silent poem”

The term “Hoppersque” usually refers to this alienated atmosphere and lonely crowd.

images from: https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-hopper/

Here’s what to do.

1. Choose the location freely, look for people who are doing things alone, can be a person drinking coffee, a person walking, a person reading, a person in a daze, etc. Then you can shoot according to the composition of Hoppersque’s works), or shoot this moment freely.（8mins）
2. Think about what you think the person in the photo is thinking? What kind of environment do you want the people in the picture to be in? What do you want to add to the people in the photo? (1mins）
3. Using my set composition (which is Jessie Edelman’s usual composition), place the photo in the grey area and draw your thoughts around it.（11mins）

It can be done in any way.

Text version of the steps

• If you have some basic electronic drawing skills, you can use my  ipad and ipencil to create.
• If you think this is difficult, don’t worry at all. I believe that every student has “Teams“. Open this software, click “More” at the lower right corner of the screen, find  “Whiteboard“, then you can create “New whiteboard”.

• Go back to album. Adjust the photo (you just took) to “SQUARE” size in the album. And then copy this photo.
• Let’s go back to the whiteboard again. Long  press the screen on your whiteboard, and “Paste” will be displayed in the lower left corner, just click, then place the picture in the gray area.
• Click the more in the upper right corner, select “Export“, and click” Image” (you may have to repeat this step). After exporting, select “Download“. When the blue arrow icon appears in the URL bar, it indicates that the image has been downloaded.
• Open the image and click the paintbrush icon in the bottom right corner. Finally, we can start painting.

Video version of step

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If you’d like,

send me your art work by email,

or use AirDrop.

Thanks for your participation.

E-mail：s2517253@ed.ac.uk