Visual Art League of Lewisville

Judy Riffel: Mar. 2004

March 2nd, 2004

The Journey from Realism to Distortion to Abstract. Judy Riffel will be the guest speaker at the Visual Art League on March 2. Judy graduated with a BS in Art Education in 1970 from Fort Hays Kansas State University with graduate hours from Kansas State, Univ. of Kentucky and the University of South Florida. Added to that she has taken 11 different 1-week classes on A.P. Art from different Universities. She has taught Art in 5 states - Kansas, Calif., Florida, Kentucky, and Texas, from K thru 12th grade over 30 years of teaching. Additionally, she has taught private lessons for 20 years. She was a commercial artist in Tampa, Florida for 4 years and has experience in painting murals (residential and commercial), pen and ink drawings of houses for real estate agents, paintings for Hotel Lobbies, interior decorators, furniture stores, and individuals, building many theme floats, and decorated proms with $60,000 budgets.

In Judy’s presentation, she will give hints on proportion problems in realism and show ways to distort using elements such as cube, elongate, melt, wavy or curly, animate to inanimate, and other techniques. An example is to start with a shape page, picking no more than 3 kinds of shapes per design for unity, using different sizes for variety, and balancing formal, informal or radial. She will be presenting slides and artwork of high school students work in these areas.

Judy is now Head of the Art Department at Lewisville High School and teaches Art 1, Art 2 Drawing, Art 2 Painting, Art 4 Drawing, A.P. Drawing Portfolio, and A.P. 2D Portfolio. Judy will be retiring this year and plans on teaching private lessons to senior citizens at Robeson Ranch

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