My Mentors - Source of Inspiration
This page builds links to the web pages of college or university professors and practicing professionals in the fields of traditional and digital arts, character design, 2D and 3D animation, photography, and video production, whose teaching and works give me inspiration in my creative career. Relevant artworks are also displayed here.
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Professor Christine Frerichs at East Los Angeles College
In the past few years, I had the pleasure of taking courses in oil and acrylic paintings and in color theory from Professor Christine Frerichs at East Los Angeles College. She is an outstanding art professor who not only teaches students basic and special skills but also inspires students on thinking creatively or “out of the box.” As a well-exhibited artist, Professor Frerichs’ works could be visited at https://www.christinefrerichs.com/. An expert on multimedia painting and drawing techniques, Professor Frerichs uses a variety of materials to express her creative intents; they include oil, acrylic, graphite and wax on paper in graphite rubbed frame, on stretched canvases, encaustic paint, special paint called Activated Carbon Paint (ACP) that she developed in 2008, and others.
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The motifs of Professor Frerichs’ works include “storm clouds, patterns of lines and dots, symbolic colors, and abstracted forms that reference the human body, all to represent recurring themes and feeling” she has experienced in her life “with pleasure, loss, vulnerability, and control.” Her works invite the audience to think deeply to decipher the profound spiritual and philosophical values from apparently simple or ordinary “everyday” objects or plain natural environment. As shown in Professor Frerichs’ works displayed below, she successfully employed painterly and impressionistic brush strokes to achieve persuasively realistic representation of physical reality. Professor Frerichs’ works are a great source of inspiration especially in terms of the holistic application of a variety of materials in many of her woks, and of the usage of broad, painterly and impressionistic brush strokes to realistically represent physical reality. Professor Frerichs’ course in color theory is also great in terms of teaching students on the basic theory of optics in colors and of their practical applications in artistic creation.
Online slide show: Professor Frerichs' masterpieces
Professor James Lemmon at Los Angeles Mission College
Professor James Lemmon is a practicing interior designer and Assistant Professor of Interior Design at Los Angeles Mission College. I took several of his wonderful courses in interior design. He is a student-centered instructor who publish great instructional materials online at LACCD Canvas to facilitate student learning. At the start of the semester or session, he uploads all instructional materials online; they include: (1) PowerPoint presentation in PDF format which cover course content from each chapter in the textbook, ready for download by students for study and review at any time. These PowerPoint presentations are so detailed that you can use them as textbooks. Most college instructors nowadays upload PowerPoint presentation files they find from textbook publishers. But Professor Lemmon often add new materials he has prepared on his own. (2) Recordings of his lectures in MP 4 file format, also ready for download by students for study and review at any time. (3) All quizzes, Midterm and Final Exam with multiple-choice, true or false, and fill-in questions, allowing student to take multiple times before the assigned deadlines to achieve a perfect score. (4) the semester long written, design and research projects, allowing students flexible arrangement for completion of home works. With all of the above well-prepared instructional materials, especially recordings of his lectures in MP 4 file format, students can be well prepared for each online class meeting via Zoom, to ask him questions from his lectures; for students who miss the class meeting, they can watch his lecture at home using the recording of his lectures, and ask questions through campus email system. In summary, Professor Lemmon’s pedagogy is very student-centered and helpful especially for long-distance instruction. His student-centered pedagogic practice will be incorporated into my K-12 Engineering Education project (The SCHOLAR STEAM K12Plus).
Professor Lemmon is an ecologically-friendly interior designer; in his Sustainable Design course, he promotes eco-friendly and water-saving xeriscaping (xeros is Greek for dry), planting drought tolerant plants native to arid climates, instead of grass that consumes a lot of water. This concept of landscaping is illustrated in the above photo-illustration; and at Los Angeles Mission College's campus, closed to the Arts, Media and Performance building, there is a small garden that is dedicated to xeriscaping.
Professor Lemmon is an ecologically-friendly interior designer; in his Sustainable Design course, he promotes eco-friendly and water-saving xeriscaping (xeros is Greek for dry), planting drought tolerant plants native to arid climates, instead of grass that consumes a lot of water. This concept of landscaping is illustrated in the above photo-illustration; and at Los Angeles Mission College's campus, closed to the Arts, Media and Performance building, there is a small garden that is dedicated to xeriscaping.
Professor Lemmon's Interior Design Masterpieces
Edward Locke's SuniSea Studio
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