Jon Gnagy Lesson: Seaport Village
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- Опубликовано: 25 окт 2006
- Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing of a Seaport Village. This lesson was first broadcast fifty years ago, in 1956. Visit the Jon Gnagy webpage at: www.jongnagyart.com
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I, too, was a faithful viewer of John Gnagy, and sent off for his drawing kit which contained charcoal pencils, a stomp and kneaded eraser. I later became a professional illustrator, animated for Disney and retired in the upper middle class with a nice home in a lovely Southern California suburb..
This man led me to art school. My hero!
When I was a kid, I watched John’s show without fail. One Christmas the John Nagy Drawing Kit was waiting for me under the tree. It really changed my life. More than 60 years later, I’ve done hundreds ( thousands maybe) of drawings and paintings, shown on galleries and even won some awards. His way of teaching is still as sound as ever. His ideas are foundational and a great introduction to making tone based drawings using simple shapes to construct complex subjects and bringing them to life with light and shadow. Great to see this video.
I, too, was mesmerized by his program and even remember drawing along with him a riverboat scene. I was a born artist, but never got into being a professional one. Still love art and now and again I dabble with sketching or simply doodling. Jon Gnagy was a small yet awesome building block for my interest in creative activity. Always loved the introductory music!!
Had an identical experience under the Christmas tree! Ah yes, the Gnagy shapes and cast shadows technique, I still employ the same principles in my art today/ Have a good day sir!
Loved Jon Gnagy as I watched him all the time on TV. I loved to draw and he really helped me out...Thanks Jon!
a 1956 video uploaded to youtube in 2006....omg the years!
He was the Bob Ross of his day.
I watched faithfully and later grandma bought me a little book "Thinking with a pencil" I think, it was a special limited edition she got because she was director or recreation n a huge Mental Hospital. With jon nagy always making us aware of vanishing line, perspective, and shading when I was 6 years and-on, I later became a Sign Writer. in the 1970's we still were French Squirrel Hair Lettering, and Flats, some Sign Painter Correspondence course, Jack Kaufmann's School, taught me how to See the Sign from the Ground then replicate it in a bucket, up on a Building Side. My course and all kinds of brushes, 8 cans of One-Shot and Ronan Sign Painter pains, I practiced on Butcher Paper I put on a roll in my house to get the feel of Lettering and how to Flair the Ends off, etc. Cost of all &75.00 1976 a year before Elvis Died.
Now as to Kansas accent, I am a Kansas born southern fellow, his accent is more KC-MO with the Missouri 'no affect' dead rote style, taught to television presenters who audience was children. They started to push a end to regionalism through accents about 1954, Sociology published a flurry of papers -Lord Berterand Russell [who textbook on western philosophy is the best text I ever read, it was used in my university one year.) so the dead pan monotone is a Television Social Experiment, and if youalluns grewed up in the Waco, Texas 1950's you knows these a hear days the's hardly no really deep southern dialects of a distinct regional sort, immediately recognizingly. A-hem.
OMG ..I used to watch this guy on TV as a kid, wow .
My mom loved this guy. Told me to watch him. Sshe thought
Jon jon jon
love the bo-ho chin dressing ... and sweet-sweet stache for sprinkles ...
Omg!! I remember drawing this while watching the show!!!
@PandawdyBob Yeah, that is called a Kansas accent.
I think everyone talked like this in the 50's
yeah in 2013
if we just follow his steps
we can also make a good drawing
Bob Rosses mentor lol
Not the same without the theme music.
Those buildings are scaled to be dog houses.
Sooo long.... Watch in 2013 lol