2. Lesson: Erin McGee Ferrell

Lesson

May 4

Written By Erin McGee Ferrell

2.1 Lesson: Erin McGee Ferrell

Erin Michelle McGee age 2 Painting with Bottle.

Erin Michelle McGee’s first art show with Nicholas Zeman. Louisville, Kentucky

Let’s Start!

Gather Materials:

Paper
Marker
Scissors
colors (oil pastels, markers, colored pencils or crayons)

Things to think about:

Meet the Artist: Wassily Kandinsky. Erin loved this artist’s work when she was a teenager.

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Did you know?

Erin McGee Ferrell was born in Louisville, Kentucky on October 4, 1972.
Erin and her family moved to Seattle, Washington when she was 9 years old.
As a child, Erin made paper dolls and loved to draw.
When Erin was a teenager she made jewelry out of paper, snake skin, and dog treats. Erin traveled to Italy and Scotland in high school. She brought her jewelry with her to sell.
Erin majored in Studio Art and graduated from Mount Holyoke College. She also went to school at the University of the Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University of Louisville, Southern Maine Community College, and in Nigeria with the School for International Training.
Erin and her husband, Nathan, have three children. They lived in Vermont, Virginia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Maine.
Erin loved to make art to put in hospitals and doctor’s offices. The Maine Arts Commission gave her a grant to work with a team of people to do a research project with Art and Chemotherapy.
Erin McGee Ferrell has had cancer three times. She created a lot of paintings about being a patient and also a Educational Tool for Cancer Patients called, The Pirate Crew Paper Dolls.

These are a few of Erin’s Paintings:

Watch Lesson Video:

Sorry, In the Lesson Video the part with Chef LaRee didn’t show. Click of the video of making Kentucky Biscuits after the class video to watch Chef LaRee.

Kandinsky Exercise:

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Blind Contour and Modified Contour Drawing Exercise:

Blind Contour

Modified Contour

Continue to work and then Upload Art:

Youth Gallery

Look at Erin’s Website and see all her paintings.

Look at The Pirate Crew Paper Dolls.

Bonus Videos

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Erin McGee Ferrell

Erin McGee Ferrell (b. Louisville, Kentucky, USA) is an internationally exhibiting visual artist whose practice centers on large-scale oil painting as a language of place, memory, and lived experience. Working at the intersection of figurative symbolism and architectural space, Ferrell explores how movement, land, and cultural context shape meaning over time. She received a BFA in Studio Art with a minor in African Studies from Mount Holyoke College and holds a Teaching Artist Certificate from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Her formation includes immersive study in Nigeria and Italy, grounding her practice in observation, material rigor, and cross-cultural awareness. Ferrell’s work has been exhibited internationally, with projects in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, and North America, including the Jeju Art for Earth Festival, World Art Dubai, and Bahrain’s Spring of Culture. She has participated in researchbased residencies with Columbia University, Arizona State University, and the National Cancer Institute. Ferrell lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky.

http://www.artistamerican.com/