Update 10/19/09: I have a new Personal Portfolio & Teaching Portfolio Blog up now: http://rebeccakimmel.blogspot.com/ - Please visit my new blog to see my work and my students' work, since my website Gallery is down.
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I am a traditional and digital artist with a BFA in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in California and an MFA in Digital Art and Animation from George Mason University in Virginia. My goal is to teach Traditional and Digital Figurative Drawing and Painting at the College level. You can see images from my MFA Thesis Exhibition, Palimpsest.
In May 2007, I completed my MFA in Digital Art at George Mason University in Virginia. I moved to Los Angeles, California in June 2007 to begin my teaching career and to be back in a more immersive art world.
Teaching in Los Angeles...
My goal since college has been to teach at the college level, and to that end I moved back to Los Angeles to get started. I currently teach at several locations in Los Angeles.
*You can find my updated teaching schedule on my HOME page.
*You can find links to the schools where I teach on my LINKS page.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions regarding the classes I teach.
Power in moderation...
In July 2005 I became a moderator for the leading Computer Graphics Website, CGTalk. I moderate a sub-forum which I created called Artistic Anatomy and Figurative Art whose Rebecca Kimmel: Anatomy Review Lesson threads attracted nearly 100,000 hits in its first month alone. The success of these threads became the impetus for the creation of the Anatomy Forum, which has since grown into a thriving community of digital and traditional artists, to whom I am indebted for constant inspiration and motivation to improve my own skills. It has been an amazing experience, and I am very excited that there are always new possibilities for improving the forum. Visit the Anatomy Forum and participate!
Anyone is free to participate in the many Workshops which are run on the Anatomy Forum. Particularly successful Workshops have been the Open Figure Drawing Workshop Series and the Anatomy Lesson Workshop series. See the Links section for links to these Workshops.
I have taught two online Workshops, Drawing on the Past and Figuratively Speaking through the CGSociety, the parent organization of CGTalk.com. See what students had to say about my Workshops.
I also participate in other amazing online communities, such as ConceptArt.org. I have recently begun to run concurrent Workshops on both CGTalk.com and ConceptArt.org.
Lead graphic designer...
For five years, I worked as a Lead Graphic Designer in the Software Division of a Northern Virginia Government Subcontractor. As part of a group of designers and programmers, I created 2D and 3D graphics and animations for CD-ROMs that were distributed to numerous government agencies and organizations.
More about me than you wanted to know...
I started college at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri as a Fine Art major (nice people, cold weather!) but eventually transferred to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California to study Illustration. You could call it the Opus Dei College of Design, it was that brutal! But I have fond memories of really amazing artists and designers who just blew my socks off and knocked the ego completely out of me. My ego is still sunning itself in the Caribbean somewhere, or taking the hippie trail deep in Southeast Asia. Rock on. (Come back!)
I had some amazing teachers at ACCD, and was incredibly fortunate to have been in some of the last classes taught by artistic legends such as Harry Carmean and Burne Hogarth, to name just two. I just remember Hogarth, the draughtsman of the Tarzan comic series and an instructional phenom, bellowing that we (his drawing students) knew nothing about the world and that Carmean had it all wrong in his drawing approach - great stuff! We enjoyed basking in the warmth of his wrath. Good times.
New Web Ventures:
In October 2006, Joel Carlo and I launched foundationalarts.com, which is for the time being a joint personal website, but which may in the future be opened up as a public forum. Joel also generously redesigned my personal website, www.rebeccakimmel.com.
