Get to the heart of your authentic work and your personal style by:
- Making a lot of work (Quantity over Quality) - This quiets the internal critic and gives our
unique ideas a chance to breathe.
- Having a deadline: The best antidote to procrastination and “waiting for inspiration”.
- Focusing on process over product: See the first two points…
Topics will include:
-Contour line drawing and memory
-Value and its use in design and pattern
-Use of the Notan in design and creative thought (improvisation)
-Solid drawing and values as a basis for “looseness”
-Keeping things simple
-Subjective color
-Breakdown and building back up of the image
Other topics that will be addressed and discussed:
Interaction:
-Initial observations of the subject.
-Drawing the subject – a lot, in different media and techniques (contour line, value plans, notans,
etc.)
-Consideration of the major design qualities of the subject, i.e. formal design aspects (line, shape,
value,color, texture, edges, etc.)
Idea:
-“What is it about this subject that makes me want to paint it?”
-”What is my intent?”
-”What feeling do I want the final piece to convey?”
- What is the creative concept?
Process:
-Play and improvisation
-How will the painting (or drawing) be approached, technically?
-Blocking in
-Breaking down and building back up
-Abstraction
-Edges
Notes:
-I'll do a demo of a painting for the first half of each day, with the students painting the second half of the day.
-Attendees may use oils or acrylics
-***Students should bring their own photos or still life objects to work from, unless we are doing plein air work. ***
