Instructor: Bob Way Class Code: BW1204 Workshop Fee: $330 Medium: All Mediums Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 3-5, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. each day To be a successful artist, it is essential to see things accurately. Enhancing the skills of perception enables the artist to draw or paint anything! For centuries artists have utilized various aids to seeing. Participants in this workshop have the opportunity to use these aids, allowing for skillful observation and to recreate what they see on paper or canvas. Various ways to measure, make comparisons, define values, see shapes, and identify colors are explored. Day one of the workshop considers the skills needed to accurately distinguish angles, edges, shapes, values (light, shadow, and half-tone), and proportional relationships. Day two of the workshop reveals secrets even the old masters did not know! Participants discover the source of all color, elevating their powers of observation to permit identification of colors hiding in plain sight. Once this skill has been heightened, students are better able to replicate colors seen without the frustration of memorizing formulas, recipes, and complicated color systems, or “happy accidents.” Special focus is placed on assisting the artist to determine the most suitable pigments for producing paintings of quality and unfailing harmony. Day three of the workshop continues building the skills already acquired and make it possible to create artwork without endless hit or miss experimentation or “happy accidents.” Confidently achieve the hues you see – every time and without hesitation. Practical application exercises culminate in the creation of a painting in the participant’s chosen medium. Regardless of current abilities, completing this workshop significantly transforms the participant’s capacity to view the world as with “new eyes.” With improved powers of perception they can create artworks of ever increasing levels of expertise. Materials List: 16”x20” or 18”x24” Drawing Paper pad or Newsprint pad, drawing pencils (Design brand – “Ebony” Pencil, or F, HB, B, 3B graphite drawing pencils), kneaded eraser (by Design – the gray one), and white plastic Mars type eraser (or Pentel “Click” eraser). Also please bring an example of artwork completed or in progress and one or more reference photos intended for future artwork. For days two and three, students need to bring materials to paint with [paints, palette, brushes, 100% odorless mineral spirits (for oil painters), two containers suitable for cleaning brushes, “Viva” paper towels], in their choice of medium (watercolor, oil, acrylic, etc.) Painting surface (16”x20”) for oil and acrylic painters only needs to be canvas paper or boards. Watercolor painters only need 3-4 sheets of 140 lb. watercolor paper or pad (16”x20” or 18”x24”). |
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