Learn how to create portraits in a more expressive, abstract way, instead of the traditional, representational style. Abstract art offers a totally different experience of freedom and self-expression, it liberates you from perfectionism which often causes artist block - and you still will be able to achieve the likeness!
Do you want to push your art to the creative limit and enrich your palette of new techniques? In this course, you’ll learn several applications of mixed media by combining gouache and oil pastels in five creative ways. Learn how gouache can complement oil pastels and how oil pastels can improve a gouache painting.
Beginners welcome - no art experience needed although drawing experience will be helpful.
This course introduces a playful yet deeply thoughtful way of working, inviting you to see collage as a legitimate fine art medium, capable of nuance, realism, and storytelling. Whether you're a seasoned artist or just beginning your creative journey, you’ll come away with a new understanding of how to build and layer a collaged portrait.
Beginners welcome - no art experience needed.
Learn to overcome the fear of mistakes and the resistance to making corrections. Working directly with pen and ink on smooth mixed media paper, we will create a figure drawing, striving for capturing the pose. We want the proportions to be off from the first go, because then we can create pentimenti!
Advance your drawing style and achieve high contrast in your drawings. Pen and ink is the medium of restraints and precision, where time investment is key - this is why we will spend the first three classes learning the principles and techniques, and develop a feel for working with pen and ink, and the next three weeks will be dedicated to creating one drawing, to give you the time to add the details. We will go very slowly to enjoy the process of drawing, to savor every pen stroke.
Beginners welcome - no art experience needed although drawing experience will be helpful.