Pathways are directional marks and shapes for our eyes to follow across a 2 dimensional artwork. They are a powerful compositional tool to keep the viewer’s eyes engaged and moving around a composition. They’re also great for artists to practice, because they emphasize that if we’re to think compositionally, each part must play a role …
Most of the time when people draw something such as a still life, they draw the objects and then neglect everything around the objects, like the table holding it up, and the wall behind it. A drawing like this shows us a thing floating in nothing instead of an interaction of depth, volume, and surfaces …
We use the Zoom platform for online classes. Login codes are sent prior to the first class only. Some email systems such as Hotmail and Yahoo block our emails to you. Please check your junk folders, and if you have have not received your class info, please contact us (contact@seattleartistleague.com) 15-30 minutes before your class begins so we can reply with the login codes. We will get you into your class.
Collage
- Teacher: Fran O’Neill
- Course Length: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: Wednesday, July 23
- Time: 6:00 – 9:00pm PDT
To Collage or not to Collage!
Collage is an unsung hero in the arena of making — it can be an incredible editing tool, great for testing ideas on canvas’, works on paper, or as a visual medium within itself. It is highly accessible and can be great fun in terms of experimenting with various media and quickly trying various compositional ideas without committing immediately. During this class, students will have the opportunity to experiment in all areas, from making a still life just using collage; to using as a way to see other solutions to works of their own that might feel incomplete, to building works using found images (either their own images or ones sourced from magazines, online etc.).
Materials list:
- Scissors
- Mat Medium (glue) + brush for glue
- Variety of brushes
- Cheap set of colored pencils
- Charcoal
- Pencils — variety of hb >b
- Eraser
For Collage, please stay with paper based products, for this class:
- Old Magazines (if anyone has these any more?)
- Or old works on paper..
- 20 sheets of 22×30″ watercolor paper
- Sketch book
Acrylic Paints:
- white
- yellow
- red
- blue
- black
Optional:
- Watercolor set
- Colored pieces of paper (that you might have), including black
- Paper with designs or writing on it..
- Consider different types of paper, any good art store will have a variety.
Students may also make photocopies of their works to use as material and/or old drawings.
Other materials may be suggested by the instructor.
Artwork by Lee Krasner, Matisse, Conrad Marca-Relli, Picasso, Romare Bearden
We use the Zoom platform for online classes. Login codes are sent prior to the first class only. Some email systems such as Hotmail block our emails to you. Please check your junk folders, and if you have have not received your class info, please contact us (contact@seattleartistleague.com) 15-30 minutes before your class begins so we can reply with the login codes. We will get you into your class.
MODEL PRIVACY: No photography, or screen shots are allowed in our Figure Drawing sessions. To protect the privacy of models, they have the option to wear minimal clothing. This is a change from our typical figure drawing classes, and will continue as long as these classes are offered online. Sometimes, the times call for a fig leaf.
Beginning Figure Drawing
- Teacher: Charity Baker
- Fee: Model fees included in course price
- Class Length: 8 Weeks
- Class Days: Sundays, beginning August 3
- Time: 4:00-6:00 pm PDT
Students will work from the model, with poses ranging from 30 seconds to 20 minutes.
ALL LEVELS WELCOME. Even if there’s a structured lesson, this class is dedicated to support to the styles and interests of each individual artist.
Figure drawing is a repeatable class! If you have taken this class before and enjoyed the format, take it again. You will not be bored, and your skills will continue to improve each time. You might impress yourself with what a revisit will do for your success and enjoyment.
Materials List for Minimalists
If all you have is sketch paper and a pencil or some vine charcoal you will be fine.
Materials List for Bammes Studies
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- DRAWING BOARD at least 20 x16″ or have a good table surface clear of debris
- MASKING TAPE
- PAPER multi purpose drawing paper, suitable for pencil, charcoal, and ink
- 9 x 12″
- 18 x 24″
- DRAWING PENCILS
- 4B & 6B
- ERASER (I like Staedtler Mars Plastic Eraser)
- STICK CHARCOAL
- soft (Vine)
- hard (compressed)
- CHAMOIS CLOTH
Contemporary Painting
- Teacher: Charity Baker
- Class Length: 8 sessions
- Class Days: Weekly on Tuesdays, beginning August 5
- Time: 6:00PM – 9:00PM (PDT)
CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
Students are encouraged to explore their individual artistic voices and perspectives to investigate what contributes to a “powerful image”. This online class offers a focused curriculum comprising life study, art history, color theory, and diverse painting techniques.
Discussion and practice will be linked to the foundations of representational art while also embracing modern trends and concepts in contemporary art. This dual approach exposes students to a broad spectrum of artistic styles and influences, fostering a dynamic and diverse approaches to explore contemporary painting.
MATERIALS:
PAINT
Artist’s choice: Oil or acrylic paints
Recommended economical brands in oil are: Gamblin, M.Graham Co., RGH Paints, Utrecht.
- titanium white
- titanium buff
- cad yellow light
- cad red light
- yellow ochre
- magenta
- ultramarine blue
- terra verte (green earth)
- caput mortuum (Violet Oxide, or Spanish Earth)
- Raw Umber
- Ivory Black
PAINTING SURFACES For each class we will work on one or two paintings in a suggested small or
medium size. Below is a choice of three different approaches to making painting surfaces including a
very economical choice of using paper. I will always encourage you to choose the size you want to use
per project, so that you can enjoy the experience to the fullest.
1. Gessoed Paper (optional: with a Gloss Medium coating) is an economic option
2. Stretched Canvases: suggested sizes
(4) 11×15; or 9” x 12”
(4) 18×24; or 20” x 24”
(2) 30X30”, OR 24×30”
3. Roll of primed canvas: Dick Blick Cotton Canvas By the Yard – 12 oz, Acrylic Primed (64-1/2'' W x
6 yd) in which you can cut to size as you go.
TOOLS AND OTHER
● selection of brushes, large, med and small in round shape only
● Palette (choose one of the following)
– Handheld wooden
– Paper, disposable
– Glass, resting on white surface
● Paint rags (can be old t-shirts) or-/ Good quality paper towels
● Palette knife
● Solvent (odorless mineral spirits)
● Baby oil or Mineral oil to clean brushes
● if using acrylics, containers for paint and water
● an easel, wall, or board upon which to attach the canvas
DRAWING SUPPLIES
● small to medium sized sketchbook (recommended)
● pencils/charcoal, eraser