Welcome!
November 20, 2024
Hi everyone!
Every once in awhile we like to re-run our most popular classes to introduce them to new students and also give those who took them the first time around a chance to revisit the lessons and interact with the instructors again! The re-run dates for TRANSLATING LANDSCAPE are December 3-13, 2024. If you’ve previously taken the class, you can join this session again at no cost, but you need to SIGN UP HERE to get on the class email list! (Remember, there is no new video teaching… we will just be revisiting the Translating Landscape lessons together in real time!)
Our new forum will open the Friday before class begins! Thanks again!
Carla
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Hello Creative Adventurers.
Thank you so much for signing up for this class!
This 6-lesson class introduces you a wisdom, that to draw something is to fully understand it; a fact-finding mission through a drawing/design process. Let’s together realize that drawing connects us to our experience, with an intimacy not otherwise possible.
One simply holds a mark making tool in one’s hand and the artist’s touch becomes elemental and we can see how much an artist can do with a pencil, a pen, a brush, a stick.
Importantly, we will learn how distinctive each artist’s language of mark making can be.
Utilizing tools of watercolor, pastel, charcoal, and graphite in design, our investigations will open your awareness to a successful studio practice. It will be an adventure, come on along for a ride; ‘into the wilderness’.
Ready for the adventure? I am. Here we go.
Anita
Supplies
• A selection of medium-size drawing papers: bristol or equiv, Saunders +/or Fabriano Watercolor Paper 140# hot press + Arches cold press #140…. you will need the equivalent of about eight 9″x12″ sheets of paper.
• Assorted drawing and mark-making materials. These are some of the things that Anita will use, but you can substitute supplies with things you have on hand as well… you will just want a large variety of things to draw from:
- Pencils: 3H, HB, 2B, 5B, different widths, sizes
- Erasers: White Stadler Mars, Kneaded
- Art Graf (Graphite in Tin)
- Pens: marker type, or favorite fountain pen, one with permanent ink
- Charcoal: Generals Compressed is best: 2b, 4b
- Sticks (from trees)
- Sumi Ink, Walnut Ink
- Pastels: soft pastel (recommend pan pastels and sponge applicators)
• Watercolors
• Watercolor Brushes: #1 round, 2″ flat — not too small!
• Artist Tape, ‘Post it’ Tape or Masking Tape, and 1/8” wide skinny masking or artist tape for Lesson 5
• a few sheets of Tracing Paper
• Favorite landscape photographs, 2-3
Optional:
• framing L’s @ 12 x 16 cardboard
• Gator Board: (stiff) surface, 11″x 17″ – 18″x 24″
• Clips
• Baby Wipes
• Erasing Shield
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NOTE: Following are links to brands Anita likes and uses, though you are welcome to substitute your own supplies and brands:
Needle Point Brush #10
https://alvarocastagnet.net/shop/needle-point-brush-10/
Flat Angular Wash Brush
https://www.dickblick.com/items/06162-4112/
Diane Townsend Artist’s Pastels
http://www.townsendpastels.com/terrages-pastels/
Pan Pastel Sofft Tools:
https://www.dickblick.com/products/panpastel-sofft-tools/?clickTracking=true&wmcp=pla&wmcid=items&wmckw=21935-1000&gclid=CjwKCAiAiuTfBRAaEiwA4itUqAr-Gn1uXmZTYU4avC77GzFQa96__DVcHBznYMQlkK6kHAIu5rwbLBoCcawQAvD_BwE
Pan Pastels
https://www.dickblick.com/search/?q=pan%20pastels&unbxd_x=0&unbxd_y=0&unbxd_sp_cs=UTF-8&unbxd_s=unbxd
Fixative
https://www.dickblick.com/products/sennelier-latour-spray-fixative-for-pastels/
Nuts & Bolts
Here’s how this online class works:
- Once the lessons go up, you can work the lessons on your own timetable.
- You have indefinite access to this class.
- You can (optionally) share your work with Anita via email or via the class Facebook page.
- Class fee is good for participants living in a single household.
Questions?
Thank you so much for being here! We are here to help in any way:
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CLASS CONTENT: If you have questions about this class and would like to contact Anita directly at [email protected].