Class Description
Drawing with Aris Moore:
Transparency Books
5 Lessons
Class Dates: November 12-21, 2024
In this class you will create a multi-faceted and layered book made with transparent paper. Being able to see through the pages will create playful and thoughtful conversations and interactions between characters, shapes and imagery. These interactions will inspire new pages, new characters and new relationships. The world you create will be surprising, yet familiar because so many different parts of your visual language will come together. You will also realize that the book is creating itself with you… a collaboration!
We will explore how different materials interact with the paper, making it more or less see-through depending on opacity. We will create space through exploring composition, shifting scale, investigating color relationships and allowing the pages underneath to peek through. We will explore shape and pattern to add interest, and create continuity throughout our books. Finally we will play with the order of the pages… in my experience the possibilities surprise and delight me, and I hope you will be similarly entertained!
This book will be a great way to work through a creative block, develop new imagery, explore content and shake things up when we are feeling predictable. It will remind us that creating comes from playing and that making art doesn’t have to be painful to be meaningful. It is all inside of us, just waiting to come out and play.
Aris
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Some of Aris’ sketchbook drawings:
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Class Itinerary
Lessons are prerecorded and are available at 1amPT on the following schedule:
Lesson 1 – Tuesday, November 12
Lesson 2 – Wednesday, November 13
Lesson 3 – Friday, November 15
Lesson 4 – Tuesday, November 19
Lesson 5 – Thursday, November 21
Lesson 1: Shapes
We’ll begin our books by making free-form abstract shapes on the fronts and backs of our first five pages. We’ll use alcohol-based markers, paint markers, colored pencils, metallic Sharpies and more! As your layers build, “space happens,” and it is a very generous way to work.
Lesson 2: Characters
In this lesson we will toggle in five more pages into your books and begin to draw some characters, from reference or imagination. The pages from Lesson 1 serve as inspiration and beginnings for the figures themselves and also where they are placed in the composition.
Lesson 3: Moving Towards a Book
Now it’s time to clip our pages together in an order that makes sense to you (don’t worry, you can still change it in later lessons). Now, you will go through each spread adding, deleting or changing, cleaning things up and crafting relationships between the characters. Your mission: to make each page about something.
Lesson 4: Backgrounds
In this lesson you will place your figures and characters in different environments… add horizon lines, trees, rocks, mountains, interior walls… this serves to both break the pages up and allow your characters to exist somewhere. We will pay attention to colors, values and textures with our media.
Lesson 5: Patterning & Finish
Finally, we will add patterns and details to create interest and movement. Take the time to be meditative with this step, and use pattern to pull things forward and push things back. Take a final look at the order of your pages before stapling on your cover!
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For a full list of the supplies you will need, see the tab titled “Supplies” located just under the video screen above.
