Class Description
Acrylic Character Paintings with Starheadboy
5 Lessons
Class Dates: October 22-31, 2024
On my 21st birthday I bought a bunch of paint and canvases and I became addicted immediately. The colors, pushing around the paint – I started devoting up to eight hours a day to it and became a self proclaimed hermit. I built a big body of work pretty quickly and started showing. I was also making hand-pressed block prints and stickers. The stickers started going up around town. The shows led to collaborations with other artists, doing murals, and live painting with bands. I have this connection to the fine art community, crafty art community, comic based art and street art.
This class is about picking things in your surroundings… anything—a shoe, a cup, your computer—and turning them into little beings in a story. It’s mostly about re-thinking how you draw and paint. We take the process seriously because it’s art but not seriously at the same time because life is funny and sometimes bizarre. We’re going to make three acrylic paintings that will come from stuff that’s happening around us. Mostly it’s about just doing art together.
I hope you will join me!
Starheadboy
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Class Itinerary
Lessons are prerecorded and are available at 1amPT on the following schedule:
Lesson 1 – Tuesday, October 22
Lesson 2 – Wednesday, October 23
Lesson 3 – Friday, October 25
Lesson 4 – Tuesday, October 29
Lesson 5 – Thursday, October 31
Lesson 1: Sketch with Reckless Abandon
We’ll start out with sketching objects in our environment, observing wherever you happen to be. These are quick sketches; let’s stay in the moment of now, with no expectation or weight of what they will become. Let go, draw, get uncomfortable (maybe) and learn to use it!
Lesson 2: Draw Three Characters
In this lesson we will be creating a narrative from a story from our lives (big or small). Working from a story will keep things creative on multiple levels. We will pick out three characters from your Lesson 1 sketches and start developing them through drawing, letting the characters interact with each other to create another layer of interest.
Lesson 3: Block Out Our Compositions
Let’s begin our three small paintings! In this lesson we will make quick compositions on our three canvases. We will outline the characters in paint and add washes—our base layers.
Lesson 4: Continuing Painting
This lesson revolves around adding more paint to the canvases in a loose, fast-moving and spontaneous style, blocking in colors around and over our foundation paint lines. The imperfections will make it perfect.
Lesson 5: Finish Your Three Paintings
In this lesson we will tighten up these paintings with more paint, keeping with the idea of quick and spontaneous, but tying each composition together with color, shading and finishing lines where needed.
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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.
