Saturday, August 8
9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Basic Members $50, Premium Members $35, Gold Members $25, Student Members $25
Participants will explore a variety of ways to use instant coffee as an actual art medium.
1) Cappuccino Calligraphy. Exploring brushstrokes and learning to vary the values within the medium.
2) Using a Chianti Bottle, participants will be led through a lesson on gradations, washes, and flat washes.
3) Participant will draw a contour self-portrait from their phones, adding a second image incorporated into the self-portrait.
4) A) Using cardboard and brown paper, the participant will create an organized composition to be used for a mixed media.
5) Lunch
6) Discussion on the principles of Design and how to use them in mixed media.
7) B) The participant will create a mixed media composition with a focus on a chiaroscuro study.
8) Critique and discuss to close with.
The instructor will bring; 16 oz. of freeze-dry coffee. Cardboard Scraps, 12 oz. of Gesso. An assortment of brushes, salt. Brown paper.
Participants will need to bring;
1) an assortment of watercolor brushes.
2) A simple watercolor set. Water container.
3) An assortment of paper and collage material.
4) Ebony pencils, erasers, and a pencil sharpener.
5) Only if they have them already: Prisma pencil, watercolor pencil, conte, markers.
