*Compose Dynamic artwork in any Media*
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*Derry Adult Education Program*
*Courses start the week of September 21, 2009 *
*Call Derry Adult Ed to confirm class – 603-501-9445*
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Dramatically improve your Art, learn to add figures & photo reference, develop series work, scale, compose designs using simple Illustration techniques, breaking artistic block and much more. Beginners welcome.
Instructor; John Paul Marmonti, AIB Graduate
This course is for beginners to intermediate and advanced students or those who lost their way raising their own families. Come enjoy yourself and get creative in a group of like minded folks. Emphasis is not on drawing skills but on learning how to create images you never thought you could and getting away from snapshot style compositions. Consider this an educational and enjoyable journey to learn new tricks and make better artwork and expand your creativity to new levels.
My Art education (71-78, Graduate Art Institute of Boston) was at a time there were no computers, adobe Illustrator and a mouse was something that ate cheese, software was something you slept on !!
We were fortunate to have many top notch teachers retired from NYC agencies and several top dog illustrators & Artists who taught from one day to full semester courses of their own making as guest teachers and lecturer’s. Some were self taught and some not. We were lucky to be exposed to a special piece of each of their knowledge and learned a new way of looking at the world.
Both Picasso & Rockwell were still alive and creating, it was a rich time in Art history. Although I had my own graphics & printing company for many years making a living and raising 3 children my love of painting seem to fade into the “No time for that” area.
I managed to sketch and now and then a painting would slowly get done until the late 90’s when I began to take back my passion and spend more time each year creating my art, studying and traveling with my 9/11 collection to 6 states and counting, doing Library shows down the East Coast and setting up at Art Fairs with my prints and originals. Doing fundraisers for Firefighters and Rescue Squads with the Worcester Pipe & Drum Brigade is a passion and I meet real hero’s who put their lives on the line daily.
I work now on one series at a time and often spend year on each one. I develop reference files, sketches and work with models before the painting work begins.
*Session 1* - Individual assessment of work and goals and expectations of each student, develop program goals for each student. Discussion of several techniques to be covered in the course and examples of reference used to develop series works, sketches, studies and completed works. Supply List. Student profile sheets.
*Session 2* - Review student work and goals. Sketching habits & studies. Series focus and benefits. Your private work area at home
*Session 3* - Developing Reference files. Breaking creative block. Reading & study. Scaling objects properly. Design & Composition, Intro to thumbnails. Transfer techniques.
*Session 4* - Combining your photos into one composition and shooting studies.
Using other photo reference, examples done in class. Using outdoor studies picking bits and pieces of what you see to improve a drawing. Cropping and manipulating outdoor and other images of reference to your design ideas.
*Session 5* - Staging models and taking photos. Master tissue drawings. Transferring from tissue drawings, using carbon paper, projectors, light table and other techniques. Creative copy machine use is discussed.
*Session 6* - Rockwell DVD* (70 minutes) showing his techniques and his history. Class sketches and thumbnails from provided reference, an original composition done in class. Open class discussion and individual idea discussion your next project.
(choose and bring final project reference and bring to class 7)
*Session 7* - Beginning your series work* and compositions from your reference. Making and combining studies from your sketches. Choose final class project/series or theme and plan reference and materials.
*Session 8* - Final major composition development* based on a new series, developing thumbnail sketches, color reference, idea development & sketches for a series in class.
(media can be colored pencils or colored felt pens for simplicity)
*Session 9* - Presentation of composition, master drawing and final composition, in class transfer and start master drawing and coloring in your media – Home assignment to complete your study, mount thumbnails and sketches for last class.
*Session 10* - Final critique of last assignment, overview of individual progress, review of any techniques that need review and open discussion.
*( order of techniques taught may be changed as necessary as class progresses)*
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*CREATIVE ROAD TRIP*:
I will be your tour guide to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge MA on a day yet to be chosen, can be during the week or weekend depending on schedules and who wants to go. It will cost you the admission price of $15.00 Adults - $13.50 Seniors – College students with valid ID $10.00 and be a day reflect on what you learned and see originals we will have viewed on the DVD in class.
*Topics covered: *
Sketching habits and techniques
Books & study ideas
Transfer techniques
Master tissue drawings & using tissue drawings
Opaque projector use
Creative copy machine use
Series development advantages
Breaking artistic block
Making your work original
Scaling objects
Thumbnail layouts
Staging & Photographing models
Taking your reference photo’s
Developing reference files
Combining several images in 1 painting
Dramatic color techniques
Developing reference files
Developing series work
Pushing through slumps
You own study area
Showing your work; library, Art Fairs
Publicity, local, web, other
Donating Artwork to raise money & Related Publicity
Class critique and individual goals discussion
*Materials list:*
1” 3 ring notebook with inside pockets and 2-3 dividers
11/14 sketch pad
11/14 tissue pad
drawing pencils, felt pens, fine & med black and brown
art eraser
Small set colored pencils 12
