Drawing and Painting with Amanda Boulton
The drawing and painting classes with Amanda Boulton will start from 11:30am to 1:00pm on Saturday Feb 3rd, 2018. The class size is capped to 6 to ensure the quality of the class.
Class Description:
In this class, young artists will develop natural ability, improve skills and explore new techniques as they learn the fundamentals of drawing. Students will use dry and wet media such as pencil, charcoal, chalk pastels, India ink and watercolors as they discover how to sketch, shade and use perspective. Projects will include still lifes, portraits, landscapes, abstracts, imaginative imagery, and more.
Class Description:
In this class, young artists will develop natural ability, improve skills and explore new techniques as they learn the fundamentals of drawing. Students will use dry and wet media such as pencil, charcoal, chalk pastels, India ink and watercolors as they discover how to sketch, shade and use perspective. Projects will include still lifes, portraits, landscapes, abstracts, imaginative imagery, and more.
Lessons in Classical Foundational Art
Perspective:
The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
Lessons: Drawing from life, an object in a shadow box.
The student learns how to measure in the air by comparing the height and width of the object and shadow, trains the eye to “see”. The goal is to make the object look three dimensional on a two dimensional surface, by using perspective.
Simple objects in white will be used until the student understands values (light to dark shades of grey). Then more complex subjects will be introduced, so the student can understand color mixing with correct values. Many sessions are required to understand correct perspective.
Materials: Students will use black and white charcoal pencils, on toned paper, to understand values. Later, they will move on to color using pastel pencils.
Linear Perspective:
A type of perspective used by artists in which the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a single spot on the horizon.
Lesson: Draw from a print out of a landscape.
Using linear perspective, by finding the horizon line and the vanishing point as a guide. The vanishing point is the spot where angles visible to the eye converge or meet.
The vanishing point always exists somewhere along the horizon line. The horizon line divides the earth from the sky.
Materials: Students will use pastel pencils on toned paper.
The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
Lessons: Drawing from life, an object in a shadow box.
The student learns how to measure in the air by comparing the height and width of the object and shadow, trains the eye to “see”. The goal is to make the object look three dimensional on a two dimensional surface, by using perspective.
Simple objects in white will be used until the student understands values (light to dark shades of grey). Then more complex subjects will be introduced, so the student can understand color mixing with correct values. Many sessions are required to understand correct perspective.
Materials: Students will use black and white charcoal pencils, on toned paper, to understand values. Later, they will move on to color using pastel pencils.
Linear Perspective:
A type of perspective used by artists in which the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a single spot on the horizon.
Lesson: Draw from a print out of a landscape.
Using linear perspective, by finding the horizon line and the vanishing point as a guide. The vanishing point is the spot where angles visible to the eye converge or meet.
The vanishing point always exists somewhere along the horizon line. The horizon line divides the earth from the sky.
Materials: Students will use pastel pencils on toned paper.