Making the Dreamscape
Sofya Belinskaya
$265
October 19 - November 16
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10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
All Levels
In this class, students will learn techniques to create paintings and drawings that tell stories by manipulating, combining and reframing images sourced from photographic references. Students work towards developing a final project that tells a personal, political, or imagined narrative. Students have the option to work in graphite pencil or watercolor, or experiment with combining mediums. This class brings together art history, technical demonstrations (offered in watercolor and pencil) and class critiques. The class will look at works of contemporary artists who transform the meaning of images and discuss techniques of how narratives are made. Each student will create their unique visual inventory through found or made photographs, and create drawings or paintings that combine elements of their inventory by experimenting with collage and sketch techniques. The classes will have time committed to lectures/demos and time for working on the projects and it will culminate with presentations of final independent projects and group discussion.
Required Supplies
This class is focused on independent projects, and students are encouraged to consider their preferred materials, creative processes and scale of paintings/draws they like to make. Suggested Materials (brands are instructor preference):
Arches watercolor paper, 140 lbs or higher (sheets or pad), and/or 90 lbs watercolor paper Stonehenge drawing paper, 90lbs, and pad of lightweight drawing paper for sketching Selection of graphite pencils like Faber-Castell 2H - 6B
Kneaded eraser, hard vinyl eraser (Staedler), or vinyl white pencil eraser like General's Factis Mechanical Eraser
Professional Grade watercolors (like Winsor Newton / M. Graham & co. / Daniel Smith) Suggested palette base: yellow ochre, cadmium yellow, cadmium red, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, cerulean blue or phalo blue, viridian green, dioxazine purple (or other) burnt umber, raw umber, students are encouraged to choose their own palette Selection of round and flat brushes watercolor brushes - sizes 2 - 14
Artist tape or blue Painter’s tape and/or watercolor tape White Palette (18 x 24” or larger)
Drawing board
Access to a printer (optional)
Scissors
Sofya Belinskaya
Sofya Belinskaya is a Ukranian-American visual artist. Her paintings and drawings are narratively driven works on paper that seek the line between dreams and memory....
