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Computer Media Workshops: Wednesday August 15: Traditional Media Workshops: Wednesday August 15: |
COMPUTER MEDIA WORKSHOPS
WEDNESDAY, August 15
• 3D programs
(Full day- Wed.)
In this workshop we will start out with an introduction to 3D basics. All of the essential aspects of this process will be covered, including modeling, lighting, textures, and animation. Outputting your work and integrating it into the outside world will also be explained.
After the detailed primer, John Megahan will introduce Lightwave. Lightwave's model-building engine is especially effective for producing detailed organic structures. In addition it has a render engine that is capable of subtle, naturalistic lighting. This makes Lightwave an excellent tool for creating organic objects and natural looking scenes. Lightwave is a cross-platform program. And in this workshop we will be working with it in a lab full of Macintosh G4s.
In addition to learning about Lightwave, Frank Ippolito will introduce to us a number of other 3D programs including Truespace and 3D Studio MAX (PC only) as well as the cross-platform landscape rendering program, Bryce. He will compare and contrast the toolsets found in each and offer real world examples of how they can be used in scientific illustration.
By the end of the workshop, participants should have a firm handle on the fundamentals of working with 3D, as well as an understanding of how these digital tools might benefit their illustration work. To learn more specifics about Lightwave, please visit: http://www.ummz.umich.edu/staff/megahan/gnsi/lw.htm
• Preparing Your Art for the Web
(Full day- Wed.)
Britt Griswold will guide participants through a how-to, hands-on, step-by-step process for converting your art to digital form, preparing it for the web, and loading it into an online database. Britt presented this workshop in Portugal, where it received high praise. Participants will receive a free 3 month subscription to the on-line art service Science-art.com, which features Stock and Portfolio art, controlled directly by the artist through a Web interface.
Students should bring several images they would like to load onto the web, if possible. Scans on CD, Zip, Floppy, PhotoCD, PictureCD are prefered. A scanner will be available in class for last minute hardcopy needs. If you are in bind, you can communicate with Britt before the meeting to arrange some method for digitizing your images.
TRADITIONAL MEDIA WORKSHOPSWEDNESDAY, August 15 |
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This workshop introduces participants to the methods and materials that John Cody uses to render his natural science subjects in meticulous detail. His work and techniques differ from those of other watercolorists in several ways. Most paint their subjects by applying broader washes first, then building detail; John renders details first, then applies integrating washes. While few natural science artists use painted backgrounds, much of John's work is set against rich and brilliant backgrounds which are painted first. John will demonstrate techniques for creating backgrounds including masking, glazing, saran-wrap, and salt applications, as well as his "detail first" approach. Participants will have an opportunity to work on a painting of a simple natural object (shell, leaves, insects, flowers etc.) to try these techniques. |
 Metalpointe Drawing Linda Funk • Full day Metalpointe drawing is both a classical and contemporary art form. The use of metalpoints for artistic purposes is a technique associated with the flourishing of drawing as an important art form during the early Renaissance period. Metalpointe drawing is a mysterious and beautiful medium, producing drawings of great delicacy and restraint, but of bold expressiveness, as well. Part of the mystery stems from a general lack of knowledge about how it is done. The technique combines the use of silver or other metal tools and prepared--or coated--paper; the metal is transferred from the stylus to the coated sheet, with a limited degree of change or correction possible. As a contemporary technique, experimentation with the various metals employed, in combination with ancillary mediums, such as pencil and watercolor, lifts the technique well beyond the classical example. And finally, as the drawing ages or matures over time, a subtle process of oxidation through exposure to the atmosphere takes place, resulting in deepening richness of tonal values and hues, depending on the various metals used, each creating subtle color differences in the finished drawing. Linda Heppes Funk is an artist with twenty-eight years experience in design and illustration. Specializing in pencil, drybrush watercolor, gouache, and metalpointe, she tutors private students and teaches at the New York Botanical Garden and College of the Atlantic in Maine. Her work is exhibited widely and appears in many publications. In addition to work as a fine artist, Ms. Funk designs furnishing fabrics and ceramic dinnerware. The artist has had one person exhibitions at Ursus Prints, New York; the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and Longwood Gardens, and has shown at the State Arboretum of Virginia; Sonnenberg Gardens; Delaware Center for Horticulture; Bartlett Arboretum; and the Denver Botanic Gardens, to name a few venues. Her drawings are included in the collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and the Shirley Sherwood International Collection. |
| Business Practices for the Artist Part 1: Portfolios & Marketing Roberta Rosenthal • Half day This workshop will cover: • How to create different portfolios for varied markets • Contacting potential clients -- How to find clients • Marketing tools -- How to reach clients Roberta Rosenthal, consultant, entrepreneur and artist, is the owner of RSR Designs, New York a professional design and illustration studio initiated in 1977. A professional artist for over thirty years Roberta balances fine art and commercial art careers. Roberta has been an instructor of Professional Business Practices at the New York Botanical Gardens for fifteen years and has given numerous workshops and seminars on Botanical Art and Business at the Horticultural Society, The Art Directors Club, Connecticut State College, Fashion Institute of Technology and many other venues. She is a former executive director of the Graphic Artist's Guilds job placement service, a member of GNSI, the Society of Illustrators, American Society of Botanical Artists and a graduate of the American Women's Economic Development Corporation's business program. She has won awards for her art as well as her efforts to educate artists in business. |
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Join Kris for a hands-on workshop that will encourage and equip you to start teaching natural science illustration in the K-12 school systems. Many schools are not hiring art educators but all teach science. Many opportunities exist to help us prepare students in both subjects by teaching it as a multidisciplinary approach. The workshop will include modeling a program and a week's visit to a school, a drawing technique that teaches assessment, designing a lesson plan and a teaching collection. Time will be given to drawing stations applying the pointers learned in the workshop to actual projects. |
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