Thursday, July 17

WK-01 Drawing Live Animals

Linda Feltner

Half Day Workshop, Thursday, July 15. 8:30am-noon.

Level: All
Limit: no limit
.35 Art CEUs
Remind yourself why you love drawing animals. Enjoy live models that are educational animals that are accustomed to people. Calm and elegant, busy or drowsy, the assortment of models will be mostly reptiles, with possible geckos, dragons, tortoises, various turtles, and possibly mammals such as flying squirrels, and opossums. Hone your drawing skills using both strength and delicacy, with pen, pencil, or any media you prefer. This is an opportunity to observe details or study the whole body form. Along with Linda’s instruction in drawing methods, techniques and observational approaches, an accompanying educator will be able to provide details of the relationship with and adaptations to the animal’s environment.

Materials:
Basic necessities are paper (sketchbook) and pencils. The medium is open, bring whatever you are comfortable with.

WK-02 Digital Drawing with Adobe Illustrator

Rick L. Simonson

Full Day Workshop, Thursday, July 15, 8:30 - 5:00

Level : All
Limit: 15
.8 Art CEUs
Prerequisites: Basic Proficiency in Digital Art
Learn how to create artwork using Adobe Illustrator! Illustrator is a vector graphics or “drawing” program that can be used to create original artwork from initial sketch to finished piece. It is especially useful for graphic design work. In this workshop you will become familiar with how each tool and panel functions. We will experiment with the basic techniques of drawing and coloring, creating and working with brushes and symbols, as well as using layers and type. You will learn to determine the most efficient way to construct your image. We will discuss how to use the keyboard together with the graphics tablet. We will explore both basic and advanced techniques and look at how Illustrator can be used effectively with other programs.

Sample files will be provided by the instructor. If time allows, students wishing to bring a reference image (photo, sketch, etc) may use the new Adobe Illustrator skills to create an illustration based on the reference image.

Please bring your own flashdrives to save your work.

WK-03 Creating Animations and Interactions with Adobe Flash

David Clarke

Full Day Workshop, Thursday, July 15, 8:30 - 5:00

Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Limit: 15
.8 Art CEUs
With more and more communication and education moving online, animation and interactivity are becoming commonplace. The tool of choice for developing these pieces for the Web is Adobe Flash. Flash is an easy program to learn and yet allows you add multiple layers of information to one image. In this workshop, we will learn the principles of animation and then building on that to add user interactivity. No programming experience is necessary.

The instructor will provide all sample files.

Please bring your own flashdrives to save your work.

WK-04 Cody Watercolor Techniques

John Cody

Two- Day Workshop
Thursday, July 15, 8:30 - 5:00 and
Friday, July 16, 8:30 - 5:00

Level: All
Limit: 25
1.6 Art CEUs
Prerequisites: Feeling for the beauty of natural objects and a love of accurately rendered detail. NO other prerequisites.
This workshop will resemble those I’ve done before except that it will run for two full days. The first day will be devoted to painting a richly colored and textured ground around a masked subject. The second will be concentrated on the subject and will involve its meticulous and realistic rendering. All participants will work from the same photograph (to be given out.) In previous years participants always got so wound up doing the fascinating ground they left insufficient time for the subject, hence the need for two days. Subject will be a shell, flower, insect or similar small object.

Medium will be transparent watercolor on Arches 300 weight, cold pressed paper. Every year several participants will arrive with some other paper saying innocently that they couldn’t get Arches or they thought some other paper would do as well. No other paper will do! A quarter sheet is large enough.

WK-05 Traditional Oil Painting Times Two

Luana Luconi Winner

Full Day Workshop, Thursday, July 15, 8:30 - 5:00

Level: all
Limit: 15
.8 Art CEUs
Students of all skill levels are welcome to come and experiment with traditional oil painting. All materials will be available for you when you arrive. You will be working with a traditional, limited palette of oil colors. Students will paint from one of several still life set ups around the room in the morning. The afternoon will be filled great tips for painting people using reference material, templates, color formulas, and photos provided. Luana is known for her concise, amusing, and fully-packed workshops. Luana will even show you how to safely travel with wet paint. Come ready to work, and you will go home with two oil paintings today!

Materials:
Students will be supplied with all materials necessary in the class - $12 fee.
Although brushes will be provided for your use, if you have extra brushes, bring them along.

WK-06 Beginner's InDesign

Melisa Beveridge

Full Day Workshop, Friday, July 16, 8:30 - 5:00

Level: Beginner
Limit: 15
.8 Art CEUs
InDesign is a powerful program for combining text and images. This class will give you the basic foundation for creating layouts using this software. We will go over the tools of the program, grids and guides, and master pages and styles, as well as exporting pdf’s. Whether you would like to design articles or newsletters, or if you wish to create postcards or business cards, this class will give you the basic knowledge to get you started.

Materials:
Students will be supplied with materials necessary in the class.

Please bring your own flashdrives to save your work.

WK-07 Jumping into 2-D Animation with After Effects

Frank Ippolito

Full Day Workshop, Friday, July 16, 8:30 - 5:00

Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Limit:15
.8 Art CEUs
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of computers (MAC or PC) is required. Working knowledge of Photoshop helpful.
These days it is likely that the natural science illustrator will become involved in projects that also require animated support materials. Adobe AfterEffects is a 2D animation program that allows illustrators who are comfortable working within Photoshop to slide directly into animation via a familiar interface. Layered Photoshop and Illustrator files can be imported with their layers (and their settings!) intact and layers can be animated independently or together as a whole. In this hands-on workshop students will learn how to bring their artwork alive using AfterEffects and Photoshop. Each students will use their own Photoshop and/or Illustrator files—or experiment with supplied sample files—and will create one or more animations suitable for web or video viewing.

Special items to bring: Layered Photoshop file(s) the student wishes to animate. Note: each layer of PS files can be animated independently in AE.
Please bring your own flashdrives to save your work.

What will be provided: Sample files for those who chose not to bring own file(s).

WK-08 Ink and/or Graphite Pencil on Scratchboard

Trudy Nicholson

Full Day Workshop, Friday, July 16, 8:30 - 5:00

Level: All
Limit: 15
.8 Art CEUs
Participants will discover the potentials and excitement of scratchboard, where contrasts of textures and values produce dramatic, luminous effects. We will review tools and materials and how to use them to create a vast range of textures that will portray subjects with detail and accuracy. We will use the pen and x-acto blade to juxtapose and overlap black and white lines and dots, as well as making corrections. Participants will choose several subjects from nature, create a well-balanced dark and light composition that they will sketch, transfer and render in ink or pencil on white scratchboard, conveying form, shading, textures, and spatial placement of each element of their composition. Each participant will work toward completing one ink and/or graphite pencil illustration.

Print material list

For all techniques:
-Scratchboard will be in the class for each participant to purchase
-x-acto blade(s) #16 and blade holder
-Soft eraser (suggested brands: Magic Rub, Artgum)
-Tracing paper
-Pencils (1 soft for sketching and 1 hard for transferring)
-Small desk lamp or high intensity lamp if possible

For pen & ink technique
-All of the above.
-Good quality waterproof drawing ink (suggested brand – Higgins Black Magic Ink)
-Round watercolor brush (#1 or #2) for ink – NOT the best quality.
-Pen nibs (suggested brands: Hunt 100, Gillott 290, 291 or Speedball 103 or other good quality flexible pen nibs with a fine point)
-Pen holder for nibs
-Optional: mechanical pen(s): (suggested brand Rapidograph Koh-i-noor, finer points 3x0, 00, 0, 1, or if you bring only one, I’d suggest 00)

For Graphite Pencil Technique
-All of the first list (For all techniques)
-High quality drawing pencils 4H through 6B (suggested brands: Schwan-Stabilo 8000, Staedtler Mars Lumograph 100, or Faber-Castell 9000). There are other good brands.

Students will need to bring their own subjects to work from. These could include fruit, feathers, sea shells, pine cones, and any other not too complex items from nature that will remain stable for the day.

Saturday, July 17

WK-09 Painting in Chalk Pastels

Patricia Savage

Full Day Workshop, Saturday, July 17, 8:30 - 5:00

Level: All
Prerequisites: None
Limit: 12
.8 Art CEUs
Chalk pastels is a beautiful, expressive technique for artists who love pure, vivid, saturated color. This highly responsive technique combines both drawing and painting and allows the artist to explore ideas quickly with minimal preparation time. Students, working from vacation photographs that they have been meaning to paint from for years, will familiarize themselves with their subject matter by limbering up with quick thumbnail sketches, breaking the subject matter into simple shapes and establishing the values. Students will then explore three different textures: dusting, blended, and broken color; choosing one technique to work up a finished painting.

Print material list

Art Supplies
-kneaded erasure
-sketch book and pen or pencil
-masking tape
-a couple of sheets of tracing paper approximately 10” x 13”
-two pieces of cardboard approximately 10 1/2” x 13 1/2”
-small worn out hand towel

Pastels
-Soft pastels: Schminke, Great American Artworks, Sennelier, Unison
-Medium hardness pastels: Rembrandt, Art Spectrum, Winsor and Newton
-Hard pastels: Holbein, Faber-Castell, Nupastel
Please call with any questions.

Buy individual pastels. (Full sets contain many colors you will never use. It’s cheaper to buy what you need.) You may buy them loose from an art supply store or from a catalog. If you order from a catalog try The Jerry’s Catalog or Dakota Art Pastels.

If you do buy a set, choose a set that says it is for landscapes.

You MUST have a wide range of values (lights to darks). If you are buying your first pastels, buy every other number of a particular color. For instance, Rembrandts, Ultramarine Deep 506,10, 506,8, 506,7, 506,5. Do not buy any of the darkest Rembrandts (any number with a suffix ,3). These colors have black added in.

Rembrandts are much less expensive than the other brands, but they are also not as saturated in pigments. I personally use Rembrandts for the underpainting and then switch to the rich, saturated soft pastels. I particularly love and rely on Sennelier, Great American Artworks, and Unison. Please bring any additional pastels you have from home.

Do not buy all the colors listed below. Do feel free to add any additional colors to what is listed below. You will need some warm and cool colors and a range of light to dark values of white, red, blue, yellow, orange, green, violet, and brown.

Suggested Rembrandts colors: Lemon Yellow, Deep Yellow, Permanent Rose, Red Violet Deep, Blue Violet, Ultramarine Deep, Phthalo Blue, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber. Suggested Sennelier: Van Dyck Brown, Lemon Yellow, Naples Yellow, Ruby Red, Chromium Green, Leaf Green, Cerulean Blue Suggested Unison: (Unison has very brilliant dark colors that have not had black added to them.) Blue Violet 12, Blue Violet 18, Brown Green Earth 14, 16, 18 Schminke: 17 066 069D xxxx Prussian Blue

Storage and Travel
Pastels need to be packed tightly and surrounded by foam. If there is room for them to shift or roll, they will break into pieces or turn into dust. You may make your own foam container using pencil containers and foam, use the foam containers the pastels came in, or save time and try Roz Pastel Bag. To bring more colors or to cut down on weight, break each stick in half and tear the paper off. Leave the half with the pigment’s name and i.d. number at home and bring the other half. Tape, or use rubber bands, the container shut. Do not depend solely on the fasteners to keep it closed.

Wrap your pastel box in a plastic trash bag to help prevent dust escaping into your luggage. Bring another plastic trash bag larger than the two pieces of cardboard listed above for wrapping your painting.

Pastel sticks look a lot like bullets, so be prepared to have your luggage searched. Make them easily accessible to airport security.

Paper
$5.00 supply fee for 2 handmade surfaces, gessoed with Golden’s Fine Pumice Gel and underpainted with acrylic paint.
If you choose you bring your own paper, do not bring Sennelier La Carte. You must have a pastel paper with a sanded surface. Choose a toned paper. Try to stay away from white. You may bring Wallis, but you will need to underpaint the surface with a neutral color.

WK-10 Fruit Morphology for Botanical Artists

Dick Rauh

Full Day Workshop, Saturday, July 17, 8:30 - 5:00

Level: All
Prerequisites: None
Limit: 15
.4 Art CEUs, .4 Biomedical CEUs
This is a continuation of the workshop presented in Maine. We will dissect 6 more floral families, and study the types of fleshy and dry fruits, that are the product of plants’ reproductive cycles. This is a chance to see and draw the details of plant form while using a binocular scope. This will be all new, and will be meaningful whether you have taken the previous workshop or not.

An unlined notebook or sketchbook, pencils, an eraser, a 6-inch centimeter scale and a loupe are recommended. Flowers for dissection and examples of fruit will be provided.