GNSI
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
2012 Conference and Annual Meeting
July 8 – 14, 2012
Workshops Field Trips
Workshops will be open to the local Savannah arts community starting June 13th, so don't delay your registration!
THURSDAY, July 12
HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS
Live Animal Drawing: Flying Feathered and Furred 9:00AM – 12:00PM
Location: Coastal Georgia Center West Room 1002WS04-Half Day AM – 22 People MAXLinda Feltner
Level: General
Prerequisite: none
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 several owls and a flying squirrel. 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.
Price: $60
Live Animal Drawing: Scales and Scutes 1:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: Coastal Georgia Center West Room 1002WS05-Half Day PM – 22 People MAX
Linda Feltner
Level: General
Prerequisite: none
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 Virginia opossum, nine-banded armadillo, snake and alligator. 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.
Price: $60
English Watercolor 8:30AM – 12:30PM
Location: Coastal Georgia Center West Room 1220BWS02-Half Day AM – 12 People MAXNancy Halliday
Level: General
Prerequisites: none
Transparent watercolor has long been considered a challenging medium in that erasing is difficult, allowing little propensity for error. The so-called "English" watercolor technique provides a means for maximum control, thus minimizing the possibility of ineradicable mistakes. By using two brushes (one for water, one for color) and applying pigment in layers, one can control the flow and intensity of the medium in gradual steps, adjusting each layer as necessary.
As this is only a halt-day session, those participating should bring a prepared drawing already on watercolor paper and a color representation of the subject. For those unable to do so, the instructor will provide a drawing to be copied.
Price: $50
Adobe Acrobat: Tools for Color Management and Archiving 1:30PM – 5:30PM
Location: SCAD Museum of Art Classroom 222WS03-Half Day PM – 12 People MAX
Deb Haines
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Use Acrobat for printing (Bring a working file, from either AI, InDesign, PSD with sample printouts).
Maximum class enrollment: 12
You receive a proof from the printer and wonder why the colors on the printers output just doesn’t look like the colors from your monitor. Or your test prints look differently from both the original file and from the PDF. Before you @#$% and scream at the machine, let’s explore various problems from file setup to possible solutions. Can PDF help you diagnose the situation? Most printers prefer PDF, but you’re wary of using one more software. What should you do?
You’ve finally got the job out the door, everything is printed but you can’t keep storing all your files on the computer. The boss says you need to save server space and archiving must meet company standards. What are the benefits of saving as PDF and when should you keep your working files? What do those extra letters at the end of PDF mean? It’s like an alphabet soup! Decide when to use archiving and when to look at other storage solutions.
Price: $50
Scratchboard: Edge of the Knife 8:30AM – 12:30PM
Location: Coastal Georgia Center West Room 1220AWS07-Half Day – 15 People MAX
Patricia Savage
Level: General
Maximum Students: 15
Scratchboard, a black and white medium, is a technique that uses a knife to etch into a thin layer of China clay. Starting with a white board, students will learn how to polish the board and add the ink. They will then use the knife to explore the different textures used to create highlights, mid-tones, and shadowed areas. Using a subject from nature, students will work to complete one ink drawing.
Supply fee: $15.00. If you wish to bring your own supplies, please call the instructor for the supply list.
Price: $50
FULL-DAY WORKSHOPS
Acrylics & Colored Pencil 8:30AM – 5:30PM
Location: Coastal Georgia Center West Room 1005WS06-Full Day – 15 People MAXDolores R. Santoliquido
Level: All
Prerequisites: Sense of humor and lots of patience.
Mixed media acrylic and colored pencils result in illustrations that have great reproductive quality and luminosity. The instructor will give hands on demonstrations and thoroughly explain the technique of layering glazes of color pencil and acrylic paint to produce transparent renderings. This technique allows for the capture of tremendous detail. Participants will work with their choice of natural science subjects (please bring your choice of subject matter to paint, i.e.shell, insect, small plant, etc.).
Price: $100
FRIDAY, July 13
FULL-DAY WORKSHOPS
Perspective – Depicting a 3D World 8:30AM – 5:30PM
Location: SCAD Museum of Art Classroom 209WS13-Full Day – 15 People MAXMarjorie Leggitt
Level : General
Prerequisites: none
Perspective is a three dimensional illusion on a two dimensional surface. This class presents the techniques found in drafting and architecture to provide the student with an accurate foundation that tricks the eye into believing. Even the most experienced artists and illustrators sometimes struggle to create this illusion and simplify their subject matter or the visual angle to eliminate a difficult drawing challenge. Deciphering perspective isn’t nearly as hard as it seems. In this workshop, you will overcome your “fear” by learning how to “see” and “measure” perspective, then “construct” – first with lines, then with value – difficult 3D subjects. Simple tools and a step-by-step process will enable you to begin rendering the 3D world in a concise way.
Participants will work with botanical subjects. However, the techniques and skills learned in this workshop can be used with any subject matter.
The class fee covers the expense of flowers.
Price: $105 (includes class fee)
Jumping into 2D Animation with Adobe After Effects 8:30AM – 5:30PM
Location: SCAD Museum of Art Classroom 222WS14-Full Day – 15 People MAXFrank Ippolito
Level: beginner to intermediate
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).
Price: $100
Watercolor Vegetables: 8:30AM – 5:30PM
Location: Coastal Georgia Center West Room 1005WS15-Two Full Days – 22 People MAXJohn Cody
Level: General
Prerequisites: At least minimal experience with watercolor
First Day: Demonstration of a method of creating a perfectly graded background wash going from one edge of the paper to the other (and over a masked drawing of some object) proceeding from the lightest tint to the deepest possible value of the same color. Participants will then do this for themselves with constant guidance from the instructor.
Second Day: Using the graded background done the day before participants will remove the frisket from the object , which will then be executed in excruciating detail.
Please note: John will select a photograph that is optimally conducive to the teaching of his techniques, and each participant will be given a copy. All will work from the same photograph.
Price: $200
Introduction to Creating 3-D Models 8:30AM – 5:30PM
SCAD Montgomery Building, transportation to be provided from Boundary Dorms and SCAD CaféWS16-Two Full Days – 20 People MAXGregory S. Johnson
Level: beginner
Prerequisites: Knowledge of how to use a Windows PC
Digital 3-D elements are more and more commonly being used for illustration. This workshop will offer beginners a chance to learn a professional workflow as we go step by step through the creation process of a realistic fish. From modelling the animal in 3-D to the creation of texture maps and materials participants will learn how to use high-end 3-D software and Photoshop to give digital creations the illusion of life and form. Focus will be on introducing participants to the tools, techniques and terminology necessary to add digital 3-D to their artistic tool box. Participants should bring a jump drive if they want to take their work home with them.
Price: $200
SATURDAY, July 14
FULL-DAY WORKSHOPS
Watercolor Vegetable 8:30AM – 5:30PM
Location: Coastal Georgia Center West Room 1005WS15-Two Full Days – Continued from FridayJohn Cody
Level: General
Prerequisites: At least minimal experience with watercolor
Second Day: Using the graded background done the day before participants will remove the frisket from the object (shell, flower, gourd, insect etc.), which will then be executed in excruciating detail.
Price: Cont. from Friday
Creating 3D Computer Models 8:30AM – 5:00PM
SCAD Montgomery Building, transportation to be provided from Boundary Dorms and SCAD CaféWS16-Two Full Days – Continued from FridayGregory S. Johnson
Level: beginner
Prerequisites: Knowledge of how to use a Windows PC
Price: Cont. from Friday
Notan and Mixed Media with Colored Pencils Technique 8:30AM – 5:30PM
Location: Coastal Georgia Center West Room 1002WS20-Full Day – 15 People MAXDon K. Rogers
Level: intermediate
Prerequisites: Some experience - experienced with wet media (acrylics and watercolor) and colored pencils.
“Power of Dark and Light Design” as it pertains to image making; Presentation of color concepts with examples and demo on how to best use mix-media and colored pencils. Professor Rogers will work along with the students using a lecture presentation and demonstration of the mixed media technique, work in class on simple 3 value composition illustration. It is the goal of this workshop is to use value design principals (figure-ground and compositional pattern), color concepts and a mixed-media technique to create an illustrious image.
Price: $100
The Science of Creature Design 8:30AM – 5:00PM
Location: Coastal Georgia Center AuditoriumWS21-Full Day – 50 People MAXTerryl Whitlatch
Level : General
Prerequisites: none
In this workshop, Concept Artist Terryl Whitlatch presents how to combine the anatomies of both living and prehistoric species into biologically believable creatures for the Film and Animation Industries.
Terryl will demonstrate this process through both live drawing and visual presentation, as well as sharing her concept art from her past and recent films.
Topics to be covered are:
-The Anatomies of living species and Zoological illustration
-Paleontological Reconstruction—the bones and muscles up
-Tying it all together: Combining Zoological and Paleontological Illustration to create believable Creatures
Art, Science, and Natural History as they relate to Epic Story, Creature Design, and the Entertainment Industry
Attendees will need to bring basic drawing materials such as sketchbooks, tracing paper, pencils, pens, markers, and erasers.
Price: $100