This mixed media online workshop that will push you to explore DRAWING, collage and painting stylized faces and figures! My fashionista faces are inspired by fashion photography and creative imagination. This workshop will combine sketching, doodling, painting, collage and digital art! The online workshop content is delivered in weekly PDF colorful workbooks with step-by-step photos, creative jumpstarts, digital collage sheets, technique videos, photo galleries, discussions and LIVE weekly chat.
lesson no. 1- inspiration..doodling..sketching
lesson no. 2 - painting bold & bright
lesson no. 4- graffiti fashion figures
lesson no. 5- handmade canvases
lesson no. 6 - digitally mixing
You’ll jump right in lesson one!! You’ll start building your INSPIRATION notebook...collecting images, swatches, words and ideas to inspire your artwork which you’ll use throughout the course. Then ease into developing your creative drawing style. Beginning with black & white..doodling & drawing simple lines. pure. pen to paper...sketching faces and figures..then delve into color with markers.
Lesson TWO it’s all about painting bright & bold. adding your artistic style and bringing out the features of the faces. You’ll use your sketches as guides and learn about building layers of color with paint and ink. You’ll paint textured backgrounds, explore working with letters and graffiti backgrounds.
Lessob three brings a twist...defining the FACE with colored pencils, oil pastels and various markers. You’ll experiment combining faces with collage incorporating typography, doodles, images and the textured backgrounds from the previous week.
Expanding on collage and colorful layers, the fourth lesson we focus on figures. you don’t have to know how to draw the body, this is not a life drawing class. I’ll provide simple techniques for you to create your own stylized figures inspired by fashion illustrations. you’ll work more with sketching, collage and paint.
During lesson FIVE you’ll learn how to build your own canvases with a variety of found papers to use as a base for your mixed media creations. This week you’ll focus on refining your style, creating a painting mixing your favorite techniques.
Lastly, our final week I will share ways to digitally enhance your mixed media creations combining photography, text and found images. You will explore digital collage in a variety of ways combined with your handmade art.
Each week I will share a video of a mixed media piece from start to finish. Along with separate videos that explore different techniques and ideas, several creative jumpstarts and exercises that will help you focus on enhancing your drawing and painting skills. Each lesson builds on the next. Throughout the course I provide inspiration links and ideas to online resources, books and references to help you explore creating stylized drawings in depth. Get ready for the FABULOUS fun adventure...come & play!!
Materials list
NOTE: these are recommended supplies. please use what you have and try not to buy too many new supplies
Journal, sketchbook and/or misc found papers {see list}
20 sheets misc. papers up to 12"x18"(examples: heavy drawing paper, copy paper, newsprint, Xerox copies, watercolor, graph paper, maps, USPS/Fedex tyvec envelopes, manila folders, brown grocery bags, cardboard, ledger paper, painted papers, newspaper, muslin… things you have collected. try not to buy any new paper)
acrylic paint or ink– favorite colors plus black & white
gesso or white paint
golden modeling paste
black India ink or sumi ink {waterproof}
Collage Pauge or Gel Medium
white tissue paper and a small assortment of white/natural handmade lace/asian/mulberry papers
black permanent pens {any brand- Faber Castell, sharpie, Copic or Pigma}
favorite pens & markers {I will provide a detailed list of writing tools I like & use}
Prismacolor pencils – these are my FAVE but use what you have
2 - 1" foam brushes
assortment of paintbrushes (i use the inexpensive $2 paintbrushes from the craft store)
misc Round paint brushes – Size 00, 1 or 3/0 {these are very fine line brushes} You don’t have to have all of them. One will suffice.
