Watermedia Class

Saturday, October 27, 2012

FINAL ASSIGNMENT #5 WATERMEDIA CLASS

For your final assignment, I would like you to start collecting interesting images, forms and colors from magazines. Through the next few weeks you will create a series of collages on 8 x 10 paper. The paper can be sketchbook pages, drawing, or copy paper. Through this investigation, you will decide on a final project using any media. You can use collage in your final assignment along with watercolor, gouache, ink, acrylic, or any other media that you want to enhance your project. You can do a series of work, or just a single piece. Consider materials, proportion of page, content, color, subject matter, composition, and size. Most of the class will be devoted to working on your project. We will stop working at 8:45 to appreciate eachothers work. Bring all the work that you made in class!

See you then.

Feel free to email with questions: francesca@pastineart.com

This artwork, Bird with displaced color by Rosemarie Trockel ink and watercolor

Water Media Assignment #4

Leonie Guyer will guide the class through a series of exercises on "seeing" using gouache to paint geometrical shapes that reveal compositional strategies and subtle color shifts. . Bring all your brushes, watercolors, and paper. Leonie will supply gouache, but if you have some, please bring your own.

Untitled, FR-33, 2010, colored pencil and graphite pencil on old French paper (18th-19th century), 10 3/4 x 10 in.

Water Media Assignment #3

Mel Prest will demonstrate photo ink-jet-image transfers and acrylic pour techniques. Bring an ink-jet print that is abstract or semi abstract, watercolor block and watercolor pad.

The work of Val Britton

Val Britton is a Bay Area artist whose work is concerned with mapping distances. She uses inks, gouache and collage to create the constellations of land masses and highway routes against what looks like distant galaxies.