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Street Art class
Making art is not a straight line, sometimes it’s fussy and filled with curves. Practice makes better is what we try to instill, each class builds on lessons so art lessons can transfer from painting drawing sculpture … today we are teaching color theory, large format composition and design with spray paint. Jack working on…
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Street art class makes Prints
Stickers, you wanna’ make stickers… Ok, what do you know about a printing press? So we selected some sketches, tried them out using thick makers on paper (Draw thick lines to cut thick lines). The students worked out the composition on paper then transferred it over to the rubber printing blocks. Then the scary part KNIFES…
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Street art class, on The PaintYard
The Paint Yard, wrote a nice post about the ‘Street Art Class’ The paint yard is a great place to get a variety of spray paint and supplies (fat caps, liners, specialty paints, markers and more) and they have the ‘Sugar’ from the makers of Ironlak, the paint is special. It combines water with alcohol…
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Class Homework, W1
We will be trying out a new product ‘Sugar’ a cane sugar based paint. This week we will be working on letter forms and putting that onto the canvas. Below are some samples to jumpstart your imagination. We will also be working with the MTN water based, the Montana Gold acrylic, and the NEW Sugar based…
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Street Art class, making wrapping paper
The street art class is winding down. The five week long street art class has hit class number five and number five was so fun, it started out as a lesson on stencils and evolved into a wrapping paper making project. The session ended so well we are adding one more class (a sixth week). Great work…
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Class Homework W2, Nov 2016
Watch some short video and have any questions ready to discuss, and Patterns The Letter “E”: https://youtu.be/kpaVkxB0Tw4 Watching a piece from start to finish: https://youtu.be/3US_fm0sWHo Find examples of patterns, bring 3 or more, for use in next piece (They can be anything… save them to your device, print, magazine tear out or photos). Sketch…
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Street art… Class!
Great working coming out of class this week. Jack pounded out character after character, so fast I didn’t get a picture of them all, “I’m just going to paint over this”. Nicole nailed it with a 4 panel piece “Life”. The effort she’s putting into sketching is coming though in her can control and line…
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Class notes and homework
Hola class… Homework Practice letter forms, pick words containing two vowels (like: seam, hoaps, lazer, or denim, feel free to make up words). Examples This intersecting style below shows the construction of the letter, when using this alphabet erase overlapping/intersecting lines as needed to make the letter whole. This Alphabet adds a bit more style…
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Class notes and homework W1
Hola class… Homework Find examples of patterns, bring 3-5 in for use in next piece (They can be anything… digital, printed, downloaded or photos). Materials Sketch book 11″ × 8½”, a black book with smooth pages. Like this available where ever you like to by supplies. Markers, Pick a few 4-8 colors to start, as we move forward…
