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Photography as
an Art
Using 35 mm
Camera or Point & Shoot Camera
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Improving your family and
vacation pictures |
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Choosing Film |
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Lenses, Filters and Attachments |
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Lighting |
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Exposure |
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Flash Photography |
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Close-ups |
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Composition |
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Camera Care and Handling |
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Special Situations and Subjects |
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Remedies for Problem Pictures |
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Film Developing |
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Scanning/Digitizing existing
photos |
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Sending/attaching photos with
email |
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Digital
Photography as an Art
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Composition
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Lighting/Flash Photography
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Close-ups
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Camera Care and Handling
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Connecting digital camera to
computer
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Situations and Subjects
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Remedies for Problem Pictures
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Enhancement through computer
software
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Stitching digital photos
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Sending/attaching photos with
emails |
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 Faux Marble/Granite Finishes
Marbleizing is introduced. Marbles with simple structures are executed, such
as Carrera and then more challenging such as Vert De Mer.
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Faux Wall Finishes
Learn about products and the use of different formulations.
Color theory and glazes. Emphasis is on classical wall glazing, multi-layer
and metallic finish. Students use and become familiar with the decorative
painter's many unique tools.
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Glass Painting/Faux Stained Glass
Choosing
Designs
Mixing Colors
Textures
Marbleizing
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Watercolor Painting -
Beginning
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Students will
explore new materials and techniques in watercolor painting. Focusing on
nature as subject matter, students explore basic watercolor technique and
learn new approaches to painting through classroom demonstrations, lecture
and individual experimentation. The focus here is on experimentation and
exploration. Design elements and color theory will also be stressed. |
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Watercolor Painting -
Intermediate
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Emphasis on
design, value, color and the rearranging of man-made shapes as well as those
found in nature. Individual reaction to these shapes, real and imagined,
leads students to the exciting process resulting in a semi-abstract study.
Students are encouraged and guided with observation, sketches and on
location painting to gradually transform the familiar favorites into new and
exciting designs. |
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Watercolor Painting - Advanced
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Class emphasis is
on portrait and figure, and will include children as well as adults. Working
from photos, the student will learn how to make the drawing to achieve a
likeness early on.
Learn how to blend beautiful colors into the shadow shape and
build an eye and paint hair that look real. |
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Portraiture: Beginners to
Advanced
Students builds skills for rendering realistic portraits. By
blocking in the structure and shape of the head, focusing on the large
shapes and the relationship between them, students learn to accurately place
the features of the heard. By adjusting these shapes and relationships, you
achieve a likeness with the model; by implementing a full range of tonal
values, you attain a sense of three dimentional form.
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Pen and Ink Drawing Beginners to Advanced
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Whether detailed and intricate or minimalist in approach, pen and ink
drawings are an intense and lively art form. Students can expand their
potential for creative mark-making, as they work with a variety of inks and
pens. Using both still life objects or photos, students learn to lay in
washes and create effective images with brushwork, hatching, stippling, and
line. Emphasis is placed on developing both preliminary drawings and direct
pen and ink drawing skills to achieve proportion, light and shadow on form,
and rendering value and scale in ink.
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Pastel Painting/Sketching:
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Pastel Paper:
color, weight, texture |
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Pastel boards:
Sanded boards and canvas |
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Techniques:
Students will learn to use pastels by either blending with finger and
stump, or left with visible strokes and lines. If the ground is covered
completely with pastel, the work is considered a Pastel Painting; a Pastel
Sketch shows much of the ground. |
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Protecting and
storing paintings: When protected by fixative and glass, Pastel is the
most permanent of all media, for it never cracks, darkens or yellows. |
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Mosaics Basics
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Tools, supplies,
tiles, glass gems |
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Create frames,
pots wall art, trays, etc. |
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For both
beginners and advanced students, instruction covering various techniques
as well as a wide range of materials, grouts and adhesives. |
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