Art Camp

Learn how to steal their secrets and do focused master studies. Learn to train your eye with basic drawing and observation techniques. These are the basics that everything else is built on. The ultimate primer on landscapes. Avoid the most common mistakes and learn the basic knowledge that will easily set your landscapes apart. Get an insight to ho... w brains work and how it will help you stay focused, get over art blocks and tackle difficult learning goals. The road to improving starts with yourself! Too many people lose sight of how to apply the knowledge they learn. That's why we're starting with imaginative painting so early. Education without application is useless. Sketchbooks are the birthplaces of paintings. Learn to develop the habit of continual sketching and observation. In Art Camp tradition, we're going to be looking back at the old masters. This time we'll be looking at and studying their work through the lens of landscapes, and digging into the specifics of why they were great. An in depth approach to the art of making thumbnails and how to come up with ideas for them. One of the best ways to practice technique and learn to render objects. They have the advantage of never moving and giving you unlimited time to refine and study. That thing everyone hates. I'm going to break down perspective to the basics of what you need to learn and explain it as clearly as possible. Don't be afraid. It's not that scary. The building blocks of most landscapes. Study their forms and learn them like you never have before. Think of this like the anatomy of landscapes. One of the most important weapons in your arsenal! Get ready for some serious theory on this one. Learning to paint a face requires painting a lot of faces. One of the easiest ways to do this is self-portraits, as you never have to worry about finding a willing model. Learn to play around with new materials in drawing. We'll cover charcoal, graphite, pastel, ink, and perhaps others in an attempt to see what these mediums can offer us. If last week was ...Read More