Pen & Ink

Beginning through intermediate students are welcome to this fun and skill enhancing class. It will be lead with a friendly cooperative workshop format. We will discuss, paper types, pen types, and ink choices. Demonstrations will be given on how to create the illusions of distance and shadow using pen and ink. Pen and ink is basically line drawing so lithographs, drawings and underdrawings of masters will be studied for inspiration and observation of technique. You may wish bring your own object, photograph or print to work from.
Instructor: Z. Scholis

Organized through Sunnyvale Cupertino Adult Education: www.ace.fahsd.org

Location: to be announced.
Thurs.9:00AM-12:00PM         3/27-5/22/08 (skip April 17, 8 sessions)

Wk 1 Introductions & Materials:

• Introductions
• Discussion of Materials, review supplies list
• Grid Drawing, experiments w/ line thickness, and directional lines and swirls  
• Discussion of Options & class overview: subject matter progression of difficulty:- still life, landscape, and portraiture. Step by step or open ended, music, pot luck etc.

Wk 2 Composition:  

• Slides- focus on composition
• Set-up still life,
• Draw 9:20-11:00
• Clean-up & critique 11:15-11:50 focus on composition
  

Wk 3 Light and Shadow:

• Demo cross hatch, lines, squiggles or wash for shadow & negative space
• Set up more complex still life
• Draw
• Clean-up & critique focus on value balance & dramatic lights/shadows

Wk 4 Perspective:

• Slide show,
• Demo 3 point perspective
• Set-up till life w/ table & in room
• Drawing time (with pencil guide lines)
• Clean-up and critique focus on illusion of depth

Wk 5 Portraiture & Proportion:

• Slides
• Demo portraits, Practice (overhead, step by step if voted for)
• Set-up partners for  modeling
• Drawing time
• Clean –up & critique focus on proportions
• Reminder: Wear outdoor clothes next meeting!
  

Wk 6 Individualized and plienair Projects:

• Slides, books & magazines for inspiration
• Color washes demo
• Drawing/ painting time Outside weather permitting
• Clean & Critique

Wk 7 Individualized Projects:

• Drawing/ painting time Outside weather permitting
• Clean & Critique

Wk 8 Individualized Projects and Pot luck:

• Slides, books & magazines for inspiration
• Color washes demo
• Drawing/ painting time Outside weather permitting
• Clean & Critique
• Pot luck-eat

Materials List

• 1 bottle India ink
• 10-20 sheets computer grade paper
• Small plastic or glass jar
• Pen set with at least 4 nib sizes
• 1 # 8 round watercolor brush (or similar equivalent)
• 1 sheet watercolor paper-any size you’d like to work on
• Ideas and enthusiasm

Optional: watercolors, colored inks, paper towels, straight edge, latex gloves, apron or smock, more nibs, specialized paper or bristol board.

 

Three Rules

1. Change "I'm not good at this" to "This is new to me."

2. Doing something new and unfamiliar takes courage. Something called you here; trust it.

3. Demos are to show a way, not The way.

 

About the Teacher
Zoya Scholis has a BA Studio Arts, Cal State Hayward U. 1993
16 years experience teaching, 10 years facilitating workshops on creativity

Questions for the teacher? zoya@artforpersonalgrowth.com